The next night, I sat alone in my dorm room with all the materials spread across my desk in what I hoped was some semblance of organization. They had designed a spell including a shield with all the calculations and measurements. Formatting was supposed to be mindless work, the sort of thing I could do without thinking too hard, but I'd made the mistake of actually reading through the calculations Kai and Malachi had worked on together.
That's when I saw it.
