“Four and a half days huh? Guess we need to take off the kid gloves,” Alex said before he found a spot away from the others.  [i]Alright, just make sure you’re a good distance from everyone else just in case[/i] Alex thought as he remembered the master’s words in the first part of the training.  Alex closed his eyes and concentrated. He knew what he was looking for, but it still took him a while to locate the telephone poles and wires. 

“There you are,” Alex said before he imagined reaching into the wires and pulling out the bright blue stream as he added, “Now use that energy to make the sphere.” Alex held out his hand and took a deep breath.  [i]I can’t keep closing my eyes for this. I need to see if I’m going to get any further in this training[/i] Alex thought as he opened his eyes and concentrated on his palm. He watched as the sphere began to form but stopped as it grew to the size of a golf ball. 

“Damn it, this isn’t good enough,” Alex said as he began to force more magic from the wires. He sphere started to slowly grow larger before stopping at the size of a baseball. The sphere suddenly disappeared and Alex stumbled before getting his footing. 

“it’s going to be harder than I thought,” Alex said before a smile formed on his face as he added, “good. Where’s the fun in this if the goal is just sitting there waiting for you.” Alex took another deep breath and started again.