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Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

[Qifrey lifting up Coco]

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine

in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,

[Qifrey and Olruggio as children]

a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways

I’ll keep from my children.

[Qifrey alone in his tower, and getting hit with lightning as he experiments with the ink bottle]

The world is at least

fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative

estimate, though I keep this from my children.

[A young Luluci running away from abstract, shadowy grabbing hands]

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.

[Qifrey in the waterlogged coffin]

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,

sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world

[Engendale with his slimy brimmed hat]

is at least half terrible, and for every kind

stranger, there is one who would break you,

though I keep this from my children.

[Qifrey with a peaceful expression, a herd of cattle, flying birds, and a shot of a traveling cart from behind with Qifrey and his apprentices inside]

I am trying

to sell them the world.

[The atelier and the field around it]

Any decent realtor,

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful,

right?

[Qifrey showing Coco the windowway in a shower of flower petals.]

You could make this place beautiful.

knowledge long forgotten

when you take this to the 10th dimension, the largest sphere you can fit through this 10 dimensional cube is √10 - 1, which is larger than 2 (half the side length of the 10 dimensional shape containing it), meaning the radius of this sphere is LARGER than the side length and poking OUT of the sides of the container. spiky...

i actually wrote a slightly angsty script similar to this for my screenwriting class …. 😭 please listen to this idea high court.

essek and caleb were entered into a spell-making competition where the best young minds of xhorhas labor to pitch and demonstrate powerful utilitarian spells to impress a panel of judges. (xhorhassian science fair). essek pitches wristpocket, and caleb pitches tether essence. caleb ends up coming second place. he’s extremely salty about it.

fast forward to the end of the semester at Rosohna Magic School Working Title and the cruel professor announces that they’ll be giving out a prestigious award to the best-performing student. everyone’s antsy to see who it is. professor pauses for dramatic effect and then announces that actually… there are /two/ students who tied for first place. spotlight concentrates on them. professor says….. since this award can only be given to one student… may the best wizard win.

a young essek, not extremely keen on being in the spotlight, but prideful, and a young caleb, still reeling from his snubbed second place, fight to the death (figuratively because they have medics on hand) .

YOU decide who wins!

(in my original script, where essek is more of a pushover, caleb is on death’s door. caleb says Wait! and offers to rekindle their friendship and mend their rift caused by their rivalry. he then cruelly casts a version of tether essence where it heals the caster while damaging the victim (while essek is distracted by the offer). slams him to the ground, knocking essek out, winning the fight.)

BUT i can also imagine a reality where they’re so evenly matched that the teachers call a draw… or one of them narrowly wins and they both reconcile in the nurse’s office… or caleb, in his rage and spite at being a kid who had to work his way to the top vs. nepobabyessek) unleashes a kind of raw fire spell so powerful that it causes structural damage to the lecture hall and is then dubbed The Incident of the year.

I love both the idea of their fight being declared a draw and the idea of one of them winning narrowly and then them having a heart-to-heart reconciliation in the nurse’s office. So what if, perhaps, the best of both worlds?

i actually wrote a slightly angsty script similar to this for my screenwriting class …. 😭 please listen to this idea high court.

essek and caleb were entered into a spell-making competition where the best young minds of xhorhas labor to pitch and demonstrate powerful utilitarian spells to impress a panel of judges. (xhorhassian science fair). essek pitches wristpocket, and caleb pitches tether essence. caleb ends up coming second place. he’s extremely salty about it.

fast forward to the end of the semester at Rosohna Magic School Working Title and the cruel professor announces that they’ll be giving out a prestigious award to the best-performing student. everyone’s antsy to see who it is. professor pauses for dramatic effect and then announces that actually… there are /two/ students who tied for first place. spotlight concentrates on them. professor says….. since this award can only be given to one student… may the best wizard win.

a young essek, not extremely keen on being in the spotlight, but prideful, and a young caleb, still reeling from his snubbed second place, fight to the death (figuratively because they have medics on hand) .

YOU decide who wins!

(in my original script, where essek is more of a pushover, caleb is on death’s door. caleb says Wait! and offers to rekindle their friendship and mend their rift caused by their rivalry. he then cruelly casts a version of tether essence where it heals the caster while damaging the victim (while essek is distracted by the offer). slams him to the ground, knocking essek out, winning the fight.)

BUT i can also imagine a reality where they’re so evenly matched that the teachers call a draw… or one of them narrowly wins and they both reconcile in the nurse’s office… or caleb, in his rage and spite at being a kid who had to work his way to the top vs. nepobabyessek) unleashes a kind of raw fire spell so powerful that it causes structural damage to the lecture hall and is then dubbed The Incident of the year.