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I can't keep hiding from what I am, even if what I am is dangerous.

I can't be close, I can't be the one to break Blessings - but I don't have to stop using my magic either.

I can be the armor, the failsafe, the weapon... whatever it is. Whatever is needed.

I can turn the wheel.

I'll find out who did this, and they're going to pay.

The last time I left, I was running away, I was afraid of what I am.

This time... I'm going where I need to go, because I'm the only one who can do this.

Graecie is poisoned now... eight students in the infirmary, and twice that missing... something horrible is happening at the academy, and I am terrified of what it could mean.

Two days, two days of trying to find the cure, two trips to the Crypts, either Human or Dragon... two attempts at finding either a hint at the cure, and all we have to show for it are more of our kind in beds under Violet's watch. Sausage doesn't trust her, but we don't really have a lot of options.

I'm so scared for even if we can fix this. The Flock, at first... at first it sounded so pure, so safe. The more Graecie talks about it though, the less I want her to go back. I realized I don't just want her to stay for her... I want her to stay for me.

I don't have a lot of time to write down my thoughts about yet another set of books saying how bad Iron is for Blessings. I'm sick of these books telling me time and time again that I shouldn't be close to her. Lucky for me, Zam is there, and she is safe, and that means that Graecie is safe. They can take care of each other, I'll protect them- from a distance.

Water and I are heading out to try to find out who did this. He knows how I feel about Graecie, and I can only imagine about how he feels about his sister. I wouldn't choose him to travel with me, not for a second, but right now... I feel like I can trust him, or at the very least I can trust him and I to be angry at the same people.

The good news is we found a book about a new ritual, a fun one this time. It was all about cheese. I promised the others I wouldn't make a copy of the contents, and I won't, not even here, but it was... well the Professor thought that it would be good for us to do something fun, and after everything we'd been through over the past couple weeks, and me the last couple days especially... seeing the smiles on their faces meant the world.

They were both so happy, I hadn't seen Graecie hop like that since maybe the first or second day here, and Zam's eyes were practically glowing... or maybe they were ACTUALLY glowing. I wanted to ask but I'm not sure if it's rude to mention a Stella's eyes glowing. Maybe one day when I'm a little braver.

It was everything I could have asked for, genuinely. Seeing them happy meant so much.

Even better was us taking over the last Feles dorm room to make Zam her own kitchen. This one should be safe, we'll all be around to keep an eye on it - plus it can give her access to a lot more ingredients than what the Academy was already offering.

I'm probably going to miss the Dragon Tournament party... I have research to do on the Iron Wheel. There's so much more I still need to figure out.

It was a few days later when we all got together again.

Turns out, there's a secret garden behind the hearth in the kitchen! That's probably where all of the food had been coming from, but someone had done something horrible in there. Meggi was able to connect to the roots and see some flashes of what happened inside the garden, but then she couldn't move. At first Graecie and Zam just tried to pull her out, but she couldn't get out, and she wasn't warning Iron, so I couldn't grab her. She started to scream as it was hurting and I just... panicked, and I spun the wheel.

The magic receded right away, but it... well it scared everyone. I mean, why wouldn't it, right? We've learned so much about it since that it was just stupid to reveal it at all but I panicked and I was worried and I just.... well I just tried talking to them.

We headed off to a small and secluded part of the library, and I told them about the crypts. About going with Juniper, about my new spell, about the iron in the mountain... About everything that happened INSIDE there. It was... a lot. They didn't seem scared, at least if they were they were doing a really good job of hiding it, except for Meggi. Her roots told her I was dangerous. They're probably right, but I'm not going to hurt anyone.

It was a relief, them not being afraid. I mean eventually some mage doing something bad would need to be stopped, right, and me turning off their magic could change everything - but I don't know... I felt a little bit of concern in Graecie's voice. We haven't had a moment along since I told her about the spies, and after this, and her working so hard to take care of everyone, I'm worried she's going to burn herself out, or worse, that exhaustion will make something I do look really stupid or dangerous.

I was going to head over towards the Dragon Crypts with sausage the other day, but he was asleep in his room. After walking around in the library for a bit I actually ran into Sniff Juniper and the two of us walked over together. Inside, it was so... I don't really have the word, and I know it's a pun, but... magnetic-

There are pages missing from the journal here, roughly ripped out. It looks like several days of notes were lost.

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• I think we have a plan. I have the magic, they have the knowledge, we both have our Dragons. Gadget seemed a little nervous when we were standing there talking, I could feel him sort of curling around my ankles at the mention of all of this, but I tried my best to stand up tall enough for both of us.

On the way back we ran into some of the others. Drift, Shelby, Meggi, and Elaina were all heading into town, and I could tell Sniff wanted to go, but was so nervous. I think I can tell why too, I feel the same way sometimes, but I tried to encourage her to go along with everyone else. I was able to recall back and take a LONG HOT shower. A few days away from the amenities of the school and I don't think I'm ever going to be able to recover. Hot running water, inside, is just... amazing. I'm either going to never leave here, or have to replicate it on my own after that time comes.

A few days later the Professor announced the start of the Dragon Tournament! It was... well it was loud, and overwhelming to be honest. There's all sorts of different games and challenges, and it's.... well I don't know how competitive I'm feeling but they had the three houses competing against each other. They say it will make our dragons stronger, I hope that's true.

OH! I almost forgot... Ambear is back! Well, back alive?! It took everything all of the different life mages had, including Graecie. I was so scared, and I'll be honest I don't know exactly what happened, but Ambear said she was... dead.

I...

We can bring people back from the dead?

Could we bring...

No, there's no way. She was a ghost, so there was something there, but maybe if there was something else there?

Maybe if I can take Graecie back to Thistle Hill? Or the others?

Why would anyone ever go there with me...

But all of this, the tournament, the books, the mysteries, the lies... I need to figure this out. I can't protect my friends if I don't know how my magic works, why I'm a walking contradiction.

I can't keep wandering through this blind with only one book that tells me I'm horrible.

I'm going to the Dragon Crypts tomorrow. I need answers.

We didn't get back there fast enough. The corruption had drawn closer, that dark ash flying in the air. It was the first time I had ever seen it. Olsted and the others in town only ever talked about the Storm, they only ever called the Storm a threat. I never heard of this corruption until the first day at the academy.

It smelled like rot, and the air tasted like sulfur.

Tim was there, scared, his eyes darting around again. This time, the knife was in his hand instead of his pocket. He was sacred, and rightfully so. Some creatures started walking out of the corruption, red skinned imps and wraiths running from in the fog. We all panicked and ran back to the shield tower, and started climbing. We broke the stairs behind us, threw books and blocks in our way... the crystal at the top was flickering, which made me think that's why the corruption was even able to get this close.

We were reading a book near the crystal when we heart Tim scream. Pyro says he jumped, Sausage things Pyro pushed him. Either way... when we got to the bottom there wasn't a body. I don't know who to believe. I've known Sausage for longer, but he wasn't there, and I don't even know why he's been thinking of it. The whole thing happened so fast...

We ran into Terry on the way home, he seemed crushed. I... I hope he'll be okay.

A few days later, Zam, Graecie, and I went out for a picnic. We needed something to get all of this off our minds. It was beautiful. We just sat, watched the dragons play, and felt the warm breeze. It was easy to forget what the hell we've all been through these past couple weeks. It was nice, just finding some time to spend with my new friends.

After we kept walking, we found the professor having a bit of a picnic too - cooking a few sheep in the fields with dragonfire. Graecie tensed up when she saw it, the tiniest little jingle of bells matching Zam gasp. I just kind of, I don't know... froze. Standing between them as we all just stood shocked. The professor saw us, warned us to be careful, and flew back to the castle.

After looking around the island some more, we came across yet another ruined town. Just like every other one, the buildings were empty, roofs caved in or rotted away... but inside this town there was a warm campfire inside one of the abandoned homes and a small pile of fabrics that passed for a bed.

There was a man there, Tim, who seemed terrified to see us there. He was alone, the last one still in town. At first he was nervous, his hands even shaking a bit. I could feel the knife in his pocket, and I watched his eyes flipping between us all, and then to the dragons. Once he saw them, he softened a bit, and after we gave food it helped even more. We promised to come back later to get him some food, and ran back to the castle to start cooking.

I fell asleep for another couple days...

Iron drinks magic...

A nail in a pocket made spells stumble. A horseshoe above a door turned blessings slow and thin...

Listen here, boy. Dragons won't be saving this world. It'll be saved by Iron.

Iron drinks magic...

It'll be saved when the dirt is fed when the Storm Kingdom runs red, or when that dammed Corruption eats them all.

It's been a few days since I've been able to write.

There's... so much that has happened. Every time I thought I'd have an evening to just sit and collect my thoughts, even more has been piled on.

I don't know why the wraiths spawned in the other world.

I don't know why I ended up appearing in front of everyone...

I couldn't get away fast enough.

They cornered me on the bridge, Graecie used her spell to trip me up again and they caught me there. I didn't want to get close to anyone, I was too scared. Iron makes magic run thin, it breaks blessings...

I stood on the edge of the bridge, and they talked me down. I was so worried, I felt so cold and so scared... her hand was so warm welcoming me back, walking me back to the castle...

She took my book, and we talked. I felt so horrible that I had doubted them. I told Graecie about the spies, and about Olsted... about why I'm here. She looked at me with just... was it pity? Was it something else? She started crying, and then I started crying... we just sat there in that abandoned house...

I think I slept for a few days...

Iron drinks magic...

A guard's Iron could protect. Iron in a soul could end the world

A guard's Iron could protect. Iron in a soul could end the world.

I don't want to end the world. I don't want to hurt people... not again.

I won't be used again.

I can't be used again.

I don't want to hurt my friends.

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I don't think I can go back.

A nail in a pocket made spells stumble. A horseshoe above a door turned blessings slow and thin...

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... a gear can break the entire machine. A knife can cut to the bone.

Iron could end the world.

I'm not bad, I know it.

I accidentally helped Olsted do bad things. I didn't know, I promise I didn't know.

I'm not bad though. I didn't do it on purpose. I trust him, and I was wrong.

There are three spies in the academy...

I don't know who to trust.

Iron drinks magic...

I would never do that. I would never hurt the people love.

Iron in a soul could end the world.

I would never hurt anyone. I don't know why they would say that... I would never hurt the people I care about.

Iron did not slow mana... it destroyed it.

The air was cold. The crickets in the other world chirping rhythmically.

I would never do this, I would never hurt people. I don't care what the guards say, I would never hurt them, I would never hurt her...

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was she a spy? Was it all just an act?

Three spies... Three of them sitting in the cave.

It couldn't be them, not really, not possible. Zam and Graecie were his friends, and Sun Guard... Sun Guard was so central to the Academy.

But they WERE THERE. IN THE CAVE. Right after he found out that that cave was filled with Storm Raven spies not days before... the place where they had rescued some of the other students that had been taken.

If it was just that, maybe he could figure it out. Maybe they were just lost, or looking for others, maybe Zam was sad and just trying to get back to the cave. Maybe they were back at the scene of the crime.

Not again, I can't be lied to again. I can't be USED again.

Iron drinks magic...

Why is my magic OF iron then... of what is supposedly poison to mana itself.

I don't want to break the world, I don't want to... I don't want to kill... I don't... I don't want to.

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I want to help people.

I thought that we should get away for a bit. Sausage was resting in his room still, but I asked Zam and Graecie if they wanted to go on a little picnic, just to clear our heads. We all went to grab supplies, and it took me a bit but I eventually headed over towards the Lupine dorms to ask some of them - they seem to have a lot of nature people there so it was worth a shot. When I was there, Water and Ros came running talking about missing students and yelling for me to help.

I feel embarrassed... but I almost didn't want to go. Not that I didn't want to help people, but instead that I didn't want to leave without saying something to the others. We had promised to get away, and to take a breather, but then if I just left without saying anything... I wasn't really given time to think before water just made me feel horrible for hesitating, so away I went! Luckily, Greacie and Zam were already waiting by the door and could come too. Sun Guard led us to a cave off the beaten path, to the left of the town, that was filled with these giant purple wraith-looking creatures. Zam was able to spear one right away, but killing something made her panic. After a bit of screaming, we found Captain and Kara trapped in cages, and I was able to bring them down and we all caught a breather.

While everyone else was helping Kara and Captain recover, I took a small look around. There was a small journal, wrapped in purple died leather, just sitting on one of the tables. I pocketed it to read later, no idea when or if we'd ever return here. On the way back, I just kept thinking about the directions Sniff had given me for her book. Left of the castle, a small mining cave... was this the same place?

We're going to head out for our picnic now. I can't believe we've only been here two weeks... it's been so much happening. I definitely need a breather.

We were able to loop back around to the ritual room and trap the double back inside the circle and cast the second spell which locked it back inside and banished it away. Once we all had a bit to breathe, I thought things would be better, but then there were a few weird moments with Sniff and Sausage. First, Sniff gave me a book to put somewhere if something happened to her. I asked her... just... why me? She wouldn't really answer me, but just ran off with the book. I didn't open it, I promised I wouldn't, but I knew I'd have to figure things out.

Then sausage had a little... glitch? I don't know how to put it but his voice was wrong for a while and he wasn't answering us. We took some time to move him to the couch and it took Graecie ringing her bells to get him to wake up. After that, everything seems like it finally cooled off. Graecie was actually really hurt that her bells were taken again, or that it had her bells again... it broke my heart seeing everyone so just.... defeated. Graecie made some flower crowns to try to cheer the rest of us up, but no one had something for her, and that felt wrong.

The next morning, I knew what I had to do. I headed out into the otherworld to grab some sunflowers to make her a flower crown too. Yellow, like her bells. That didn't take super long before I was able to get that and meet up with her in the halls. We stood outside the library for a bit, I hadn't been back inside since the whole incident the day before, and I couldn't bring myself to walk back inside right now. We were invited to Jojo's room for a small show, and it definitely helped lighten the mood a bit, but I knew we should do something else.

We all headed in different directions to get the supplies for the ritual. I had more than enough feathers so I grabbed a few from the room and we all met back up in the ritual room. Once we started the ritual, everything felt wrong... the air started getting cold, Gadget dug into the backpack and hid, and then things just went... wrong.

Once the magic finished casting, IT was standing there, again. It swapped between all of us, and we couldn't cast our magic. At first, we thought it could be okay, but we couldn't strike it with weapons, or cast magic, and then it spoke...

We all went running in a panic. Before, when someone could talk, we knew it was us. This time though, and then Graecie dropped her bells... it was all just such a mess. I'd go through the details a bit more, but I'm going to be honest - it was chaos. I was able to eventually prove to Sausage that I was me because of my magic, and he was wearing boots. Then he was able to break through and use his ascension... so we knew another way to figure it all out.

The thing with the voices meant that it was going to be even harder to kill it. We though, maybe, if we did the same ritual that would seal it away again, but that didn't work. So - Sniff and I split off to head back to the library because she had found another secret passage leading from the library into the royal wing. When we first got there, we lost each other for a bit and by the time I found her she had already found something over in the royal wing, and from the look of it a ton of other books too. I didn't really have time to ask about that before the others burst in saying the mimic was right behind them - so we went running back down the tunnel to try to get away.

There was also this other guy, Prince Cambam or something - he was talking A LOT and I think making a few of the others a bit uncomfortable, but he was wearing iron boots so I tried pulling him out of the room. I couldn't keep the spell long enough, so it didn't really work, but at least I tried. He kept talking about Giselle or someone, who had broken his heart, and after hearing as much as I did... I think I'm on Giselle's side? It feels mean to be mean to someone that I just met, but after a bit I kind of just wanted some peace and quiet.

After he left, we were looking through the restricted sections and found a few books surrounding the old wars, specifically about the Prince of Sunlight and then something about a shattered soul. The book mentioned a bunch of different elements... corruption, goodness, life, solar, iron, blessings... it described us all standing there too perfectly, which made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Ros found a book about another Ritual, the Double Soul, that said it could help us unlock unlimited mana - which sounds like it would be helpful, right? We thought it would be a good idea to try it, and it mainly needed chickens as supplies - which... well we have enough of that because of all of our secret chicken coops around.

So... the mimic was back, for a little bit. I heard it's dead now, but I'm worried that the ritual that we did probably started something a bit worse...

So I was in the library a few days ago, just finding different books about different subjects. There's so much here, I don't think I could read everything in here in my entire lifetime. I found a big block of books surrounding the corruption, including some firsthand accounts of even a dragon rider being corrupted, which is... horrifying to be honest.

Then everyone came running into the library, and everything went to hell.

Graecie, Ros, Sausage, Sniff, Zam, and someone else named Megi ran into the room - all super excited to try and find things! It was interesting to hear about Megi's magic too - they do growth magic, and help plants regrow. That could potentially be huge for fighting back against the pale corruption, and they seemed a little nervous but I hope I was able to help them feel a bit more confident.

After that we went exploring around into the other areas of the dorms, and found out how to use this one spell to play hide and seek! Zam is super good at it, maybe because she already naturally hides from everyone, but she won basically every game that we played. Finally had a chance to meet a few of the other members of the dorm who played along, but after a bit we all started to get tired and were able to call it a night.

I had just said goodbye to the others and was heading back to my room when Sun Guard, at least that's what Graecie calls them, was waiting for me. They asked me about the chickens, and seemed upset that I was using Academy grounds in a way that they didn't like - so they threw me in jail. I think they're going to leave me down here for a while, the timer said more than a day when I first went into the room.

Wait... I think I hear some bells...

OH! They're here!!

I went running for Graecie right away, but I lost track of her, and I saw ME walk back ground the corner again... and then they turned back into A GUARD!!!! I tried... I tried so hard to just hold a knife up hoping they wouldn't notice my hand shaking, but they started to copy my voice and I just ran again.

There was... a lot of screaming and running around, and they apparently cornered Graecie in the dueling arena and tried to hurt them, and I kind of snapped. I saw them running out of the dueling class wearing armor and I just kind of... reached for them. They had iron on, and I felt like I could feel their armor from far away, and I was able to pull them up into the air. My ears were ringing and my vision went double (even more so than just seeing myself) but they disappeared right after I lost control of the spell.

It took a bit to kind of.... be okay after that. The others helped me figure out that it's not like I can just grab PEOPLE... but if they're wearing enough metal I can grab onto that. It needs to be iron, specifically, but I think if I keep practicing I might be able to get better at it. It's just like... I need a lot of something magnetic to grab onto right now, like I can't generate the force I need to do anything more expansive.

Okay, here's where things get crazy. I had just finished standing with the chickens when Graecie and Sausage started running at me yelling. They had apparently just seen me, but I wasn't there, and we were all really confused. We caught them again, and after everything that had happened to me back in Thistle Hill... I kind of freaked out. The guards came running for us, and eventually took Graecie, Sausage, and me up to see the professor.

We all kind of rambled about what we'd seen, and I think they didn't like what they were hearing when I said they should have warned us about ghosts or mimics or something - they... kind of breathed fire at me and singed my hair a bit. Thankfully I think our magic makes us a tiny bit fireproof? At least, we did better than everyone on the first day...

They sent us out with the guards to try to prove what we saw, which was... how do we PROVE we saw something?! We ran into a whole other group of students and then me, I mean the mimic, just WALKED around the corner at me! I just kind of ran screaming, the others told me that they tried to capture them, but the mimic got away...

My head started to hurt, and the room was spinning. I think it was mainly because I was panicking. Then one of the guards had us both talk about our magics, and of course Graecie thinks she's only gotten her magic from the Shepardess, and not her dragon. I told them everything, but they took my knives, and Graecie's bells - and then they were just... not going to give it back? Eventually they dropped it, but just kept staring at me...

Later that night, it was just me and Graecie running around and doing some studying in the library. I think we're both focusing on either learning about either magic or cooking - I just watched her speed through a couple different books on baking all while humming along. Eventually, I figured out a ritual that would let you reduce the calories you burn when running... we both did that and I feel like we can go much further between meals now!

We were going to work on a few other rituals, but the teacher was all out of feathers! After looking around a lot we had the idea to potentially try to hatch the eggs from the kitchen, and we were able to hatch a few inside one of the internal courtyards of the castle. I chiseled through a little hatch in one of the walls by the infirmary and we were able to get a bunch of chickens growing there overnight. We also had a few others hanging out in one of the graveyards outside of the Academy. Chickens in a graveyard - morbid I know, but we needed the supplies!

So, I'm writing this one from jail. I found a few scraps of paper here under the bed, and a few people seem to have left notes for each other, but I took a couple of the blank ones to write down everything. I'm going to be stuck in here for over a day, so I figure I have time...

So... where do I start?

I've been doing a lot of cooking lately... I spent a bit trying to figure out a recipe for the Cheesecake we all nabbed from that tavern outside of town, and I finally got it figured out, but it requires apples to make the Syrup and it takes SO LONG to find those. I was barely able to make one before heading into town since I had heard that some of the townsfolk returned - the market was finally open again and people were trading a bunch of different supplies for gems!

I grabbed a bunch of wheat from the kitchen to trade in, and while I was just basically throwing it all at the traders (I think they lost count? I think I have too many gems) Graecie jumpscared me! We spent a bit of time running around town before heading to the other world to get some resources. You see, we figured out how to make a bunch of new decorations for our dorms! That led to me, Graecie, Sausage, and Zam heading into the other world on a bit of an adventure, and I was able to make us all compasses so we wouldn't lose each other. We were eventually able to find a ton of the giant flowers for dyes, but not before Sausage almost was really hurt. Thankfully the magic pulled him back to the dorms.

We took Zam to the Wizard's tower to seep the planetarium on the upper level of our celestrium. At least, I think that's what it's called? I can try to look more around the library about extraplanar sciences, but it will take some time before I can get to that.

We're all going to try to get into one of the restricted sections of the school soon, maybe find out a bit more. Maybe I shouldn't be writing this? I'm not sure. I hide this book pretty well though, so I think it should be fine. Maybe if I can figure out this repulsion spell I could make sure the guards couldn't catch us? I don't know how much we we really want to do this. Sniff seems adamant we need to figure out more.

I spent a bit more time studying and feel asleep in the library again... going to go raid the kitchens and head back to sleep. There's a few more books that I want to grab a copy of and store them back in my place.

Tomorrow, I think I'm going to just take a breather. So much has happened so fast, and I want to try to get my thoughts together and find a spot to study and experiment a bit more. I've also had this nagging headache for a day or two, so I want to try to see if anyone can help with that. There's got to be a clinic hidden somewhere in this school...

But with everything I'd been reading - magic has been dormant for at least decades, probably longer. There's been some successes with rituals and alchemical or mechanical advancement in society, but individually casted magic, especially that which we're starting to see right now, is rare.

Later that day, people started screaming in the halls that some of the dragons were hatching! Graecie caught be right away and was practically sprinting from place to place, her bells ringing as she was skipping. I tripped maybe half a dozen times trying to keep up with her, but between her, Sausage, Zam, Sniff, and me we were all able to wake our dragons, and with it - some new magic.

This second spell... something feels... off about it. I keep trying to harness the spell but something just feels like while I know the words, something about what I have to DO with it feels wrong. I know it doesn't stop arrows, which was such a STUPID idea, I don't know why I asked Sausage to shoot me, maybe I just wanted to look cool in front of her everyone. I was able to fling a bucket across the room though eventually!

We walked through another ruined town on the way back, and Sniff and Zam started talking about how they both ended up here. They seemed to be more along the lines of not exactly volunteering themselves, and more being forced to be here. It's so strange to think that anyone would be FORCED to be here at the academy, especially with how much we've been able to move about freely, but they did make me feel a bit scared about everything.

I fell asleep in the library last night, doing a bit of research on different schools of magic.

With everyone earning so many different skills I'm trying to find some correlation between schools and the people behind them. Some of them make sense, some not so much, but it all has to be for a reason, right?

Maddy and that guy Pyro woke me up - not the best first impression I think. I think I upset Maddy too. The way she talked about her magic felt a little... I don't know... like she hadn't unlocked it yet? This is all so strange for all of us so I don't want to assume anything about anyone, but she felt... sad. I hope she's okay. Her and Pyro were fighting a lot, I hope he's just not being a bully or anything. He definitely seems like he's figuring out things too.

But... Magnesis. I feel like I can control the metals around me. First thing that came to mind was just spinning those knives I've been grabbing from the kitchen to form a bit of a shield. I'm not going to lie... this place TERRIFIES me, so some sort of defense, with a little offence, will probably help keep me alive long enough to figure out what else I can do with this.

I feel... terrible. Once I figured it out Graecie ran straight at me thinking I was in trouble and I cut her... I kept apologizing, the red looked horrible from the little cut, but she was able to heal SO FAST - maybe that's her magic? She only showed that massive sparkly ball but I don't know if she's gotten some other blessings or spells. Once the blades went away she gave me the biggest hug, and was apologizing to me for some reason, but I was just trying to apologize to her instead.

I met a few other members of the dorm too. Water seems.... a bit prickly, and there's his sister (at least I think it's his sister) and the other one with the mask who hasn't even spoken to me at all. Feels like not everyone in our dorm is the friendliest (not counting Bubbles and Graecie of course), but at least there's a ton of nice people around the castle and we're not letting these dorms split us up. Zam seems nice, I feel bad that I called them a Martian when they aren't. I've never met someone from another planet before. Going to find them something purple to try to apologize.

I've been collecting supplies from the other world as well as around the castle - but I think I'm going to need to sneak over to the Capitol soon for some of the rarer things on my list. I still have no idea where Olsted sourced all of his finer parts from, but I'm going to have to get some of my own supplies to experiment further with whatever this new magic can actually do.

I think I'll head to the library and do some late night studying.

I learned magic today.

That's two days in a row that I've opened these entries with impossible statements, but everything is feeling far more possible with every passing day.

Something woke up inside me, when I was in the lavender fields with Graecie, but I realized why the knives I've been smuggling out of the kitchens feel so different to the ones from home. It's not them - it's me. Something's changed in me, and I can control magnetism and metals.

It's... disorienting, honestly. Everyone seems to be figuring out all sorts of magical abilities since we bonded with the dragons a few days ago. Even though the eggs haven't hatched, something's changed about all of us. Some people have been able to summon snakes, or fire, or stars (AND ARE APPARENTLY FROM MARS?). Everyone seems to be changed from the first bonding, and I don't know what else will happen as we figure out how to hatch these eggs.

We figured it out, by the way, well... Graecie and Sausage and Bubbles figured it out. I was passed out after my late night adventure into the resource world, and they showed me a second, and then a THIRD level to the library! There's EVEN MORE books down there that I'll have to get copies of. I'm dedicated to reading as many of them as I can between training and whatever classes we're going to end up having in this chaotic place.

That evening, as Legundo was heading home from purchasing another day's supplies, he heard it.

A wingbeat and a roar in the clouds above.

He stared longingly above to the sky, thinking of what might be possible, and then there was an explosion behind him. His ears were bleeding as the bells were rung. People huddled to hide, but a few brave fighters for the town drew their swords and stood to fight. There were a few other explosions and fires, but after it all... those fighters were still standing.

The town cheered for the five brave fighters who stood against the Storm, who protected their town when no one else could or would. All Legundo could see was the faces of the people he had seen the night before, and telltale smell the chemicals of some of his own failed creations.

Legundo left that night, carrying nothing but the clothes on his back, to answer the Dragon's call.

Legundo only ever knew the storm.

Born after the world had already been thrown into ruin, he never had seen the golden age the older generation spoke of so fondly.

There was only ever the fear, the clouds on the horizon, and uncertainty of another day.

Legundo is a young Mechanist's apprentice in the town of Thistle Hill. Orphaned by past wars and the rise of the Storms, he was taken in by Olsted - the town's resident alchemist as a servant, and upon showing some aptitude for science he became Olsted's apprentice.

While still not the best scientist or the best alchemist in the world, Legundo is smart, eager, and gifted with forging and smithing fine mechanical parts for things like clocks, watches, and other machines. He is also skilled with alchemy and potion making, despite a few setbacks and well... explosions. One time, late at night, he learned that Olsted was working with some rebels, a private militia that attempts to both fight the Storms, as well as resist the Queen that has made a play on "Dragon Riders". They thought that this was the last attempt of the Queen after repeated failure after failure, and that trying to tame the untamable beasts of old was a fool's errand, and thus wanted to act on their own accord. Legundo saw Olsted give them supplies, including some of his alchemical creations, and snuck off to bed before he was spotted.

The next morning, Legundo confronted Olsted about if he believed in the dragons, or magic, not mentioning the conversation before. Olsted admitted he did not, and that he thought that the world will be fixed by iron and blood, not spells and wishes. Conflicted, Legundo agreed.

I passed out after that, so I think I missed out on a lot of people exploring around the school. When I woke up Gracie had left me a flower in my room - not sure how I missed the little bells jingling but maybe that's something with the whole veil magic they have on this place, or maybe I was just super tired.

After a few more hours I finally woke up, and everyone else was asleep. I smuggled a few iron knives out of the kitchen, which kind of... I don't know they were just humming in my hands, and headed through the portal. I spent a few hours running through the woods by myself to grab a ton of resources. Between the books and my own work and the huge room they gave me - I have a feeling I can set up a pretty nice workshop in here. I made sure to grab a few white flowers too, so I can return the favor to Graecie.

I'm really nervous for tomorrow, but I need to catch up with a few people, and figure out if we can wake these dragons, or potentially figure something else out.

I'm feeling a bit tired again, I'm going to sneak a few more cookies out of the kitchen and call it a night.

So... I rode a dragon.

That's... that's not something I thought I ever would be able to say. Let me be clear I was TERRIFIED the whole time. I had watched these dragons cook a few people alive (not mine though, they're wonderful), one bit someone's head off a few minutes into the trials. I thought this was going to be us helping the world, but it seems like things inside this castle are even more dangerous than Thistle Hill. I met a few other people that had answered the call. Most seem nice, there's a few that were a little concerning, like that man with the purple face talking about killing everyone... not sure why we gave that person a dragon, but I'm trusting in the judgement of the Professor. OH YEAH! The Professor IS A DRAGON... which is, well, I'm not sure exactly what to think about the fact that your professor can breathe fire but I'm probably going to pay attention more.

There's a few people who seem really nice though. There's this one bug lady, and one with glowberries in their hair that really helped a lot when we were going through the trials. I'm not sure I got their names, but we said we were going to meet up later. We didn't end up in the same dorm so I'm hoping that I can find my way to their part of the castle tomorrow. There's also this knight who seems super tough, and this guy with a clockwork arm that seems really interesting! Then there's this other girl, she seems like an angel, she seems super nice. She helped me with I passed out after the Ghasts attacked, her name is Graecie, she seems really nice.

But, we screwed up. All the dragons ended up getting killed, so we might have ruined everything. Thankfully they had all laid eggs before that so the Queen is hoping with our bond we can help them hatch! I wandered around the school for a bit and I found a MASSIVE library... I can't wait to study there! There's going to be so much to learn!

When an entity is wearing at least one piece of iron armour, he is able to lift the entity and move it with eyeside. 'You catch the iron hidden on (target)... and make it remember the weight of stillness.'

Throws entities and items 15ish blocks away. 'You draw iron's old refusal into your lungs... and the air around you begins to push back.'

Summons swords, which then spin around him, damaging everyone within the radius of the swords. 'You call the old silence into iron... and two blades answer where the magic thins.'

Legs writes journal entries about his days in the academy He has blue patches on his arms, the same colour as his hair. Both of them are a result of the same failed experiments.

Legs is an iron mage and in the book "Iron Soul", he learned that his magic can nullify mana, because Iron eats magic/mana. Due to his paranoid thoughts of being an active danger for the other students, he ran away. Terrified of himself and fled into the resource world, hoping that he can not be found and the portal would close, thinking that it would keep him trapped. After a day, he was attacked by the monsters of corruption, forcing him to run away and fall into a ravine. Appearing in the middle of the hall in the academy, due to the mana veil, did the others find him. After a short chase, they were able to confront him and convince him that he would never willingly hurt anybody and that they were safe around him.

One day, an "evil spirit" appeared in the academy, while not causing harm initially, the students were deeply afraid, especially Legs. That "evil spirit", later named "The Mimic", took on Legundo's face and walked around. At first, they managed to defeat it, which, during, Legs awoke his third spell, "Hold Person". The day after, through a dark ritual, The Mimic was summoned again, unsettling Legs greatly. After managing to bind it to a book, he was told that the Mimic was now locked inside the Abandoned Library and was later killed, hopefully for the last time.

On the first day, he witnessed how the 5 students died during the "Trials" and "Judgment". This left him scared and potentially traumatized, as he is still talking afraid about what happened. Later on, when telling The Professor about the Mimic, he was nearly burned and mentioned the deaths of the students again, showing clear distress to the situation then and now.

Zam is an alien from Mars with a thirst for knowledge about Earth. Despite not being part of Feles originally, she quickly grew with them, spending most of her time with them. Just like Legs, her demeanour can be anxious, but always is willing to protect her friends, often teaming up with Legs to protect Gracie. Having matching traits, Legs and Zam know how to comfort each other and say the right thing when one is feeling down.

One thing Zam has been learning diligently since joining the academy was cooking, sharing the food with her friends. In exchange, Legs shares the coffee he brews every morning with her and Gracie.

Sausage is a mechanical human with partial amnesia. Not remembering everything from his past doesn't stop him from bringing a sunny smile upon the faces of the others. He has an optimistic outlook but keeps grounded in reality. The energy of Gracies is matched by him and Legs is inspired to step out of his comfort zone by him.

Graecie is a kind soul from a distant group, trying her best to spread the Blessings of The Sheeperdess. Spreading light to the other students, she brightens up Legs' life when he is consumed by his anxious thoughts or needs a shoulder to lean on, when another day ends with fatal news. Being in the same house, she lives on the other side of the dorms, which doesn't stop them from visiting each other constantly.

CelestialMetal is the group made up by Legs, Zam, Graecie, and Sausage. Theyre tight together since the near start, they hold each other close and find comfort in one another's presence. Bonded by a prophecy, they spent most of their time with each other, studying magic and learning about Dragons.

Legundo is a young Mechanist's apprentice in the town of Thistle Hill. Orphaned by past wars and the rise of the Storms, he was taken in by Olsted - the town's resident alchemist. One night, he overheard his master talking to rebels, who wanted to fight the Storm, but go against the Queen's orders and plans. The following day, during his return home, he heard a wingbeat and a roar in the clouds above. Imaging and dreaming, what could be possible. Immediately after, an explosion rang behind him, and his town was being attacked. The ones who fought returned victorious. But Legs smelled chemicals in the air. Chemicals from his failed experiments, which Olsted gave the rebels. Betrayed by his master, Legundo left that night, carrying nothing but the clothes on his back, to answer the Dragon's call

Legundo is shy, often paranoid, and anxious. He loves to read books, learning new things and tinkering around on small machinery. Despite his reserved personality, he interacts with people he knows frequently and, while being hesitant, meets new people when he has a chance and interacts passively with them.

Due to his paranoid and anxious thoughts, when confronted with a dangerous situation, he tends to avoid them physically until he either brings up the courage to confront it or it comes to a boiling point (As an example, the situation with 'The Mimic'.) However, when his friends are in danger, he goes beyond himself to make sure that they are not being harmed, regardless if harm comes to him.

Legs has dark brown hair with a blue streak in the front. He wears a white longsleeved button up with a beige vest over it, a belt over his chest with various trinkets, gloves, and dark brown coloured pants.

He appears smaller (5'5) than he actually is (5'7), due to him always slouching and trying to make himself appear smaller.

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