“Crying without Tears”
filia Responsum et Duo, House Lem
a Westmarchite and a descendent of Phrenis Bovis
apprenticed 355, mage 370, died 394
Her Parens died shortly after the Lemmite Seance of 385, but Flens refused to take this as a sign of the validity of Imbrianism, remaining a staunch Westmarchite throughout her short life. A mentem specialist, before the seance, her work had focused primarily on a detailed understanding of the nature of emotions. After the seance, her work turned to a study of how we have awareness of emotions, and toward questions of the phenomenolgy of spell casting. Drawing her apprentice deep into this research, she extensively revised her earlier work on references to emotion in the Books of Lem. As part of her studies, she constructed a 16 sided laboratory walled entirely in magical mirrors. This permitted her to carefully observe the most fleeting of expressions during spell casting and reading, but it also proved her undoing.
Late in 394, her 14 year apprentice attempted to observe her own expressions during the casting of a particularly tricky ignem spell. Unexpectedly, the mirrors captured and reflected the spell upon her, wracking her with a slow burning but inexstinguishable fire. After several horrible hours of fruitless experimentation, Flens finally gave up and carried her dying apprentice back into the lab. When other magi followed her, they found only a lectern holding the Green Book of Lem, in which the words Flens Fletus had been blotted out with ink. No one dared to use the mirrors of the lab again, and the room was sealed with a wall of stones.
