She now sat inside the Academy's infamous meeting room—tucked behind the eastern spire, just beneath the observatory tower where the stars never stopped turning.
The chamber was circular, high-ceilinged, with twelve tall arched windows representing each zodiac sign, their stained glass casting colored light across the marble floor.
At the center stood a massive obsidian table etched with ancient constellation maps, where the Masters of the school gathered like silent judges.
By "Masters," she meant the heads of each department.
Perasius was present as the Head of the Astramancer Department.
He looked exactly as one might expect, draped in star-stitched navy robes, with a beard so long it could be braided into constellations, and a towering wizard's hat that defied gravity and good taste.
The Trickster Twins, Pollux and Castor, sat side-by-side as the co-Heads of the Artificer Department.
