A Teacher for Laynie: Mystery at the Academy (Part 2)


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"Hrrm...Housemistress of Sice before Kharisa took over. Theories of advanced Transmutation magic, leading into spatial magic, and at such a young age...hmm...but spatial wasn't enough. Delved too much into the impossible. Chronomancy, yes?...hrrm...perhaps thus your answer to the question made you more likely to get her scholarship...hrmm...forbidden stuff chronomancy. People tend to turn up dead...or mad..."
 


"Well, it's been my contention that Laynie is Elayna's daughter, or that the are related somehow, though I realy have only a gut feeling to go on. Laynie seems to be the one who knows of Chronomancy more than I do."
 

"Hrmm...possible, though it seems unlikely that she would have a daughter. More of an 'empowered woman' than a mother...Still, time changes everyone, hmm? Hrmm...It is the master over all beings, from the lowliest ant to the mightiest archmage...that is why a chronomancer who masters time would be the mightiest of all, yes?"
 



"Well, the other thought, is that Elayna did something with chronomancy, and Laynie is the result. Again, highly improbable. Whatever the case, Laynie is a brilliant mind herself, and she's already thrown herself into her studies. I'm just doing what I can to guide her down the right path."
 

"Hrrm...yes. Seems to like you, she does...another reason to stay a while. Has no parents, hmm?"

"Never would have thought she had known where to find the Demesnes of Mysteries. Guess it wasn't Genis Liore after all that time...hmm...the Philosopher's Stone. So many alchemists have quested after it for centuries, but they don't know the truth...still, a holy grail for transmuters like Elayna, hmm? But why never before. For that matter, thought she was dead."
 

"It was her spirit. I'm not sure she's aware of what's going on either. She seemed like she was trying to justify what she was doing for the greater good, by removing it so it couldn't be used by evil, or at least that's what she rambled on about."

"Still, perhaps she knows something we don't"
 

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