Talk:The Elementalists, Book 1 Choices/@comment-35316302-20190216013258/@comment-35316302-20190308015409

@Circy

On my second playthrough I am able to confirm a few things for you on a timeline (my assumptions in asterisks after):

1. Atlas tried to send both of MC and themselves to Penderghast, but MC goes and they get stuck in the mirror dimension.


 * First shadow monster had been behind you at Heartfeld, hence the reason Atlas pulled you through the mirror in such a risky fashion. It followed you through and this was the reason Atlas got trapped. This is also why Shreya has trouble getting through.***

2. Swan sees MC and immediately enrolls MC after realizing that there must be a danger (and apparently also speaks to your adoptive parents).


 * There's only minutes left before the wards go back up when you defeat the first shadow monster, but too late, Raife now knows for certain where you are.***

3. MC gets into a fight with Becket.

4. MC and Beckett are not kicked out of school (because the 'compelling case' for MC is Swan trying to protect MC from Raife).

5. Dean discovers 'young girl' is kidnapped.


 * Dean is not only upset about the situation with Becket, she's also upset that she cannot kick MC out plus the fact that MC was not expected to be there as a student. A tuneless child, who then apparently has the higest potential the school has ever had. Completely disrupting her "perfect order". When she lowers the wards as she returns to the school, unbeknowst to her (not that it mattered) the second shadow monster followed her through. Considering how Becket didn't start manipulating the wards until after the second shadow monster, that's the only timing in which a ward may have been lowered.***