A second chance at a first love (гет)

The more people change... but sometimes, they can change in complimentary ways.
And someday, the Circle will no longer keep them apart.
> She’d changed so much, he could hardly believe it. Of course, it had been a decade, he knew that academically, but the deep-carved crevice between her eyebrows - hallmark of the study of a prodigy pushed to be a future First Enchanter - had faded to almost nothing. Other lines emphasized the sides of her mouth. The years hadn’t been easy, but there were laugh-lines that splayed out from her eyes, so they hadn’t been horrible, either. He pushed himself out of his chair, but sanity caught him before he could step away from his desk. He leaned a hand on it, hoping to appear casual and knowing that he felt anything but.