Category: Alexis Steinhauer

It’s just like any relationship,” Raelin told him with a grin, while Aldri practiced over and over again. “You need to coax her, persuade her, impress her, not knock her over the head with a mallet. Sometimes, for complicated things, you even need to grovel a little—but I’ll teach you that later, some of the syllables in Faerilíca can take weeks to learn correctly. For now, keep trying to catch her eye in silence.””But magic is only converted energy and emotion,” Aldri reminded him. “I already possess it, I only need to use it.””And just how do you want to take ten minutes’ running energy or your liking for the color blue, and throw it out in front of you as an arrow-stopping shield, hm?