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Chapter 5 by DreamingSpace DreamingSpace

What do you do next?

Try to do some research

You actually have no idea what you're looking for, but you grab your tablet and try anyway.

There are no meaningful results for the Mistress of Ravens that seem legitimate - strippers and fantasy novels, yes, actual deities, no. You always assumed magic simply wasn't real. It doesn't take too long to figure out that if anybody can do the sort of things you already know you can do, they've chosen not to demonstrate it for the world's Skeptic societies. Some of those have offered cash rewards for proof of supernatural powers, so...either there are no other wizards, or they don't need the money as badly as you do.

You know two spells, and you understand how they work, when you think about it. But the knowledge is instinctive and pre-verbal. You know there's a math and a logic to it, but you can't translate it into English. Therefore, you can't enter the search terms you would need to find out if anybody ELSE has cracked the secrets of working occult mechanics and then posted to Usenet about it. After two hours of ignoring the real homework you should be doing, you've got nothing.

Well, you've **** yourself to develop your own understanding of the questions you need to ask, even if you didn't find any answers. You did establish that there is no publicly accessible information on real magic, if there is any other real magic to be found. So that's worth something, you guess.

So what are you going to DO about it?

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