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To contact Atticus IC: Leave a response to this entry, specifying the means of contact (e.g., letters, in person visit). To contact me OOC: Discord:  middlemarching#9936 Plurk:  ragweed NB:  I work 9-5pm EST Mon-Fri, have additional volunteer obligations, and write fiction in my free time.

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[minrathousian]

"It is not," is Atticus' cool response; it would be answer enough for anyone else seated across from him at this table, but as is frequently the case with Petrana, he finds himself compelled to offer her more. "The Harrowing is a barbaric practice of the Southern Circles of Magi; by design, it is intended to shame the participant for the very abilities it is purportedly intended to test.

"In Tevinter, practices vary depending on the city. I took on a number of apprentices over the years. Benedict," he says the boy's name a bit sourly, "being the most recent."

[minrathousian]

"Is that the common method of tutelage, to apprentice with a master?"

"Among the Altus mages of the Imperium, certainly. It is the way that I was taught, though by the standards of my peers, mine was a rather unconventional education." There, he smiles thinly. "I was apprenticed to my mother."

He looks to the notes on the somniari that Petrana has laid out before him, and reaches out to take up her translation. At last, he tells her, "I have never seen magic leveraged in this way before. How does it work?"

[minrathousian]

Atticus' thin smile doesn't fade. No, she certainly is not a fool.

He sets the translation back down on the table before him and slides it carefully across to her. "Well, I am obliged to assist you in that effort, if it pleases you, Madame de Cedoux," he says, then relaxes back into his seat to steeple his fingers neatly in front of himself. "You know where you may find me, if you require my knowledge in the future."