Today was the first day of school at Wisdom’s Academy of Magic and Modern Living. Aunt Wisdom is richer than god, but she must have have emptied her money belt to build this place. It has hot and cold running water, indoor toilets, electricity and all sorts of modern conveniences. It even has a telephone and a computer!
Aunt Wisdom held a party called an “open house” tonight so everone everyone can see the school and find out what sorts of things she’ll be teaching. (Grammar and spelling are at the top of her list) I can tell you right now there’s going to be a lot fewer kids in class tomorrow than there were today.
Aunt Wisdom tried to explain how it’s important that mages learn how to function in the non-magical world. Daddy muttered under his breath but everyone heard him say that Aunt Wisdom was full of donkey dung (except he didn’t say donkey dung, he said bull sh_t). I was surprised Momma didn’t cast a clean-speech spell on him, but she don’t doesn’t like to make a scene in front of people.
For a while, I was scared that Daddy was going to pull me outta school and not let me go no more anymore. Momma reminded him that if he wants me to have any chance of becoming Aunt Wisdom’s apprentice, he’ll have to put up with all the Empty nonsense she’s gonna insist on teaching. Master healers can make a ton of money if they’s willing to treat Empties, but they need to know how the non-magical world functions first. That shut him up.
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