Sarah Zimmerman narrates how quickly Alvie starts new things in the field and she works in collaboration with her mentor to develop the most advanced technology in the field. Conspiracies twisted the story in Spellmaker and Spellbreaker, things are not much different hereafter the mid. A device which the mentor and apprentice develop gets stolen because their rivals want to have its credit.
Alvie at this point learns something more than just hard work, to beat the rival one has to cheat sometimes. The world of magicians in this way does not prove to be very innocent, the magicians are also like humans in their corrupt ways. Alvie does not like such things but she is left with no other choice in life.