Earth Gate (Wine of the Gods Book 17) by Uphoff Pam

Author:Uphoff, Pam [Uphoff, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Iron Ax Press
Published: 2014-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Late Spring 1395

Wizards School, Prairie Coast

Kenton held power in his hands. For a moment. Then it faded away. Maybe I'm too old to learn magic. He turned to watch the others.

John collected sunlight, compressed it and threw the fireball at the ocean. It stuck to his hand.

"Roll it out to your fingertips, separate it from yourself." Dydit was coaching them today.

John made a scraping motion with his thumb, like rolling up half dried paint . . . This time it threw properly. It hissed when it hit the waves. "Why doesn't it burn me?"

"Because while you are holding it, it's just power. Potential. Away from you, it's heat. You can, if you think about it, put your hand in fire and absorb the power without getting burned."

Basil looked over from where he was failing to strangle sunlight. "You are kidding, right? And how come it doesn't work for me?"

"Because you're trying to capture the light instead of the heat." Dydit stepped over to him. "Pull the heat out of the air, out of the sun."

Basil's hands glowed faintly, faded again. "I just can't quite . . . "

"Yeah. I dunno how Oners train. Maybe what we need is some mage exercises. They use lower frequencies, more heat more than light."

Kenton frowned. "But you said I had the mage gene too."

Dydit snorted. "Actually Nil says your father is Oscar Harryson. And he claimed to get power from the sea. So take a swim and see if you can get any power out there."

Kenton gave him a dubious look, but since, for practical reasons they were all stripped down to cut off pants anyway . . . he waded out. It felt great after the sweat and sand of the beach. He got lifted off his feet by the close in surf. Fought out past it and swam for the bigger breakers on the sand bars offshore. He found his footing on the sand bar and laughed as the next wave knocked him back off it. He regained the sand bar and lifted his hands. The next wave split around him . . . What?

He gestured with his hands and the waves started splashing high and over his head, opening holes and falling all around but not on him. The waves stood up and danced for him. He danced and laughed and the kids swam out and grabbed him and drug him back to shore, suffering from some sort of drunken euphoria.

"Guess we oughto've sent you out to swim earlier." Nil eyed him.

He clutched his head, with the euphoria draining away, a headache was starting up that felt like someone had pounded him with a mallet.

Dydit snorted. "No telling what might have happened, on Comet Fall. I suspect it would have involved a lot of mermaids, though. Some mages attract them like flies to carrion."

"Mermaids?" Kenton whimpered. "And why does my head hurt so badly?"

"Because you overworked the parts that do magic. And used a pot load of energy. Basil, Lenny and Mike? Haul him back to the kitchen and feed him.

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