Our first class was about the history of the Castle and the three great guardian wizards who gave a place as refuge and teaching to new witches, here they taught both black and white magic along with their warnings, logically with the white one there was no problem, as we had to respect the rule of 3 everything you give either good or bad will be returned to you three times.
I respected this rule as my daily bread, we were taught to read the runes, use the crystals and mooring spells; Our vocation was varied, since in our family there were many origins, Vikings, Celts, among others, clearly those who were of white magic root knew the danger and power of the black one but I as one of Celtic descent wanted to revive and preserve the ancient traditions.
Magicians and not magicians forgot to thank the elements for continuing with the balance of order and each food brought to the table, people are forgetting their origins and decided to isolate themselves and forget a tradition that for them could be "old fashioned or insignificant".
After the great talk of history we had to start making shield spells, clearly my companions Perla and Jade had no problem but when it was my turn to be thinking about things that I could leave for later conjure up the spell and a strong breeze with rain of various flowers flooded the room and more than one went out dizzy. Since among those flowers there were some that smelled as strong as the Cadaver flower, the professor didn't know what to do and I could only say
Me: Oops! Sorry. -remembering the spell to reverse it-
Professor Connor: Miss Loughty, I trust and hope that you know how to fix this mess -a fixed and uncomfortable look-
I wanted to laugh because of my nerves but that face was more scary than I could have thought
Me: *quoting The Spell in my own way* that which came back to its origin and left everything before being able to see "Retrorsum converti".
Professor Connor: I hope and this mistake will not be repeated, you must practice your Latin better or it will be an embarrassment for many.
Jade who was making a circle of protection next to Perla just came up to me and asked if I was okay, clearly Carolina was not long in making her appearance and saying
Carolina: who would have thought it, the hybrid was better than you... keep it up Agatha good example. -laughter-
Me: sure what you say -I raise my stick a little and say- smell that you are still back and do not return more "non nidore".
Carolina: -something scared- you are crazy, you can't see someone like that and do that, besides that is a high concentration spell and you don't have it.
Me: are you sure about that? -I look at it with mischief while I notice that there is no more smell of the flower.
Carolina: Yes, I am very sure, you don't have me....
But before finishing her sentence, she heard how the kids said that the smell was gone and they liked it and missed it in turn. Carolina was uncomfortable and so everyone left except Perla and Jade who were asking themselves a big "How? and what happened in Si;" I decided to tell Jade what happened since Perla was my roommate and I had a vague idea of what had happened.
It turns out that at night I was reading a book of potions and in one of them I was talking about the corpse flower that if mixed well with rosemary, mint and other scenic plants could make a powerful aroma for good luck, clearly very few dared since that smell was worse or the same as being buried with a pile of bones 200 meters below ground, and since the professor was giving a somewhat long class I thought it was not bad to go to my inner world for a few minutes.
After that Jade didn't stop laughing although she was grateful that she could disperse the smell and take it to another place like the gardens where the wind would disperse it, as after a while we would have pendulum classes I decided that we could go for something to drink before, as our class ended 10 minutes before its time, there wasn't much to order so I could take my time to tell the story and go to the dining room where the vending machines were nearby.
Anyone who looked at the juices would run out since they were varied mixtures of fish juice, carrot, toad liver, frog legs, crickets with butterfly wings, in short they were very varied, I opted more for the juices of various fruits, Perla wanted to try the frog legs but I preferred to eat them than drink them but I respected her taste, for her part Jade preferred to opt for a soda.
After walking for a while in the garden we saw Sebastian and Nestor in the company of two other boys, Nestor seeing me waved his hand, the girls and I could only laugh and as we waved we were introduced to the boys Oscar and Watanuki, they knew each other from years before and Watanuki being Japanese had family in Australia their ribbons were lilac and cream and Oscar red and brown. I was happy to know that a beautiful friendship like this was possible, the kids told us about a fantastic legend where when they passed the level they gave us our emblems, those emblems had a very strong spell where they assigned you a partner.
While I was listening to this story I was only saying that it was impossible since one had to choose it oneself, but what Oscar said gave me to understand that it was a very strong ancient magic that could even be done by the guardians, as only the magic worked with the right person. As if Oscar's words were a prediction that same legend but more detailed and demonstrated was in our class of clairvoyance, we went to the campus where our relatives used a ribbon of our color and had to hide, we with the help of a pendulum had to look for them, some of us had to be given the training as we had to create our own.
The advantage is that we were free to choose any stone to use as our personal pendulum, after a while I managed to get my relative playing with a butterfly, then I took him to the teachers' room where I placed the pendulum in a glass of water to leave it clean and from there I went to the room and then had frog legs with mushrooms and rice for dinner.