"I don't get it."
Arran looked at the two memory amulets in his hands with frustrated eyes. One of them held a terse set of instructions on the Forms, while the other held a detailed set of notes to accompany the instructions.
And both, it seemed, were completely useless.
He'd studied the amulets' contents for nearly two weeks, using the student's notes to make sense of the instructions. As he'd soon discovered, the notes were a necessity, since the instructions had clearly been written to accompany personal instruction, rather than to replace it.
Combined, however, the two amulets were just enough for Arran to understand the instructions. And eager as he was to learn more about the Forms, he'd spent two weeks painstakingly studying everything contained within the amulets, making sure not to miss even a single word.
Yet the result was not at all what he had expected. In fact, it was the complete opposite.
