Closing the books with a sigh, I rolled my shoulders as I leaned back into the chair, not having realized I was hunched over and straining my back the entire time that I had been reading.
Time had passed swiftly as I studied the first tome, and after a while I got up and got myself some blank paper and ink, jotting down all of the ideas in my head and working out some of the questions the book posed as I used my own mana to move the ink from the inkwell onto the papers, practicing and taking notes at the same time.
The words on the pages of the book were scrutinized heavily by myself as I likely joined a cohort of hopeful mages who used this tome, and during my small breaks I couldn't help but think about those people that had studied these very words and tried to locate a new meaning from them, wondering if my thought process was similar to any of theirs or if I was blazing my own path...
