I'm Aule. Just Aule. Touch my books and I will murder you.

Because despite his insistence, he never graduated and thus does not have a doctorate, though honestly I don't care about the Upper Institutions cause they're very biased anyway but that's a whole other conversation. He had to personally go and take a shit on all un-signed magic because of his stupid-ass, racist ideas about the importance of magical shape. Sure, signed magic is a lot stronger because it’s physically present, but that doesn’t mean you need to calculate the exact position of the moon at midday cause you want to boil some water and need to scratch down some shoddy symbol on a sub-optimal surface that will expire in less than two seconds! How about you actually live in the real world where you can just voice your goddamn intention instead of trying to turn the Natural Forces into fucking bureaucrats!

But I think about you all the time! I think about the way you smile whenever you tell me how you beat your brother in practice again. I think about how you always do what you want, despite how many obstacles are in your way. I think about how every time I stay up too late you get mad and tell me to sleep so I can do better tomorrow. (pause) I guess I just thought you'd save me, because I never thought you could fail.