43 I quickly finished writing the lab report and headed home. The calculations were complicated, but I had practiced a lot, and I quickly gathered the literature. I tried to keep up with the day's workload, because otherwise, with all the evenings and weekends occupied with the stupid magic practice, I could not keep up. I wonder if other mages have a similar workload. If so, it's understandable why I never see them; they're all in training all the time. The classes were the same boring drills as always, although this time the Major taught me a variation on the fireball: rays of fire. Now I had to direct a continuous, thin ray towards him. Other than the initial bit of figuring it out, it was again, like always, just a lot of practice with no theory. I didn't want to tell the two geezer

