Sealed off from the outside world, the students have a study group in the courtyard, something Chise’s happy about. When studying gets a little old, Violet and Jasmine break out some wooden magical puzzles for everyone to enjoy.
It’s another first for Chise, but I already knew she’d unlock her puzzle instantly. I didn’t know it would set off a trap that temporarily gives her black hair! I kinda wish we could have seen more of her, particularly beside the similarly raven-haired Lucy.
Elias, lost in thought about what Chise might like or dislike, ends up int he courtyard and observes the games. When Philomena arrives with Veronica and Alcyone, Rian invites his childhood friend to play with him, like they once did all the time.
Alcyone, intrigued by whatever Elias is, engages him in conversation, under the mistaken impression that he is, like her, an artificial fairy. But I can’t really blame her; the two look like two peas in a pod together! There’s also a profound sadness to the fact that somewhere within Alcyone there is a beautiful stored memory of Philomena and her parents.
Rian’s memory is full of days spent with Philomena, including playing with these very same wooden puzzles. But now, in the present, when he solves his puzzle before hers, he’s angry, because there’s no way someone so much stronger, smarter, and more talented than he would finish after him.
The disconnect between his longstanding opinion of Philomena and the tortured wretch before him is too much to bear, and he wrongly takes it out on her. She suggest that perhaps he shouldn’t expect that she’s anything like she used to be, or he’ll only be disappointed.
The two run off, and their friends chase after them. Isaac is mad at Rian for how he acted, and their fight carries over to the next day. Zoe admits he hasn’t had friends long, but he doesn’t think friends should treat each other like Rian treated Philomena.
Chise, followed closely by Lucy, chases down Philomena and takes her into her arms. When she sees her face, raw with anguish but devoid of actual tears, it’s like looking into a mirror at her former self. As we know, before she sold herself to Elias she was a tortured wretch herself.
Chise desperately wants to help Philomena by telling her it’s okay, there are things she can want and things she can do. But Mena has been so thoroughly pulverized by her evil grandmother (whom we see being awful to the wolf woman) that she is now stuck in an excruciating limbo: not allowed to win, or lose, or wish or hope for anything. Chise isn’t able to say any more as Mena departs.
Her inability to ease her friend’s heart weighs on Chise the next day, but her own heart is lifted when she and Elias are able to sit and shoot the breeze for the first time in a while. Chise also notices more ghosts floating around, and Violet comes past in to explain that they come out in greater numbers in the Winter.
After Philomena and Rian ran off, Jasmine took ill, so Violet took her to the nurse’s office. Now dozens more students are knocking on her door with the same symptoms. The most obvious explanation is that whoever has the grimoire is continuing to sap people’s magic. And since the College is sealed, there’s no escape from their machinations. Something’s gotta give!
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