Azrael Emery // “the Conjurer” // Age 28 // Sixth Prince of Castillon // Illusionist
Captain Noe walked like a bullet ready to tear through anything that stood in its path. Azrael, by comparison, floundered in her wake. She turned her head slightly so that she spoke over her shoulder at him...
Chahaya “Cha-Cha” Arif // “Dysfunctional Ex-Con” // Male // Age 32 // Castelobruxo Professor // Legilimens
Theodore West reminded Cha-Cha of an ice sculpture: cold, rigid, and one well-timed hit from shattering into a million pieces. The Hogwarts champion held himself with a militant posture...
Liling // “Verdigris” // Age 9 // Inmate // Artificial Intelligence // Cat Burglar and Pianist
There was a snap of static as the intercom crackled to life. It sputtered a few times, reducing the normally booming voice of Captain Levina Noe to an electric wheeze. Still, upon arrival at Belle...
Vasu Saini // “the Snake Charmer” // Male // 5th Year // Koldovstoretz Champion // Parselmouth
Vasu was still eyeing the toddling young dragon warily when something fluttering in the air drew his gaze. At first he assumed it was the wings of a butterfly, but then he realized that the thing’s...
Azrael Emery // “the Conjurer” // Age 28 // Sixth Prince of Castillon // Illusionist
As requested, Cappy returned her sword to its sheathe on her hip. But she clearly wasn’t done trying to intimidate Azrael, instead leaning forward with her palms on her desk, so that the big woman was looming...
Liling // “Verdigris” // Age 9 // Inmate // Artificial Intelligence // Cat Burglar and Pianist
Liling snorted as she and the two other women were herded off of the colorful rug of a tree with books sprouting from it in place of fruit, unable to believe that this oversized peabrain was still...
Chahaya “Cha-Cha” Arif // “Dysfunctional Ex-Con” // Male // Age 32 // Castelobruxo Professor // Legilimens
The events of the past day flooded over Cha-Cha like a strong drink as he teetered to the library, pain lancing through his leg if he walked too briskly. Clara Winters’s hair gusting...
Vasu Saini // “the Snake Charmer” // Male // 5th Year // Koldovstoretz Champion // Parselmouth
Sweat shining on her dark face, Aurelia Quansah scurried into class ten minutes late. Ooh, this will be interesting, Vasu thought, leaning forward in his seat, eager to witness the young professor...
Azrael Emery // “the Conjurer” // Age 28 // Sixth Prince of Castillon // Illusionist
Azrael’s heart was sinking beneath the implications of Zod’s announcement. He had clawed his way to a new world after his own had gone up in flames, and now he was being told that this one was about to go the...
Liling // “Verdigris” // Age 9 // Inmate // Artificial Intelligence // Cat Burglar and Pianist
As the classroom shifted into a boxing ring, the therapy participants reduced to spectators, Liling felt a familiar roiling in her gut. A blurring of her vision. A hiccup of fear that she was spinning...
Chahaya “Cha-Cha” Arif // “Dysfunctional Ex-Con” // Male // Age 32 // Castelobruxo Professor // Legilimens
Chitrita’s pretense of a concerned fiancée dropped away like a cloak she wore against the weather. There was a chilling light in her eyes as a smile stretched across her face. Cha-Cha felt...
Azrael Emery // “the Conjurer” // Age 28 // Sixth Prince of Castillon // Illusionist
On the other side of the door was one of the biggest women Azrael had ever seen, which was not immediately obvious until she spoke. Her face was obscured by a helmet that had been wrought from crude steel, with...
Vasu Saini // “the Snake Charmer” // Male // 5th Year // Koldovstoretz Champion // Parselmouth
Mey and Vasu alighted on the bench next to Ramona as a conspicuous hush fell over the assembled students, like a plague spreading. Bodies spun backwards in their seats, heads craning to see the...
Azrael Emery // “the Conjurer” // Age 28 // Sixth Prince of Castillon // Illusionist
As they exchanged small talk, Azrael caught the bronze-skinned girl stealing glances at him when she thought he wasn’t looking, as if he were a book written in a language she didn’t understand but was trying to...
Vasu Saini // “the Snake Charmer” // Male // 5th Year // Koldovstoretz Champion // Parselmouth
Vasu was languishing in the Ilvermorny cafeteria, the only thing keeping him more awake than asleep the upbeat conversation between two scantily-clad girls with American accents. To his delight, robes...
Liling // “Verdigris” // Age 9 // Inmate // Artificial Intelligence // Cat Burglar and Pianist
Throughout Unger’s narrative of the power of friendship, Missy Kimmy’s face was a sight to behold. Initially she frowned in displeasure when the Baton of Truth found its way back to the most...
Chahaya “Cha-Cha” Arif // “Dysfunctional Ex-Con” // Male // Age 32 // Castelobruxo Professor // Legilimens
Finding consciousness was like hauling himself up from the bottom of a thick-slimed swamp. Sleep weighed heavily on Cha-Cha’s limbs, dragging him back down every time he tried to surface...
Azrael Emery // “the Conjurer” // Age 28 // Sixth Prince of Castillon // Illusionist
The nastiness of the blue-haired girl’s words was undercut by the smile itching at one corner of her lips, the warmth in her voice like the air before a summer thunderstorm. Azrael exhaled in relief. He had no...
Vasu Saini // “Shiva’s Heir” // Male // 5th Year // Koldovstoretz Champion // Parselmouth
The dark triumph that Vasu felt at watching Cha-Cha collapse melted into fear that he would be caught and punished when another professor came barrelling down the hall. With a squarish goatee and longish...
Liling // “Verdigris” // Age 9 // Inmate // Artificial Intelligence // Cat Burglar and Pianist
At her unexpected speechlessness, fury and defiance and fear buzzed through Liling’s gut like brandy. Or how she imagined the toll that brandy might take on the human body. Not having an actual...