A Circle of Stars: The Stardust Duology Book One by Craig Montgomery

Author:Craig Montgomery [Montgomery, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Three

Casper blinked across the room. That was pretty much what it felt like to use Libra aether. He traveled a good thirty feet in the blink of an eye, with no sense of motion involved. There were sparring dummies placed in each corner of the room, and Casper had been practicing the accuracy of his jumps all morning.

He appeared across the room a full arm span away from his targeted dummy.

“You’re afraid.” Malia was perched on a stool close to the wall, twirling a short rope.

“I am sort of tossing my body into the abyss,” Casper said.

“There is no abyss,” Malia said.

Helix had suggested she help Casper master Libra aether. He was getting more comfortable using aether in general, but Libra was his weak point.

Malia was suddenly next to Casper. She grabbed his arm and pulled him toward her, coaxing him to jump side to side with her. Light-footed, they hopped from one foot to the other.

“Do you feel how the ground is there every time your foot lands?”

Casper paid attention to his toes. The tap of his weight bouncing against the floor. The firm pressure of solid ground supporting him.

“Imagine there is a door beside you. But through the door is the other side of the room. The door is a weird hole in the world that you can step through. And when you hop to your other foot…”

She was across the room, facing Casper.

“The ground will still be there.”

Casper kept the bouncing rhythm. And then he pictured an open door next to the dummy on his right. Then he hopped through. His foot landed on the ground, and he was in grappling range of the dummy.

“I did it!”

Malia blinked to his side and patted him on the shoulder.

“Now do it a few thousand more times until you can do it without thinking.”

“Very funny,” Casper said.

“Oh, I’m not joking.” She pointed to the other dummies. “Tap a dummy after every jump. First, we’ll work on getting your reaction time up, and then we’ll work on positioning.”

“We’ve been at this for two hours,” Casper said.

“And we’ve finally made some progress. I don’t waste my time. Now move.”

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