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AUREMIS
Chapter 1: The Worst Possible Outcome
(And Then Somehow Worse)
The summoning ceremony was, according to every piece of official academy literature Rui
had read, a sacred and momentous occasion that reflected the depth of a mage's soul.
She had read all of it. Twice.
She was going to throw up.
Not literally. Probably not literally. The nausea was manageable as long as she kept
breathing through her nose and didn't look directly at the summoning circle in the center of the
hall, whic