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This is something sentimental, keeping a diary, but I don't think I'm making it out of the Scholomance, I mean we all knew that going in, but someone needs to know, and I don't think anyone else saw. Maybe the void'll give you this in a century, maybe one person does get out.
We were in the library when masses of mals came flying out at us. More mals than on a usual day. And that's not just bad, it sounds bad on its face, but mals don't usually attack like that when they can sneak around and grab a freshman instead. Obviously, something was scaring them.
So, I'm fighting off the mals and between them look out for [illegible] maw-mouth. Ready to run, we're all running as fast as we can, far enough away that it can't get us, when I see the most obvious fucking maleficer I've ever seen or heard of.
In stories you hear about wizened crones and dark lords and she's more obviously maleficer than that. People are not that shiny, they're not wearing a dress that pristine, hair doesn't come in that shade of white, not in the Scholomance and barely outside, maybe on an enclaver showing off if they really had mana to burn at home.
So, the Obvious Fucking Maleficer, I don't know what happened, she looks like she walks up to the mawmouth and stands in front of it staring it down. Think I shouted get back, there was a lot of stuff going on, didn't have time for a yanking spell without getting my arm dissolved. Not like shouting would have done shit, if someone is standing that close to a mawmouth they're crazy, and probably half the students we thought mals got were actually them, and they think they have something up their sleeve and they don't. And they know all that too.
The Maleficer starts with a spell, no idea how it works, I was too busy fighting to get the gestures, God how I wish I had it because I might even fight my way out with it and get ten enclave spots on the outside.
"Ligma," she says, don't know what language.
She pauses, feels like she’s waiting for the spell to complete.
"Ligmaborls," and then the maw mouth just fucking
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So, the reasons I'm not getting out is that firstly I was to them obviously and embarrassingly flaky in actual combat and they never saw that so they're thinking I'll do the same way before Graduation, and secondly that the maleficer is still somewhere in here and there are some years nobody graduates and no years where someone has a five-syllable spell that does that to a mawmouth and now I don't think those facts are unrelated.
May the void protect this letter,
Ettil.