Chapter 44: 23 Cantrips

Chapter 44: 23 Cantrips

Agostina, Domitilla, and Julia start asking questions about my magical training.

Yeah, no Im still practicing some exercises before I dive deeper into spells.

Domitilla seems to know some magic, apparently. Shes being tutored by her aunt.

Oh, you are going through the 23 Cantrips?

My brain kind of stops there.

No, really.

It kind of does.

Come again? I ask with a frown.

You are practicing the 23 Cantrips, right? Domitilla asks again.New novel chapters are published on

23?

Ill censor myself for a second while I silently take it out with the book.

Just know that if you could read in my head and see my thoughts, you would probably be quite shocked by the number of profanities a person can come up with in a few instants.

Im still practicing the first one, I venture. I realized before that I have to be careful when I lie since there are so many truth-stones lying around this place.

Oh, the rotating [Lights]! Yeah, it took me a few hours to get through that one.

Now.

What the f

Oh, I think it will take me a few days to get through it, I scratch my head, embarrassed. Ok, maybe Im not that talented, am I?

Well, thats something! I say aloud, smiling charmingly toward Domitilla.

Show me what you can do now! I can help you! Domitilla volunteers.

Show her what I can do? Yeah, sure, let me just show you how a random Human can summon two [Lights] brighter than a flashlight and then move them smoothly in one direction. Sure, why not? Its not like your aunt wouldnt start peeling my skin one layer at a time to discover where the hell I learned to do that.

Im a bit shy, I smile and get an idea. Maybe you can come later to my apartment and with some privacy, I could show you something.

Hell, I even add a wink.

This should save me.

First, I fully expect to be thrown out by either Agostina or Julia after this bout of sexual innuendo. Second, this smoking-hot girl would never come alone after I said something like

Sure! she smiles brightly.

Goddamn, Im too charming, arent I?

This girl did one circle with two crooked [Lights]. Im not even sure she used the same approach I have to move magic! I think she was just tossing the [Lights] around with her natural instinct. You cant do that, can you? I mean, it doesnt count, does it?

Joey, if you lay one finger on my niece, Agostina starts saying before her sister shushes her up.

They are adults, Agostina. Dont be a prude! And he doesnt look half-bad for a human! Hell, had I been younger, I would have tapped that! Julia waves her off like nothing.

I am not entirely clear on whats happening, to be honest. I know that the food I was chewing entered the wrong hole and is now trying to choke me.

When I recover from Julias comment, Im still trying to understand how Domitilla can think that she completed the first Cantrip. You have to rotate the [Lights] for a minute without interruptions in their movements. She barely did one spin!

Am I actually talented? Or is it the book?

A warm feeling starts spreading throughout my chest.

Am I talented?