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wasn’t quite sure why it worked the
way it did. The best guess he had was that he was trying to make it
too complicated. He thought about adding an illusionary enchantment
that would make it look like he had a foot but it seemed foolish to
fall for such vanity when no one was around to care.
    With everything ready he made one last
look around what had been a home to him even if for only a short
time, and he felt nervous about leaving to once again travel
through the dark alone. He thought for a moment to stay and make
one final enchantment that would make it easier to find his way
back should the need occur but his staff once again filled his mind
with pictures of him as an old man lounging in his stone
chair.
    Thad didn’t know how long he had stayed
in his stone sanctuary but being surrounded by the eerie darkness
once again seemed almost new to him. It didn’t take long for him to
miss the safety and comfort he had grown accustomed to. With every
step more doubts crept into his mind. Every noise that echoed in
the dark made him jump. More than once he had to steel his nerves
to keep himself from running back the way he had come. Whenever he
was near his breaking point his staff would nudge him along with
pictures of the underground river that lay ahead.
    For the first time he could remember he
was naturally tired well before he had to use his magic. Even when
he lived in the cavern he had relied on his magic to move around
and he usually fatigued far before he needed to sleep. It was a
unique feeling to be genuinely tired for once.
    The tunnel was narrow enough that Thad
only needed to use two of his magical walls to create a safe and
comfortable space for him to rest. Laying down his mat Thad
stretched out using a rolled up lizard skin he had brought with him
as a pillow. It wasn’t the most comfortable thing in the world but
it was worlds better than banging his head around on the hard
ground.
    After checking to make sure that
nothing had been sent through the sending box Thad penned a quick
note on one of his last remaining pieces of parchment and added it
to the small stack that already resided within the box. With
nothing else to do and while tired Thad wasn’t quite ready to go to
sleep so he closed his eyes and began to meditate.
    The elemental flow of the narrow
passage was vastly different than that of the cavern he had been
living in. Instead of being flooded with earth energy it only had a
slow flow of earth magic trickling through the area. It was laced
by a small amount of water but the darkness element held the
primary power in his current area.
    Thad had never dealt with dark
elemental magic. He supposed he could use it much the same way he
used the light one to take away light from an area but at the
moment he couldn’t see the immediate use of such knowledge since
the enemies he would face had the advantage in the dark. He knew
that he could use light as a weapon as well if he concentrated it
into a tight enough pattern. He wondered if he could do the same
with the dark element.
    Concentrating on the darkness Thad
tried to make a thin beam the same way he would with light. It was
a massive draw even with the high levels of dark elemental energy
around him. He focused the attack on a small rock that stuck
awkwardly from the rock face. With the area completely covered in
darkness it was impossible to tell what was going on.
    When Thad canceled the spell the upper
section of the rock was gone. It wasn’t burnt away like it would
have been with a concentrated light spell but it looked as if it
had simply vanished. Thad wasn’t sure how the spell worked but it
was obvious the spell was dangerous and costly. He decided after
that until he could completely study the spell it shouldn’t be
used. He had already had enough of spells backfiring because he
didn’t give them the proper respect.
    The next day it was much easier to keep
moving along the tunnel as it began to widen slightly taking away
some of