Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 17 October 1020. L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, I live in hope of waking and discovering the Amelie at rest in the quadrangle, and look for her every day, although I know very well that you cannot possibly have received my request before today. It has been … Continue reading Confrontations

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 16 September 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, I have much to tell you; and I am afraid I must begin with a modicum of Provençese history, as explained to me by Claude Bergeron. Within the living memory of the oldest citizens of Provençe, the land was … Continue reading The Terror

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 17 August 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, His Royal Majesty Charles IX, Le Roi de Provençe, has taken to harassing me and mine like a pettish schoolboy. I am once more confined to L'École (though not quite yet in my confinement) and so can only be … Continue reading Harassment

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 31 July 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, Sa Majesté Royale le Roi de Provence has begun to make a nuisance of himself again. I have not written about him much, save that when I returned to L'École last March Dr. Laguerre warned me that His Provençese … Continue reading A Message from Le Roi

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 15 July 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, I have found myself, time and again and again, pondering the question with which you closed your last letter: "What is your kind of wizardry good for?" Forming, or the Stream of Belazel, as Jérôme would say, is quite … Continue reading Utility

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 16 April 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, Maximilian and I have settled into a rhythm here at L'École; a rhythm, I will call it, for that sounds more cheerful than a rut. We rise at dawn, and break our fast in L'École's refectory. Our lodgings have … Continue reading Ashes

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 15 March 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, Maximilian and I have now been back in Toulouse for nearly a week, and nothing is as I expected it to be. Somehow I had had it in my head that we would be returning to our rooms at … Continue reading Boundaries

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 8 March 1020, 3 Madrigal Court My dearest cousin Armand, As I think on the news I have for you I veer from curiosity to fury and back again; indeed, I have done so several times merely while penning these words. Let me set my news in context. All … Continue reading Summons

Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 26 December 1019Bois-de-Bas, Armorica Dear Mum, I am home, and now, on the day following the Nativity of Our Lord, I wish to tell you once again what joy it gave me, and continues to give me, when I think of you happily wed to John Netherington-Coates. (Though I … Continue reading Prosperity