It was mid-afternoon; the sun shone through the forest foliage and clouds hung like ornaments in the sky. A pod of Caelum ceti flew overhead. A couple of youngsters played around the elders, weaving and curling, playing a game of tag. Meanwhile the adults sang songs to each other.
On the land the forest engulfed the soft rhythmic
thump-thump-thump hoofbeats of a large horse on the forest floor. The emerald forest and rich brown earth smelt like home. Soft scents of flowers and herbs swirled with the softer furry smell of wildlife like squirrels and deer. Birds chattered and chirruped in the trees and out of the darkness a pair of eyes watched an out of the ordinary bright green wagon bump and bounce past. In the driver's seat sat a gypsy woman with dark curly hair, she chattered on about the story of
Ozymandias. A couple of conversation progressions later and Ada was explaining the works of Magic to Fritz
"You see Fritz the difference between Magic and Alchemy is: you have to be born with magic to perform magic. Philosophers have tried to discover why some are born with magic and other's aren't but there appears to be no pattern. Being born with magic is like being born with a 6th sense, you can detect things the 5 senses can't and you have the ability to change the world around you by use of magic words and if you're powerful enough a mage: by the power of your mind. I once met a mage so powerful he could cast spells in his sleep. Once he caused an inn to flood because in his dream he was fishing. Fritz, come sit here next to me. I don't know what you're doing back there and I don't trust the fact I don't know.
"Thank you, now where was I?"
"Magic and alchemy""Ah, yes! No, Yes! No! Oh whatever yes, alchemy. Alchemy is something most people can do, but it's not well-known. Alchemy is magic used by those born with non-magic blood. And what makes it mostly different is the fact that you need energy to cast alchemy. The law of equivalent exchange some have called it. For example: if you were to cast an alchemy spell to pick up a stone and drop it a meter away from you, it would take the same amount of energy to physically pick up the rock and move it. There's a book in the Jairo library of an alchemist who stored energy from himself and others in gems and drew upon that during battle.
"Alchemy also can be cast with runes or spells, runes are more popular than spoken words because rune spells can be reversed or cut short. If you were to cast a rune to make a tree grow and once the tree reached the desired height and you broke a line of the rune, the tree would stop growing. With words, the tree would keep growing until you told it to stop or you gave the specific order of a height to grow to. For example watch this."
Ada looked around until she found a pretty purple and blue sparkly gem in the wagon. PIcking it up she cast the spell
"calculi, inveniemus postea , ab hac levitate usque ad quercum sentis , stillabunt in manu mea" "I told this pebble to levitate until we pass that thorn tree on the right" Ada said to Fritz. Obediently the pebble floated into the air and hung above Ada's hand until they passed the tree upon which it dropped into her hand again.