"You can remember anything you see perfectly?" Betsy looked doubtful.
Carl smiled confidently. "Do you want to make a bet with me?"
"What sort of bet?"
"I'll take one day to memorize everything in the books on this shelf and you can test me on absolutely anything," said Carl as he pointed to the large bookshelf that corresponded to the index he had in his hands. "If I succeed, then you shall start teaching me magic formally from tomorrow onward."
"And if you don't?" asked Betsy.
Carl shook his head. "That's not going to happen."
"What arrogance," sighed Betsy as she shook her head slightly. She retrieved a small hourglass from her robe and placed it on the bookshelf. A tiny stream of fine blue sand began flowing from the top half to the bottom half of the hourglass. "Your time starts
