Marish nodded. “That’s good. It means you can pick out what is relevant and close to hand from what is farther away. There are Oldbloods who have trouble with that.” “The other thing you said you saw in my aura was a blue-white color,” Itana said. “You said my aura was blindingly bright and mostly that color.” “White is undeveloped Oldblood ability,” Marish said. “Undeveloped?” “You see it in mostly in teenagers and college-age people. If I were still in the army and spotted a recruit with a white aura, I would encourage him to take some tests that would determine what his abilities were.” “What would happen once he figured out what his abilities were and started using them?” “His aura would become more and more tinted with the color of those abilities, until there was no white left.

