Enrollment at Academy Elementinia, the world's most exclusive magic school, is a significant achievement. The complication is that in this particular world, using magic is socially awkward in a way that makes competence embarrassing rather than impressive. The additional complication is what happened several years ago, when you caused Things to Happen using Leximancy — a branch of magic powered by language, unprecedented and genuinely uncontrollable — and were consequently assigned to the school basement with the other students whose relationship to magic is considered problematic. When Academy Elementinia comes under attack from someone with an unclear agenda and a considerable supply of fireballs, the basement is no longer an option. Put on the hat, open the lexicon, and find out what the school's problem student is actually capable of.