“I stand by my words,” Ilsa said with good-natured smile. “You are very impressive for a student, or even a regular mage, but you have a long way to go if you want to join the ranks of the truly great. But anyway, if and when you make some progress on that, you should try levitating some living being smaller than a human. Much smaller. Try insects for a start, then mice and so on. All in all, it should only take you…oh, about four years or so.”
If she thought he would be discouraged by that, she was sorely mistaken. Not only did he have his doubts about the accuracy of her predicted timetable, he really didn’t have anything better to do at the moment.
“I guess I better get started then,” was all he said.
Zorian’s eyes abruptly shot open as a sharp pain erupted from his stomach. His w
