Doku leaves the library and enters the refuge’s newly opened schoolroom. Blue-glass light falls across low desks, slate boards, grain ledgers, and neatly bundled lesson scrolls.
Mistress Mistress Vale, sleeves rolled beneath her dark coat, arranges primers beside measured meal portions. The palace herald examines enrollment tablets while the broad-shouldered father waits with his children.
Mistress Vale
The school roster is complete, and every child has lodging and meals recorded. One family copy, however, lacks the clause explaining renewed consent.
The Palace Herald
Then the copy is defective, even if the master charter is sound. The family must receive the complete terms before enrollment becomes binding.
Mistress Vale lifts the incomplete parchment from a stack sealed with Nohara wax. No one reaches for a quill; the orderly inspection pauses around the omission.
The Broad-Shouldered Father
If that clause was promised, my family should see it. We agreed to known conditions, not to whatever was left out.
Mistress Vale
Agreed. We will issue a corrected copy, mark the first void, and record that no duty begins until the family confirms understanding.
✓ Quest Accepted
Issue the family a complete, corrected charter copy
“"Didn't we discuss this already?" I sigh. Before making a new corrected charter copy with no mistakes. I do it with the same vigor I do medical things.”
FAILURE (Legendary Reasoning, rolled -3)
“"Didn't we discuss this already?" I sigh. Before making a new corrected charter copy with no mistakes. I do it with the same vigor I do medical things.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Reasoning, rolled -1)
Doku Nohara
Didn't we discuss this already? I will make a corrected copy.
Doku sighs and takes the quill. With the same exacting vigor she brings to medicine, she compares every clause against the master charter, renewal tablets, and palace vellum.
Her hand moves in measured strokes, preserving the labor limits, medical pauses, rations, schooling, lodging, treatment priority, inspection rights, and renewed-consent clause without omission or alteration.
Mistress Vale
The corrected copy matches the master terms. I find no defect, and the void parchment is clearly marked.
The Palace Herald
Then the family may receive this complete version. Enrollment remains nonbinding until they confirm that they understand it.
The Broad-Shouldered Father
This is the agreement we were promised. My family will read it, and we will answer with the full terms before us.
The corrected charter bears fresh Nohara wax beside the voided copy. Mistress Vale records the replacement, while the schoolroom’s paused work resumes under a clear, enforceable agreement.
“"Good. Now unless is a drastic emergency. Don't contact me. Vale you handle this." I go back to the Library to learn books about magic.”
FAILURE (Mediocre Magic, rolled +2)
Doku Nohara
Unless there is a drastic emergency, do not contact me. Vale, you handle this.
Mistress Vale
Understood. I will administer the refuge and summon you only for an emergency that cannot wait.
Doku leaves the schoolroom to Mistress Vale’s measured authority and returns to the library. Behind her, the corrected charter remains under inspection, while ordinary refuge work resumes.
In the library’s magic alcove, the expected grimoires are absent. Their shelf holds catalog tablets and dust, with a red seal marking the inaccessible arcane collection.
Doku Nohara
The catalog names magical texts, but the books themselves are not here.
Doku searches the catalog and finds the collection assigned to a sealed annex, available only through a palace authorization or a court wizard’s lending mark. Her study attempt fails, but the catalog reveals a usable route forward.
The library settles into silence around her. No emergency summons comes from the refuge, and the missing books leave a clear choice: pursue authorization or seek another source of magical instruction.
“"Good. Now unless is a drastic emergency. Don't contact me. Vale you handle this." I go back to the Library to learn books about magic.”
SUCCESS (Great Agility, rolled +0)