Kaya giggled lightly at the story. “I remember watching that.” She said, a small smile now plastered over her face. “I suppose… getting to make mistakes helps you learn and stuff and I wish I had been given more chance in life to make mistakes in learn. But alchemy is a bit different… my father always drilled it into me that you can’t make mistakes with it. Everything has to be exact or you risk a Rebound…” She shuddered slightly. Kaya had only heard of the consequences of Rebounds, never experienced one herself but from what she’d heard it wasn’t something you wanted to experience anyway.

Since the alchemical forces being manipulated are not human in origin, but of the world as a whole, the consequences for attempting to bypass the Law of Equivalent Exchange in transmutation are not merely failure and cessation. When too much is attempted out of too little, what occurs is called a Rebound, in which the alchemical forces that are thrown out of balance on either side of the equation fluctuate wildly of their own accord in order to stabilize themselves - taking or giving more than was intended in often unpredictable and catastrophic ways such as accidental mutation, serious injury or death.

Suddenly the bell rung, jarring her out of her thoughts and she looked up at Bryant with a smile. “I guess I’ll see you at much hu?” She said, knowing that they did have a few classes together later in the day, but morning classes were more theoretical, meaning they were separated. Power theory, practical and gym she’d managed to convince the school to put them in the same class. Usually you were separated based on your type of power and Kaya had managed to convince the principal that since her powers primarily revolved around elements that she belonged in the elemental group with Bryant.