Battle Mage: Winter's Edge by Donald Wigboldy

Author:Donald Wigboldy [Wigboldy, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21- A Healer’s Test

From one nerve racking meeting to another, the pair made their way deeper into the wizards’ circle until they finally stood before a panel of seven wizards. By this time even Yara, who was used to the customs and manners of wizards, was getting fidgety. In the manner of defendants on trial, the two stood before these judges to prove both Yara’s progress and defend their ability to continue on to Hala together. If the wizards knew of how close the young couple’s true relationship was, Sebastian had a feeling that he would have been thrown out and made never to see her again.

What thoughts were going through the girl’s mind, he didn’t know, but even without looking at her, Sebastian could feel her tension beside him. The pair of them was making every effort not to look at one another as the seven wizards examined the documents that had been brought to them expanding upon whatever High Wizard Jeriah had been able to get across by peregion. They gave little expression to reveal their true thoughts, but Sebastian could feel the negativity of the room just by having a battle mage in their presence. It had been awhile since he had felt so out of place among wizards.

The wizards sat at a judges’ bench raised on a large dais so that, even seated, the council’s faces were slightly above Sebastian’s eye line. Forced to look up to meet their eyes, the mage wanted to swallow but was afraid that they would notice the motion and know it for nerves. The center wizard was a grey haired healer in the solid yellow of his order. Flanking him on either side sat a fire wizard to the man’s left and a mind wizard in the black of the diplomats to his right. Water and nature were represented to either side with a pair of wizards in yellow holding the ends of the table.

It was an usual grouping if it was a normal judging, but Sebastian assumed the two healers were there to help judge Yara. The other wizards could judge as wizards, but only those from her school would truly know how far she had come. After the months and the amounts of healing that the girl had to do for Windmeer, there was no doubt in Sebastian’s mind that she knew her skills well.

The center wizard focused his eyes on Sebastian and began his line of questioning, “This says that you plan to join Winter’s Edge, and that you are in need of wizards to help train you. Why does a battle mage also need a white wizard to ask for an apprentice to be raised to join you on this fool’s errand?”

Noting the man’s final words meant to put him down, Sebastian ignored them as he replied, “Windmeer has a need for healers. Wizard Deyla was needed there for now, but an apprentice can be spared much easier. The problem is an apprentice can’t join such a mission without a trainer to supervise her.

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