Geilen Karasam
A New Day
"Karasam! Sam! Sammy! Salami!"
An unfamiliar voice woke Sam from sleep. He had grown so accustomed to sleeping alone, that his first instinct was to enter a defensive stance to face this individual. However, instead of seeing an actual person, all he saw was that blasted doppelganger in his mirror.
"Finally!" it said. "I was about to go call Ruby from down the hall to come and help wake you up. And I don't usually talk to Ruby."
"Why on Pastorias did you wake me?!" Sam asked, rising and starting to dress in the plain clothing he had in hos possession.
"Other than to annoy the begeezus out of you? Well, there was some valkyrie who knocked on the door about fifteen minutes ago, and your Sorceress friend has been knocking on the door for five minutes."
"Oh, Harry!" Sam exclaimed, quickly walking over to the mirror to clean his face, before remembering that he couldn't see himself in it.
"Why are you staring at me now?" the mirror asked.
"I was actually hoping to see my own reflection in the mirror quickly."
The mirror sighed. "I don't know what's with you people that you always want to see yourselves. Such vanity."
"For thirty seconds, come on!"
"Fine. I had to use the loo anyway." the mirrorman walked out of view in the mirror, clicking his fingers as he did so to make Sam's reflection appear. He washed his face and ruffled his hair into his usual style, before making his way to the door.
Outside his room, Harry was leaning against the wall beside his door. "You're either deaf, or just a very deep sleeper," she said as he exited the room and closed the door.
"It's the first time in a very long time I've slept in an actual bed," Sam said, walking beside Harry as they passed an uptight looking girl who had just come out of her room, her red hair neatly tied in a style that fit with the fancy dress she was wearing.
"Sure, we'll go with that story," Harry said, winking. "Oh my! We quickly need to go to my room. I forgot my staff."
The went down to floor four, walking down the several winding passages before reaching Harry's room. The inside was full of strange models or items most likely used for stargazing, as well as multiple books, charts and diagrams of the stars, many of them seemingly animated as the stars moved on them.
Harry's staff stood beside a full-length mirror, in which stood her mirrorperson. He was an elderly person, with silver-grey hair and a cane. He looked both disapproving and amused when Harry took her staff.
"You left so early thos morning, I thought you decided that the magical life wasn't the one for you," it said in a fatherly tone.
"I was in a hurry to go wake up Sam here," Harry replied, nudging her head at Sam.
"Ah, the Grift you told me about. I am honoured to make your acquaintance, young Sam. I am Arthur, the fourth individual to have called this room my home until my untimely death about 400 years ago."
"Excuse me?!" Sam exclaimed.
"Although most lodgings rooms receive a new mirror persona with each new occupant, some rooms have permanent personae. Like this one. When a mage has stayed in the same room for over 60 years, they are granted the opportunity to become a perma mirror once they die."
"So are you still alive?"
Arthur chuckled. "No, I am unfortunately dead, however, perma mirrors are echoes of their former selves, thus the ritual that is performed when you accept the opportunity is called the Echo Ritual. Very original, if you ask me."
"Sam, do you still want to go?" Harry asked as she watched Sam speaking to a mirror.
"Oh, yes, yes. It was a pleasure meeting you, sir."
"And you. I might go and pay your mirror a visit one day. Oh, and Harry dear, remember to be back in time for the feast."
Harry and Sam made their way to the dining hall for breakfast. After finishing their meals (Sam ate something known as a pancake with berries and cream), they proceeded into the Gateway.
"So, wanna have some fun before we go and get the few other supplies you need?" Harry asked mischievously.
"What did you have in mind?" After Harry explained, he was grinning too. "What are we waiting for then?"
The rest of the morning passed rather quickly. Harry would identify the most susceptible or gullible individuals with her clairvoyance, while Sam would change into another person and prank them, whether they be first year students who could use some misdirecting, or pranking older individuals with some basic prank spells Harry showed Sam as they went about their business buying supplies and exploring
While they were eating lunch at the Rolling Dragon Tavern (paid for by Harry's allowance), Sam noticed a white-winged angel being led in by a very energetic-looking Valkyrie. Sam wondered for a moment whether this was the same Valkyrie who had supposedly knocked on his door that morning, but thought that the odds of that were probably highly unlikely.
Directly after them, a slender girl with light brown hair walked in and waved at a few of her friends sitting somewhere behind Sam. As she passed their table, Sam and this girl's eyes made brief contact, allowing Sam to see the silvery colour of her eyes.
"That's Jennifer Olineo," Harry said as the girl sat down by her friends' table.
"Do you know her?" Sam asked.
"Well, no exactly..." the tone in her voice said that she most likely read either the girl or one of her friends' minds.
"And what about that angel and Valkyrie over there close to that singing Dwarf?"
Harry looked over at them for a few moments before shrugging. "Can't say, to be honest. But I know he's also new here; like you."
Sam thought that she was purposefully not telling him, but knew that it must be a good reason. They stood after a few more minutes and started making there way back to the Dome. The parted in the entrance hall, both returning to their rooms: Harry to prepare for the Feast, and Sam to put away his supplies. On his way down, he passed another Angel, this one with black wings, making a mental note to try and see if he can change into one of them once he got back to his Lodgings.
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