The mage Hieronymus discovered that he was merely a stand-in lover—the true one cherished by his boyfriend was someone else. So he broke up decisively, determined to spend the rest of his days wedded to knowledge. Yet fate, with a fondness for irony, had other plans—"e;Thank you, scumbag. I'm with your one and only now."e;Two mages—sharing identical values, similar passions, and perfectly aligned academic visions—so much alike they might as well be mirror images of each other. Their apprentices privately nicknamed them "e;time travelers from the Age of Legends,"e; "e;curses for all electronics,"e; and "e;eccentric mages hopelessly out of place in the modern world."e; Together, they were almost scientifically compatible.