76th of Winter, 513 AV
Waking up and stretching to a wonderful morning, a woman with fiery red hair rubs her eyes to be reunited with the morning sun.
Uncovering herself from the shroud of a winter blanket, she rubs her hands together in hopes to warm them up before taking a glance at a child beside her.
The child breathes slowly, her chest rising and falling at a normal pace. The woman breathes a sigh of relief before planning her day.
It was a day of moderate temperature. It wasn’t too cold, but it most certainly wasn’t warm. No matter how often Lenz wished and prayed for spring to come and for the snow to melt to reveal flowers, it just wouldn’t happen.
That said, early in the morning, before most people had even waken up, Lenz decided to sneak out and go into the woods in terms of practicing her magic. She didn’t leave without letting Ipisol know however, so the poor girl had to be awaken before she needed to be. Lenz also made sure she took along her double bladed dagger just in case.
Once outside the tent, the flap securely zipped closed behind her, the redheaded woman traipsed through the rest of tent city, her greenish brown eyes strictly glued to the many bare trees off in the distance.
The sun had hardly risen yet, but the light that was available to her sent strange rays outlining a shadow that followed Lenz with every footstep she took.
The naked trees’ branches felt cold and slippery as Lenz dragged her fingertips across their surface. Rime covered the bark resentfully almost as if it was trying to melt into the tree itself. It was a fairly beautiful sight when described accurately.
Now that Lenz had travelled into the forest far enough to have privacy and to not be discovered, yet close enough to the city to be classified as safe, the woman decided to start her self-teachings by preforming a few deep breaths which would in turn progress into a state of meditation.
“Clear your mind, Lenz,” she said to herself aloud, her soft spoken voice seemingly loud in the silence nature created.
It was peaceful, but it was daring to cross the over the border line between tranquil and eerie. Paranoia was soon to greet her, for if she were to be caught practicing her magic, she was sure bad things would happen. Magic wasn’t accepted all that much in Sunberth, or in any city for that matter except for a few.
“You have to clear your mind,” she said again, quieter this time as if to not disturb the trees that surrounded her on all sides.
Her voice sent the previous negative thoughts away for a while. She then began to take a deep breath, the palms of her hands pressing together as she created a sort of “hands to heart centre” kind of pose. Then she exhaled the large gulp of air she had taken and closed her eyes as she listened to her heartbeat as its pulse ticked a rhythm she began to follow.
Lowering her hands so that they hung to her sides, she slowly swung them up and around her head until they were back to the centre of her chest with her palms pressing together again, this time her fingers meshed.
During this motion she had inhaled and exhaled slowly and methodically twice, each time she did so in sync with the beat of her heart.
“Open your mind to all the possibilities,” she breathed the words as her left hand came out in front of her, palm side facing upwards.
With a deep breath filling up both of her lungs, Lenz felt the Djed rushing through her body and localizing itself to her open left hand. With a visualization locked into her mind, she paced herself as a small sphere of res manifested.
The res swirled in her palm, the translucent gaseous appearance mesmerizing to look at. Soon, the air currents around her were provoked with a cock of her wrist. Air circled the res and was stable in her hand until she flexed her arm in terms of pushing it out in front of her.
This did not go as planned, however, when the ball of air fluctuated at last minute and changed its direction so that it was aimed slightly to the right- a little more than Lenz had anticipated.
The blast was loud and the powerful effect sent Lenz flying back a few feet. The air she had conjured with her reimancy had hit a tree not more than a few feet in front of her, and with the abrupt extension of her arm, the final effect had proven more powerful than she would have wanted.
Of course to any master reimancer, the outcome might have been not as exciting and frightening as Lenz had made it out to be. Perhaps it was just the silence in the wilderness that sent shivers down her spine, but she knew that she was getting better, at least since the first day she begun.
Standing up from the impact, she had made with the forest floor, Lenz went to examine the damage she had done to the tree she had accidentally hit. Upon closer observation she noticed that small fragments of the bark had been blown off.
“Great job, Lenz,” she praised herself with a smile beaming across her face, “good job!”
However, there was a tingly sensation present in her gut and a soft chant whispering into her right ear, “Do it again, do it again, do it again.”
She hadn’t realised it at the time that the words that weren’t really there and that funny feeling in the pit of her stomach were the first signs of a possible situation of over giving, something even the most advanced reimancers feared of doing. Although instead of calling it quits, Lenz agreed with the voice in her head and decided to practice once more.
Letting her eyelids fall closed again, Lenz initiated into a pattern of breathing, taking two quick and deep breaths and then slowly releasing them until she couldn’t exhale anymore. After she had done this repeatedly, she opened her eyes and prepared herself.
She felt the Djed well up inside her again as she encouraged it to destine itself into her left hand. A spherical object of res presented in its gaseous form, larger than the last, soon manifested itself into her palm.
Its presence was comforting, giving Lenz a sense of satisfaction, as though she could control anything she wanted and without it, she could lose everything she cared for.
Contorting the air currents around her so that they rushed to suffocate the ball of res, she raised her hand slowly. Unlike the last time, the trajectory was not going to be off course.
All was ready to go, Lenz’s position corrected and everything when something suspicious caught her attention, giving her momentary distraction. It threw her off balance and the sphere that hovered in her hand flew in the air and into yet another tree.
Lenz cried out in surprise as her poor balance propelled her backward into the underbrush. Her pants got all wet and her hands, dirty; she was sure that there was a mud stain on her rear.
With her eyes like blinding rays of sunlight, she tried to seek out the figure that had caused her to lose her focus. She scanned the bare trees, the snowy areas among the grassy ones all to no avail. That was until her gaze rose to find herself looking at a beast.
I’m dead, I’m so very dead, she thought to herself as her eyes widened. The beast took a hasty step closer to the woman before baring its teeth in hostile greeting.
“Nice dog,” Lenz whispered, trying not to provoke the creature. If she was getting out of this difficult situation alive, she was going to be sure to find a different place to practice her magic!
Waking up and stretching to a wonderful morning, a woman with fiery red hair rubs her eyes to be reunited with the morning sun.
Uncovering herself from the shroud of a winter blanket, she rubs her hands together in hopes to warm them up before taking a glance at a child beside her.
The child breathes slowly, her chest rising and falling at a normal pace. The woman breathes a sigh of relief before planning her day.
It was a day of moderate temperature. It wasn’t too cold, but it most certainly wasn’t warm. No matter how often Lenz wished and prayed for spring to come and for the snow to melt to reveal flowers, it just wouldn’t happen.
That said, early in the morning, before most people had even waken up, Lenz decided to sneak out and go into the woods in terms of practicing her magic. She didn’t leave without letting Ipisol know however, so the poor girl had to be awaken before she needed to be. Lenz also made sure she took along her double bladed dagger just in case.
Once outside the tent, the flap securely zipped closed behind her, the redheaded woman traipsed through the rest of tent city, her greenish brown eyes strictly glued to the many bare trees off in the distance.
The sun had hardly risen yet, but the light that was available to her sent strange rays outlining a shadow that followed Lenz with every footstep she took.
The naked trees’ branches felt cold and slippery as Lenz dragged her fingertips across their surface. Rime covered the bark resentfully almost as if it was trying to melt into the tree itself. It was a fairly beautiful sight when described accurately.
Now that Lenz had travelled into the forest far enough to have privacy and to not be discovered, yet close enough to the city to be classified as safe, the woman decided to start her self-teachings by preforming a few deep breaths which would in turn progress into a state of meditation.
“Clear your mind, Lenz,” she said to herself aloud, her soft spoken voice seemingly loud in the silence nature created.
It was peaceful, but it was daring to cross the over the border line between tranquil and eerie. Paranoia was soon to greet her, for if she were to be caught practicing her magic, she was sure bad things would happen. Magic wasn’t accepted all that much in Sunberth, or in any city for that matter except for a few.
“You have to clear your mind,” she said again, quieter this time as if to not disturb the trees that surrounded her on all sides.
Her voice sent the previous negative thoughts away for a while. She then began to take a deep breath, the palms of her hands pressing together as she created a sort of “hands to heart centre” kind of pose. Then she exhaled the large gulp of air she had taken and closed her eyes as she listened to her heartbeat as its pulse ticked a rhythm she began to follow.
Lowering her hands so that they hung to her sides, she slowly swung them up and around her head until they were back to the centre of her chest with her palms pressing together again, this time her fingers meshed.
During this motion she had inhaled and exhaled slowly and methodically twice, each time she did so in sync with the beat of her heart.
“Open your mind to all the possibilities,” she breathed the words as her left hand came out in front of her, palm side facing upwards.
With a deep breath filling up both of her lungs, Lenz felt the Djed rushing through her body and localizing itself to her open left hand. With a visualization locked into her mind, she paced herself as a small sphere of res manifested.
The res swirled in her palm, the translucent gaseous appearance mesmerizing to look at. Soon, the air currents around her were provoked with a cock of her wrist. Air circled the res and was stable in her hand until she flexed her arm in terms of pushing it out in front of her.
This did not go as planned, however, when the ball of air fluctuated at last minute and changed its direction so that it was aimed slightly to the right- a little more than Lenz had anticipated.
The blast was loud and the powerful effect sent Lenz flying back a few feet. The air she had conjured with her reimancy had hit a tree not more than a few feet in front of her, and with the abrupt extension of her arm, the final effect had proven more powerful than she would have wanted.
Of course to any master reimancer, the outcome might have been not as exciting and frightening as Lenz had made it out to be. Perhaps it was just the silence in the wilderness that sent shivers down her spine, but she knew that she was getting better, at least since the first day she begun.
Standing up from the impact, she had made with the forest floor, Lenz went to examine the damage she had done to the tree she had accidentally hit. Upon closer observation she noticed that small fragments of the bark had been blown off.
“Great job, Lenz,” she praised herself with a smile beaming across her face, “good job!”
However, there was a tingly sensation present in her gut and a soft chant whispering into her right ear, “Do it again, do it again, do it again.”
She hadn’t realised it at the time that the words that weren’t really there and that funny feeling in the pit of her stomach were the first signs of a possible situation of over giving, something even the most advanced reimancers feared of doing. Although instead of calling it quits, Lenz agreed with the voice in her head and decided to practice once more.
Letting her eyelids fall closed again, Lenz initiated into a pattern of breathing, taking two quick and deep breaths and then slowly releasing them until she couldn’t exhale anymore. After she had done this repeatedly, she opened her eyes and prepared herself.
She felt the Djed well up inside her again as she encouraged it to destine itself into her left hand. A spherical object of res presented in its gaseous form, larger than the last, soon manifested itself into her palm.
Its presence was comforting, giving Lenz a sense of satisfaction, as though she could control anything she wanted and without it, she could lose everything she cared for.
Contorting the air currents around her so that they rushed to suffocate the ball of res, she raised her hand slowly. Unlike the last time, the trajectory was not going to be off course.
All was ready to go, Lenz’s position corrected and everything when something suspicious caught her attention, giving her momentary distraction. It threw her off balance and the sphere that hovered in her hand flew in the air and into yet another tree.
Lenz cried out in surprise as her poor balance propelled her backward into the underbrush. Her pants got all wet and her hands, dirty; she was sure that there was a mud stain on her rear.
With her eyes like blinding rays of sunlight, she tried to seek out the figure that had caused her to lose her focus. She scanned the bare trees, the snowy areas among the grassy ones all to no avail. That was until her gaze rose to find herself looking at a beast.
I’m dead, I’m so very dead, she thought to herself as her eyes widened. The beast took a hasty step closer to the woman before baring its teeth in hostile greeting.
“Nice dog,” Lenz whispered, trying not to provoke the creature. If she was getting out of this difficult situation alive, she was going to be sure to find a different place to practice her magic!
