Rita did not linger. She took advantage of the break and left the classroom to explore Foolishness's palace, a place that felt like a hidden treasure vault made of toys.
Walking through the palace, her thoughts kept drifting.
What Foolishness was trying to teach them was a method of breaking a complete magic rune into individual components, then selecting key nodes from different skills and reassembling them into something entirely new.
But those runes were already complete works of art.
Which nodes could be removed, and how were they meant to be recombined?
The difficulty of it felt like carving pieces out of finished jigsaw puzzles and forcing them together into a new picture.
It demanded a kind of imagination and creativity that bordered on the absurd.
She stopped in front of one workshop.
