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Rufus said nothing Call couldn’t read his expression at all He took his hand off Call’s shoulder
"Coh the pebbly shore The apprentices scraranite wall When Rufus put his hand to the stone, it turned transparent Call wasn’t even surprised He’d coh the wall as if it were made of air Taed Taking a deep breath, Call followed
He eed into a chamber whose walls were bare rock The floor was completely smooth stone In the center of the rooo over the Five Principles of Magic You may remember some of these from your first lecture on the bus, but I don’t expect any of you -- even you, Tamara, no matter how many times your parents have drilled you -- to truly cos You may write these down, however, and I do expect you to think on theed out what appeared to be a hand-stitched notebook and one of those annoying pens fro to explode this tian to speak and Call scrah He wrote:
1 Power comes from imbalance; control co to their nature: Fire wants to burn, water wants to flow, air wants to rise, earth wants to bind, chaos wants to devour
3 In all e a thing’s shape, but not its essential nature
5 All eleht of water Air is the counterweight of earth The counterweight of chaos is the soul
"During the tests," said Master Rufus, "all of you displayed power But without focus, power is nothing Fire can either burn down your house or warm it; the difference is in your ability to control the fire Without focus, working with the eleerous I don’t need to tell so to be the one who Master Rufus was staring at, since Master Rufus see o at Tamara Her cheeks flushed and her chin went up defiantly
"Four days a week, you three will train with me On the fifth day, there will be a lecture by one of the other es, and then, once a month, there will be an exercise in which you will put what you have learned to use On that day, youwith other apprentice groups Weekends and nights are yours for practice and further study There is the Library as well as practice rooms, and the Gallery, where you can waste tiin your first lesson?"
No one spoke Call wanted to say so about how he’d love some directions to that Gallery place, but he held hiar that he was going to get hiisteriu thatto flunk the tests in front of Rufus hadn’t worked, after all, so acting outto let him communicate with Alastair until Call settled in as an apprentice As alled him to do it, he probably had to be on his best behavior until Rufus relaxed and let him contact his father Then, when he could finally talk to Alastair, they’d plan his escape
He just wished he felt a little uess why I’ve set up the roo your sand castle?" muttered Call under his breath Even his best behavior apparently wasn’t all that good Aaron, standing beside hile brow but didn’t otherwise acknowledge what Call had said "I want you three to sit in a circle around the sand You can sit any way that you’re the most co the sand with your mind Feel the power in the air around you Feel the power in the earth Feel it rise up through the soles of your feet and in the breaths you take Now focus it Grain by grain, you are going to separate the sand into two piles -- one dark and one light You in!"