Now although St Chariots is good at managing magic it is woefully terrible at managing money
and 33 years earlier it had gone completely bankrupt and had been on the brink of having the buildings,land and classroom equipment sold off at auction to pay off its many creditors.
An event that would have meant the end of St Chariots,regardless of how much posturing its
staff and students had made.
It had been a ordinary mortal non-magical Agri-Industrial Trades College
that had volunteered to handle the bankrupt colleges debt and as a favour the
mortal college had demanded St Chariots teach its
mortal students a little magic to help them in
their normal working careers.
Since the mortal college had a varied student population of adults,retirees and youth who normally took evening courses,weekend classes,distance learning and
summer studies at the mortal college the model had been imposed on the St Chariots college.
Basically it meant that while the witch girls traipsed about the hallways during the day
at evening classes mortal folk such as apprentice farm engine mechanics attended Mala Hexe's
Farm Engine Repair 301 where Mala Hexe,dressed in her greasy coveralls
taught her apt students how to use magic
for such things as transmuting the steel/iron of a Huey 351's cylinder head
into a softer material in order to grind it down
more easily to boost the compression of the Huey 351 when it was rebuilt
and reinstalled in the farm tractor's engine bed.
So there were a lot of mortal professionals and amateurs who knew about magic
but kept that secret within the walls of the repair shop.
In the case of Emma Smith,otherwise known as Miss Drakensdottir
although she had some magic of her own she was actually a part of that other student population and was taking evening courses at St Chariots in courses relevant to her intended profession
to be a veterinarian like her dad Dr Hieronymous Smith
who ran a vet clinic for farm livestock at the village of Ormswood in rural
England,which had connections to that mortal trades college that was calling the shots at
St Chariots.
Hence when Rhonda and the other girls headed back to her room that morning
it was to discover the dorm room had been turned into a impromptu operating theatre and the patients
where a winged unicorn who had just given birth to her foal.
Naturally the room was filled with a variety of people interested in a
successful outcome to the two magical creatures.