Coruscated fire gouted out my hands like a tsunami bearing down on the foe, I could feel the burn of the cost of the law as I bound it to my whims, the warm afterglow of the flames I conjured, it felt…. Suddenly slam on my head rammed its way into my dream, shooting awake only to first hear the chuckles of amused classmates. Looking up I could only see the senior Binder acting as the professor for today looking at me with disdain
"Castor you are but a month from graduation from the binder's guild and you think sleeping is a good idea for your position, you are to turn 18 are you a child?"
With a sigh, the professor's eyes glowed with etheric light and the classroom could feel the unnatural deadness in the air. The book residing on the desk which was used as a hammer on Castor's head shot up with a gust and returned to the professor.
"Remember soon-to-be graduates, do not bind the laws for such parlour tricks as what you saw here, you do not need to build up too much "heat" as even a parlour trick like this could cause repercussio...
Ignoring the droning voice I thought to myself what a bloody hypocrite as my head still thumped with the force of that book, Bloody law of the wind, turn a book into a hammer or a breeze to a tornado and this professor had the audacity to turn it into a lecture after thwacking him awake.
Out of all the lectures it had to be the bloody "heat" talk, something all the binders guilders even a newbie know too well, overusing the laws causes an overheat, or as the professor would call it the "balancing". Dabble too much with the laws and the chain of tragedy will strike they say. Old tales about students using laws and suddenly being cut off from being able to bind the laws they once knew or even get "universal balanced" or reach the "Destabilisation Horizon" but they never did tell us what that means.
After the talk, the lecturer got into the interesting part
"As you know you binders will be officially entered into society as a novitiate binder after graduation, you all are familiar with the law of the wind and learnt of it but to become a true novitiate of the Binders guild you must have a vocation. Each law you may study going forward for your final graduation will represent your leap in contributing to society, contributing to trade between the Republic of Binders and the technocracy"
The faces of each student seem to gleam at the opportunity to finally become a true binder as each vocation boasted of great prestige and rising status, I just rolled my eyes knowing my talents may mean being held back a year knowing no point in thinking about grandeur apart from my daydreams.
"As you either have already learnt or are familair from your beginning years with the law of wind what you saw me demonstrate or the law of friction which can be used in applications from lessening friction to increasing it, we will now discuss the first vocational law we for this lecture which is the Law of current. This law is the most demanded one of our kin, controlling electricity providing a vital role of supplying charged batteries for trade to the technoc…."
"Fuck being a techies batte…." A student shouted cutting off the professor but suddenly he went silent as the very air escaped from their lungs with a gasp.
" I will not have disrespect to the technocracy" The professor shouted as he silenced the offender.
"Do you know the strides our predecessors have made to make sure we are here today and disrespecting the technocracy is disrespecting your ancestors' efforts" The professor still pressuring the student but not with the Law of wind but that of pure disdain.
"Think about what an unchecked one of our kind could do, what would you think if someone with the law of friction were to awaken in a train which requires those laws to be set in stone to not derail! if they were to destabilise those laws by mere fractions which so delicately hang in the balance for so many people's safety" The professor let up slightly but continued
"Their way of life relies on the laws of reality being concrete but the days we live in today are of being mutual beneficiaries of each other's abilities, no longer are we hunted down at the fear of such a tragedy that our abilities may cause but provided land to hone our vocations, to trade and enjoy a free life, so do not let me hear that again do you hear me!"