Once the professor added Dani’s ideas to the list on the chalkboard, Dani lowered her whiteboard, setting it aside so that she could take notes when the professor began answering some of their questions, like the boy who had started the discussion on curses asking what made a curse a curse.  Dani had assumed, incorrectly from what the professor proceeded to explain, that a curse was simply a spell cast on a person to influence their luck, an assumption that was more based on what she had seen on television than anything else.

As it turns out, curses were pretty dark business, at least that’s what Dani figured when the professor explained them as dark magic intended to seriously negatively impact the victim.  While she was a little embarrassed that she had been so wrong, Dani’s primary concern as she copied down what the professor wrote on the chalkboard was with Professor Quinn’s casual explanation of the components of any spell, particularly the part about the incantation.

Despite wanting to ask a few questions to clear up her concern right away, she figured it wasn’t the right time to do so, and planned instead on catching the professor immediately after the lesson.  Fortunately, Professor Quinn announced that she would be remaining in the classroom for another hour to answer any questions that the students might have, which meant that she would have plenty of time to talk with her about incantations.

Once the professor finished dismissing them, giving them an assignment that was due when the class met again, Dani collected her things and scurried up to the professor, holding up a finger as a request to wait a moment while she pulled out a dry erase marker and began writing on her whiteboard.  [color=red][b]”Are incantations necessary for every spell?  I’m mute, so I can’t do them if they are,”[/b][/color], the whiteboard read when she turned it around so that the professor could see it.