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  1. Rec 52

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    “You make me act insane,” he mutters.

    “Me?” Olly hisses. “I make you act insane? I’m out here in the middle of the fucking wilderness because of you.”

    Qifrey releases him to pull his compass out. “You love the wilderness. You also love following me around. Especially when I tell you not to.”

    “Yeah, that’s the exact insanity I’m referencing. Wasn’t like that before I met you. I hated going outside. That’s why they brought me to the Assembly, remember?”

    “Well. Who can say what I was like before I met you?”
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    While trying to dissuade Qifrey from pursuing the brimhats, Olruggio falls suddenly ill.

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  2. Public Bookmark 18

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    Qifrey definitely, absolutely, one hundred percent does not care about Olruggio. The fact that he's been loitering outside this door for the past five minutes means absolutely nothing. He just happens to be lost. That's all.

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  3. Public Bookmark 66

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    He thinks to himself: I cannot do this anymore. Tests the thought on his tongue without speaking it aloud. Thinks: I'd rather die than live like this, with everything I want at my fingertips and none of it allowed to me. In this of all places, he can be allowed honesty. So: Does he mean it?

    Qifrey had never even considered taking on apprentices, at first. But navigating a life outside of the Great Hall forces him to consider what he wants to do with the time he has left.

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  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    “You only have one chance to pass this test,” Qifrey said, raising a finger into the air, “but I have every confidence that you will.”

    Of course he did. The Consent of the Crown was a test taken by witches as young as seven. Would-be apprentices only being given one chance wasn’t a measure of strictness. It was a way of pretending something was more important than it really was, like handing a child a piece of rock sugar and asking them to keep the diamond safe. The child got a feeling of accomplishment, and the adult got time to spend drawing real magic.

    Agott nodded. “I won’t be long.”

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    A perspective on what Agott’s first test looked like.

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  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    Qifrey initiates being with Olruggio, then pulls away, then initiates, and so it goes, ad nauseam. Olruggio doesn't know how to put an end to it, but why would he even want to? He always takes advantage of the time he's given with Qifrey. Always. Every time, again and again and so it goes... but he doesn't know that, either.

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    ch 4. prose like a sucker punch and miserable in incredibly novel and fun ways thanks