Two weeks later my new white magic tutor has arrived, her name was Dibila she looked like a priestess from a certain game with her white rope and top brimmed hat and she looked young for a tutor she can’t be past twenty

“My name is Dibila” she said bowing her head

“Welcome Dibila, I am rand and this is my wife Liana and my son Caladin and this is our Maid Hera”

“Is …. Their a mistake here”

“Mistake …. You came to teach white magic did you not”

“Yes I been told I will teach a boy named Caladin”

“And this is the one”

“Isn’t he too young to learn magic?”

“Don’t underestimate him he will surprise you, any way let me show you your room you must be tired”

Later that day I was facing my new teacher in a clearing behind the house

“white magic is the ability to control light elements and shape them, this is true to all types of magic, the better control you have the greater the power you can summon and hold but the ability to reshape that energy is as necessary for if you can’t reshape energy you will not be able to cast spells”

She squatted on the ground before me

“Sit, we will now do control training”

“What about spells”

“Spells? You think magic is the mere act of casting spells”

“Ah …. Is it not?”

“While casting spells is the practical application of magic without true understanding of magic, you will be nothing more than a run of the mill second rate mage who struggles with every spell, do you want that….. No then you will follow what I say”

“Now… the greatest source of white Mana a person has is inside of him ….. Close your eyes and reach inside …. Find that source of pure warm light …. This is white Mana and it is a white mage greatest treasure… now do you feel it?”

I focused on the place where I felt power every time I used a spell, until now I saw it as a single lump of …. Something now I could see two distinct parts, one was dark silent as if it was a hollow shell with nothing within, the other was bright as the sun warm and … alive

“I found it”

“You did! … Well then let us test the truth of that pull that energy to the palms of your hands like this”

She showed her hands to me a clear light was pulsing from them

I focused on the light part of the energy and tried to pull at it …. Nothing happened

“Do not try to force the energy, let it flow and it will come as you will”

I looked at her …. Let it flow

I stopped pulling at the energy and instead opened myself to it …. Nothing happened

“Hmmm …. Are you sure you found the light energy? I’ve been told you have a high familiarity with its element”

“Yes I found it, I am sure”

 “Describe it to me, what does it feel like”

“Warm and right … it moves too as if it’s alive”

“Hmmmm … tell me have you casted a spell before”

“ah … yes”

“Good… do you remember that feeling”

“yes It was like a …”

“like a river”

“Yes”

“A river could be a gentle steam or a roaring flood of water that consumes all, one cannot control the river and one cannot surrender to it”

 “So don’t try to control it but don’t surrender to it what then”

“guide it”

she closed her eyes again and said nothing

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 “Take your time I am sure you’ll get it”

What a teacher …. She sits their pretending to mediate … but she’s just ignoring me

Guide it she says … Guide it

This time instead of focusing on my hands or on the core of my power I tried to imagine the path it must follow the connection between my hands and the source of energy I have, I felt a trickle at first and then it grew and grew like a stream that was being held by a Dam that just vanished, I felt the energy in my hands I saw it …. Light pure light

My teacher opened her eyes…. OK that’s enough; the light grew and pulsed stronger and stronger that I was bathed in it and saw nothing beside it

“I SAID STOP” I felt a hand on my head

I came back to my awareness and realized what has happened …. I stopped the light stopped immediately but it took a moment for the light to retract and I saw my teacher again

 Her eyes were red, but she didn’t flinch and looked straight at me

“Ah …. I am sorry”

“It’s alright o harm is done …. Let it be a lesson on the importance of control …. We are done for today” she said as she stood up and headed back towards our home.

***

Dibila

Something happened today, this child released a frightening amount of Mana … If he didn’t stop I might’ve attacked him, that could’ve been a disaster, his mother wrote that he shows talent in light magic in the job request but this …. I think I should quit, this child clearly has an abnormal amount of Mana and almost no control of it what so ever, I used a healing spell on my eyes …. What if I went blind the next time he did something like this, only an arch-priest could heal me if such a thing happens?

But the thought of returning to the temple dreads me, I prayed for a way out and now that it offered itself I want to run back and hide in that place.

For now I will stay, but I will be cautious with this one, later that night I sat with the family for dinner, the maid the Draconian placed the meal on the table, a draconian maid how could they trust her?… I must be cautious around her too.

“So how did the first lesson go?”  The wife asked, the question wasn’t directed at me but at the boy

“I learned about the importance of control … “he said

“And I was able to make light come out of my hands” the mother nodded approvingly

“White mage….  I am still not certain about this“

“Honey … do I need to remind you how expensive a healer can be”

“too bloo… ah I mean … yes you are correct still he should learn the sword a mage’s only weakness is his inability to fight in close quarters”

Sword training …. What nonsense a priest of the light should dedicate his power to the church and not gain wealth, these two must be adventurers, former adventurers at least now that I think about it it’s probably the only way a Roanan highborn which the husband Violet eye’s scream to anyone and a woman from Pendar or is it Elysia could’ve met.

I am ashamed that I feel jealous of  these two, i can’t be much older than me and they already have started a family and have a son, what adventurers did they went through what tales do they carry.