Magic turned out to be far more complicated than Azier could have imagined. After all the stuff he'd seen Cinders do, he figured it wasn't that hard to regulate mana and make it do what you wanted to ...and he was wrong.
Dead wrong.
He was far more tired than he had ever been before as he pushed himself further than his limits the past three nights as he learned how to bend and shape wood, as well as control and hold fire. He still failed at moving water - and metal wasn't even on his mind since earth had been hard enough to manipulate. It turned out, you had to concentrate on each little pebble and command them together. It wasn't anything like he imagined before.
At least he felt a better connection with most of the elements, but it didn't stop his new obsession with being able to pull water out of the air, or at the very least make it move a little. Both had been impossible so far.
