The following morning serving Breakfast.

"Speaking of want to go shopping with me?" It was the Lady Sapphire who asked this.

"I wanted to go see the play with my friends." Rose replied as an answer.

"There will be plenty of time, i can not see why you can not do both." Sapphire reasoned reasonably like a reasonable person that i doubted she was.

"Then sure." Was Rose's reply.

"So who are you going to see the play with?" Sapphire asked.

"Carmine and Lavender. Since Lavender and Thorn are going out, He's probably coming too." Rose said leading to a conversation of gossip.

Gossip: love is like a thorn pricked heart

Sapphire: "Really? In a relationship so fast?"

Rose: "Well it's like this: Lavander often complains about the drab interior of the castle."

Sapphire: "It is functional. But go on."

Rose: "Well one day while she's outside, Thorn sneaks into her room and paints the walls of her room bright pink."

Sapphire: "She must have been suprised."

Rose: "She was. When she found out it was him, she pretended to be all angry and confonted him and you will never guess what he said."

Sapphire: "Did he say sorry?"

Rose: "No, he said 'I just made it more fitting for your beauty.' and she gave him a kiss right then and there."

Sapphire: "That must have shocked him."

Rose: "Yeah, who knew she woukd act so brazenly."

Pause.

Sapphire: "Yes, because of that."

"So it's just the four of you going together?" Sapphire inquired.

"No five." Rose corrected.

"Who is the fifth?" Sapphire asked.

"I'm not saying." Rose readily refused.

"Why not?" Sapphire persisted.

"Everytime i've mentioned him you've always react badly." Rose stated.

"Oh, him, i do not react badly." Sapphire disputed.

I look down, the liquid in the jug i'm holding is frozen over either willingly in protest of sapphire's lie or because of sapphire's magic magically threatening to freeze my blood. With a flick of my wrist, a seed of soft flame flies onto the ice slowly melting it.

"It gets colder in here everytime i say his name." Rose points out.

"You are just imagining it." Sapphire claims.

"Myth, doesn't it get colder every time i mention Lore's name." Rose calls out to me suddenly.

"I would rather say that it get's colder everytime you make mention of a boy." I say respectfully and deflected fully.

"See, every time." Rose says righteously.

"That is not the point." Sapphire said.

"What's the point?" Rose asked.

"You are going to be late for lessons." Sapphire spoke.

Rose stands up. "I'm still right." Then makes her exit with haste.

Sapphire looks at me with a frown, signaling my immediate exit, with a slight bow i turn and leave.

The lesson and practice of that day had merged into one; it was about secondary affinities. We sat down in the middle of the surrounding field with our legs crossed and hands open palms up and on our knees.

"In each hand i want you to focus on the seperation of elements, draw it out, focusing it into your hands. Fire, Water, Wind, Earth. Bring these elements into being."

I thought about it for a second, closed my eyes. In my left hand i force the heat to gather, igniting into a flame. Slightly diverting my focus into my other hand i tried to focus on earth gathering, combining, fusing above my palm. With a puff of smoke it ignited into flames, causing me to loose focus.

I opened my eyes, everyone else was struggling with mixed results. I bring my hands together, this time focusing on the single earth element, its solidness and stillness. Slowly drawing it together into a single entity.

A coarse pebble sized stone fell into my hand. It surprised me and it disturbed my focus and i accidentally set it on fire causing it to burn in a flickering green flame.

"I got it." Rose said next to me. I looked at her just in time to see a ball of water strike me mask with a concussive thud. "Oops." She commented on her mistake.

I sigh. I focus on the flame and lift it from the stone before dispersing the heat and extinguishing the flame. I look at rose who with a grin hold in one hand a ball of water, while in the other rests a miniture tornado.

"Lore don't get distracted." The teacher yelled. And i turned back to conjuring stone and fire.