Rime held onto Cyra's hand as she skipped alongside him as they all made their way to the Alchemy building. It took a good ten minutes of walking before they were able to reach the building which was situated near the third years. The building was a tall marble structure that was a very light aquamarine in color; the building almost glowed in the sun light causing many of the students to shade their eyes.

Professor Harlan led his new students into the very tall building slowly making his way up the marble steps. He only ever came in this building when one of his new students needed to be tested but otherwise he would avoid it as if his life depended on it. Which it did because a man he could only call his arch nemesis was the head of the building, he rolled his eyes at the sight of the very man he loathed, speak of the devil and all that.

Rime smiled as Cyra hoped from step to step causing the other children to smile at her antics; they walked into the building and were met at the entrance by a short angry looking man, who seemed to be glaring daggers at their professor that stared straight over the man's head. The man growled something in a strange language that Rime immediately recognized to be the Dwarves Tongue as they called it. He had a neighbor that was a dwarf and loved to cuss the village drunkard every chance she got.

The man turned his attention from the elf and smiled at them. "Welcome to the Alchemy building, I am Professor Drugi head administrator for the Alchemy department. Now you all must be thinking what in the world does Alchemy have to do with magic affinity and the answer to that is... nothing." The whole class stared at the man’s serious face. "It's just a big fancy rock that you touch and it tells you what you need to know. But since our building has the strongest magic spells, all thanks to me. They keep it here and because humans have this strange fear of Dwarves which is just laughable because you're all taller than us; even that little girl will grow taller than many of our children in a few years."

The elf huffed making the Dwarf shoot daggers at him. "Anyways follow me so you can all go and touch a rock to see how bright it glows." Some of the children laughed and the man seemed proud of himself as he turned on his heels and headed down the hall.

Rime picked Cyra off the floor as they headed down the hall that appeared to never end, they finally reached a tall stair case and headed up to the highest floor and walked further into the back of the building. The Dwarf stopped stretching out his hands and spoke a few words something in the room shivered and then the dwarf sighed and walked forward pulling open a heavy wooden door. The students all gasped at the sight of a very large purple rock that took over the face of the wall.

"Ha you all look a bit stupid there; obviously this isn't the glow rock, no that's what you call a distraction." The dwarf waved his hand and then turned heading to the side of the room where a white door appeared. They were all lead in a room that held several white rocks that each stood on a stand of its own. ”Now these are the glow rocks, there's so many of them because some of them get broken when we have a young prodigy but that hasn't happened in a bit, so whatever."

Professor Harlan stepped forward. "Okay you'll each take a turn touching the stone doesn't really have a particular order, this little box will measure the magic output and I'll take note of it, so who wants to go first?" He asked looking around at his students Idina's hand shot up and he gave her a nod as she stepped forward she placed her hand on the stone. It glowed brightly the box ticking for a few seconds before stopping as the professor made note. "Next."

Burne stepped forward and once again the stone let off a bright glow with the professor taking note, it went on that way the other students stepping forward as Rime tried to keep his curious sister in check. "Okay last." Rime looked up and headed to the stone when his teacher nodded, he looked around at someone to hold Cyra while he tested his magic and everyone looked on reluctantly. Professor Drugi stepped forward to collect her and place her on his shoulder making her laugh.

Rime smiled at her and slowly stepped forward he was pretty sure that he didn't have any magic skills, his mother had proficiency in nature magic and that enabled her to become a farmer like her mother before her. But ever since he was small his mother has been trying to get him to do something like her but nothing ever happened, so that's why he turned his sights on herbalism; it was as close as he could get to his family's profession.

He stepped forward and slowly placed his hands on the stone, at first nothing happened and Professor Harlan sighed. "Focus Rime there's no rush; it's just you and that stone okay?"

Rime nodded and took a deep breath closing his eyes, Professor Harlan wasn't really surprised, although rare, it was possible for a child to be born without any affinity to magic and it was normal for it to be a child that excelled in his or her academic studies. The student would be upset for a time but it was better that he faced this fact sooner than later. As the professor took a step forward to touch Rime he stopped in his tracks as he let out a deep gasp, the tiny box let out an ear ringing scream and he looked down to see numbers never seen before.

"Ooh black!" Cyra squealed in excitement before jumping down from the dwarfs shoulder, she stopped herself from landing on her face and ran over to her brother. Rime was still holding onto the stone with his eyes closed completely unaware of the once white stone becoming as black as the darkest night sky. Cyra ran up and tiptoed placing her fingers on the stone that let of a pink glow before reverting back to its normal state she smile and then turned to Rime with a smile before he collapsed causing her to let out a scream "Ri!"

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Professor Harlan was the first to react at the sound of the little girls screams as she ran to her brother and began to shake him continuously screaming his name. He ran over to Rime and turned the boy onto his back looking him over. His skin that normally had a tanned tone to it was unbelievable pale, sweat was running down his face even though his skin was cold to the touch, he pulled the boy into his arms and stood up rushing from the room.

Professor Drugi broke out of his stupor and called for another Professor to look after the remaining students as he grabbed up the little girl who was now sobbing her heart out. He followed after the elf using a spell to lighten his steps and speed up his pace; they were down the stairs and out of the building in less than a minute. The Dwarf rushed up to the elf grabbing his arm and duplicating the spell so the two of them were now gliding through the school heading straight for the medical building. It was a large white building but instead of marble it was made from wood.

Professor Harlan was thankful for the help from the Dwarf because despite of how the human child looked he was strangely heavy. They made it into the building and when the head healer saw them she quickly lead them to a large room where he was able to place the boy on the bed. Professor Harlan stepped back allowing the healers to move near the bed, one of the women dressed in a long white dress with a hood took the crying girl to her and slowly rocked her as she left the room.

The head healer had just come from looking after a child who had miscast a spell and caused it to back fire on them. When she saw the elf and dwarf rushing into the building carrying two children, she assumed that they had been caught in the blast and lead them to the nearest room without asking any questions. She waited for the boy to be placed on the bed and the young girl to be taken to another room to be examined before she stepped forward.

She and her assistant stripped the boy of his clothes pulling a blanket over him when they were done; her assistant chanted a short spell that raised the heat in the room to heat the boy’s body. The head healer let out a small chant, passing her hand over the boy’s body as she did, she scanned him for any physical injuries when she found none she checked internally and there was still nothing. So she chanted a spell to read the child’s aura and found herself recoiling at the sight of the darker than black aura.

She clicked her fingers instantly allowing candles to appear in the room along with the smell of river lilies. She sent everyone else out of the room and slowly moved around the bed touching different points of the boy’s body and repeatedly did it until his aura faded to a dark blue.

She placed her hand on his skin to see he was getting warmer but still sweating, with a flick of her hand the candles had vanished from the room and the heating spells had been canceled out.

She left the room telling one of the younger healers to clean the child's body, and went into the room next to his where the little girl was now fast asleep. The head healer did a quick check and smiled at the sight of the girls light pink aura that surrounded her and seemed to be reaching to the other room. She came to the conclusion that they were siblings, but wondered how the boys aura had been tainted like that.

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Professor Harlan ensured that the boy and the girl were both okay before he left for the Head Master's office, he was still a bit shaken by what he had just witnessed and was thinking of a way to explain it without of having the head master yell at him. The man had a very loud voice even when he claimed to be whispering. He rubbed his hands together chasing away the last of the cold that he had gotten of Rime's at the time, ice cold skin.

He could hear the dwarf behind him speaking to someone in his strange language probably requesting for them to bring the stone. Professor Harlan could even hear the quiet steps of the school head healer as she came after him to explain her findings straight to the Head Master himself. This was the first time this had happened and he started playing with the idea of the child being attuned to dark magic, but for all he knew no human had ever been found to have an affinity to dark magic.

If the child did have the affinity from what he could see the boys little sister was his off switch, she would be able to bring the magic to a screeching halt if it were to ever get out of hand. But this was something that they had to keep contained if word spread of this, both him and his sister's future could be at stake. He sighed and quickened his pace; he just wanted to get the whole ordeal over with.