The Channeler (The Wind Lord's Gambit Book 1) by William Kline

Author:William Kline [Kline, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Tommy’s skill continued to improve, and so did the tasks expected of him. One day, their history teacher had made them research a topic in the school’s massive library, and then prepare a speech on the topic. Micah had made them all deliver the speech in front of the magic class, while spinning three multi-colored balls in the air. The spells that the class learned got increasingly complex, and Tommy felt his abilities growing in time with the new challenges.

One spell Micah taught them was so complex, and required so much magical energy to fuel it, that Tommy was the only student in his class that was able to make it work. Using the spell, Tommy was able to take an ordinary stone, melt it, and spin the molten rock into complex shapes before cooling it down. Tommy really liked that particular spell, and after working with it for awhile, he was able to figure out how to strengthen the stone at the same time, enabling him to make shapes that were improbably thin. Tommy used it to make bracelets for Mae and Mary, and made a matching pair of rings for his mother and father out of a beautiful striated crystal stone he’d found while plowing fields out in the courtyard - he intended the rings as a Christmas gift for his parents. Micah had praised them when he saw them, and stated that perhaps someday Tommy could help earn money for the school by producing and selling the jewelry, if he decided to stay on after he graduated; Tommy beamed at the compliment and said he was absolutely interested. Micah had even asked Tommy to craft a couple of the rings for him, a request that Tommy was happy to fulfill. It was a new feeling for Tommy. He’d never thought of himself as being able to make something, to create something that someone else might want for money, and for the first time in his life, he felt like he could see a future ahead of him.

Eventually, the Christmas season came, and almost all the students had family come to visit. The school closed all classes for the entire week, and opened up a rarely-used wing of the school to host all the family members that had come to visit, so that they might have a place to stay. Tommy’s parents were among the visitors, and had been given a pleasant if somewhat smallish room that was, admittedly, quite a long walk from Tommy’s room. Still, with the school’s population swelled to over triple size, everyone made do with what they could.

For Tommy, the time with his parents was a joy. He’d never been overly close with his family when he lived with them, but having been apart from them and assuming that he’d lost them forever had given both Tommy and his parents a new found respect for each other. Further, Tommy noticed that they’d begun to treat him as less of a child. They

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