I shouldn't be writing this.  If anyone finds it, I'll be expelled.  I'll be exiled from Techence forever.  The collectors might even make me uh...disappear.  But I can't shake the feeling that the university is hiding something.
 
As with any proper scientific inquiry, I'll begin with a working hypothesis:  magic exists.
 
I know, I know.  It sounds absurd.  It goes against everything I've learned here. 
 
But if you'd seen the things I've seen here - if you'd seen how our botanists can combine plants, if you'd seen the weapons we have, if you'd seen a ship that can fly - you'd agree with me that anything is possible.  Maybe even magic.

- T.H. Sterling