<span style="font-family:Calligraffitti"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff">Chapter Nine - Laying the Groundwork</span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff"><i>Two Days Later</i></span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi had been working hard as of late, but his sister and Lucian were right. If they were going to make their plans come to fruition, he was going to have to bite the bullet and learn Abjuration. He sighed, pushing open the double doors of the Workroom, ready to begin his lesson.</span>