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Anastasia	Jun 4 2011, 02:30 PM
Posts: 84 Group: BattleWriters Member #6 Joined: Apr 24, 2011	Chapter 2: Dangerous Steps Eknara took a seat as she flipped through the book Prilla had handed to her. With little interest in her work she tried a few exercise spells outlined in the book and easily excelled in all of them. ‘Boring,’ she thought. ‘So very boring. I don’t wanna do this for the next two and a half hours.’ Her eyes gravitated toward the door that led to Prilla’s personal study, and then to the purse that held the key she had crafted herself (to use in ocassionally sneaking into the room she was specifically not allowed into by herself). Aicatul, forever her conscious, sensed her bristling curiosity. “You really shouldn’t,” he added. “I just wanna look. It won’t hurt any. It’s the kind of things Prilla will be teaching me soon anyways.” Without another word, she fetched the key from her purse and unlocked Prilla’s study. Her mouth salivated as she reached for the appropriate drawer and fetched out the materials. In seconds her eyes were devouring the text in the book as she tried to make sense of what she was reading. The book had no title on its cover. “Well?” Aicatul asked. Although her conscious just a minute ago, he could not overcome the curiosity that compelled Eknara so. “It’s talking about …” Eknara read some more. “It’s mentioning different dimensions beyond our own.” She took a seat on a stool and flipped through a few chapters, with her eyes never leaving the text as she became even more captivated by the contents of the book. “Portals! It’s talking about the possibility of weakening the barrier between our dimension and another and creating a temporary door to pass through. Aicatul, this is really cool! Just think about what we could explore. Think about what may be beyond our own plane.” Her eyes shone with excitement as she continued talking.”We could walk into a world where airships were never invented, so everyone has to use train travel or travel by sea. Hmm... or a world where everyone could fly on their own like a bird or something. Like that self-propulsion spell I’ve been trying to get work for the last few months. Maybe someone’s perfected it and then I can soar through the skies just like you do. Or ...” She trailed off, never finishing her comment, as she flipped through a few more pages. “This is all theory. Where’s the applied magic section?” “Maybe it’s in that scroll?” “Ah, yes. Good thinking, Aicatul.” An hour later, Eknara had gathered the material she’d need for some rudimentary practice spells and was completely engrossed in her adventurous testing session. “Okay. I’ve got a few testing figures and I’ve taken down some barriers a bit,” Eknara mused to herself. “Next, I need to construct a temporary passage. It’ll involve making a cut, expanding a window and laying down a kinda bridge framework.” Eknara smiled turning to Aicatul. “Kinda like that tunnel Prilla had me construct last week to amplify wind spells. And then we’ll need to use something to prevent the bridge framework from collapsing so that’ll take up quite a bit of energy. Hmm...” Eknara ran to the other room to fetch her butterfly sword. “I hope this’ll be enough.” Aicatul started to twitch a bit, as he worried about the repercussions of the actions they were just about to take. “Oh, don’t worry. These spells all require magic I’ve practiced and excelled in. Just with a different, new and exciting objective. It’ll just take a few minutes. Prilla shouldn’t be back for another hour and a half. Plenty of time,” she smiled. Eknara proceeded to cast the necessary series of spells. Although her excitement grew as she neared her goal it was followed by a feeling of fear and nervousness. These feelings were ignored, however, as Eknara was certainly not going to give up before she caught a glimpse of success in the newest and most exciting set of spells she’d been able to partake in for weeks. “I can see something,” Aicatul said. “There’s a hole and it’s slowly expanding.” Eknara’s eyes were closed in deep concentration. She felt quite a bit of her energy ebbing away as well. “Oh, it’s cold! There’s snow everywhere.” She shivered, and put some distance between himself and the portal. “Just one sec,” Eknara told Aicatul. “Just have to,” she paused for a second.”Okay, that should do it.” She opened her eyes and was met with a dark cloudy scenery just two metres before her. There was a lone house far off in the distance. Otherwise she saw nothing but snow all around and not a sign of life in sight. “It worked! By the Gods, this is unbelievable! This is,” she paused. “It really is cold. First test is a success, so I’m gonna go ahead and close this and try another. Anehta is smiling on us today.”


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