Reflections

Free. That was the main thing he felt as he sensed the frae relish in the breakthrough, before suddenly hungering for energy so that it could fill up the new stores that had just been created.

He obliged, breathing in to pull from the crystals around his waist. He felt a faint hint of panic, though, when he saw that he was running dangerously low…but recalling the windfall that was soon going to come his way, he calmed himself down and stood up. 

He really wished that he could continue sitting there to gather even more insights and even more information about what magic really was using his own sensations and his own reasoning, but it was too dangerous. If anyone came this way, a lot of questions would definitely arise about the one he had kidnapped, so grudgingly, he picked up the mage's body and took out a crystal to begin the teleportation.