When Wizards Dream - Final

A mini story by S.E.Estes
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As he shielded himself from his enemy's fire his mind went back to the test that earned him the right to his quest. When he went in to be examined he wasn't prepared, he had no idea how he would gain the focus necessary to pass, his search for everything would end up rendering nothing. To make matters worse, he was angry, angry with himself, and Professor Grinaar had warned him about anger. He sat down and composed himself as best he could, making the stone rise had been easy. The real test began from that point because he had to keep the stone suspended over his head for a period of time. The period of time wasn't specified beforehand, the stone had to remain motionless until a proctor signaled the end of the test. The first day wasn't a problem, neither was the second but by the third Relg felt his focus waning and as it did his anger grew. His hold on the stone about to slip, Relg remembered his professor's words, "you've seen me use anger" and though the anger was his own he gave way to its energy and felt his focus sharpen. All his time training he tried to force himself to focus but right then he realized that focus came out of yielding.

Relg was on a quest of summation, The Quest, they said. He hadn't understood what that meant, but then few did understand their quests until the end. Clearly he was at the end of his quest so he summed up. He gained the mastery of fire and that had kept the battle raging, he gained the mastery of storms and the elements and he had used them in the fight at various times. Now summation was needed, an elemental fire-storm to tear his nemesis to ashes. He understood how it could be done, yielding to the energies, to do it would destroy him as well. It was no decision, it was his quest, and many quests ended in death. He dropped his shields and gathered in the fires around him, the fire the enemy threw at him, the fire that consumed him. With his dying breath he let loose the storm and with his dying thought he remembered one other thing he learned, the nature of change.