His quill moved again.
And this time, the words came easily.
The feeling lasted for exactly one question.
Lucavion discovered that rather quickly.
The next problem carried the Mana Imprint principle into a more complicated structure, where several preserved conditions interacted through a shared framework and each change produced consequences elsewhere. He could follow the general relationship well enough to understand why the structure became unstable, yet the terminology surrounding the actual mechanism might as well have belonged to another language. Two expressions appeared repeatedly in the description, both of which the Academy clearly expected every properly educated student to recognize, and neither offered enough surrounding context for him to reconstruct their meaning with confidence.
He stared at the page for a while, attempted one explanation, then stopped before the sentence became something he would be embarrassed to defend aloud.
'There you are again.'
