Vizbourne was named after one of the I.F.’s founding species’ former ruling families. The whole building looked pristine and glorious, if observed from an earthlings perspective one would think it to be from an ancient civilization, that had a mixture of Greek and Asian nuances. It looked weirdly familiar yet alien at the same time, with large white stone columns erected in front of the entrance and grand pavilion shaped towers sprouting from the main building. The school complex as a whole had a surface area of a bit more than 15.000m² with the school taking up 6.000m2 of it. Most of the open grounds had training areas where kids from 5 to 8 could practice their spells or take a break and relax while enjoying the fresh air and green scenery. It was encircled by a beautiful stone and metal fence, reminiscent of one of an embassy, although one could find multiple electronic devices along it, that had a green light blinking on them constantly.

At the moment little Alexander already spent one week learning the basics of magic, the first year focused on finding a Force personal absorption method. Because the human species was not represented in the I.F. so far, nobody could tell them what technique was best for them to utilize. Humanity had to find their path in Force manipulation on their own and slowly establish methods for future humans to use. This didn’t mean entail that no other species’ technique could be used though as there were often general Force circulation manuals invented, like the one for children below the age of 5. Those were harmless and posed no danger whatsoever for the individual practicing them, however, if someone were to refine Force through a technique from a different species and it wasn’t compatible with human physiology one would receive a severe backlash or in the worst case even die.

The federation of course provided Force manipulation instructors that worked together with government teams to discover a generic Force circulation method every human could use but children like Alexander would have to slowly and carefully pioneer on that path alone.

Due to this he could be seen sitting in a classroom in one of the main building’s towers while listening to his alien teacher. As one who never lived in a time before aliens walked on earth he didn’t think it was strange that a humanoid cat was instructing him on Force circulation methods from all around the universe. Said cat was around 1,60m tall and hat fluffy pointed ears that accentuated her round ginger haired face. Large attentive eyes could be seen on her face and her whiskers flinched sometimes as if, for a moment, she was experiencing an uncontrollable urge to scratch her nose.

This cat like person was called Mrs. Kathia Natpiea, she was a Paketa and loved children, therefore choosing to pursue a career in the educational system where she could help develop the minds of tomorrow. With 120 years she was rather young for a universe in which the normal life expectancy was 1000 years and some even far surpassed this limit. Nonetheless she energetically taught her assigned kids to the best of her ability and imparted any tips she received herself.

“So this brings us to the Paketa, this is the species of my own people and since we are also humanoids like you it could be possible that a variation of our methods could be applied to your training. We are omnivores but mostly eat flesh, like you our species is the dominate one of the planet but we evolved more through perfecting our body and senses instead our brain functionality. Therefore our species learned to manipulate Force through the body first, we infuse it into our muscles and sensory organs such as the nose or eyes. This is something each of you will have to try anyway because you will need to regulate which parts of your body you want to focus on, these parts will receive Force constantly and become strengthened with time. In the case of sensory organs they will improve over time too but be careful as channeling too much Force into them would very likely result in adverse effects.” following another explanation why body strengthening is of the utmost importance while highlighting it’s dangers, Mrs. Natpiea continues her tiresome lecture about Force systems all around the universe.

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She was very detailed and listed almost every species that could somewhat be of use to these children, who would embark on a path no one before them has. The Paketaen didn’t want to see any of them hurt as she knew that species with no former Force techniques often had many children dying in a trial and error method practiced by the federation and planetary government in cooperation. Her kids weren’t allowed to practice with Force, except federation accepted general manipulation techniques, until she was through with her lessons about the different already existing ones. Afterwards they also had to present her with a thorough explanation of how and why they chose the path they did, only after she carefully studied and advised the pupil did she allow them to start the refining process.

This was rather unconventional but not a single person could say something since child deaths was an occurrence no one wished for.

The lesson of Mrs. Natpiea lasted for 2 hours with only a short five minutes break in between, later the children would be allowed to eat and socialize before starting a meditation training. Meditation was very important for each and every Force manipulator as only advanced practitioners could absorb and utilize this magical energy while not putting advanced focus into it. What completely stunned her though was the speed at which Force was being absorbed by almost all humans she saw and especially 5 of her 30 students, namely a blond Swede boy named Sven Holgerson, an Italian girl with the name of Michelle Dolce, a German girl called Angela Musterman and an Austrian boy known as Konstantin Bach. Of course the prodigy in the form of Alexander was also present in this assemble of kid geniuses.

Totally astonished by their ability to instinctively guide their Force through their bodies she sped up their training and allowed them to research and formulate their own personal method in advance. Each of them had the capability to naturally feel Force and therefore they could feel and instantly negate any mistake they were about to make.

Little Alexander already began planning his method a long time ago, he always thought that he could feel the Force around him and how it affect him and was in turn affected by him with each movement and breath he made, especially well. He devised a system where Force was equally distributed throughout his whole system, from the brain to his toes, from heart to liver and from the muscles of his index finger to his eyes. Mrs Natpiea advised against it since such a system could firstly lead to a huge backlash or work at best mediocre, him being the stubborn kid he was he didn’t want to listen though and decided to go with it anyways. Even as his teacher she could only advise him to be careful though since no one could enforce which manipulation method one could use. There were certain socially unaccepted ones but that wouldn’t be something little Alexander would learn for a long time.

So after six months passed and the year was halfway over the 5 geniuses were allowed to start practicing their techniques, while the other students still had to finish inventing their own, since six months was the time required to learn of every species’ Force circulation method available to the public. Mrs. Natpiea still didn’t let them adventure on this endeavor on their own and ordered each of them to perform the first training session under her watch, in case any problem occurred she wanted to be there, ready to jump in. First the other Austrian, Konstantin, was led into a room by Kathia and only came back after one whole hour, during which the other kids discussed their perfected inventions with each other. The boy came out slightly pale but with an elated expression, he gestured the others a thumps up and went to take a rest on a nearby chair. Before anyone could ask questions Sven was taken by their unresponsive teacher. Thirdly came Michelle followed by Angela lastly Alexander.

Mrs Natpiea took him back to a room filled only with a small round white rug, some cupboards and a cushioned chair, it reeked a bit of sweat even though the window was wide open with fresh air ventilating the space.