I don’t wanna work . . .
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Do I wait and try to get 1000 or hope out goes slow enough that I’ll get it in 5 minutes 
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Is this post like AI generated? because it’s so bad lol 
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Let’s hope!
“The slavers the night I got lost,” Candle said, suddenly remembering. “That was you?”
She nodded. “You saved me twice that night. First, by getting us all free and second just by setting an example. You told me you were Silverwind’s apprentice and after seeing you use magic I figured you must have been telling the truth. That’s when I wanted to learn magic too. Finding a master to apprentice me in Querna would have been impossible, but with Oceanvine being the first woman to be allowed into the University, there was another path open to me. I had run away from the public orphanage, but I went back and demanded my right to an education.”
“That must have taken a lot of demanding,” Candle commented.
“Too right!” Korinna agreed. “They kept insisting the only thing a girl like me should bother learning was how to sew. But even a seamstress is allowed some time off, and I spent it in the library. The librarian was nice; she helped me learn to read and told me that according to the laws of Querna, I was entitled to attend public school if I wanted to, so I did and there was nothing the people at the orphanage could do to stop me! I shouldn’t blame them too much. They honestly thought my best chance in life was to learn a trade, but I persisted, studying every spare moment I could find between chores - all night sometimes and I managed to earn a full scholarship, well for tuition anyway. I have to work for the room and board, but I do okay.”
“You’ve done very well, indeed,” Candle told her. “I know. I started out on the streets too. Compared to you, though, I had it easy. The only work I had to do was in my studies. So what sort of magic are you studying?”
“As a journeyman candidate? So far it’s all very generalized, but Wizard Bowsprit is my advisor and he was the one who suggested I read Oceanvine’s thesis. I think I’d like to make my senior project a study of ward technology. Tonight’s lecture was so wonderful, Master Oceanvine. Would it be all right if I were to write to you with questions, especially as I get closer to my senior project?”
“On two conditions, Korinna,” Oceanvine replied. “First, stop calling me ‘Master’ everytime. I’m not on faculty here and just ‘Oceanvine’ is good enough between colleagues, don’t you think?”
“Thank you,” Korinna replied simply. “And the other condition?”
“When you get your degree, insist on being called ‘Journeywoman.’”
“I could have predicted that,” Candle laughed. “It’s what she did,” he told Korinna.
“Why not ‘Mistress’ now, though?” Korinna asked.
“Just didn’t sound right to me. Every unmarried adult woman on the island I grew up on was called ‘Mistress.’ ‘Master’ is a hold-over title from a century or two ago when you had to reach a certain guild level to be called by that title. These days only little boys and academics are called that.”
Korinna laughed. Oceanvine raised an eyebrow and Korinna explained, “You may not be as robustly built as a Granomish woman, but even here no one would mistake you for a little boy.”
“I thought of that too,” Oceanvine replied with a wink.
“You know, Korinna,” Candle said suddenly, “since you’re a mage now, you might be interested in seeing our boat, the Maiyim Bourne. It has all sorts of enchantments worked into it, some of which we don’t even understand yet. If you have some time tomorrow after classes…”
“I have to wait tables in the cafeteria during lunch and dinner,” Korinna told him, “but I don’t have any classes tomorrow afternoon.”
“Great! Where shall I pick you up?”
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Iwannawiniwannawiniwannawin.
Please?
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@froodyfrog, there’s post mongering today
Yeah, we did the auto tour there and hiked to several of the cabins when we went on our trip in December for our anniversary.
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What do i… i mean how do you… err… where should… but like…
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If you are reading this:
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Pick me
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Almost at 1000! Keep it goin
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