As far as ordinary days go, this day was perfectly ordinary.

In fact, it was so perfectly ordinary that it had long crossed from the ordinary part and beelined for mundane instead.

Kazra, however, reckoned that it might be just him. He wondered if all scions felt this way upon returning to Mezchinhar. After you had spent A While out there, travelling the Universe, chasing down what little hints there were left of the Lords, what was supposed to be home did feel slightly… boring.

And crowded. It always took one by surprise after a long absence that was spent in the company of the same people day-to-day, how many wizards there really were. It was like they had deliberately taken the most crowded marketplaces in the known Universe and chucked them all in here together, then multiplied by a number Kazra feared would put his brain in a standstill for a while if he tried to calculate it all by himself right now. The only saving grace was that Mezchinhar was significantly better organized, allowing for them to stay out of each other’s paths. Otherwise, it was just like a marketplace in a random city on a random planet. You showed up, got what you came for, and you would possibly never see a single one of those people again.

But mostly, it was boring.…
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