Once inside his cabin, Alistar and Emely sat around the dining table as Mr. Herst prepared some blueberry tea. A short while later, he placed three wooden cups atop the table and motioned toward Alistar with a smile.
"If you would, Alistar."
Understanding his intentions, Alistar lowered the temperature of the drinks so that they were cold enough to warrant drinking on such a hot summer's day. After he did so, he summoned a light breeze with the basic wind magic that he had learned from the book that Lessa had lent him back when he'd bumped into her at the collegia's library a long while back.
"Why did we have to come inside?" asked Emely, who was sweating quite profusely after sitting in the stuffy room for several minutes. "Ah, Alistar, could you make the wind a bit stronger?"
He did so with a nod, wondering why Mr. Herst didn't look the least bit bothered by the fact that a large snake was casually resting atop Emely's shoulders. Alistar, for one, was quite restless.
