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They'd been back at school for two weeks. Enrie was entirely caught up on all her classes, and Taikie was back into reading ahead by at least a week. Their Instructors had either forgiven them, or, in the case of those more nosy than fretful about academics, had stopped asking what was going o

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It felt strange to be back in school. Their Instructors had all been told — well, something, at least — by House Monitor Libkazaarie — which meant that Instructor Pelnyen looked at them sideways but everyone else seemed to accept their absence with decent grace.

There were projects to wrap up

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Happy Tienaabaa's festival to all! May it find you motivated to creativity and to thought.

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It was nearly time...

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Enrie did not know her cousin all that well, but she thought the woman sounded faintly amused.

Saydrie’s cheeks went red and blotchy and he bowed again, jerky this time. “No, Honored One. If anything,” he cleared his throat and managed a weak smile, “simply pointing out a specifically Bitrani

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Enrie winced. Her friends were not actually helping her case, as much as they might think they were.

"It was..." She cleared her throat. "They did destroy or remove several books, but they were stopped in their efforts by two things: some of the information had embedded aether. It made one f

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Saydrie rescued her. "...we forget that our Emperors' ancestors once had to undergo seven tests to be considered worthy to even be in the succession, and that our Governors and Emperor all were once kalōkāt; war-leaders, leaders who had been proven both in battle and in peace. We forget that we be

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Enrie turned to look at Gianci. Everyone else, she noticed, was doing the same.

He cleared his throat again. He was looking over their heads, not at them. "Sometimes they tell people they can't go back to the enclaves. Banish them. Some people leave on their own, sure, but sometimes... som

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The cart wasn't chasing them anymore. A peek around the edge of the wagon showed it tangled and sideways on the side of the road, their goats all happily eating feed or fighting with the harness, trying to get to the food. Three of the people from the wagon were trying to get the goats loose, p

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Sorry so late, guys! Not sure what happened to brain

Enrie was skidding toward the open trap-door, flailing for purchase. A flash of movement caught her eye and a moment later, three hands caught her - wrist, shoulder, and ankle. Enrie was yanked to a stop a hands-width from the trapdoor.

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Their head of school might being blackmailed, but Enrie found herself worrying more about what to pack. "I don't have anything," she complained to her roommates, who were sleepy and not inclined to help. "I didn't bring anything..." She was being very vague about where she was going, not because

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Enrie lifted her chin and met the Head of her Academy's gaze without flinching. "The original is safe, Head Wiltemika. I didn't dare have it anywhere it could be found while Lirnilalie and Ilonilarrona were snooping around, talking about destroying it all."

Wiltemika's chuckle now had a bit o

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"Well." Wiltemika sank down into a chair and held her head in her hands. "May they be truly gone and not simply waiting for the right time to plague us again."

"Head Wiltemika," Libkazaari protested. "What is going on?"

"With any luck, the evidence I have previously put forward against th

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"Now that that little travelling curiosity show is over," Lirnilalie muttered, "we can get back to business. My papers--"

"As I told you already," LIbkazaari interrupted, "your papers aren't here. The only papers that are here belong to the Students here and to the school."

“Then you won’t

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Enrie swallowed around a dry throat and watched the scene unfold. Libkazaari stood up, watching Lirnilalie levelly.

The woman, in turn, raised one eyebrow in clear doubt. "I've never heard of a school project that led to students hiding, running away from adults and stealing things from r

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Was this good news? It was pleasant to hear that Libkazaari didn't like Lirinlalie, and yet... "House Monitor," she said carefully, "I am concerned that, if Lirnilalie is being treated as royalty, if we reveal these papers here, there will be no pleasant result and a great deal of

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“We have some ideas about what it could mean,” Enrie offered. “The fact is, it’s not signed, and that’s huge. And it doesn’t show up in normal history books, but I found references to it in at least one aether-embedded book in the treaties section.” That one, she’d brought the original for. She

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Enrie stared at House Monitor Libkazaari's door. She looked at her friends. She swallowed around the bile in her throat and looked back at the door.

"I can hear you out there. Unless you're here to discuss the merits of saddle-throwing positions, come in."

Enrie's cheeks flushed and she d

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They were really doing it. They were carrying everything they had found, and they were taking it to an adult. Enrie swallowed around a lump in her throat.

"There are so many ways that this could go wrong," she whispered. They'd picked the route to the House Monitor's office least likely to p

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Who do we take it to? turned out to be a question of some contention. The six of them collected had at least twelve ideas of people they could take their information to, ranging from the Emperor himself to regional Governors all the way down to the upperclassmen in any number of classes, from

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Enrie made it through the rest of their textiles class by the skin of her teeth, paying far more attention to the conversation of embedded aether than she ever had before. If they could embed it in clothing… oh, and she knew they could put it in text already, there was that note that kept v

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“Class,” Enrie agreed. She took Saydrie’s offered hand, bowed to both women much as he had, and waited the half-second for Taikie to do the same before they strolled out of there.

Holding Saydrie’s hand let her control the pace to that stroll; she was pretty sure if she hadn’t been, they’d have

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The day of classes seemed to stretch on interminably. Once they reached the end, Enrie could see what Riensin had found. She could see what else they had to do. She could figure out who they were supposed to take this to.

But first she had to get through Biology and Textiles and Philosophy.

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“...and then Pieped suggested they could run interference. Which is probably why there’s this very polite wall of Estyaa House colors by the doorway. I don’t think Lady Ilonilarrona’s done with us.” Enrie spared a glance for the nicely-composed line of purple, cyan-teal, & bright red by the

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They took all of their bits and pieces to a quiet lab in the back of the Philosophy classroom building. There, in a room lit with the new safety lamps, they laid out everything they’d found so far, pages and notes. Saydrie pulled out some fresh paper and a pen and began transcribing everything; a

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They found Gianci and Taikie in the history section, holding an old tome whose bindings had crumbled with age, hidden off behind a pole in a far corner near the books on Empress Otyeriotanerio . The book itself was Bitrani Writings on the Early Wars, but, between two maps of Reiassan showing p

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Enrie and Saydrie read angry paragraph after angry paragraph. The scribe had started out describing things as an extended metaphor, but he kept falling into screeds about the failure of the world in the “modern era.”

He was convinced that something had happened to the Bitrani people that had le

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Enrie didn’t wait until Gianci and Taiki were gone before she started searching the shelves. She’d been over many of these books before, but with Gianci’s new lullaby, they had a new direction to go in.

Saydrie was muttering to himself as he flipped through books. After a minute, he asked, “Di

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Finding Riensin was harder than she’d hoped it would be. He wasn’t in the dining hall, he wasn’t readily visible in the library, and he wasn't in his dorm’s common room or in his room, although his roommates gave Enrie and Taikie quite the look — before they noticed Saydrie standing with them.

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Due to a *cough* scheduling error, you get two chapters today. Please make sure you've read Chapter 36B first

“So,” Saydrie cleared his throat. “Sorry about that, Stable-Master Korten. I’m not sure…”

“Your friend there, that’s not an entirely unreasonable reaction. Lirnilalie is not the s

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“You three?” Stable-master Korten smiled at them as they slipped in through the far entrance to the stable. “And you brought friends. I’m not going to need to clear out another stall, am I?”

“Aren’t things getting a little crowded already?” Enrie flashed him a bright smile, hoping he knew th

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Ulunumani had fled, flinging imprecations. Enrie wanted to feel bad about that -- and in some sense, she supposed she did. Ledryie was right; she was far too casual about making enemies. At least Taikie’d made her first enemy when he tried to kill her; Enrie seemed to make them when she got in th

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“All right” Riensin leaned forward. “So you have a puzzle piece. We need to check in Instructor… P’s office. You found things that were of the right era there, right?”

“Yes, but someone else has already ransacked his office.” Enrie wrinkled her nose.

“Do you think he noticed?”

“...that

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Instructor Kaasmasik was missing from class again. Still, Enrie turned in her paper, looking Instructor Rezhtareza in the eye as she explained, “I was told to do this paper, ma’am.”

“Indeed? Somehow I’m not surprised. Well, perhaps it will count as extra credit.” The instructor wasn’t smirking —

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Ulunumani didn’t approach them during breakfast; less surprisingly, neither did any annoyed Cevati Bitrani. In an additional note so unsurprising as to be on par with the sun coming up in the morning, neither did Gianci.

Kekla and Tesdes showed up late, just as the rest of them were finishing

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After Chapter 34A

“The problem is, I don’t really have a plan for this part,” Enrie admitted. They were sitting over an early breakfast — it appeared her teammates couldn’t sleep any more than she could. “I have sort of… bits and pieces of a plan. Go look here, go look there. The first ‘here’

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Previous to Chapter 34A...

Kekdela and Tesdes were waiting just inside the entrance to the library when Enrie, Saydrie, and Taikie got there. Kekla looked as if she was about ready to bounce out of her uniform, while Tesdes looked — well, the same as Tesdes normally looked, which was reservedly

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“She has a plan?”’ Taikie very nearly waited until they were out of earshot of the house Monitor’s office. “Do you think… Do you think it will be a good plan? I mean, last time, we ended up with Instructor Kaasmasik back teaching classes, and Instructor Pelnyen is still teaching…”

“Well,” En

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House Monitor Libkazaari’s office was open and, thankfully, there was nobody there except the House Monitor. Enrie knocked on the open door and waited until Libkazaari looked up.

The frown that crossed Libkazaari’s face made Enrie worry. “Enerenerie, Tairiekie, Saydrie. I believe I should give...

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Lady Ilonilarrona narrowed her eyes. Enrie smiled, although she was beginning to feel as if her lips were made of stone. Saydrie and Taikie moved forward a step on either side of her.

“You really don’t know, do you? You’re stupider than I thought, and that little heel was lying to us. Well,

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“Don’t you ‘cousin’ me, you ridiculous girl. You have no more right to call me cousin than a weasel does to a goat.”

Enrie kept a pleasant smile on her face. “Lady Ilonilarrona, yes? How might we help you?”

“Associate Governor. And you are Nerenarie, yes? The daughter of… oh, someone uni

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