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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..."