“You need to be able to feel your magic. In our lessons, until now you came near that, but you never quite managed it. You have an advantage over all other students. Someone can move your magic for you. Do you understand why this is such a large advantage?”, Tablos asked.
Jonathan thought for a moment and answered then: “Because this changes how the magic feels in my body. If it would not move, I would basically be forced to guess what the magic is, likely a feeling I would have had for my entire life. In my case, this is a bit different, most likely, but there might be interference from the summoning spell that balances it out. But back to your question. The human mind is drawn to change. It realises change quite fast. This is the reason why changing something makes it easier to find. If you are trying to hide, for example, you try to stay still, even if moving might get you a more advantageous position, but it would also make you easier to discover.”
Tablos clapped: “Good, good. Great answer. So Elise, let us begin.”
Elise nodded and began a simple light spell, drawing on Jonathan’s power.
Jonathan allowed her request for power and tried to fell for his magic.
He felt the warmth he was now accustomed to and tried to feel it more, tried to grab it, but not to move it.
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He was not sure what effects moving the warmth, his magic would have.
But he could not manage. Maybe he needed another approach? The one he used right now did obviously not work, but what could he do differently?
What if he did not try to grab it, but instead guide it? Not control it, but build channels for it to follow?
He tried to build a smaller channel around the path the magic was already taking.
He did not realise that Tablos began to be alarmed and warned Elise: “I think the flow of magic will soon increase, compensate, get more out and spread the light around, now!”
But Jonathan could not hear Tablos.
Tablos did not intervene, because it would not be dangerous, at least if Elise managed to compensate for the faster flow of magic.
The warmth speed up.
He felt it flowing and he felt the flow increase.
This could be problematic, but it should not be, he thought, because it was still used up at the same rate it came.
The flow only sped up, the mass of magic had not been increased, reasoned Jonathan and stopped.
He had managed to guide his magic.
He was not certain if that was the right thing to do, but it was at least a beginning.
He opened his eyes.
The room was filled with a dim light.
Then, when Tablos saw that and realised that Jonathan did not try anything else, he motioned the summoner to stop.
After they all sat down, Tablos began to speak: “Fascinating, truly fascinating. You did not manage to do what I wanted you to do, but instead did something that is normally considered much more difficult, and even on the first try, nonetheless. Let’s eat, we can discuss during our meal the implications of that, and then continue.”