39 "Should we do something about this?" Jack asked, when Dana silently went back to her bedroom, mumbling formulas under her breath. He had to cut her steak and practically force-feed her, although she didn't seem to realize it, as she stared into the wall with an empty look, occasionally sipping her coffee, and checking the notebook she lately always carried with her. Even to bed, which was annoying. Her two masters shook their heads. "You can't do anything," Professor Bedwen said. "She has to snap out of it herself." "What is it?" Jack asked. This wasn't taught at the course about mages. "It's a step in becoming a mage," the Major explained. "Although it should have happened later. You know apprentices are treated like magical children by the law, right?" Jack nodded. "Do you kn

