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[sub][color=8E939E]✧     Location: Snakeburrow Woods     ✧     Purse: 12 copper     ✧      [@Scribe of Thoth] [@Trainerblue192]  ✧[/color][/sub][/center]
Eila’s question drew more attention to Kyreth, as he expected it would, and he rubbed his neck insecurely as the shadow-haired kid - Ermes - questioned him. 

[color=8E939E]“...Well, it’s like…”[/color] He began haltingly, the fingers of his free hand groping the air at his side for a suitable answer. Truly, he was hardly the person to do this; grasp on the concept of “studying the aether” was tenuous at best, and he barely understood it well enough to practice it himself, let alone explain it to others. 

Fortunately, as he searched for an explanation, Cerric piped up with just that, and Kyreth was happy to let him steal the show, nodding along. [color=8E939E]“Yes, exactly,”[/color] he added, looking back to Ermes. [color=8E939E]“Lord Mystralath tells me there’s aether all around us, running through the air and everything else. What I’m here to study is how the aether… well, [i]feels,[/i] I guess, and how it moves and behaves in different places as we travel. I’m told it changes a lot in these woods.”[/color] 

Ceolfric was next with a question, and Kyreth was a little surprised that he would ask it at all. The bandit struck him more as the proud type, and it was hard to picture him asking anyone about anything, but he supposed he was probably pragmatic above all else. That would be wise, if Ceolfric lead as rough a life as he looked. 

Of course, his question was just as much of interest to Kyreth, and the Tainted had to pause to think about it. [color=8E939E]“I don’t think it would be all magic, no,”[/color] he finally replied, searching his memory. [color=8E939E]“That’s the first time I can recall ever noticing something like that before, but I’ve been around Lilann doing magic and didn’t feel anything.”[/color]

His brow furrowed as he thought, trying his best to work through the limited aether theory he’d been taught to come up with an explanation. [color=8E939E]“I guess if the disturbance we felt is the aether [i]rippling[/i], then it would make sense for only bigger uses of magic to cause that, right? Like throwing stones in a pool.”[/color] Kyreth picked up a piece of gravel and tossed it into a nearby puddle, watching pensively as the ripples spread and bounced off the edges. [color=8E939E]“Maybe it works the same for aether. Or not; maybe it’s just something I’ll learn and get more sensitive to with time. I wish I could say, but I really don’t know.”[/color]