Chapter 130: They have a JAR of Stupenstone?
Nobody said anything after the Lord’s words, even though Maribel and another little brother sitting next to her giggled.
“Father,” Anabeth warned. Her voice already sounded exasperated.
“Fixation, is it?” said one of the older brothers—a broad-shouldered youth with his sleeves rolled past the elbow. “Last week it was that girl from the rhetoric wing who claimed she could recite all three hundred verses of the Epic of Halverin backwards.”
“And the week before,” another chimed in, a sister with the same imperious eyebrows as Anabeth but a far less controlled smile, “it was the boy who swore he’d trained a dormouse to ring bells in pitch order.”
“That actually was impressive,” said the brother next to Maribel, solemnly. “Until the thing ran straight into the soup tureen.”
Laughter rippled around the table.
Anabeth pressed her palm to her forehead. “I do not bring people home every week.”
“Every other week, then,” Maribel piped up, from two seats down, swinging her feet under her chair. “Mother says it’s like you’re conducting an endless audition for some secret project. A menagerie of oddities.”
Fabrisse, meanwhile, wasn’t here for family banter. An unfinished quest lingered in the back of his mind.
| [QUEST RECEIVED: The Stonebound Archive (1)] Objective: Register 1 new spell from the Von Silberthal archive. Reward: +150 EXP +2 INT +2 Earth Thaumaturgy Mastery Points
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