Up in flames

Training

Everything burns. I've spent weeks learning how to fight and defend myself and when I try to protest Donavan and Trodan just say, "To control the flames you have to control your body and your mind." Trodan is my flame master and he taught me that flames are all about emotion the key is to find out what emotion controls my flames, for Donovan it is passion (which explains why he never touched me). Being a flame elemental also has some perks; it makes me impervious to fire but only when I concentrate on it and I am also able heat up when I get cold; but I fear the perks of being a flame elemental is out weighted by all the bad things. For one when I get a little excited there is the danger that I might burn down the house.

Donavan explained that all the realistic dreams I had and pain I experienced was an elements way of making sure you don't abuse its power and hurt people with it. That's the funny thing I noticed about elements they seem to all have their own conscience, their own personalities and the more I understood fire's personality the more I could control it.

The training yards are the worst, I wasn't expecting a knights training yard, but the empty desert seems, well useless. There is sand everywhere in EVERYTHING, and I fainted the first 5 times I saw a scorpion scuttling away in the vast emptiness of the desert.

"Daydreaming is bad form." Trodan says in his high and mighty voice, the kind of voice that lets you know someone has been places and seen things. Trodan has a vast set of skills which ranges from wielding a sword to making canned food taste like heaven. And then there was the beard it was silver from age and was about a hands length long, Long enough to make him look like a wizard but short enough to look neat. All this can easily fool you but his face didn't wear his age at all and under that tunic he was ripped. "I was just thinking" I reply

"Thinking about what?"

"All this." I gesture around me

"Has the sand managed to make it into your toughts as well", he chuckles

"Sometimes it feels like it." I say smiling, "Everything just happened to fast, the one day I'm grieving and the next I'm training to be a saviour."

"This must be all be so odd for you and Donovan sometimes doesn't understand what it's like growing up without magic"

"Did you?"

"Did I what?"

"Grow up without magic?"

"I did indeed; my parents didn't trust the system and tried to seal my magic away."

"Is that possible? Sealing our magic."

"In theory ,yes, but the elements always have a way of finding benders.Thinking too long will make your head hurt let's get you training again."

A huge groan escapes my throat as I think of the physical torture I'm going to go through now.  "And you think the solution is make my body hurt instead?"

"This is going to be nothing copared to what I have in store for you next week" Trodan says with the biggest grin I ever saw