Lake Lewisia #682

"So, let's talk about what went wrong," the professor said over the lingering chatter of nerves and the faint hiss of steam rising from extinguished workbenches. "Uh, David's pronunciation of Ancient Sumerian kinda sucked," one of them suggested, which finally made the nervous chatter turn to snickers. Before the professor could intervene and keep the lab post-mortem on track, David protested, "Hey, at least the first thing I said to a newly summoned entity wasn't 'ew, why's it so slimy,'" and then the whole Manifestation and Invocation class dissolved into name-calling amid the charred consequences of their missteps.

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LL#682