Well, that sure was a fascinating lunch discussion full of interesting topics! And questions! Some actually pretty basic questions! Mostly relayed through Ione! Keltham has definitely learned the important fact that he needs to actually back off and not try to plunge the new candidates directly into the same classes as the current hires! But it's not a 'failed' experiment, the PLAN failed, yes, the HOPE failed, but the experiment itself is just data.
Keltham now has FOUR basic phases to cram into his limited supply of days and hours! And they are:
- Teaching Law to the current hires, including some Keeper-only classes;
- Overseeing the current hires teaching the new candidates;
- Doing Science! to acid synthesis, spellsilver refining, roads, medicine, and all other scientific subjects;
- Having a personal life including wizard practice, scroll practice, also now learning martial arts from Security, and dating Carissa, Yaisa, Meritxell, Ione, and Asmodia.
...This would be a really good time to be a sufficiently advanced wizard that he'd only need to sleep two hours per night. But that, apparently, is not within the cards for a while.
......the thought occurs to Keltham that, at this rate, he may end up participating in his first threesomes and orgies - rather earlier than those would usually come, in the natural course of increasing sexual complication - just for scheduling reasons.