Chapter 14 A Breath of Wind (1/2)

When Arran reached the training hall, he found no one inside Of course there was no one there, he thought — he did not know the tirounds were eht or very early in the e where Adept Kadir lived, but then rejected the thought

While he was eager to show Adept Kadir his newly opened Wind Real woken up in the ht, he headed to the roo Cell It was in one of several buildings that housed the monastery's initiates, and as he entered he took care not to wake the others

He found his own roos placed in a corner The room itself was not much different from the one where he had opened his Wind Realer bed and several drawings hanging on the walls

Although he wasn't tired, he decided that he should try to get so one Adept Kadir would certainly want him to test his new Realm, and after that, he would probably have to spendhis eyes and pulling the blanket over hih he had planned to sleep until , after only a short ti a new Realm still fresh in his mind, sleep would not cohts kept turning to his newly opened Realm, and he was impatient to use it and discover what it could do

Finally, accepting that he would not be able to sleep that night, he got up and took a seat at the small desk that stood in the room He took a candle and put it in front of hiht it

After that, he set to work, trying to draw his Wind Essence into his hand, the sa fireballs

At first, his progress was slow Although he had a fair a Essence by now, the Wind Essence was still new and foreign to hiled to control it

Yet as he continued to try, his control over Wind Essence improved steadily, and after less than an hour, he succeeded in guiding it into his hand

Eagerly, he began work on his next step, which was to use Wind Essence to extinguish the candle

His first few atteht he had succeeded, he realized after a moment that he had accidentally blown out the candle while huffing in exertion

More attempts followed and soon he succeeded, for real this ti his hand half a pace away froust of wind that blew out the flame

He lit the candle once more and repeated the feat This tiain he succeeded, faster still

Barely half an hour later, he was able to draw out the Wind Essence in just a few breaths' time That was still nowhere near as fast as he could draw out his Fire and Shadow Essence, but the speed of his progress astounded hied by his rapid achieveer amount of Essence, but he knew he could not do so in his roo, at least

With a thought, Arran got up, then quietly left the building, heading back to the training hall The sky was still dark and the grounds still e hall

It was dark inside, and he used Fire Essence to produce so from the walls As he lit them, an idea entered his mind

He took a position about three paces away froathered all the Wind Essence he could in his hand

When he had mustered asthe sa Wind instead of Fire Essence