The Grand Library

Blank watched the book fly off after Reuna double tapped on the rune, and now his brows shot up in amazement. 

"Woah, that is quite handy," he said, turning over one of the books and looking at the rune he had overlooked previously more closely. He found the symbols to be familiar, as he was quite well versed in the runic alphabet at this point. In fact, as he looked around he found familiar symbols everywhere, where previously only meaningless inscriptions were inscribed. This library was just full of magic, he realized. Seeing some of the applications of the runes also started giving him some ideas. What if he incorporated some of these useful things into his own apartment? The possibilities seemed endless. 

First, however, he would have to learn magic. He had quite a good understanding of exactly how to go about this, should it be possible. First, he would have to find out if he was even capable of channeling mana, which could be accomplished in a couple of different ways. Once that was complete with hopefully favorable results, there was a number of ways to go about learning magic, though the methods used by those who self-taught were considerably more time consuming and tedious compared to methods used by those who receive assistance from magic users.

These thought processes would eventually lead into him asking a question, "Hey Reuna, are you able to use magic?"

It was a simple enough question, and depending on the answer he would lead into a few other branches of conversation that Blank had already plotted out within his mind, even if he had a good feeling he knew what the answer was already. 

Blank seemed pleased with the response, "Alright great, that means you are capable of doing a small favor for me, should you accept my request," Blank would pause for a moment, before holding out his hands. 

"There is one test that is simple enough to perform for any magic user to find out if someone else is capable of casting magic, as I'm sure you're aware. If you grasp my hands, and channel mana into me one of two things would happen. Either I feel nothing, which means I am not able to cast magic, or I feel something. This feeling ranges from a slight tingling to a flood of warmness in the areas the mana is channeled. Anyways, what do you say? It should only take a moment."

Blank's facial expressions would immediately flash briefly with surprise before settling into an all-to-pleased look. He felt it! The unmistakable feeling of mana coursing through the mana-lines present in his body, which meant he could cast magic.

He smiled at Reuna then, a bright smile, "I can feel it, the mana. My journey seems to just be beginning..."

Blank would seem to take the compliment in stride along with the offered possibility of having his tuition at the prestigous magic academy covered fully, but in reality, it took quite a bit to keep himself composed and not jump for joy. 

"Thank you very much for that, I would assume being complemented on your reading skills means a lot coming from a librarian. Also, I would definitely be interested in attending the academy should my tuition be covered. The only thing holding me back from attending is the cost, after all."

After a momentary pause between statements, Blank would speak again, "So... what happens now? How do we begin making these arrangements?" 

Blank was not all to sure what 'arrangements' entailed, and what he had to do. 

Blank would offer a slight nod, "Of course, don't let me get in the way of taking care of the little one."

He would peruse the library for a bit longer, but wouldn't go into any further heavy studying for now. He had learned more in those few hours than most students learned in an entire semester of any introduction to magic class after all, and had already started to broach on much more advanced yet niche topics within magic, pursuits that definitely intrigued him.

The most important thing Blank learned that day, however, was perspective, a perspective which was given to him through his new knowledge of magic that allowed him to understand the sheer magnitude of what he had yet to learn.

He would leave the library shortly thereafter, but not before leaving a note for Reuna that listed his address. During the writing of this note is when he realized he probably needed a name as he went to sign it as a note from himself. He had not thought of it previously as it had never come up as particularly important up until then. Blank would make a mental note of this as he simply signed the note as from, 'Fast Book Reading Man.'

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