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telling your story?”
    “Yes sir.” Everyone went quite and he told his story of how he came across the girl—he still didn’t know her name—on his way back to the city. He told how he was riding up as she killed the first wolf, and saw the second, how he used magic to kill the one leaping at her with the green ball and then again on the one that came at him. When he was finished everyone just sat silent and then Master Gabriel said, “Anwar, what you used is called an energy bolt; it is one of the most potent attacks a wizard can make, and most never try it. A wizard’s magical energy is connected to his life force and you release your magical energy into the attack. With as little experience you have in magic, using an energy bolt should have killed you. The fact that you did it twice is nothing short of amazing. But now it is time you began to learn how to use magic and familiarize your body with its use. You must learn to control your gift before you kill yourself with it.
     

Chapter Four
    Introduction
to Magic

    A nwar’s first weeks in the guild were not as exciting as he had hoped. He spent many hours reading many books, usually in Master Gabriel’s study. Most of them were about magic or the history of magic. He learned a lot about where magic comes from, what you can draw magic from, and magical creatures. Master Gabriel was gone a lot, but he would come in after taking care of his duties. His lessons were not what he expected. Instead of Master Gabriel coming in and teaching him, he would just read the books, and then Master Gabriel would come in and they would have discussions. He would ask what Anwar thought about this or that and then ask questions that Anwar would answer until he realized his initial assessment had been wrong and he would draw a new conclusion. Anwar realized that instead of just being told this is how this is, he was being guided to figure it out and the reasons to affirm the conclusion. Anwar was most interested in the drawing of magic from other sources and using magic within other things. He read that one wizard had lead his flow of magic into a tree that then yielded to him and reached its branches out like arms to entrap the people that were attacking him. Anwar spent hours every evening discussing these, as well as many other topics, with Master Gabriel. “Sir, it sounds like the wizards were doing the same thing with the tree and other objects that you explained that I do with my staff, using it as a conduit of magic.”
    This brought a smile to Master Gabriel’s face. And for once he gave a little more direct answer. “That is somewhat true but not completely. What they do is a temporary partnership of magic; all beings and things have some magic flowing through them. So, when the wizard partnered his magic with the tree and the purpose was at an end, they were no longer partnered. What you accomplished is something many wizards spend their entire lives trying to accomplish and most never do. You created a permanent partnership with your staff; you imprinted your magic into the staff, as well as the magic of all the things around you when you created it. So your staff is a part of you; it cannot be used against you, for it can never hurt you. As long as you live, it cannot be damaged or destroyed. There are a few magical items of the greatest power that may be able to overcome this but, even in doing so, many of those items would as like be destroyed along with the staff. This is not to say your staff draws your magic away from you or will not be a powerful magical item after you are gone. You implanted great amounts of magic into the staff, pulling from the trees, the grass, the wind around you—everything! From what you have told me, the tree you destroyed was destroyed because all the magic in that tree was imprinted into your staff. Most items of power have names; usually, they are rooted from a command word or the magic in which they were created but often as not