Fics like Palladian Postulate

In his most expansive and heady dreams, his hands would craft metal and earth into brilliance - transmuting elements and mundane objects into works of unspeakable wonder. Instead, John Segundus' life as a practical magician looks something like this: waking up, getting washed, engaging in rigorous physical exercise in the wide expanse of grey moors, reading in his threadbare library, eating, and then going to sleep. It would have continued like this, he regrets, unless his opponent-turned-ally had not appeared, heralding a new era of magic: magical curriculae, muddling with Fair Folk, and reading blue-scrawls on pale skin that refuses to sit still. John Segundus, to his dismay, is still someone who longs for the extraordinary, and to his chagrin and eternal embarrassment - somehow, John Childermass is present in every instance - the very hands that bring him deliverance. Or: What Came After. The labor of standing up a school of magic as Segundus learns it himself - and the labor of learning to make Childermass bear his presence with less glowering (both of which, he may find, are more within reach than he thinks!)

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