"None of those words ring a bell! What's an Anodite? A Celesti-whatever?" He wasn't controlling his clone and let it fade "It's just magic, it's your own power channeled through different methods to bend reality. Everybody uses it! Isn't your shapeshifting thing magic? These in the wall certainly look like it."

Alex leaned down and traced his finger along the wall, when he reached the red lines he got apprehensive, but he kept going. As his hand brushed across them, he felt a strange sensation, and immediately pulled back. He gulped sharply and stood up all the way "or it's alive..." What he had felt could only be described as something grabbing his hand as he touched the wall. He was not eager to touch it again. Alex started to back out into the middle of the hallway.