- "I tried using some of those German thermogenesis charms, but they kept fading away whenever I fell asleep. By the second night, I was waking myself up every fifteen minutes just to make sure I was still alive. By the third day I was losing my mind. So I ended up using a tweaked Miller Flare."
- ―Alice Quinn
The Miller Flare is a spell used to create a pink-white light to see in darkness.
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The Race from Brakebills South[]
- "I don't get it." Josh frowned. "How is that supposed to help?"
"If you kind of mangle it a little it becomes inefficient. The extra energy comes out as heat instead of light." - ―Josh Hoberman and Alice Quinn
At the end of her semester with Professor Mischa Mayakovsky at Brakebills South, Alice Quinn participated in the five hundred-mile race to the South Pole of Antarctica to return to Brakebills University. After the German thermogenesis charms she used continued to fade after she fell asleep, Quinn switched to the Flare and deliberately messed up the Quaternary Circumstances of the spell to convert the extra energy into heat to warm her during her journey.[1][2]