Lily is reportedly clumsy in the labs of Terminus. Mixing the wrong chemicals was always too unpredictable, so she was assigned a lab partner.

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Celestia was dealing with a disease that was wiping out its magicians. She was able to find a cure, but the magicians overshadowed her contribution and took it for their own. She was too afraid to fight back, not until she found out that other non-magicians were being punished on the underground floor of the academy.