Meet your Magic Teacher!

This tutoring was a bit special compared to the other requests. Unlike other students who contacted him personally for these lessons, the school was the one who asked him to teach this student. While it was basically the same thing as a private lesson, it certainly felt different. As Selkiris made it to the classroom he quickly recoiled at the nickname his student called him by.

Selkiris quickly recomposed himself and made it to the teacher’s desk. “Yes hello Ms. Lottie. I’ve been told you wish to learn more magic?”

Selkiris sat down in the desk and spilled out the contents of a bag he had brought with him underneath his robes. A massive plethora of magical tomes littered the table and Selkiris quickly got to organizing them to be a little more presentable.

“Yes it’s just you and me, at least that is what I was told. Tell me Ms Lottie, what do you wish to accomplish by taking my tutoring lessons?” Selkiris didn’t look up from sorting the books even once, more intent at the task at hand than the conversation it seemed.

Selkiris nodded his head and simply said “I understand.” as Lottie explained her reasoning to him. Once the books were properly sorted he spoke again, this time actually looking at Lottie. “Well that is a good enough reason to learn magic. Since you mentioned it I suppose we will start with Telekinesis. I would like to state before hand though that I have been ‘cut off’ from most of my magic so I cannot give any real examples. Now for Telekinesis I think this book is a perfect place to start.” Selkiris picked up a tome from the selection and outstretched his hand to Lottie. To bridge the gap a small portal appeared between them and a tendril arose out of it, grabbing the book and handing it to Lottie before disappearing. The cover of the tome read ‘Mental Magic: Powers of the Mind.’.

“You asked if these tomes were your textbooks...that is a word for it. As you will soon see most were written by a man named Rey Bether, a dear friend of mine. He was a jack of all trades and wrote to inform others on the magic he practiced. We will begin with the basics and will then move into the more...experimental ideas.”

Selkiris pulled out his own personal leather bound book which he kept safely tucking under his robes. He opened the book and flipped through a few of the pages until finding a page that wasn’t completely filled with notes.

“Knowledge is your best friend Ms. Lottie. Only a student needs to actually use magic to learn it, the teacher does not. However I did at least dabble in the basics of most magic so I can at least give you some basic tips.” He was tried to avoid giving her any real specifics of his current abilities. Selkiris pulled out a pen and began to write away on his book. “Get through the first four chapters and then we can discuss it Ms. Lottie. The introduction is usually just long and boastful, full of Rey’s gloating of his abilities.” Selkiris chuckled a little at that, it was always funny how prideful Rey could get. “So I would recommend just skipping that part.”

Wordlessly, Selkiris closed his own book and lifted his head towards Lottie. The hood still completely obscured his face however it was fairly obvious he was focused intently on her. “Chapters 2 and 3? Very well, what questions did you have about those sections?” Whenever Selkiris was bored he often turned to Rey’s old writings to fill the void of time. Selkiris likely could recite some of those books word for word if he was challenged to do so.

For his time, Bether’s ideas could have been seen as going against some basic magic principles set during the era and was therefore a rather controversial topic among magic users. Selkiris always found Bether’s theories and techniques fascinating which is likely why Selkiris even befriended him in the first place. Whenever Selkiris read his books he felt as if Bether was still with him today. Deep down, Selkiris believed teaching Bether’s methods to other magic user was the best way to honor his memory, he hoped Bether was smiling at him, wherever they were.