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-====A Single Stone...====+====Chapter 2: A Single Stone...==== 
 +Will's magical senses had always felt like he was swimming in a stagnant pool of water, but touching this stone gave him the suddenly, overwhelming sense of a flow - like there was suddenly more to explore - something to touch and discover. He had studied and worked to improve his prowess over these years, but he'd never felt a real //pull// in his arcane senses. In this world of grey monotony, the stone drew him away.  It pulled in the way a cool fall breeze asks you to walk out into it and just... let... go...
  
-If you have ever known what it was like to spend a long time swimming in a stagnant pool of water, finally to find that there is now a flow pulling you along in another direction, then you know what comes next.  Your curiosity gets the better of you and you follow that new path, consequences be damned. +And for once, Will felt as if he could go.  A thought opened in his mind about leaving all this dull grey behind.  Something that had been long overgrown by the lessons of repetition and requisite.
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-Will felt it tug at him in a sense that can really only be equated to that.  In his world of grey monotony, the stone drew him away in his arcane senses.  It pulled sharply like the way a cool fall breeze asks you to walk out into it and just go... +
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-And for once, Will felt as though he could go.  A thought opened in his mind about leaving all this dull grey behind.  Something that had been long overgrown by the lessons of repetition and requisite.+
  
 Maybe there was a way to crack the hold on his mind.  He breathed deeply - so much that it hurt.  Then exhaled and inhaled again, feeling the world around him as he tried to think...  "Out there, where do I feel the voice strongest... where do you call me..." Maybe there was a way to crack the hold on his mind.  He breathed deeply - so much that it hurt.  Then exhaled and inhaled again, feeling the world around him as he tried to think...  "Out there, where do I feel the voice strongest... where do you call me..."
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 The sky looked clear for once.  Then the ground shuddered, shook, and fell away.  Will could finally feel beyond the barrier.  The fresh cool breeze of the autumn sky.  it was a welcome chill.  A light was growing from his right hand where the stone was.  Soon it was blinding and Will had to close his eyes.  He was reaching out blindly now. The sky looked clear for once.  Then the ground shuddered, shook, and fell away.  Will could finally feel beyond the barrier.  The fresh cool breeze of the autumn sky.  it was a welcome chill.  A light was growing from his right hand where the stone was.  Soon it was blinding and Will had to close his eyes.  He was reaching out blindly now.
  
-Yet the light continued to grow stronger.  Will couldn't feel anything beneath him anymore.  But it was okay.  The stone took control now.+Yet the light continued to grow stronger.  Will couldn't feel anything beneath him anymore.  But it was okay.  The stone took control now.  the powers of the stone overwhelmed Will's mind as he was finally pulled free of Myrah.  He blacked out and fell into a peaceful rest. 
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 +For the first time in a very long time, Will dreamed.  They were dreams without fear.  He was cut free of the "Grey" past, the harsh overwatchers, the constant expectations.  It was good.  Will smiled and knew, even though what lie ahead would be difficult, he somehow knew that things were becoming much more interesting now. 
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 +//Continue to [[chapter 3]]...//