the warm feeling as long as she could, until she started to feel something else. Something other than the stone. The feeling of comfort was replaced by a wispy feeling, as if something was floating around inside of her, making her body weightless. This is incredible! I feel like I can do anything!
In a way it was just as exhilarating as the feeling the stone gave her, but she knew that it was different, an opposite to the sturdy feeling of stone. Whatever was inside her was forever changing, constantly moving and begging her to do the same, like the winds that blew down from the White Mountains. While the world around her was moving at full speed, her perception of it was higher than ever. With just a thought she gave a small hop, her body shooting into the air straight towards the beast on the spire. She reached out with her left hand and grasped the horn as she passed by, using it to swing her body around and land on its back. It had happened faster than she could blink, and Sarena almost couldn’t believe what she had just done. Looking down she saw that the ground was staggering distance below her. Her concentration faltered, and the wispy feeling within her disappeared. Instantly her body felt its normal weight again, causing her to almost lose her footing. Sarena threw herself backward until she was leaning against the spire sticking out several feet from the back of the beast.
“What just happened?” She asked, her voice shaking. “There’s no way the stone let me do that. Even with all the power you gave me before I couldn’t do that. I’ve never moved that fast before.”
Tyrus was just as surprised as Sarena. His instincts weren’t giving him anything to work with aside from what they had before. “All I can tell is that you were drawing on my power and converting it to use it yourself. You started off with stone, but suddenly changed to a different element before you did anything with it. What element did it feel like?”
“I’m not sure, but maybe wind? That’s the thing that kept popping into my mind while I was using it. It made me feel so light and free, as if I could do anything," She said.
“I don’t know, but you might want to consider going back down before you get rid of this spike. This thing is going to make a pretty big impact when it lands," Tyrus replied.
Sarena nodded before answering, her mind calming down. “I know, and my name is Sarena. Sorry I didn’t introduce myself earlier, I wasn’t thinking very clearly. I’m not really sure I am now honestly."
She drew on the warmth again and felt the wispy cool breeze begin to flow within her body. Without a second thought she hopped off the side of the beast, reveling in the feeling of the wind rushing by her on the way down. Landing lightly on the ground she turned back to the spire, skipping backwards almost a dozen feet in an instant, her feet barely seeming to touch the ground as she did. Almost without thinking she let the wind inside of her change to stone, and felt the world slow to a crawl as a blanket of warmth wrapped around her. Effortlessly she commanded the spire to return, and felt the power within her rush out of her body, causing the world to return to its normal speed. The ground shook as the spire collapsed into a pile of rubble. Everything felt so simple now that she had done it once.
“Tyrus this is incredible! I feel like I can do anything! With this kind of power we should be able to survive here as long as we want! It’s a bit gloomy, but I’m sure things in the kingdom will have died down in a month or so. Everyone will be sure I’m dead by then, and we can pass through to Norvail in the north easily enough. It shouldn’t be difficult to book passage from there to Asravan across the sea, and by that point the kingdom won’t be able to touch us even if they know who we are. The Free Lands don’t recognize the authority of the southern kingdoms, so we will be safe," Sarena said while nodding, as if
In a way it was just as exhilarating as the feeling the stone gave her, but she knew that it was different, an opposite to the sturdy feeling of stone. Whatever was inside her was forever changing, constantly moving and begging her to do the same, like the winds that blew down from the White Mountains. While the world around her was moving at full speed, her perception of it was higher than ever. With just a thought she gave a small hop, her body shooting into the air straight towards the beast on the spire. She reached out with her left hand and grasped the horn as she passed by, using it to swing her body around and land on its back. It had happened faster than she could blink, and Sarena almost couldn’t believe what she had just done. Looking down she saw that the ground was staggering distance below her. Her concentration faltered, and the wispy feeling within her disappeared. Instantly her body felt its normal weight again, causing her to almost lose her footing. Sarena threw herself backward until she was leaning against the spire sticking out several feet from the back of the beast.
“What just happened?” She asked, her voice shaking. “There’s no way the stone let me do that. Even with all the power you gave me before I couldn’t do that. I’ve never moved that fast before.”
Tyrus was just as surprised as Sarena. His instincts weren’t giving him anything to work with aside from what they had before. “All I can tell is that you were drawing on my power and converting it to use it yourself. You started off with stone, but suddenly changed to a different element before you did anything with it. What element did it feel like?”
“I’m not sure, but maybe wind? That’s the thing that kept popping into my mind while I was using it. It made me feel so light and free, as if I could do anything," She said.
“I don’t know, but you might want to consider going back down before you get rid of this spike. This thing is going to make a pretty big impact when it lands," Tyrus replied.
Sarena nodded before answering, her mind calming down. “I know, and my name is Sarena. Sorry I didn’t introduce myself earlier, I wasn’t thinking very clearly. I’m not really sure I am now honestly."
She drew on the warmth again and felt the wispy cool breeze begin to flow within her body. Without a second thought she hopped off the side of the beast, reveling in the feeling of the wind rushing by her on the way down. Landing lightly on the ground she turned back to the spire, skipping backwards almost a dozen feet in an instant, her feet barely seeming to touch the ground as she did. Almost without thinking she let the wind inside of her change to stone, and felt the world slow to a crawl as a blanket of warmth wrapped around her. Effortlessly she commanded the spire to return, and felt the power within her rush out of her body, causing the world to return to its normal speed. The ground shook as the spire collapsed into a pile of rubble. Everything felt so simple now that she had done it once.
“Tyrus this is incredible! I feel like I can do anything! With this kind of power we should be able to survive here as long as we want! It’s a bit gloomy, but I’m sure things in the kingdom will have died down in a month or so. Everyone will be sure I’m dead by then, and we can pass through to Norvail in the north easily enough. It shouldn’t be difficult to book passage from there to Asravan across the sea, and by that point the kingdom won’t be able to touch us even if they know who we are. The Free Lands don’t recognize the authority of the southern kingdoms, so we will be safe," Sarena said while nodding, as if
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