CHAPTER 39
The entire community gathered for their evening meal in the great hall on the first floor. Penrys and Zandaril joined Zongchas and Vladzan at the head table, and Penrys was amused when she noticed the covert glances their presence brought from the rest of the diners.
As in the Collegium, light was provided by devices mounted at head height along the walls, where torches might be expected. Penrys was itching to examine one up close, since they didn’t feel as though they operated on the same principles as the kind she was familiar with. When one dimmed, she noticed a young wizard who rose from his seat to tend to it, taking it down from the wall, then rehanging it again once it had brightened. Charging its power-stone? The task of apprentices, to teach them technique?
She tried
