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Is There an Opportunity to Do Fantasy Fiction?
Katya below is meticulously planned life of science and scholarship. When her nascent magical abilities emerge in a nearly deadly outburst, Katya discovers a secret underworld of magic that flouts every principle of science she holds dear. She must deal with her unwanted abilities before they kill her. According to Vasil Ivanovich, the handsome yet infuriating magician who patches her skull back together after her magical mishap, there is an errant scrap of magic embedded in her brain. The work of disreputable Russian magician Mikhail Borokov unless she tracks Borokov down and compels him to remove it. In the magic will result in full blown dementia, ending her academic aspirations forever. Her overconfidence
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