#its a xolotl but listen. google was NOT playing nice and i was getting VERy tried)

[spellnbone]

Capable/Protection: Yes Since: Age 21 Memory: His and Amelia’s bedroom in Mexico

Capable/Corporal: No

Nahual

It was the Order which taught Edgar how to finally produce a shield of protection. He’d never managed in class, and even now at 21 it was anything but powerful, anything but lasting. A year later he lost this ability completely. 

He blames the fact that he’s simply not a powerful wizard, arguing that he’s quite happy after all, with many memories to use, but perhaps it’s something else. Perhaps it’s the same thing which blocks most of his other magic as well, while unleashing his true power whenever he dares to let go of Latin incantations: the European magic system is simply not inherent to him. 

And perhaps that is why, sometimes, at night, when he’s sound asleep and wide awake alike, he sees the beast. 

Sees it sitting over him, breathing slow with a face made of all his fears while also of his own skin. Sometimes it appears as a colibri, sometimes as a lizard, small and delicate it watches him from the windowsill, speaking to him in a language he’s never learnt and yet knows to understand, knows the meaning of. Sometimes the beast -- this hairless, tailless wolf-like monkey -- caresses him and eases his pains, sometimes it devours him and is the cause of it all. 

When he wakes, he’s forgotten all about it again, yet the name of it sits on his tongue always: Nahual, alma gemela.