<span style="font-family:Calligraffitti"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff">Chapter Eight - Sound of Silence</span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff"><i>Four Days Later</i></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99"><br/>
The drafting table that was normally against the wall in their study had been pulled out into the middle of the room, sheets of paper laid out across it with a myriad of scribbles, diagrams, circles and crossed out writing on  it. It was later in the evening, during their free time but well before they needed to go to bed. Ayla leaned over it, adding another rune carefully into the intricate latticework on the central sheet of paper, after glancing at her brother expectantly.</span><br/><br/><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">&lt;so that is definitely correct… but it’s going to draw too much power. We need to find a way to make it more efficient or it won’t be sustainable.&gt;</span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">&lt;if we could find a way to tap this into our mental link we could effectively function as one entity for the purposes of this…&gt;</span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">&lt;yeah but so far it's not even magic that we know of&gt;</span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">&lt; but it doesn’t need to be. My pen’s not magic and I can still affect it.&gt;</span></i><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi took the book his sister handed him, one that was on the subject of mental magics, thumbing through till he found the footnote she wanted him to see, reading it carefully before handing it back.</span><br/><br/><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">&lt;I don’t think that would work, besides, they’re basing that off rumors. They haven’t even confirmed if those two had the same gift we do, let alone if the spell worked.&gt;</span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">&lt;no but we can always test it out and see…&gt;</span></i>