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The most recent name, Kione Macavity, is written in dark purple ink. The tall, straight letters almost seem to glare at you. Whoever signed their name like this must be a very serious person…
You add your name to the list, find a comfortable chair, and sit down to read.
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The next day, you
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The most recent name, Kione Macavity, is written in dark purple ink. The tall, straight letters almost seem to glare at you. Whoever signed their name like this must be a very serious person…
You add your name to the list, find a comfortable chair, and sit down to read.
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Magda finishes Messages by Moonlight, the historical novel she was reading on the first day of school, and promptly offers to lend it to you. You read it during learning period; during lunch, turning the pages with one hand; and sprint into the common room after Reading Hour, shouting about how amazing it is.
“I’m glad you liked it,” Magda says, smiling. In that moment, she looks extraordinarily beautiful.
When, casually browsing the internet, you find out that a film for the book was made, you decide that it’s the perfect opportunity to introduce the rest of your squad to Messages By Moonlight.
The plot centers around two girls—girlfriends, actually—living in Texas in the early 2000s.
One, Alethea, is wealthy and lives in a mansion; the other, Madiera, lives with her father in a beautiful sculpture-junkyard/repair shop with old planes parked all around their tiny home.
When Alethea’s cruel guardian finds out about her relationship with Madiera, he sends her to a terrible, prison-camp-like boarding school at which he’s the headmaster.
There, Alethea is subject to a variety of atrocities, each more horrible than the last.
But she subverts the rules even as she works them, which is boarding school slang for doing what you’re told so you don’t get in trouble, and she’s brave and generous and especially kind, which is something that the people in charge of the boarding school have especially strove to stamp out with their cruel regulations. Barred from sending letters, she colludes with the only humane teacher to smuggle messages out at night. While the book’s told through her letters and Madiera’s diary entries, the movie uses them as a framing device, using narration sparingly to enhance the plot.
“When narration happens,” Abby murmurs, “you know something big is going to happen.”
Madiera, receiving the letters, plans to restore an old plane and rescue Alethea—but her letters are intercepted by the headmaster and replaced with ones that, at least in Althie’s mind, destroy their friendship. Broken and miserable, devoid of any regard for her own safety, she ferments a full-blown student rebellion. Several students are able to escape to a nearby safe house, but Althie’s caught and sentenced to an inhumane whipping, plus several days locked in a basement. Even her teacher-ally seems to have betrayed her—she handcuffs Althie’s hands with a look absolutely devoid of sympathy. As she’s dragged to the center of the schoolyard, dignified and fearless as she prepares to receive her punishment, there’s the sound of a helicopter engine, and then—
“I fixed the plane, Althie!”
Alethea glances at the teacher, and they smile conspiratorially, and it’s revealed in a brief flashback that the teacher purposely used cuffs that were much too large for Althie’s slender wrists and delicate fingers. Within an instant, she’s got her hands out of the cuffs, and she’s running, running, her smile as bright as ever, and the camera cuts to Madiera in the helicopter that she’s been tinkering with throughout the movie. She’s finally gotten it to work, and she’s leaning out and smiling, and she tosses a rope ladder, and Alethea grabs on—and she waves to the headmaster, who’s practically apoplectic with rage, as she rises into the air like Galinda in her bubble.
The two girls embrace. Together, they fly the small plane into the sunset.
“And then it’s all over bar the tea and hot soup and cuddling,” Magda says authoritatively.
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There’s a list of names of people who have read the book. The most recent name, Imogen Rose, is written in round, bubbly pink handwriting.
Magical seals are often used to purify the posessed, to heal damage to the enviroment, or to close portals. With a bit of work and practice, anyone can manifest a magical seal!
The appearance of seals varies depending on the caster. Everyone has a different magical seal! They’re often said to hold clues to their caster’s personality.
You read the rest of the chapter. Then someone brings in sugar cookies! Putting the book back on the shelf, you head off to go get food.
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There’s a list of names of people who have read the book. The most recent name, Sophia du Diamanda, is written in neat pastel-green ink, and the I’s are dotted with tiny asterisks.
(, the perfect destination for the intelligent traveler, is a small, artsy town with plenty of eclectic shops…
You settle into a comfortable chair and begin to read.
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Magical weaponry is a term that refers to any weapon that a magical
person creates with their mind. To create a weapon, one must have a solid understanding of how it is normally constructed. For example, someone wanting to create a sword must know how swords are forged and be able to imagine this process accurately, while someone who wants to create a gun must know how all its parts function and how they fit together.
In the following chapters, one will find an outline of how to create several basic weapons using magic, including a combat knife, a pistol with a revolving chamber, and a self bow, also known as a bow made from one piece of wood.
This book seems really useful—the previous owner must have really appreciated it.
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The next day, you receive an invitation, finely calligraphed in dark blue ink on thick cream paper.
“Miss Abigail Gore
Would like the pleasure of your company
In the common room of Marigold Hall, Triumph Suite, at six ‘o clock in the evening." You ask Abigail what she has planned, but she just smiles as mysteriously as a cat and changes the subject.
When you enter your suite’s common room at the appointed time, soft classical music is playing in the background, and there’s a table with a white cloth set for a multi-course dinner.
Abby wears a dark green velvet skirt under one of her usual sweaters, and accessories with black ballet flats and a white silk scarf. She serves course after course with practiced elegance: battered morsels of perfect vegetable tempura, a quinoa dish with bright seasonal vegetables, sweet fruity drinks in your favorite colors, and gorgeous poached pears topped with caramel sauce.
After finishing your food—and complimenting the chef until she blushes—you have an idea. It turns out to be a fateful, significant idea, only you don’t know that yet. “Hey, what if we all played music together?”
Chant sets a few of Abby’s poems to music, accompanying herself on the miniature guitar that she keeps under her bed; Abby hums a low harmony. Your pretty tenor voice weaves under theirs as Magda taps out a beat.
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There’s a list of names of people who have read the book. The most recent name, Imogen Rose, is written in round, bubbly pink handwriting.
Magical seals are often used to purify the posessed, to heal damage to the enviroment, or to close portals. With a bit of work and practice, anyone can manifest a magical seal!
The appearance of seals varies depending on the caster. Everyone has a different magical seal! They’re often said to hold clues to their caster’s personality.
You read the rest of the chapter. Then someone brings in sugar cookies! Putting the book back on the shelf, you head off to go get food.
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There’s a list of names of people who have read the book. The most recent name, Sophia du Diamanda, is written in neat pastel-green ink, and the I’s are dotted with tiny asterisks.
(, the perfect destination for the intelligent traveler, is a small, artsy town with plenty of eclectic shops…
You settle into a comfortable chair and begin to read.
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Magical weaponry is a term that refers to any weapon that a magical person creates with their mind. To create a weapon, one must have a solid understanding of how it is normally constructed. For example, someone wanting to create a sword must know how swords are forged and be able to imagine this process accurately, while someone who wants to create a gun must know how all its parts function and how they fit together.
In the following chapters, one will find an outline of how to create several basic weapons using magic, including a combat knife, a pistol with a revolving chamber, and a self bow, also known as a bow made from one piece of wood.
This book seems really useful—the previous owner must have really appreciated it.
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The next day, it’s your first magic class! At one point, they separate everyone—students with mainly offensive powers go with one teacher, students with more defensive or support-oriented powers go with another.
You’re not sure which direction to head in, so you just kind of stand there.
Miss Poppyseed, one of the teachers, comes over to you. “Is something wrong, then?”
You explain that you’re not sure where you’re supposed to go.
“Well, then, I’ll help you figure this out. What is it that you do, exactly?”
When you rattle off your list of powers—in fact, you’ve discovered several new ones in the last week alone—Miss Poppyseed’s mouth quirks into a smile. “I think we may have to give you a few private lessons, Miss Lucy Angel. Because you’re different. And extraordinary. In fact, if one thinks about it, all differences are by definition extraordinary. Think about it that way, Miss Lucy Angel. Chin up, shoulders back, head high—right, splendid. Come along, then—let’s go be extraordinarily different!”
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