Sophomore Year, the Break-In
"Professor Cohen researches other dimensions," Darcy says. "If anyone's going to have something to spice up our ritual, it's her."
It's initiation week for Xi Theta Phi. As part of it, you're required to make up a ritual to "commune with the Vastness." You talked Darcy and Manish into helping you. Darcy doesn't know you talked Yasmine into rejecting her bid to join the Thetas, but even so, she took a lot of persuading. Eventually Manish convinced her to join in.
It's meant to be a creative exercise, a chance to entertain the Thetas and show them how badly you want to join the group. After all, the Vastness isn't real. It's the made-up boogeyman that lies in wait between the dimensions, ready to swallow whole any practitioner who channels too much magic.
Darcy, however, became obsessed with making the ritual as impressive as possible. She wants a pattern from Professor Cohen's office to summon something remarkable.
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