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The silence felt weirder than usual. Maybe weird wasn't the right word to describe it. Unsettling? Probably more accurate, but that meant mediating was making some sort of change, at least. At least the heat wasn't as bad as it was before. She swore she could feel something different, but it was hard to understand. All Sarahi really knew was that change in her current situation signaled progress. Whether it was good or bad had yet to be revealed, but she'd take it. Honestly, she would rather spend hours in silence than have to listen to any lecture, so she supposed she should've counted herself lucky.

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Sarahi tried to ignore the voice, mentally rolling her eyes. Must they always speak when unneeded? Why did she end up with the chattiest, noisiest, telepathic tutelary? [color=C4ADD8][i]Please stop distracting me. I need to focus.[/i][/color] She quietly urged them mentally, doing her best to regain her focus. Something was reaching out to her, but it was hard to grasp. The whispers got clearer, but it wasn't like she completely understood. Why wasn't anything with sorcery ever straightforward? Did things really have to be more complicated than need be?

That said, as the thought crossed her mind, the voice was louder. Of course she was struggling, that was nothing new. Still, the foreign feeling that came in after was a little more pressing. It was hard to understand if she was being honest, but the one thing she did understand was how overwhelming it all was. Describing it was beyond her, and even among the sea of noise and vision and a flurry of things she wasn't sure about, the distant bells of warning felt a million miles away.

Sarahi wasn't sure when she hit the floor. Maybe before her other classmates, maybe after. She did distinctly remember feeling disbelief and a deep sense of relief, though.

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