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Edwin awoke the next morning with a start, lifting his head groggily from the desk. He hoped momentarily that the previous nights’ events were all just some terrible dream, but looking up with his stiff neck and aching head, he found Kate already standing over him. She wore a sarcastic smile on her face and her breasts seemed mockingly vast from his low angle, crammed into a magically adapted basque, which her gigantic boobs spilled liberally from,
“Working late?” she grinned deviously, turning to exit the room, “Come on, let’s get started.”

Edwin lagged some way behind as Kate led him from the house like a condemned man on his way to the gallows. She walked out towards the grassy area where she had witnessed yesterday’s morning lesson take place, the exposed tops of her gigantic tits swaying with her motion as the brimmed the neckline of her outfit. Stopping at the peak of a slight incline on the acres of lush green land, her boobs stilled themselves after several pleasing seconds of wobbling later. Edwin eventually caught up, and she turned to the master, who still wore yesterday’s robes, her enormous cleavage rubbing together as she did so,
“This is the spot,” she nodded with a self-satisfactory air. Edwin decided to renew the previous evenings appeals for moderation,
“I warn you Kate, if you meddle with this kind of magic without proper regard for it, it will kill you,”
But the master mage was clearly in no mood to listen, and neither would she ever be,
“Yeah, yeah, grandpa, how hard can it be?” she snorted, turning away and surveying their surroundings. The day was overcast but bright, without the threat of rain. Without speech between them, the only sound to be heard was a light wind rolling through the distant trees to the south west and shuffling through the grass,
“Let’s run over the itinerary for the day; first, inflation, then expansion, then pregnancy,” Kate barked, “Then we can move onto the advanced stuff, like full-body inflation and the like...”
Edwin was aghast; the list read like a years’ worth of study to one of his normal apprentices,
“All of this in one day is just not possible, you physically will not be able to...”
“Hey, hey! Listen up old man, I’m calling the shots here,” the impertinent young woman broke in, “And if you don’t like it, the high council will descend upon this place like a flock of banshees. Am I making myself clear here?”
“Perfectly,” the chastened teacher muttered,
“Ok; inflate my ass, expand my gut, then make me pregnant. I’m your plaything, Edwin, isn’t that what you always wanted?” she smiled, her eyelashes fluttering,
“I... I only want... what’s best for my...”
“Yeah sure, you just keep telling yourself that,” said Kate dismissively, “Now let’s get this show on the road. I’ve been fantasizing about your little pupil’s giant fat ass since I saw her expand it yesterday, let’s start with some inflation there, shall we?”
Kate had always been a nightmare student; an arrogant, headstrong know-it-all, but Edwin had never seen this side to her before. Whatever had occurred in her life since leaving his stewardship, it had brought out and emboldened beyond measure an evil streak in Kate that was previously kept harmlessly below the surface. Now it was out in the open, and most dangerous. Again as Edwin began trying to educate the young woman, she eventually grew tired of his lecture and all of the difficult-to-master invocations involved in the inflation process. There was such a tedious level of detail, Kate thought as she rolled her eyes, to the localization, effect and execution of the spells required to even pull off a simple inflation. After a few minutes, her patience was worn as thin as her mood decided to tolerate,
“Look,” she broke in with a frustrated huff as the master outlined the finer points of concentrating inflation to a specific area of anatomy, “Just blow me up. You can teach me how to do it myself another time. For the time being, give me a giant ass and give it to me now.”

Sarah could see the pair from some way off, and now crested the rise they stood on, having waited in Edwin’s house for a half hour with no sign of her teacher. She cut off the gravel path and walked towards the pair, still unclear as to what was actually happening from some way off; Sarah could tell quite easily that the figure standing to her left was her own master, though the tall, silver-haired female to the right was unfamiliar. The closer she got, the more obvious the scene became however, and the more obvious the female’s unconventional figure became. Her ass was incredibly huge, bloating just below the middle of her form disproportionately to the rest. Fairly sure that the first time she sighted the pair that the girl’s butt wasn’t so remarkably protrusive, Sarah could only conclude some sort of class was in progress. She actually felt quite envious at not being involved as judging by the scale of growth it was a fairly advanced lesson. The master’s current student flaunted an ass that dwarfed Sarah’s efforts of the previous day, looking perhaps as large as three meters across at its widest point. Themselves comprising two feet of her body between their borders, her giant hips heaved and her immensely thickened thighs smooshed against each other as she coaxed her lower body into movement, whilst Sarah approached, smiling uncertainly,
“Wow, Sarah! Walking with this thing full of air is difficult enough, I dunno how you plan to do it made of meat,” Kate grinned as she spotted the apprentice stray into earshot. She was waddling with the gigantic twin orbs of her butt cheeks wavering massively through the air, wearing just her lacy underwear, wedged in the very top of her ass cleavage. The remains of her long leather skirt lay in the long grass like a dark puddle some distance away,
“Master?” the apprentice looked to Edwin for information,
“Sarah, this is Kate. She’s come to... brush up some old skills,” he fibbed,
“Yeah, that’s it,” Kate agreed, without taking her eyes from Sarah, “You seem pretty good at this yourself, babe,”
“Yes ma’am, I’ve studied hard,”
“Well study this hard, sister!” Kate grinned, turning around to square her mostly-naked backside at Sarah, who recoiled with surprise,
“Oh! Ah... very impressive!” she stammered quickly, “How long have you been working on this spell?”
“Good ol’ Edwin magicked this one up for me actually!” the balloon-reared master mage chuckled as her enormous booty waggled through the air with her movement and bobbled as she stopped,
“Like it?” she winked lustily as Sarah looked confusedly between her teacher and the surprise visitor, guessing already that her lesson had been postponed indefinitely in light of the stranger’s arrival,
“I see,” Sarah murmured uncertainly, “And... your bust? Not your own, I presume?”
“Nope! These cannons are again the work of the good professor!” Kate enthused as Edwin turned awkwardly away and Sarah began to realize that perhaps all wasn’t quite as it seemed between the teacher and former pupil. Why would a distinguished alumnus from Edwin of Aukening’s school, or any magical college for that matter, return displaying a comprehensive ignorance of even the fundamentals of their craft? The sweet-natured Sarah decided to give the brash Kate the benefit of doubt for now,
“Ah,” she smiled non-committally, trying to wean more information out of the now-curvy blonde, adding with encouragement, “You’ll be trying this out for yourself before you know it,”
“Listen, small fry,” Kate scowled, “You’re talking to a level ten Master Mage here, so save the positive reinforcement for kindergarten,”
Sarah was taken slightly aback, and not just by the stranger’s rude manner, who now went back to craning her neck to admire her gigantic, jutting rear. It was a genuine surprise to learn that this petulant, ill-tempered... well, there was no other word for it in Sarah’s mind, bitch... had progressed all the way to master mage. As she bickered away with the normally-placid teacher, she didn’t appear to have enough magical grounding to have yet graduated an apprenticeship. The current apprentice understood for the first time how somebody could be tempted to research the dark arts. Those with a predisposition for impatience, for shortcuts and taking the easy way out were more inclined to evil sorcery. Magic was a difficult discipline, requiring much practice and a studious mindset; qualities which Kate clearly didn’t possess. It was very obvious to Sarah that this mysterious former student was headed down the wrong path, and was already dangerous. She stood by warily as the voluptuous master mage gleefully ran her hands over her newest endowment’s considerable surface. The apprentice had never in her months of training so far attempted attaining such a size and yet here, master mage or not, was an inexperienced newcomer sporting a bewilderingly huge ass far larger than Sarah had ever seen attempted. Kate groped at every extensive inch of her recently-bestowed bubble butt, from its barely-arcing, dangerously shallow curves and its jutting, almost spherically-defined cheeks, to its immeasurably broad circumference far larger than even her plumped-up breasts. The pale skin straining to cling onto her humungous ass was stretched visibly tight, looking like seams longing to pop, although no unaltered garment could possibly have hoped to contain her fattened rump. Kate’s hands continued to squeak loudly across the overly taut surface of her gigantic butt as she fondled herself, her fingertips barely sinking into her inflated flesh. Thick, distressed-looking veins and flecks of broken blood vessels skirted her bulging booty, betraying the mortal construction her enhancements were based upon. Nevertheless, she was hungry for more,
“Oooooff! Gimme a belly to go with this thing!” Kate demanded, her cheeks puffing as she troublesomely attempted locomotion once more. She maneuvered awkwardly from foot to foot, her giant ass cheeks rubbing against one another, creaking and shuddering her shiny skin with every movement,
“You... want to learn to expand your belly?” Sarah questioned timidly, as if translating Kate’s words from a foreign language,
“Yeah! But I want some substance to this thing, fill me up with water or something, I dunno. Not just air,” Kate shrugged, carefully trying to adjust the lace underwear her swollen rear had all but consumed,
“Water?” Edwin clarified,
“I want a belly I could swim inside!”
“Are you kidding me lady?” Sarah gawked, animated at the sheer recklessness of the visitor’s conduct, “You’ll tear yourself apart, your skin is stretched enough already,”
She glanced unsubtly towards Kate’s bubble butt bursting out to the back of her slender figure, trembling with strain as her skin on either side looked tautened to its limits,
“Then we enchant it,” Kate shrugged again, apparently unfazed at Sarah’s concerns, who looked towards her teacher,
“M-master?”
“Well yes, that’s possible, but it carries its own risks,” mused the tutor, choosing his words carefully so as not to unwittingly encourage either of the young women standing before him. He always left skin enchantment as the very last skill to teach his apprentices, and only when he was completely sure they were capable of wielding such powerful and unstable magic. It was a difficult skill to become proficient at, particularly maintaining proper control of it, and the image of the gargantuan Jane always pinged into Edwin’s mind whenever it was taken lightly. He also used it as something of a failsafe; the size a student could attain was dictated by the elasticity of their skin, but enchanting it meant an overwhelming extension of possible size. The master pursed his lips, looking from his apprentice’s wary expression to Kate’s unnerving grin,
“Now listen carefully...” Edwin began, producing his wand in a previously-empty right hand,
“Tell it to your star pupil, old man,” Kate sneered dismissively, “I’m in no mood for a lecture,”
The master explained each spell to his apprentice, Sarah at least learning something as she listened attentively to the long list of spells and their effects. Finally, he cast the unassuming-looking incantation, which produced its effects invisibly and undramatically,
“Hey, my ass feels smaller!” Kate squawked after a few seconds as pressure in her considerable cheeks was eased,
“Your skin has been elasticized, child. It is no longer at full stretch,” Edwin explained,
“Alright, let’s make that happen then!” she decided with unnerving resolve, widening her stance in anticipation of her impending weight gain, which sent her ample, air-filled ass cheeks bobbling like huge balloons. Now that everything was in place, all that remained was for Edwin to cast one last spell to set in motion the chain of expansive events. He hesitantly waved his wand, disguising the exact spell used from both Kate and Sarah and stood back. A sound like distant thunder rolling over the surrounding valleys filled the pleasant, spring-like air, emanating from inside Kate, who recoiled with surprise almost immediately. Within her, a small spherical geyser spawned and began to spout water, a fountain that would grow with her belly. From its initial billiard-ball size, the fluid-creating orb flourished swiftly to the size of an orange, then a grapefruit, then a cantaloupe. By the time it had reached the size of first a pumpkin then a basketball, it was already effecting Kate’s outward appearance. The master mage grinned as her midriff protruded at first a little, then a noticeable amount and continued to push incessantly outwards, beginning to stir and shift her clothing. Grimacing slightly, her belly soon troubled the integrity of her outfit, buckles and fasteners creaking as they briefly strained in vain to hold back her tummy’s growth. Inevitably there was a snapping sound a couple of seconds later as the corseting of her top was broken, the long cords trussing Kate up wriggling undone and the whole basque slackening. Her giant boobs wobbled free of their confines, Kate sighing with relief and giving them a liberal squeeze as they did so, and her top unfolded to one side, falling off her body and revealing a quickly-growing belly brimming with water from the geyser inside it. Before her clothing had even hit the floor, Kate already looked nine months pregnant and by the time her jostling breasts had settled, she looked ready to give birth to twins. A broad smile peeled across her face as she squared her hips below her tummy’s increasing weight, her massive ass cheeks bobbling in doing so. Her growing gut shuddered under the pressure of the liquid being forced into her stomach at such an astounding rate, and her gut had soon swelled to dwarf the scale of Kate’s expansive rear. She couldn’t resist cupping her hands around her developing belly and feel the burbling of the water filling her up, her body spreading beneath her palms as she looked down to see her midriff emerging from beneath the obscuring shadow of her plump jugs,
“Oooohhh yessss I’m filling!” she cackled joyously as her belly surged and bulged larger. The master mage felt a giddy thrill as her girth surpassed the size of even the heaviest pregnancy possible and continued unabated, her trembling navel disappearing out of sight beneath the expanding horizon of her tum. Again she readjusted her burgeoning weight as the surging sphere of her belly dipped lower on her scant frame, swelling down her thighs to almost knee-level as it bulged way out ahead of her. Kate was growing vast and plump in all directions, the spout within her stomach swelling her also out to the sides, and soon her belly extended beyond her magically-augmented hips and giant booty, much to her delight as she craned her neck and reached behind her back to give her ripe ass cheek a forceful, lustful squeeze. Her blushing skin quivered with pleasure in response,
“Ooooohh, it looks like my twins have got a big sister now,” she spoke softly to her expansive rear, “Now you two play nicely while momma enjoys herself,” Kate smirked, half to herself, half to her wary audience, before addressing her big, naked breasts, “That goes for you too,”
By the time she had performed this elaborate self-satisfying ritual and turned back to her front, Kate had swelled considerably, the water-spouting orb inside her stabilizing to a size that would allow fluid to pour into her at an optimal rate. Having removed her hands from her fattened buttocks, Kate found herself having to use her arms to support her distended belly, but soon found both its weight and size unmanageable. She extricated her limbs from beneath her giant gut, flopping it back against her body, and Kate’s face for the first time betrayed a hint of worry as she again shifted beneath her tummy’s colossal load. Her belly swung pendulously from the young woman’s overshadowed frame as she knotted her brow and gritted her teeth against her own considerable weight, clamping her hands to the small of her back to support her ballooning midriff. Sarah looked from Kate to the master with concern as she looked to struggle with her mammoth cargo, and Edwin gazed on impassively,
“Mmmph!” Kate grunted as she managed to lean backwards against her ponderous belly, craning herself barely to standing whilst her gut still bloomed spherically. It seemed she had reached the limit of how large her stomach could get dictated by her height, her tummy bulging out from just below her buxom chest almost to the floor and away from her body by just as much,
“Ooh!” Kate winced as the bottom of her belly touched the chilly grass beneath her and Sarah expected the spectacle to be at an end as Kate’s enormous belly settled onto the ground. But she watched in amazement as it was mashed into the turf by its own massive weight, the stretched skin on Kate’s sides relaxing visibly as it did so, and continued to billow outwards. The ballooning mage sighed as she was relieved of her load and more and more of her giant tummy piled onto the ground. Soon she stood with her posture quite normal save for her wildly-growing front; she kneaded and manipulated her sloshing gut with her roving hands, enjoying her immense rotundity as it developed further. Kate’s belly spread in all directions, burgeoning most noticeably along the paths of least resistance forwards and further away from the mage’s body than she stood tall. She inflated in a squashed sphere, her skin’s augmented elasticity forcing her belly to grow slightly more forwards than it did outwards whilst gravity pushed down hard on her swelling form, water pressure still managing to inch Kate’s tummy upwards. Soon it had grown so large that Kate could no longer see over her tummy at all, and it began to also fill out back towards her body, gradually flattening her sizable naked tits against her chest. Gasping her breaths, both with pleasure at the compressing sensation and due to her tightening skin, the master mage surveyed her astounding growth with pleasure and satisfaction. A noise could meanwhile be heard above the churning water inside Kate as her belly now began to groan slightly, the sound echoing throughout her cavernous gut and seeming startlingly loud straight away. Sarah took a cautious step backwards and looked towards Edwin, who felt compelled to explain,
“The enchantment on Kate is powerful, but her body’s displeasure at being such an extreme size is more so. It takes much training and years of practice to become adept at curbing this tendency,”
Just as the apprentice nodded at this wisdom, a further gurgle issued from Kate’s inundated gut, even louder and more urgent than the first, which seemed to cause her the first signs of discomfort. She passed her hands over her mammoth gut as if to calm it, craning her neck to see its massive curve diminishing into the blue sky, the wisps of cloud gliding past above making it seem almost mountainous,
*GGLLOOORRRPP!* her stuffed stomach groaned suddenly as if a bubble inside it had popped, disturbing Kate’s serenity and causing her to wince. The grimace on her face settled gradually into a glowering smile,
“*Hiccc!* Oh, do excuse me!” she giggled as a hiccup leaped from her throat and she coyly put her hand to her mouth. Sarah watched on, feeling less and less tolerance towards Kate as the master mage grew larger and more obnoxious,
“I have had rather a lot to drink,” Kate leered to the two diminutive-seeming figures watching her, either acting intoxicated or becoming drunk and even more uninhibited through her sheer size,
“Yeah, you’ve certainly been putting them away,” Sarah answered tersely, “A real skinful,”
“*Hiccc!*” was all Kate could give as an answer, her lips moistening as the water within her surged and frothed, forcing her belly to swell ever further. She had now fattened to a grotesque, immovable size, her belly wallowing out in all directions like a beached whale attached to her front, shuffling and groaning as it was gradually stifled by its own weight,
*BOYYUULLPP!* it glooped and strained against the profusion of fluid inside, which wriggled and squirmed amidst the mage’s blimp-like entirety,
“Don’t you think she’s had enough, sir?” Sarah whispered to her master, Kate’s gut still crawling meters from the rest of her frame,
“I fear not,” Edwin whispered back as in any case he halted the flow of water with a motion of his hand. Silence descended over the secluded countryside momentarily; except it was gradually apparent that all was not still or silent. A subtle, almost subliminal sound that had been present all along but drowned out by the gushing of water inside Kate now occurred alone. The gradual and drawn out resonance of Kate’s belly skin creaking slowly reached the ears the two spectators. It greatly disturbed Sarah, who glanced nervously from her tutor to the quivering blob of Kate’s belly, aghast at the plaintive whimper of the mage’s struggling skin straining. The master mage herself simply grinned meanwhile, rubbing her trembling gut like an unworried nurse. She wore a sneering half-grin on her face despite or perhaps due to her bursting belly’s protests, and the distress it was obviously causing the young onlooker,
*BLLOORRRP!* went Kate’s belly at that moment, its mountainous mass swamped with water, which lapped and rippled inside her like a reservoir flooding her body. She lurched and shifted her frame, her immovably dense, laden belly remaining stationary as the skin which somehow attached Kate’s suffused gut to her body flexed agonizingly,
“*Arrrp-aaaaarrrpp!*” she belched as her stomach frantically tried to rid itself of some excess volume. Simply opening her mouth to speak sent burp after burp gushing past the burstingly huge Kate’s lips, her throat bubbling between expulsions as her body tried to force liquid up her throat. She swallowed laboriously hard several times,
“Uuuuunnnnff! B-bigger! I need bigger!” she managed to croak finally,
“Very well then,” Edwin shrugged, to the horror of his apprentice. Sarah was about to protest until she caught a quick, momentary glance from the professor which told her he had the situation under control. She wasn’t sure in what way he did however, but held her tongue as a burble deep inside the enormous Kate signaled the maelstrom’s recommencement. With a squeak from her distressed skin, the turgid master mage began to bulge ever larger. She gasped and winced through a combination of pleasure coupled with overwhelming fullness, which she felt as a pleasure in itself. The immense, suffused mass that was formerly Kate trembled like a bubble on the very cusp of popping. Water moved visibly around beneath the pale, stretched-sheer surface of her skin, which looked as if it longed to give way to the tons of liquid pushing with almost irresistible force from inside her. She gained several inches on her already immeasurably gigantic girth with every passing second, her waistline puffing tremblingly outwards and swelling up to twice her height above her. Roaring from within her, the spout of fluid spread her spellbound skin outwards, which charmed though it was, creaked and protested feverishly for every speck of growth,
“Ooohhhhh this feels so good, Sarah, you gotta try it sometime!” Kate groaned above the mounting chorus of her belly’s strident complaints and the thundering of its multiplying contents,
“I... think I’ll leave it to you, Lake Kate,” the youngster winced, flinching as a span of stretched-out skin in front of her let out a tortured shriek. As Sarah backed away even further, she half expected to see a fountain of water come spilling from the scene of the noise so incredibly, transparently tight had the mammoth mage become,
“Ooohh, ‘Lake Kate’! *Hiccupp!* I like that, that’s gooood,” the gigantic woman purred, rubbing her agonizingly stretched gut as liquid continued to pour into her unabated. Kate’s belly itself joined in her skin’s miserable objections with a loud series of gurgles as she smiled to herself,
*Gggrrrroooooooo...* it resounded forebodingly, sounding increasingly unable to hold itself together at such an advanced size,
“Am I bigger than your darling Jane yet, Edwin?” Kate grunted at the master as she drew closer and closer to popping,
‘So that’s her goal,’ Edwin mused without answering as he pretended not to hear. Little did the master mage know that it was highly unlikely anybody would ever attain such a size again due to the chance combination of spells Jane had cast. When Edwin had deconstructed the complex arrangement his former student had used upon herself, the conclusion was a highly obscure and unstable incantation that the teacher had kept a secret. In educating Jane about the usage of such weird magic, the first steps into his college’s new specialism had begun. But back in the present, Kate’s skin suddenly squeaked loudly and her entire belly lurched noticeably, her eyes shooting wide in response. Her look of shock turned to a grimace as the monumentally vast master mage realized that she was reaching the very frontiers of her maximum capacity, even with magical assistance. The waterlogged Kate groaned, finally satiated at her overwhelmingly enormous size, her immense, barely human form containing more fluid than the nearest town’s water tower many times over. Her gigantic, brimming belly followed the contours of the landscape on which it resided, sitting on the top of the shallow hillock like a blister ready to burst. She grudgingly signaled to Edwin to stem the flow of liquid, secretly annoyed to even concede this slight defeat. The water stopped spawning and a hush descended, leaving the unnerving sounds of Kate’s gargantuan gut to fill the silence, the water inside it splashing tranquilly, her overfilled belly gurgling in protest at its incredible load, and her straining skin creaking and groaning like a ship in a storm,
“Uuuurrrrggh! I’ve had about as much as I can take! *Aaaarrrpp!*” she confessed, burping involuntarily once more as her stomach tried urgently to shrink away from being stretched quite so sheer. The countryside all around echoed to the cacophonous noises the circus tent-sized Kate emitted, her cheeks puffed out with incessant belches whilst her giant tummy churned and grumbled and her overloaded skin shrieked with strain. Her body would need a lot of magical assistance to reassemble, and was to all intents and purposes ruined in its current state. Her belly was vast enough to measure way over 200 meters in circumference, resulting in skin that was stretched so much it would never return to normal. At its current alarmingly sheer tension, any blemishes and marks had been stretched out of it, though every single blood vessel below her dermis had been ruptured and her belly would’ve glowed like a single giant purple bruise had her blood been able to push its way through the compressed capillaries. Hungry for skin to utilize in its attempts to stay whole, Kate’s belly had absorbed her enlarged tits, which now barely bobbled out of her chest in an inescapable slope towards her mammoth gut. Inside her cavernous body, many of her internal organs were also squashed by the volume of liquid within her, but all of this was repairable with magical intervention.

“Now, empty me out and lets populate me with kids!” she managed to call,
“No,” answered Edwin baldly,
“What?!” Kate demanded,
“I don’t think that will be happening Kate, I think this has gone quite far enough. And before you make any empty threats or promises, I don’t believe you’re in any condition to be going off and reporting us to the magic high council, are you?”
Kate looked desperately around her, at her titanic, wallowing belly that obscured the view in front of her entirely. She looked down to her bare legs, her massive bloated ass protruding from her plumped-up thighs and tested her weight. Finding herself utterly immovable no matter how hard she pushed at the ground with her feet, she growled in frustration,
“And since I don’t believe you have been listening to a word of my instruction, neither do you possess the necessary capabilities to return to your normal form,” Edwin continued, “The expression I believe is that the shoe is on the other foot. Now let us negotiate some proper terms and we can end this,”
“You’re forgetting Edwin that I am a master mage! I can get back to normal just... *Hicc!* ...fine!” Kate threatened,
“I don’t believe so my dear, there are a complex number of spells in operation on your body at the moment. The water generation, your belly expansion, your enchanted skin, backside inflation, not to mention your new breasts,” the tutor listed calmly, “I think you’ll find it quite impossible to untie those knots,”
“You just watch me!” came the response,
“My dear, I really do strongly advise against doing so, let’s not be too hasty,”
Before the master could speak any further, Kate had already confidently uttered a powerful ‘undo’ spell which consisted of several lines,
“Aaaaaaggh!” she shrieked as soon as it had concluded, an unbearable stinging sensation immediately wracking her body. Edwin tried to calm her,
“I don’t believe that’s having the effect you intended,” he offered, “Come now, shall we...”
Kate growled in pain and frustration, snarling at the man and already trying another incantation, spoken through gritted teeth. This time her belly flinched and quaked as the last syllable was uttered, her scream intensifying as her skin joined in which its own high-pitched creak,
“Damn it old man, what have you done to me?!” she demanded, “You’re tearing me apart!”
“Kate! This is out of your control!” he pleaded, his voice raised into a concerned pitch for the first time, “Go no further!”
But the maddened, headstrong mage would hear none of his pleas. As she struggled to choke out one last banishing spell, a deep foreboding rumble filled the air as Kate’s belly quivered with pressure,
“Nyyyaaaaaahh!” she roared without even completing half of the spell, and a snap like the crack of a whip resounded as her skin ruptured.

Sarah was glad she had looked away and retreated to a safe distance. Even the aftermath wasn’t pretty, as she glanced at pieces of viscera dotted around, trudging through the sodden grass to rejoin her master. He was crestfallen, but relieved,
“At least the meadow got a good watering, sir,” Sarah smiled as she put a hand on Edwin’s shoulder, her tanned complexion reddened by the mornings’ breathtaking events. He raised a smile and nodded,
“It would be untruthful to speak of her as a good person,” he sighed, “But that doesn’t make this outcome any more favorable,”
The distant rustle of the dry grass a wide radius away from them, was the only sound to be heard,
“Who was she?” Sarah finally asked,
“A former apprentice angry at never being given a chance at studying inflation magic,” the master explained, “I believe this sense of injustice may have driven her to become the character we saw today,”
“She threatened to bring in the magic high council?” the student questioned curiously,
“She did,” confirmed Edwin, “Unless her wishes were carried out,”
Sarah sighed; she knew as well as her tutor there was no doubt that the college could fail any inspection the high council could carry out, and felt the need to comfort him,
“The high council would not uphold our activities here if they knew of them,” she conceded, “But students join this college understanding the risks, master. I did. I’m sure you understand them too,”
“I resolved just before Kate’s visit to close down the college,” Edwin confessed after a pause. Sarah’s blood froze until he rejoined, “But now I’m questioning whether my decision is correct after all,”
“Wh-why?” the apprentice pursued,
“Word cannot fail to have reached the ears of those on the council long ago as to my teaching,” he reasoned, looking about him at the swaying trees and thinning clouds, “Perhaps they feel that as long as our numbers are few, we are of no great concern. I’m sure they have more pressing matters at hand,”
The student nodded in agreement as the master continued,
“Even if I did curtail the school’s activities, it would be no deterrent to events such as today’s; any aggrieved former student could still return,” he shook his head, “I believe my greatest fear was that if I didn’t take action to close down the school, that decision would be taken out of my hands. Today that came to pass, and yet we have come through, ourselves unscathed,”
“The same cannot be said for Kate,” Sarah said, half-jokingly,
“She brought this upon herself,” Edwin said assuredly, “Kate will not be missed,”
“So you’ll continue?”
“I may well be a lecherous old man with an inappropriate interest in expansion, surrounding himself with women far younger than himself,” he smiled, thinking of both Kate and his brother’s words, “But as long as this college continues under my jurisdiction, it will do so with the interests of its students at heart. I will make sure of that,”
“What about the high council?” the loyal Sarah asked,
“I doubt they will understand.”