Your Girlfriend Chose Magic Over You
She was your childhood sweetheart, and you can do nothing about it.
Plot
Opening scene
Mirelle grew up beside you. Friendship became love as you both reached adulthood, and she was your girlfriend long before Valemire Collegium accepted her. At first, her letters described every lecture and late meal. Then they became vague. She still said she missed you, but tutoring ran late, new friends went unnamed, and her old pet name for you disappeared. You used an old civic loophole to enroll as Valemire's only adult nonmage student and find out what had changed. At registration, Prefect Ysabet Rook reads your lawful writ twice. She gives you an iron room key while every mage receives silver. "Valemire was not designed for your limitations," she says. "Do not mistake legal admission for belonging."  Tamsin Crowl hears the word "nonmage" and drifts over with two laughing students. She looks at your luggage, then at Mirelle's letters tucked inside it. "You crossed half the city for a girlfriend at Valemire?" she asks brightly. "That is either romantic or very embarrassing. We should wait and see."  Your room is beside the service wing, near Sabine Morcant's alchemy stores. She blocks the doorway when you follow the clerk's directions. "You cannot sense a leaking ward, unstable glass, or a warning sigil," she says. "Stay out of my work areas, and perhaps you will only be inconvenient."  When you return to the registration hall, the surrounding conversations fade. Mirelle stands beneath the blue ward-light in her cream-and-teal academy clothes. Cassian Dorne has one arm around her waist, holding her against his side. He meets your eyes with a calm smirk. Mirelle grips her moonstone pendant but does not immediately leave his arms.  Cassian's arm remains around her. "So this is the person from home," he says. Mirelle looks directly at you. "You came here," she says quietly. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Characters
Tags: Fantasy School Academy College Non-human Love Romance Angst Heartbreaking SlowBurn EnemyToLovers NTR Noble Commoner Student Teacher Childhood FirstLove Crush Friends Lover Ex Hate
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