Baswara stared at the notification glowing in his crystal and thought, quite frankly, that the girl was joking.
That, or she was desperate.
A moment's cross-reference with the academy registry confirmed it was neither.
Cecilia Araceli. Top Student, Unique Magic Department. Telekinesis Specialty/Intention. Five consecutive yearly initiations completed. Exemplary record.
The data was impeccable. Which made her request utterly nonsensical.
Why, in the name of all structured magical pedagogy, would a top-tier specialist want to undertake her final, career-defining initiation with him?
Professor S. Baswara (Emeritus). Noted scholar, yes. Former Headmaster, certainly. But his published works, his entire philosophical bent, could be summarized in one endlessly reiterated thesis. 'The Importance of Flexibility: Why Overspecialization is the Bane of Adaptive Thaumaturgy.'
