30 Day OTP Challenge: day 7: Cosplaying
Dec. 4th, 2012 10:31 amIt’s a sufficiently unusual occurrence that you have to dig around in the Wizard's Manual a fair bit to find it.
Most potential practitioners of the Art make the acquaintance of wizardry through the direct and usually rather obscure action of the Powers that Be. The probationary-wizard-to-be comes across something unusual: an odd book or a peculiar computer or tablet, a voice that speaks to him or her alone, an object that somehow holds knowledge inside it and whispers it into the heart. Sooner or later the finder progresses through this initial discovery to the personal Choice offered by the presentation of the Wizard’s Oath, and (if it’s accepted) to the Ordeal that follows.
But sometimes matters go differently. Sometimes—for reasons best known to Themselves, normally having to do with something private but important in the potential wizard’s makeup, some situation making a personal touch the most effective—the Powers call in presently-practicing wizards to assist in the delivery of the Manual or “induction instrument”. These so-called assisted inductions can be (seemingly) very simple, or sometimes fairly complex.
The one presently in progress would probably qualify as the latter.
“Are you ready?”
“No, because I can not keep this hair under control!”
“Stop fussing. And hold still or the stealth spell’ll slip. No no, not that way!”
“I told you, the hair…! It’s all over the place, it’s trying to strangle me, I swear, did you forget an inhibitor variable on that routine?”
“Two secs, I’ll have a look — “
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