"Sounds like English magic," Childermass can't help but mention, though he'll take it being called boring and not real in stride. "If your brother's magic is different from yours and the school's magic was different from yours, it could be you needed to look elsewhere... Assuming you weren't being lazy in regards to the schoolwork they had there."
Which wasn't the kindest thing to suspect, but it wouldn't be the first time a magician's student didn't want to sit still and go through a seemingly endless amount of reading.
As for what else is around them, it's still very much like the rest of Atlantis, if only less grand, smaller. They've likely drifted into a more humble residential area for the common merfolk. The floating carts hooked up to dolphins or giant crabs are less intricate and there are fewer colors to the coral around them, though they make up for that with bright swathes of cloth drifting in the water. There's still quite a variety of strange sea creatures darting around, too, and occasionally a few younger merfolk chasing their pet manta ray around.
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Which wasn't the kindest thing to suspect, but it wouldn't be the first time a magician's student didn't want to sit still and go through a seemingly endless amount of reading.
As for what else is around them, it's still very much like the rest of Atlantis, if only less grand, smaller. They've likely drifted into a more humble residential area for the common merfolk. The floating carts hooked up to dolphins or giant crabs are less intricate and there are fewer colors to the coral around them, though they make up for that with bright swathes of cloth drifting in the water. There's still quite a variety of strange sea creatures darting around, too, and occasionally a few younger merfolk chasing their pet manta ray around.