Twenty | You Brought Us A Stripper? Their summer flew by in a blur of sunny days and moonlit parties. Almost all of the students at Brakebills stayed at school for break, though not after finding out that the mundane world they came from was too torturous to go back to. The people they were before magic were strangers now and it wasn't like her mother was around for Lilly to visit. Last time they spoke, Evelyn was working on an exhibit at the Smithsonian and wouldn't be back in New York anytime soon. She had promised to take time to visit between this and her next job, but Lilly learned a long time ago not to put too much stock in her mother's promises. Lilly had spent some time with Cara and her now fiancé, Jiada, and even attended their elegant engagement party. Other than that, she st

