“We are going to start working toward you being able to summon weather when you want to. Instead of you accidentally calling weather when you’re scared or angry. The first exercise will help you harness the wind to your will.”
Master Dervin placed a leaf on the grass in front of them. “Now pay very close attention. A weather mage can sense when weather is being called but it’s quite hard to describe what you need to feel. So I’ll summon the wind to blow the leaf around, and you let me know when you can feel that I’m pulling on the wind.”
Onyx watched as his master called the wind to blow the leaf a number of times. The leaf went skittering away from them, toward them, to the left, to the right and even in a small circle. Master Dervin looked enquiringly at him and Onyx shook his head mutely. He had no sense of when the wind was being called.
Master Dervin stopped and thought for a few minutes. “You should be able to sense this. I’m not sure why you can’t. Maybe we should try it again. This time, close your eyes and keep them shut. If you can’t watch the leaf, you may be able to better sense the wind.”
Onyx closed his eyes. At first, he felt a small puff when the tiny breeze that Master Dervin summoned came close enough to feel. But after a few minutes, he realised that he could sense the wind even when it wasn’t dancing past his skin. The breeze was playfully chasing - ah, there was Master Dervin’s influence. “Master, I can feel it now. I can feel the wind and you.”
“Good, let’s just continue with that a bit. Keep your eyes shut and feel what I’m doing.”
Now that Onyx could feel Master Dervin, he quickly realised that his master was calling the wind several ways. One way felt like a gentle request and the answering puff of wind was soft relatively slow. One was an urgent demand, the wind went roaring in the desired direction. The playful chase was when Master Dervin sort of teased the wind into doing his will.
“So, apprentice, what have you noticed?”
“That you can summon that wind in different ways. And the answering breeze behaves differently depending on exactly how you summoned it.”
Ooh lessons! Interesting imagery :D. So yay, he can feel his master doing it but can he harness it himself hehe
ReplyDeleteI love reading these snippets. Maybe it was only me, but I imagined Johny Deep as the teacher.
ReplyDeleteYou have a great talent. Keep it up!
By the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
@cami, yep, weather lessons. He had some ordinary ones as well but I skipped posting those.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like the imagery.
@MJ
Hmm, Johnny Depp in the lead role - now that would be very cool.
I'm glad you are enjoying the snippets. Of course, they are the bits I like best, there's a lot of cleanup needed for much of the novel-in-progress.