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your lungs need filling

since your gums have lost their feeling

the disgraced, dropout daughter of a reclusive, hermetic family, lila toes the line of academic probation from lux university with as much grace as she approaches most things: namely, absolutely none. abysmal attendance and alchemical abuse culminates into something explosive – not literally, thankfully – and her departure from college is not on good terms. still, she does still send an apology pigeon to her favourite professor. it is twelve pages long (lila has never been one for brevity. or being kind to pigeons). his reply is one of the few things she still treasures.[break][break]

the matriarch and patriarch of the pei family are not pleased with progeny failing with a bang. frayed ties are easy to cut as it turns out. egged on by her familiar, lila holds the scissors.[break][break]

but there's another constant aside from her familiar that fuels lila's decision: pain. lila's chronic neuropathic pain, that's only slightly alleviated by the array of alchemical concoctions in salem, partially fuel her own experiments into magic and thirst for knowledge. a dependence on unsafe potions only fractured the divide between her and her parents. however, it's her own makeshift and cheap cures that caught the eye of certain witches when she tried to help out the treatment of injured 'petty criminals' in the hovel. those witches have given her a family and purpose; lila finds solidarity in the silvertongue coven now.