"It's fine," Ashlynn said as Hauke struggled to find a way to explain Formless Ice. She reminded herself that despite his size, Hauke was still more than five years younger than her. Learning something well enough to use the knowledge was one thing, but even she recognized that it took even greater knowledge to teach it to someone else.
"You said there were seven kinds of sorcery your people practice," Ashlynn said, offering a way to get the conversation back on track. "Is Formless Ice the one that convinced your father to invest so heavily in teaching you differently or is there more?"
"Right, seven," Hauke said, relieved that she wasn't going to press him for an explanation. Lady Nyrielle had asked him to teach but now that he found himself trying to explain things to someone who hadn't grown up around snow and ice their whole lives, he was finding it much harder than he thought it would be to do so.
