Ibery Ambercomb

Zorian first describes her as the green turtleneck girl, with spectacles^[1]. She works at the academy library and has a crush on Fortov Kazinski^[2], but he seems to ignore it.

She knows a shaping exercise to levitate a book without the cover opening (and taught it to Zorian^[3]), as well as library magic.

Near the end of every restart, she gets pushed into a purple creeper patch by Fortov (see there for his explanation). Fortov then tries to get an "anti-rash potion" (which doesn't exist, unlike an anti-rash salve) from his brother Zorian.

When Zorian spread rumors of cultists intending to summon demons at the day of the summer festival in one restart, Ibery commented that the Hole is "something of a holy location for them" and that "They think it's a direct conduit to the Heart of the World"^[4].

In one restart, after seeing Zorian cast sophisticated illusions on the train (where mana shaping is disrupted, making spellcasting more difficult) she asks Zorian to come to the library. Turns out that she wants to hire a tutor to improve her magical skills but they cost too much, and she hoped to teach Zorian spells in exchange for tutoring. Zorian disguised his rejection by telling her to "get back to her after the summer festival" (beyond the end of the time loop).^[5]

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