There was no pain, only an urge to relax, to let the current sweep him away to become part of the whole. And in that moment, Arlen wanted nothing more than to be part of that beautiful harmony of power. It was the essence of life itself, raw and omnipotent, radiating out into the world above. He reached out, Reading the magic flowing on those countless paths to and from the surface – the lifeblood of Ala. The world was bigger than he ever dreamed. The lands he travelled his entire life were but a minuscule fraction of its wide grandeur. Oceans and islands and far wide continents. For a moment,
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