>>5789255You laughed nervously, but reckoned you had that much coming. At the very least, you had a sense that, in some strange way, it had been worth it. The half-remembered haze of last night’s curious and cryptic revelations stayed with you…
>+1 Sociabiltiy>+1 Sense Motive…And as you tucked your hand into your trouser pocket, you found that wasn’t ALL that stayed with you
>+1 baggy of green shirinUnable to find your friend Murray—he’d apparently taken up with one of the non-mage girls and wandered off during the wee hours of the morning—you kept your stimulating spoils, though you were unsure when (or IF) you might make use of the potent substance again. The breakfast conversation went much as you might have expected, with much mockery over your enthusiastic approach to graduation, though you got the feeling Pearce was taking it easy on you… And, in truth, you weren’t the most hungover individual among you friends. THAT dubious honour belonged to either Efron or (and this was your bet) Blanchette, the former of whom had a black eye and the latter a broken pair of spectacles, and neither of whom had any interest in explaining how they had acquired these badges of foolhardy valour.
“What say we take it a little easier the rest of this week?” Testa had suggested, nursing a cup of black tea.
“Seconded,” agreed everyone else as one.
Eventually, though, it came time to return to the Tower… Archmage Henzler’s Tower, where IZIRINA Henzler was waiting. Well, not ‘waiting’, precisely, but you couldn’t help but dwell on her—and that effigy of her, fey or narcotic or otherwise. A new year was beginnign, a year in which you would be classmates daily. There was no avoiding her, if you even wanted to... And you didn't. However, you still didn't know exactly what you were going to DO about all of that.
What DID you do?
>Told Izirina all about your bizarre vision, and asked her what it meant>Arranged a meeting with the Archmage, to get some answers from the girl’s mother… or CREATOR>Independently and surreptitiously investigated the circumstances of Izirina’s adoption>Kept your nosiness to yourself, and instead spent more time tutoring her and reading with her, hoping to gain understanding of her this way>Asked the fey on Old Maple Hill if they’d had anything to do with the vision, or could make sense of what it meant>Write-in 