287****** By the middle of the second full week of term, Alden had settled in enough to start thinking of his schedule of classes and self-assigned practice hours as his routine until something big came up.He expected that big something to be Stuart’s affixation and everything that would follow it. The looming event crossed his mind a dozen times or more a day, but he was trying to cultivate equanimity about it. He’d filled his time with spell practice, skill practice, and learning everything else he could think of that might help them on Goldbush. He was doing as much as he knew how to do. Stuart would take the next step, and Alden would be there, as he’d promised.Equanimity is hard, though, he thought as he listened while Instructor Ash pointed (...)