They remained in the hallways until meal time was over, rejoining with the rest as they were led out of the building again. They were all made to line up, non-Mages and Mages alike, marching to a different training ground from the one they had gone to in the morning. This one had props set up, odd machinery that Ceraun and the other Mages from Thrika had not quite seen before. There was a vast amount of wooden logs set out over open ground, all having numerous finely cut sticks embedded in them. One of the officials from in the morning stepped forward, the Mage that had supervised them in training their Magical ability was not present but the other four were. It was the tall Mage who stepped forward from the rest to stand in front of them where they were lined up, a constipated look

