[X] Hug Henrietta, then slump back into bed in pain from still healing injuries and bruises.
[X] Worry that you will be kicked out of the Academy for not summoning a familiar. And maybe for causing a giant firestorm.
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And so it is that the princess is suddenly hugged by a weeping schoolgirl, causing her bodyguard to suffer a sudden fit of almost blasting said schoolgirl before Agnès's mind can catch up with her reflexes.
"Louise!" Henrietta cries in suprise. "Louise.. What's the matter?" Such a gentle and kind princess to worry about a failure of a mage whom can only make things explode.. and seemingly summon giant firenados.
A fact that, once the princess calms Louise down, she learns of. "Wait. You summoned the tower of flame?" "It was my summoning.. and then.. it was like the world broke in one spot.. just for a moment. All was red." She learns from the tearful Louise. "And then all was flame... It was Power. Pure, raw, Power and Passion..."
"And then it exploded and I hit the wall and I'm a going to be expelled because I didn't summon a familiar. And Blew up the acadamy..." Louise finishes dully as the princess frowns thoughtfully and Agnès listens with a boggled look on her face.
"..No." Henrietta decides. "What you did.. No, you won't be kicked out. And if you are.. Louise. That was a square class fire spell. You casted a square cast fire spell. If the Acadamy is so foolish.. I'll arrange something."
"Princess?" Louise asks as she blinks through watery eyes. "Square class? Me? What are you.."
"You haven't heard what that spell did to the landscape yet, have you?" Henrietta asks her. "A rain of fire that reached the capital itself.. even if you never learn anything else, that was an effect of square class or I'll eat my tiara."
"...Though I'd prefer you not cast it again any time soon, Louise." Henrietta continues. "You did a fair amount of landscape damage.. As your princess, I would highly advise you not to talk to anyone else of how you did it. The academy will probably know, your professor saw you summon it you said, but.. you wouldn't enjoy having that get out to common knowledge."
Just then, a healer knocks on the door. "Do I hear that summon has awoken?" He asks loudly enough to be heard. Henrietta pauses. "Louise.. I'll get back to you on this. For now.. just wait, would you? And let the doctors make sure you are healed."
And so the meeting ends in foul tasting medical potions..
And Louise seems strangely unhurt by this all, she finds. Her body is but sore.. and by the end of the day she is back on her feet, to the puzzlement of the medical staff.
...Not that she has much to do with her time, being as all the second year classes are canceled until the second year is no longer hospitalized.
So, if she has not much to do.. she decides to see.. if she is still a zero.
Which is how, early next morning, she finds herself in an empty courtyard, the strangely transformed wand her sister gave her in her hand (And how that ruby gleams at the end of it.. If one good thing happened from this, it is how nice the wand looks.. if one bad thing is surely from this, it is that this is no longer the wand her sister made for her, not only, not any more...)
But, as she raises the wand to cast, and strange words come to mind, of what does her minds eye envision?
[ ] Swamps, poison and decay, rot and shadows.
[ ] Mountains, burning and strong, powerful and passionate.
[ ] Jungles, teeming with life, alive with birdsong.
[ ] Plains, alight with the morning sun, gleaming on steel and stone.
[ ] Islands, deep in the sea, mysterious and covert.
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So yah, was a while.. had a Total Failure of Muse. Not dead, not giving up, and not going on hiatus. The game goes on! Now what color will Louise's first deliberate spell be of?
