All the Wicked Dolls by Ben McKenzie

Author:Ben McKenzie [McKenzie, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bradthorn Creative Ltd
Published: 2020-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Training with Kat hadn’t exactly been what I was expecting. In my head I thought that I would be in the open air learning how to change the rainfall or curve the wind or just anything, really. Instead I was in a dark room with my legs crossed, with what I can only describe as whale music playing in the background. I stared at Kat who was in a similar pose, trying not to burst out laughing at the effortless concentration on her face.

‘I’ll be honest, this isn’t what I was expecting,’ I had to say before the silence continued anymore.

Kat gradually opened her eyes with a roll.

‘In order to find control in your abilities, you have to find the quiet part of yourself. The bit that isn’t dictated by emotion, so you can retain clarity at all times,’ she said to me, but it was hard to believe this was what we were actually doing. ‘Do you know why the Countess specifically asked for me to sort out your training?’

The answer to that was obviously no. I presumed it was because she was in our trusted little group and I didn’t know everyone else, but I still shook my head anyway.

‘We share a similar Gift, Roman,’ she said. I wanted to get out of this weird cross-legged stance and really start to question her.

‘You have the weather, too? Why didn’t you ever say anything in the first place!’ Surely, she could have helped me out with all of this long before now.

‘I said similar, not the same.’ She laughed a bit and then turned her head where candles lined the floor all across the room.

Without even blinking, they all suddenly lit, and the room was now filled with a deep burning light that danced around the dark walls.

‘Fire is my Gift, Roman; it is an element. Your Gift controls multiple elements in certain forms but the principles are the same. All Gifts are controlled by emotion, even a Gift as wide ranging and unpredictable as yours can be controlled through the management of emotion.’

Given the fact that we had recently been attacked again and were even further into a house arrest than we were before, the concept of being able to manage my emotions seemed like a really far away thought right now.

Kat could tell that I was pulling a face by another eye roll from her; my face had never been able to disguise what I was feeling.

‘Why don’t you try to blow all the candles out? Let’s start with something small.’

Feeling almost confident with this, I closed my eyes.

Making a bit of a breeze to blow these candles out surely would be easy. In the park the other night I managed to throw someone a good few metres away into a tree and basically summon a tornado. This would be simple.

I was concentrating to slow my breathing down until all I could hear and focus on was the thudding of my own heart. I searched for that same feeling from the other night, that powerful feeling, searching every part of me.

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