Tetramental
A free web novel, soundtrack and puzzle game
Eli Tiernan has fallen a mile three times now. It still isn’t easier.
Tetramental Academy sits where no map would put it: a volcanic ridge, an impossible coastline, stone plains running out past the edge of sight. One of his teachers is made of wind. Another barely speaks. None of them explain themselves. Weeks into his undeclared term, Eli has learned to fall, to hold, and to stop asking where, exactly, he is.
Declaration is three days away. Nobody has told him yet what it means.
Four elements · four teachers
Every student will declare one. None of the teachers will explain.
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Earth
Tectonic
Says very little. Stacked the knee-high cairns that mark the long way down.
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Fire
Inferno
Known so far by effects. One student has already donated his eyebrows to her cave.
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Water
Tide
“Some students learn the lesson. Some students become the lesson.”
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Air
Windborne
Teaches nothing. Drops the class a mile, then drifts off after a cloud.