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“I don’t understand I’ve watched you do icks”

“And I was running on instinct most of the tinore Baldewin

But thehis life to protect Tori wasn’t sure if he orth it He kept his eyes trained on the back of the driver’s seat as he spoke “In order to do ic, you need to know exactly what power levels are involved To calculate things out to the second deciin to do the math on the spells I work on theory and instinct, and no one trusts ic because of it”

There was a ruminative pause

Warin growled from the front seat, “This makes no sense to me”

“Nor on side was clearly in his vocal cords, and he was not happy “You know yourwith a spell element you had no experience with You adapted the spell on the fly and did so brilliantly”

That was…true “But I orking on instinct It’s not proper—”

Baldewin overrode hi harder and more clipped “When I offered either breath or fla spell with, you knew instantly that it rong That it would unbalance the spell You knew the power levels wouldn’t be right, didn’t you?”

“Well, yes,” Tori ad to come up to see Baldewin’s expression It wasn’t a happy one “But that was theory I know in theory what it takes for the spell to be balanced and work”

There was a hard light in those grey-green eyes The ring of gold around the iris see the right to go pound soe demand another to calculate a spell to death like you just described I have never seen a e demand of a student to do so I do not understand the methods of your clan, Tori, nor do I think they suit you”

“It is the sign of a poormethods to their student,” Warin pitched in from the front seat “A true master can find different methods to teach If they only know of one way, then they are not aby rote what they were taught, and that is all they are”

Baldewin gave Warin an approving nod “Well said If your masters insisted on this insanity, Tori, it’s because they are not true ic, or the before they invoke a spell If they cannot trust themselves, then of course they can’t trust you They can’t trust anything”

Tori’s obbling thees around hi the a spell

It had never made sense to him, that caution There was no reason for it If an elehed 003 instead of 002, it had no visible effect on the spell The one time he’d questioned it, he’d been sic at all, and forbidden fro even a basic spell for a full week

But Baldewin and Warin were both right He’d done ic in the past week than he had in s to death before doing a spell Hell, often he didn’t even have the right ingredients with his on the fly The spell he used to blow up the car engine was nite a candle, for heaven’s sake It was neverbut instinctual ic for days now

And it had turned out as he intended Every Single Time

A choked laugh escaped hihtly hysterical as he realized what it ic because it was all they had left They’d gone into a no- ranks to the point that they’d had nothing better to do than turn on each other They’d created an insane systeic in to make themselves superior There wasn’t any other reason for it

Tori bent forward, trying to gain control over himself He was so incrediblyin that falsehood Another lie

Why had he ever let himself believe theer and cast spells, just to prove he could, tiain, all without their calculations He’d had aic So why had he internalized that lie?