Ascent: Day 1

Word Count: 6,017

Summary of Events:

Ilyé was hiding from the rain being as he was forced to stay in a room with a poor roof when his brother came in and tried to work a magic spell — despite the fact that rain often had negative effects on spells — to disastrous effect . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

"His head snapped up at the sound of the door opening, causing his head to strike some of the broken stone that was above his head. A warm stream of blood ran down his face quickly, forcing him to close his right eye and watch Nargya with only his left.

Nargya had a large cloak on which the rain hit and rolled off of easily. He wished he had a cloak to shelter him, but then again, he wished he had a lot of things. It didn't help anything, though.

Pulling back a part of the curtain which protected the elixirs from the rain, Nargya reached around. He heard bottles clinking. Was Nargya going to be foolish enough to try a spell on him in the rain?

He reached up his hand to stem the bleeding and wished again, this time that the niche was larger, and had a curve in it so that he could be hidden from sight and shielded from the spells that were always directed his way.

Nargya looked to be moving quickly, but being as his back was in the way it was difficult to see what he was doing. Glowing elixir bottles came and went as his hands reached around in view, and finally light glowed in front of him.

Soon Nargya shifted around to show that he'd done one of the most difficult things for any magician to accomplish, especially those who, like them, used wands and elixirs: he'd created an orb.

From what little he'd seen of orbs, Nargya's looked rather unstable, with lots of sudden flashes snapping around it, and it looked rather wobbly too, not smooth, round, and steady. He cowered deeper into the niche, grimacing as broken stones dug into his body the harder he pressed it into the wall.

Stretching out his fingers in what looked a rather uncomfortable way, Nargya arced them around the orb and raised it without touching it until it was over his head. Smiling sinisterly at him, Nargya then threw the orb.

As soon as the rain touched it, the orb exploded in a bright flash and then a wave of force hit him and pushed him into the niche harder. He felt rocks falling on him and covered his head.

A louder and more powerful explosion then rocked the room and there was so much noise going on that he couldn't pick out where it was all coming from, he could just feel more rocks falling on him."

Nargya: nahrghyah