Ask A Summoner Apprentice

[Jack]: That sounds really complicated... Is he able to do that? I have the original spell right here if that helps. Technically it belongs to our Master. He’s supposed to test it out for the Portalmancers I think. Hawk’s smarter than to mess with experimental spells. I hope...

I've been debating how I want to tell this story more and more these days. Sometimes the format I'm currently using isn't working and it hangs up the whole process. Most of you don't realize it, but this is actually a very large scale story and I haven't even scraped the surface on it yet. I'm thinking of introducing short stories with illustrations in key places added to this fray. It'll help with the actual telling. As is, I'm not sure I'll ever get as far as I'd like if I keep with how things have been. You're all still free to ask questions, it'll only be the answers I'm making meatier. Sometimes, I'm going to progress the story even without the perfect ask in what I'll be calling a Cutscene. Thank you all for sticking with me, even through the hiccups and the downtimes. You're the best!

[author notes: Felt like adding something after a while.  Sorry for the hiatus, last year was not a good year for me. Thank you for reading.]

[[Artist:] Oh gawd they are a cute ship I'm not gunna lie...]

[Jack]: You're right, I got to think this through carefully either way. Rivals are a lot of work. So is picking the right thing to do when it comes to them. Do you think I should kind of just wait and see or something?

[Jack]: That... That sounds pretty bad either way you look at it.

[Jack]: Those are probably worse than regular kinds aren't they?

[Jack]: I'm the one who cast it and Hawk used his Mirror spell to send it back at me so it is kind of my fault for trying to cast it in the first place. Not... that I remember why fully that I chose to use that one in the first place... Come to think of it, there's a lot about that duel and the stuff leading up to it I just don't know and well... I'm... scared. I don't want to find out what I did. What if it was something really awful?

[Hawk]: Because, every time something happened that cost us one of our own, it has been in that forest. Ever since Maisie, Jack has not, for any reason, gone in there. That was years ago. Until today, to help me. That he went in at all, no matter what the circumstance, is significant. In the end, no anon can take credit for his courage. That was his choice.

[Hawk]: My hair is unappealing, short, and hard to manage. The flattery is unnecessary, but thank you for the kind words. As for you; elves do not normally bald here, nor do they have hair growth spells. Though there have been times I wished they did. 

[Hawk]: I look forward to seeing your face someday. You have skill with magic? If you can alter the spell, perhaps we can talk about that too sometime.

[Hawk]: I'll give an answer to this when I can.

[Hawk]: I'm so tired of feeling hurt and angry over this. The longer his spell affects him, the less likely the memories, and the him who he was, will come back. I just have to wait a few more days at best. Let us go see the him who he became now, shall we? I... I do have to thank him.

[Hawk]: Now, do you really want me to recall right now, after what he supposedly did for me in the forest, what he did to me before? After everything, do you honestly want me to dredge up his wrong doings? Trust me, easily, I can.