Ten Minutes and Ten Minutes More

*[Professor Mosk Manytrees] ‘I will kick you out of my class.’*

*‘Okay,’ Eran said. ‘Ten minutes though.’*

## Summary

Eran Iliakambar, a student at the School of the Staff specialising in fire magic, decides to pursue Professor Mosk Manytrees, the aloof dryad who doesn't like playing with fire.

A *Fae Tales* AU featuring student Eran and teacher Mosk, originally for Faedom Week 2019.

## Characters

#### Ash Glashtyn

Ash is Augus' brother and one of Eran's peers. He's been studying at the School of the Staff for a decade. Ash and Augus 'apparently bagged the Professor of Light in the first three months. Ash said that was all mostly Augus, but Eran had experienced Ash’s glamour, and he was sure that both of those brothers coming at a person at the same time, meant they wouldn’t stand much of a chance.'

Ash changed his hair to be black and curly with transformation magic.

#### Augus Each Uisge

Augus is Ash's brother and one of Eran's peers. He's been studying at the School of the Staff for a decade. Augus and Ash 'apparently bagged the Professor of Light in the first three months. Ash said that was all mostly Augus, but Eran had experienced Ash’s glamour, and he was sure that both of those brothers coming at a person at the same time, meant they wouldn’t stand much of a chance.'

Augus wears a black cape. He seems a bit haughty and disapproving of Ash's behavior.

#### Creators of the School of the Staff

Two brother Mages created the School of the Staff, taught there, and were physically intimate partners. It's implied this is Davix and Olphix.

#### Eran Iliakambar

Eran is an ambaros-afrit hybrid fire fae who has been studying at the School of the Staff for three years, and is friends with Ash and Augus. He noted that 'in the beginning he’d flustered Mosk, even frightened him, but he’d refused to leave his growth magic tutorials and noticed that Mosk began to act curiously towards him. Hostile sometimes, resentful at others, but seemingly fascinated that Eran wanted to apply dryad growth principles to his own innate fire magic.' Eran often confided in Ash and Augus about his daydreams concerning Mosk.

Eran noted that fire fae are impatient and hot-headed. Eran wears a belt, into which he can place his staff when he wants his hands free. He is slightly taller than Mosk, and much younger.

#### Professor Mosk Manytrees

Mosk is an Aur dryad, a seventh son of a seventh son, and works as the Professor of Growth at the School of the Staff. Eran is one of his students. Mosk consumes sap as food.

'Mosk tended to lecture in his straightforward, non-humorous fashion. It was only in the smaller, intimate tutorials that it became easier to see Mosk’s softer side'. Eran and others believe that Mosk was into Eran as well, before events in the story. 'Mosk got so scattered around plants, and Eran knew he could use them to locate people, but he almost never seemed to.' He likes to create new species of plants. He's also very petulant.

Mosk has golden eyes, and is slightly shorter than Eran, and much older. Eran described him as having a 'princely face' with a 'straight, sharp bridge of [a] nose, his two-toned green hair and the oak leaves that grew gracefully, a tiny twig of them behind each ear. Even the way he wore that dark green coat with its bright green embroidery seemed aristocratic.' He has 'thick, dark green eyelashes'. Mosk's coat has a stiff collar and is made of thick material, with heavy buttons. Beneath is a thinner shirt.

#### Professor Gwyn

Gwyn works as the Professor of Light at the School of the Staff, and became involved with Ash and Augus after their first three months there. Eran noted 'it was hard to imagine the Professor of Light allowing Augus and Ash anywhere near him, they were notorious troublemakers.'

## Locations

#### Professor Mosk's cloud

Mosk's cloud contains a 'large network of rooms hollowed out in the tree that' grows on the cloud. Mosk's 'main teaching room [had] a wooden amphitheatre with wooden seats, and a central dais'. There were 'spindly, wooden stairs within the tree trunk, [where] the air becoming greener and thicker.' There's also a greenhouse, which is a 'huge cathedral of rare trees, exotic plants, long tables of pots, basins, spray bottles, the smells of pollen and poisons mingling together.' He kept certain 'seedlings in glass phials'.

#### The School of the Staff

The School is a training ground for Mages, and made of a towering edifice at its core, with connecting clouds, though 'many of the clouds weren’t connected to the main towering edifice that was the core of the School of the Staff. They were designed to be a barrier to anyone who couldn’t teleport or make portals.'

## Quotations

* To Eran: ‘Yeah,’ Ash said. ‘And then you can bag a sweet, sweet Professor like we did.’ Augus smirked. ‘You won’t even have to try as hard with Mosk, I’m sure. I’ve seen the way he looks at you.’
* ‘I like creating new species,’ Mosk said absently, staring at the plants. Eran edged closer to him . . . ‘What…like breeding them?’ ‘No,’ Mosk said. ‘That’s boring. Pay attention. I mean I like *creating new species.’*
* [Eran]: 'Are you one of the most powerful Mages here?’ ‘No,’ Mosk said easily. ‘It seems like you are though.’ ‘It would seem that way to someone like you. I am much more powerful than you, but that’s not hard.’
* To Mosk: 'You always seem so untouchable,’ Eran said. ‘But you’re beautiful.’
* To Eran: ‘You can process the blood, bones and other offal I use to fertilise some of my plants. I don’t like that job anyway.’ Mosk held up his hand and looked at it, there was dirt under all of his fingernails. ‘I don’t like blood under my nails.’

## Trivia

* Eran mentions tracking manticores, which are possibly a fae animal not mentioned in canon.
* Eran mentions 'fire gods', implying there's more than just Kabiri.

## Image Gallery

Fanart of Eran Iliakambar and Mosk Manytrees by niasfanspace using assets from "Guild Wars 2" https://niasfanspace.tumblr.com/post/188634268558/i-am-despairing-of-my-writing-right-now-so-here
## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 not\_poignant. "Ten Minutes and Ten Minutes More." *Fae Tales - AUs, Oneshots and More. Archive of Our Own,* 21 October 2019. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21119882.