Bae could feel the magic that permeated the air. It was as present in the air as the salt that was coming off the ocean. Since her Commencement, her awareness had skyrocketed. Everywhere she went now, she felt new swirling channels of magic, each singing to her, all various hues and colours. Bae had never appreciated how intrinsic the magic was to the Ren's way of life until she had seen it with her own eyes. She now saw how the magic wove its way into every crevice of their existence. There was nowhere in the entire realm where magic was absent. She could see the way it sparked off the Cankurians around her. It was exquisite to witness but what was perhaps more meaningful than any of it, was the fact that the average Ren would never really see it. They would know their own magic, feel its
