Story: Ending Part 9
[[Continuity Note: Alf, Damien, Rock and Jessica are all back to being friends despite their differences.]]
A couple of weeks passed casually by. Rock, Damien and Alf visited the labs for their magic tests as they tried to determine how much magic they each had left. The Eldred Hillel Institute for the Acquisition of Knowledge of the Magical Field of Study, where Mr Wiley and Ms Aldus worked was more interesting than just the mouthful that was its name. Alf wasn't certain what he'd been expecting when he walked in with Dr Aldus, Damien and Rock. It certainly wasn't something that appeared to be a laboratory out of a university. There were lots of benches and strange machines along the wall. Microscopes and slides were scattered across the benches and there were lots of sinks, too. Alf hadn't thought that the study of magic would be as dirty as the study of biology, but apparently it was. Though the magic was never handled, it was still in their best interests to remain as hygienic as possible.
Mr Wiley had started to insist they call him Dexter, meaning that Alf was suddenly struck by the realisation that he was in Dexter's Lab. Dexter explained the measuring process. They'd have to press a fingertip to a contraption like something diabetics used to test their blood sugar. It would send a magical pulse through their body and some how, by timing how long it took to get through the body it would give a measurement in mus (magical units). A single mu was the measurement of how much magic a simple levitation spell depleted. As levitations weren't elemental, it was deemed an accurate measure of power. After being calculated once, they'd levitate an object then take the test again to determine the rate at which their mus would deplete.
After the three of them were tested, it was unsurprisingly Damien who had the least amount of magic left since he'd been draining it almost non-stop since he found out that it didn't really belong to him. Alf had been conserving his magic and therefore had the most left. Rock had used it at every opportunity he had when he wouldn't be seen by a non. As a result, he didn't have much more than Damien left because the more intricate nature of the magic he wove used up more power. At the rate they were going, Rock and Damien would be done within the month whereas Alf would have an indeterminate amount of time to use his power.
[[End mini-scene.]]
posted by Cedric @ 9:20 pm
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