Acrobatics
Beginner 8
79%
Appraisal
Intermediate 4
39%
Archery
Beginner 7
44%
Athletics
Intermediate 4
30%
Blood Magic
Beginner 10
19%
Bluff
Intermediate 3
54%
Cleaning
Beginner 8
24%
Compulsion Magic
Beginner 6
92%
Dark Magic
Beginner 3
7%
Deception
Intermediate 2
99%
Diplomacy
Intermediate 6
9%
Dodge
Beginner 5
6%
Earth Magic
Beginner 9
43%
Eating
Intermediate 2
47%
Engineering
Beginner 4
10%
Fire Magic
Beginner 6
5%
Glasscraft
Beginner 3
53%
Haggle
Intermediate 2
45%
Healing Magic
Intermediate 3
78%
Heat Resistance
Beginner 3
57%
Herbology
Beginner 10
73%
Illusion Magic
Beginner 4
10%
Information Gathering
Intermediate 8
41%
Insight
Intermediate 5
87%
Intimidate
Beginner 10
27%
Life Magic
Beginner 8
23%
Light Armor
Beginner 2
50%
Light Magic
Intermediate 6
94%
Lightning Magic
Beginner 5
6%
Mana Sense
Beginner 1
20%
Mathematics
Beginner 7
4%
Mental Fortitude
Intermediate 5
5%
Metal Magic
Beginner 10
18%
Modeling
Beginner 6
60%
Nature Magic
Beginner 4
48%
Navigation
Intermediate 1
99%
Perception
Intermediate 6
35%
Perseverance
Intermediate 4
32%
Persuasion
Intermediate 4
81%
Running
Beginner 4
18%
Sense Motive
Intermediate 4
14%
Singing
Beginner 3
67%
Sleight of Hand
Intermediate 2
0%
Small Blades
Beginner 7
0%
Speed Reading
Intermediate 7
26%
Stealth
Beginner 9
56%
Tailoring
Beginner 8
18%
Unarmed Combat
Beginner 5
86%
Walking
Intermediate 6
73%
Water Magic
Intermediate 3
94%
Wind Magic
Beginner 8
74%
Writing
Beginner 2
25%
Studying her stats, she decided she’d just take Con from the first person she touched that day so it would bump up. After all, on day one she’d been fine with a little tingling, and it wasn’t until she tried to siphon a bunch of people, and namely Mike, that she’d passed out. She was pretty happy though. She’d finally passed average on everything and was a little higher than an ordinary person now!
With a smile, she got out of the tub and quickly dried off with magic. It was super convenient and she couldn’t help but giggle. Sure, some scary things had happened yesterday, but it was as she’d said in the morning. She wasn’t going to be frightened, not of death. She’d been given the gift of magic and had no idea why, but she was going to treasure it! Laughing, she sang softly as she skipped back to her room. “Here’s a happy song I know. You might want to learn it by rote. Don’t worry, be happy!”
She kept humming as she got back to her room, digging out her money pouch for the pins there so she could shove the hair on top of her head and pin it in place. It was a messy style that a lot of the nurses had favored because it looked good mostly without effort, and if it got messier throughout the day, well, it just looked normal! It wasn’t until she was inspecting one of the pins, admiring her work with a grin before she frowned and wailed softly, “My sunglasses!” In the excitement last night, she’d completely forgotten about them, but they’d been on her head when the mesmer grabbed her. Most likely, they’d fallen somewhere and were long gone.
Dejected, she was full-on pouting as she made her way downstairs. “Jade, what’s wrong!?” Kaylee looked alarmed at her pout, and Jade sighed, giving it up before smiling at Kaylee.
“It’s nothing important. I just realized I lost the sunglasses I’d just made yesterday during the excitement last night. I worked really hard on them, and now they’re gone.” She was pouting again, but Kaylee was laughing at her now.
“If you made them once, you’ll make them again, but even better. Now come sit down. I’ll get you something to eat and you’ll feel better.” Kaylee grinned, ushering her into the room. Jade couldn’t help but laugh too. Seriously, food solved all ills for her. Glancing around, she saw Jackson, Evan, and Adam seated together, though Britney had joined another group. Deciding she didn’t want to deal with Britney, she headed towards the three boys.
Sunnily, she greeted them, “Good morning Jackson, Evan, Adam.” She nodded to each of them as she slid into the seat next to Adam. With him and Evan having such large frames, she could see why they didn’t sit next to each other.
“Morning, Jade! Did you hear about what happened last night?” Jackson seemed to be brimming with excitement, and she studied him for a moment. With intense red hair and freckles that contrasted his pale skin, he was pretty adorkable in his excitement. He was lanky and his movements a little jerky, like he was still getting used to a growth spurt.
She smiled and asked, “What happened?” She was pretty sure it was about her, but who knew, maybe he had some other equally important thing that had happened to the city.
It was Evan who responded, sticking out his buff chest. He had the confidence of a guy who knew his own strength, and his dark brown eyes seemed to brim with barely contained strength and excitement. “My cousin took out a mesmer! He’s one of the city guards, and he says he got the killing blow!”
Jade smiled, nodding. “He’s an excellent shot, then. I’m glad he hit the mesmer and not the other guard.”
Evan inflated at her praise, and he nodded enthusiastically. “Yeah, he said he had to be really fast because the mesmer was attacking another guard at the time and…wait. How did you know there was another guard?”
She giggled, smiling at them. In the light of the new day, what had happened last night was easier to talk about. “Well, that’s because the mesmer had been trying to carry me off before it was shot. So I had a bit of an up-close and personal view of it.” All three boys were staring at her in awe as Jessica brought her breakfast over.
She set it down in front of her, knocking Jade lightly on the head. “Don’t make light of it. You could’ve been killed. Aside from that, Stephen sent word. He said there’ll be a guard over at eight-thirty to escort you to the east gate, where they’ve gathered the men you wanted to see.”
Jade smiled brightly at Jessica. “Thanks, I’ll be good as soon as I’ve eaten. To set the record straight, I’m not making light of it, but when scary things don’t kill you, they make a good story.”
Jessica shook her head and walked away, while the boys were still staring slack-jawed at her. She grinned and began to eat as Adam rumbled from next to her, “The girl in the story was you?” She nodded, and he grinned. “They said you lit it up real good.”