“What happened?” I wondered as I looked around at the state of the room.
“When your started using magic, at first the stone turned green and we were satisfied, but quickly afterward the red changed to black in an instant, which is highly unusual in and of itself, but before we could get your attention the whole room was engulfed in a swirling mass of magical energy. We were blown around the room and only after managing to regain control were we able to snap you out of it.” Suma explained. I looked around the room again, taking in all of the chaos. It wasn’t too bad to me, but for small creatures like the nymphs it was probably like a hurricane.
“I’m sorry,” I said, “I didn’t mean-” Just then I noticed that the older nymph was shaking and nuzzling his left wing… it was broken. I rushed over to him, “Oh no! I’m sorry, I’m so sorry!” I yelled.
“Jake, do not worry, our magic can heal him; let me handle it.” Suma said. Her voice wasn’t angry, but calm and even. She wasn’t trying to chastise me but reassure me that nothing had been done that couldn’t be fixed. She stood over the older larger nymph and a magic circle formed around the two of them. A light began emitting from the nymphs injured wing, like glitter moving in a wave across its surface, then the wing jerked itself back into the correct alignment. Soon the circle faded, and he moved it around to make sure it was okay. “Are you okay,” Suma asked.
“I’m perfectly fine, thank you little one,” the nymph said and pressed his wings back to his body. He turned to me, “you are an oddity I have never come across before in my lifetime. Such power, and in a summon no less. Tell me, are there more like you?”
“More humans, yes, but I am the only human in history to use magic; as far as I know anyway.” I told him.
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“A shame,” he replied, “I would have liked to have a familiar like you myself.” He said.
“Jake is not just a familiar, he is a friend. He even named me.” Suma interjected.
“A name?!”
“Yes, I am now known as Suma.” She told him.
“A familiar naming its master… that’s... unheard of.” He replied.
“I am not his master, we are allies… partners.” She told him. “Besides, it is not like I could if I wanted to, his force of will and lifeforce density are far beyond my abilities to control.” That piqued my interest.
“Life force density?” I asked.
“Do you remember when I tried taking your life force into myself and got injured.” Suma said but was interrupted by the older nymph.
“You were injured in an attempt to take some of his life force? I taught you better than that, never try taking on a new familiar’s life force all at once, start with thirty percent or less.” He chided.
“I started with ten percent, and it still knocked me on my tailfeathers.” Suma corrected him. He looked shocked, then confused.
“Ten percent, and you were still injured?” He asked. “How… remarkable.” he added after a brief silence.
“Jake has the densest life force I have ever encountered.” Suma said.
“It can’t be that much.” I denied.
“Jake, I can handle the life force of several Borog beasts at the same time, I could not even handle one-tenth of yours. There are high mages and court mages that train their whole lives to achieve what you were born with, and you are an untrained amateur who only just learned they even had magic.” Suma explained. I was honestly bewildered, I had never considered the possibility that I had magic, let alone that I was good at it in any way. As those thoughts marinated inside my head, Suma and the other nymph said their goodbyes and she apologized for wrecking the room. I offered to help clean, but he said that the school used magic to clean itself, and that he could handle activating the ability alone. I was exhausted, and Suma saw it, so she sent me home. I closed my eyes in her world and opened them on my couch, where she had taken me from this morning. My feet still ached, and now I was too full of questions to sleep; at least that’s what I thought, but I was snoring within five minutes of my head hitting my pillow.