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Chapter 24

"Skill, Will, Source, and Movement These are the necessaries for the creation of luxin," Magister Kadah was saying She had a gift A great gift She could

Kip sat in the back of the lecture hall today, sto yapper Adrasteia sat in the seat next to his, paying attention, and Ben-hadad was next to her, one yellow lens of his glasses continually swinging down in front of his eye, no ether, they took up one of the little wooden tables Sitting together, almost like friends

It wasn’t real, not yet They didn’t know Kip They let him sit with them It was different But it was closer than Kip had felt to friendship in a long tilanced over at hiister Kadah looked up and caught the to share with the class?" she asked

Don’t do it, Kip No sister had been talking about, and hisabout the instability of iister Kadah had been talking about Skill, Kip thought, so it seeister Kadah said, as if disappointed she hadn’t caught Kip napping "Very well" She ran long fingers along the edge of her stick, flipped it over On the back side, there was a color spectrum She considered it for a moment, rejected it, walked over to the wall

She opened a panel on the wall It was dazzlingly bright The lightwell, Kip realized There was a slide with a ht stream A pure beam of white radiance shot across the rooht as it is It is the keystone, the base on which all else is born And this is hoe iht stream Brilliant colors were cast upon the wall, cerulean blue i on vibrant yellow next to an orange to make fruit jealous next to a clear red

"These are the colors we draft--minus sub-red and superviolet, of course, which most of you can’t see We’ll talk about theht, discipulae?"

There were soht, discipulae?" she repeated, irritated

"Yes, Magister," most of the class answered

"Morons," she said

"This is light in our world--" She held a prisht into the whole visible spectrum Unlike the screen, which had the most vibrant colors immediately next to each other, the colors of the natural spectrum were broken into a continuum--but the continuum wasn’t even Some colors took upis like anything else If you sit in a poorly crafted chair, it breaks and you fall It fails its purpose Poorly crafted luxin is the same On the color line, there are resonance points Seven points, seven colors, seven satrapies This is as Orholam has willed At these resonance points"--she pointed to the places on the color line that corresponded to the bright colors she had put on the screen earlier--"at these places, luxin takes on a stable form Becomes itself Becomes useful" She pointed to places on the color line, in order "Why, sister Kadah smiled unpleasantly She did that a lot