Sworn To Transfer by Terah Edun

Author:Terah Edun [Edun, Terah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Coming of Age, Fantasy, Young Adult
Published: 2013-09-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

A week later, Ciardis and Maree Amber were continuing their one-on-one lessons in the head of the Companions’ Guild’s office. This time they were working on magical interference. Maree Amber wanted Ciardis to interrupt another mage’s magic. After two hours of non-stop tutoring, Ciardis was ready to tear her hair out.

She was rubbish at it. Every time she tried to stop Maree Amber from reaching out with her magic, she only succeeded in enhancing her powers. And the lady didn’t let up with her magical onslaught. So far, Ciardis’s chair had been pushed over, books had been thrown in her face, her cloak had been ripped, and she swore her hair had turned green at one point.

She was tired, frustrated, and it was chaotic.

“We’re not through Miss Weathervane.”

Ciardis turned miserable eyes on her. Her eyes felt bloodshot and she was pale with exertion. Ciardis gripped the seat cushion on either side of her body to keep from doing something she’d regret. Like lurching up and stomping out of Maree Amber’s office.

Maree Amber sighed and stared at the girl in front of her. Ciardis’s bottom lip stuck out like a petulant child’s while she sat staring at her knees with her hands gripping the couch beneath with her a ferocity that said there might be half-moon shaped puncture holes when she got up.

“Normally I would not keep pushing a trainee like this Ciardis,” she said with kindness in her voice, “But you must learn this as a basic defense technique. If you can interrupt my flow of power you can interrupt another’s. It’s useful in many scenarios...”

“And stopping mages if they’re in the act of doing something bad,” said Ciardis repeating the lesson extoled at her for the past two hours, “Yes, I know. But knowing it is a useful tactic doesn’t make it any easier for me to produce what you’re asking for.”

“Very well,” said Maree Amber while narrowing her eyes and standing up.

“Perhaps we’re going about this the wrong way,” she said while walking around her desk with a pursed mouth.

Ciardis cocked her head and stared at her with a wary look in her eyes, “And what other way would there be?”

“Using your talents in the ways that you know best Miss Weathervane. Stand up please.”

Ciardis stood and faced the petite head of the Companions’ Guild.

“Now here is what I wish from you. I want you to enhance my powers. Keep pushing them until I say for you to stop.”

Ciardis nodded. She was tired but this would be easy. She’d learned that pushing another’s power wasn’t difficult. It was the holding back part that was hard.

Standing in front of her teacher she felt for Maree Amber’s power. She saw the solid mage core sitting in her mind sedately.

“I’m not going to do anything Ciardis. I won’t use my power. The point is that I want you to push me even though I am not doing anything.” Ciardis listened to her with half her mind as she watched the woman’s core in her mind’s eye.

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