By sitting in the sun the first slowly melted and the shudders stopped shaking Midnights' body. She regained her normal body temperature in time to see that Illia was beginning to struggle. The distance she was pushing herself was much further than that of any other dragon Midnight had seen and it left a permanent imprint in how determined dragons were to train their affinities. For a dragon, levels would come in time. But strengthening their elemental understanding and purifying their bloodline could make them much more powerful in the long run. That was how a dragon could become an ancient. Levels would not be enough.