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Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.

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I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories. Tonight,

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we're going to be headed back into a series that

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I haven't done for a while, Kid Wizard. There have

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been quite a few people in the Spotify comments anyways

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asking me to continue the story, and I honestly don't

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know why I haven't continued it in a while. I

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think mostly just because I haven't had suggestions for it,

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but they gave me a suggestion.

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Speaker 2: In the comments.

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Speaker 1: I believe their user name was Smoky, but Dominic has

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also been asking for kid Wizard, and they suggested that

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kid Wizard learns weather magic. So I think we're going

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to do that tonight. I don't know that he'll actually

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learn everything about weather magic, but I think we.

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Speaker 2: Could start that process.

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Speaker 1: If you've never listened before, I think you really need

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to know is Kid Wizard is a kid who gets

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invited to a wizarding school, which is inside.

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Speaker 2: Sort of a well.

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Speaker 1: There's a portal in an ancient tree that leads to

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a whole other world of wizardry, and while there, the

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kid is given a backpack that's kind of enchanted and

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inside the backpack is an entire place to live, kind

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of like a little pocket dimension, and in every episode,

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the kid learns something new about magic.

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Speaker 2: If you like the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to rate it and review it on whatever

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platform you're listening on. Ratings and reviews do make a

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really big difference. Positive ratings and reviews. I should say

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sharing it with a friend is a big deal too.

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And yeah, if you want to add free episodes, you

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can always join us on Patreon. And if you haven't

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joined us on Patreon, that's totally okay, but it means

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you're probably gonna get nad right about here. Time to

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close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in

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that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the.

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Speaker 2: Kid and the story does. You wake up.

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Speaker 1: Inside your pocket Dimension backpack. You get up, swing your

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legs over the side of the bed and stretch. You

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head over to the little fridge in the kitchen area

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of your pocket dimension, grab whatever food you want, throw

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on some clothes, and climb up the long ladder. As

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you climb, the top of the backpack opens up and

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you step out into well a gigantic empty training hall.

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You pick up the backpack and sort of squish it together,

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it automatically shrinks down into a really tiny size, small

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enough that you can easily place it in your pocket.

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You head out of the training area, down the halls,

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through the main commons area where the cafeteria is, and

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suddenly you feel a little drops of water on your head,

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but you're inside.

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Speaker 2: You look up to see a little cloud.

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Speaker 1: A small little spark of lightning takes off, hits you

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in the shoulder, which kind of hurts, and then the

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cloud starts pouring rain. Where is this thing coming from?

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You wonder? As you get completely drenched with water. You

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try to run away, but the cloud follows you as

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if you're in some sort of cartoon. Soon you hear laughter,

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familiar laughter. You look over to see Tyrannus or Rexington.

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You're ourgch enemy and all of his friends laughing hysterically

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and pointing at you. Clearly they're the ones behind the

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well little cloud. Many thoughts begin going through your mind,

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thoughts of how to get rid of the cloud, or

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what exactly you could do to Tyrannus Rexington. Perhaps a

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little bolt of lightning would teach him what's what? You

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decide that that would probably only cause more problems. Maybe

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you should just get rid of the cloud m Unfortunately,

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you don't really know how to get rid of clouds.

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You try to push at it using telekinesis, but it's

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as if the power slips right through the thing. You've

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never really dealt with cloud or weather magic before. Instead,

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you decide on a completely different tactic, teleporting away. You

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close your eyes, you get to that place where your

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body is filled with well more relaxing thoughts, and you

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imagine yourself being in a completely different place back in

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the training hall where Martin teaches you various different kinds

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of magic. You imagine what it looks like, what it

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feels like, what it smells like, and soon your body

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begins to disappear from where it is and reappear where

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you want it to be. Luckily, the cloud doesn't follow. Ah,

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what happened to you, kid? Martin asks, Well, Tyrannus Rexington

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happened to me? You respond, Oh, wow, you're drenched. Yeah

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I am, you say, Remembering that you have the power

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over heat magic, you slowly raise the temperature of your

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body and your clothing, and very soon you start to steam.

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The water evaporates, and well, you dry off rather quickly,

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What exactly did he do this time? Martin asks, he

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made a cloud rain cloud that followed me arraund and

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rained on me. Well, the glassic rain cloud drick hilarious,

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Martin says, maybe to other people, it wasn't hilarious to me. Yeah,

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good point. Did you try to push it away? Yeah,

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but it didn't work. Ah, did you try doing it

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using normal telekinesis? Uh yeah, yeah, Well obviously that wouldn't work,

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and its cloud form water can be rather elusive. And well,

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I'm gonna take a wild guess that you would like

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to learn weather magic now, Uh yeah, kind of?

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Speaker 2: I thought? So?

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, well, honestly, whether magic isn't super simple,

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but you have a lot of the basics you'd need.

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You understand eating things up and cooling them down. You've

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got your basic telekinesis. You learned lightning magic, which you'd

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come in really handy if you want to add dramatic

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lightning like effects or well direct the direction of them.

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So I guess all that's really left is manipulating water

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and air. I guess, so, oh, why doesn't telekinesis work

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on them?

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Speaker 2: First of all?

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Speaker 1: Well, it does work on them to be honest with you,

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it's just how you focus it on something that's so flexible.

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Solids are easy. I mean, ice would be if you

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really thought about it. You could have turned that cloud

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into dies and then shot it back at Tyrannus if

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you really wanted to. But it's often more difficult to

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get the hang of using telekinesis on water. It's just

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so flexible. Same can be true of air. To be fair,

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you can absolutely use telekinesis against well, singular or groups

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of air particles move them around, but really commanding the

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air as a much bigger deal. It's a force of nature,

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after all, one that affects all parts of the earth

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and flows through almost all people. So to truly command

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it in a meaningful way, you have to tap into

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something that most people know of her learned to. It

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seems like Tyrannus had it figured out. You see, Tyrannus

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didn't have anything figured out. He knew enough to create

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a little tiny cloud, But I doubt he can apply

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that to weather in general. I'd love to see that

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guy try to create a whole thunderstorm. That's a completely

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different thing.

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Speaker 2: To do that.

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Speaker 1: You have to understand how weather works. You'd have to

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condense the water in the air into clouds to command

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the wind itself to move in a particular way, possibly

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to even create a cold front or warm front. He

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was probably just using basic telekinesis on a small bit

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of water to create the cloud. If you want to

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show him up, I say we learn real weather magic. Okay,

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I'm in whatever that means. All right, Well, first let's

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work on your water manipulation. Martin leads you over to

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a little pool of water. Now, water is a form

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of matter. It's certainly solid enough to hold on to,

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but elusive. In order to truly command it in any

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kind of meaningful way, it's best to sort of become

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one with the water, to allow the energy from your

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body to move into the water. To understand that you

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and the water are not actually separate beings. You're part

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of the same larger thing that holds everything together, and therefore,

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in a way, the water is a part of you.

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It's both outside you and inside you at the same time.

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When you realize this connection, you can extend your mind

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into the water.

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Speaker 2: When you can.

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Speaker 1: Feel every part of it as if it's part of

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your own body, then you can manipulate it much more easily.

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Watch Martin reaches out towards the water. The water lifts

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up out of the pool, streams into a long, thin stream,

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and starts to spin around the room. Martin moves around

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as if he's performing some sort of martial arts sequence,

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directing the water to move with him. Once the water

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feels like it's a part of you, then you can

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use your basic telekinetic principles to allow it to float

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up and around. Instead of pushing against it with telekinesis,

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you become it and push against other things. After that,

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do you already understand the principles of heating things up

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and cooling them down? You can apply those to the

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water as well. He holds a ball of water in

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the air and it soon begins to boil and steam. Then,

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almost as instantly, it freezes into a large ball of

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ice before melting into water again. He gently allows it

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to flow back into the tiny little pool and looks

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over to you.

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Speaker 2: Your turn.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's all I have to do is realize that

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I am the.

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Speaker 2: Water more than that. Kid.

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Speaker 1: You are everything, and everything is you. We're all connected.

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We may seem separate, but uh, we're not. We're just

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experiencing the sense of separateness, and just tap back into

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that part of yourself that knows it's connected to everything.

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Allow the water to become part of you, and making

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it flow will become much much easier. You close your

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eyes and reach out to the water. You take long, slow,

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deep breaths, You relax your muscles, and you start to

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focus on those thoughts that are well happier. You remember

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the feeling of happiness in general, and you let it

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fill your entire body. Then you try to let go

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of any thoughts in your mind, getting rid of your

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own ego, that part of you that says you are

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you and you are very separate from other things. Instead,

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you just breathe and you allow your very consciousness to

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expand beyond your own body into the surrounding area. For

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a second, it says, if you find yourself floating above yourself,

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above everything in the room martin the little reflecting pool,

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you look down at the water from that perspective and.

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Speaker 2: You move towards it.

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Speaker 1: Your consciousness meets the water, and you imagine it's spreading

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out into the water, filling all of the water and

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becoming the water. And for a second, a strange realization

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passes through your body. You always were the water. You

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open your eyes, move your hands, and the water moves

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with them. It streams up out of the pool. It

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spins around your body with ease. You form it into

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the shape of a little water person and instantly command

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it to freeze. Then you let it melt again, flow

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around in circles. Good, kid, Now, water has different states

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of being. Right now, it's liquid, and you just froze

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it into a solid. If you really want to use

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it as a cloud, then you're gonna have to let

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it evaporate and then uh, well, recondance in a slightly

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different way, like steam or a cloud. You focus on

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the water and you can see that well that it

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can become many different things. Just as easily as all

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of the little particles can stop moving and freeze in place,

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they can get a little more excited and evaporate. You

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allow the water to begin to evaporate around you. Steam

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rises up in the air and starts to fill up

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the entire area around you. Good now, condense it just

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enough that it becomes a cloud, but not a pool

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of water. Again, with your connection still in the steam

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around you, you move it around, you pack it together,

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just not as tightly as it was before, and the

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steam condenses into a cute little cloud. Good job, kid,

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that's probably exactly what Tyrannus did to you, though Pep

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may have used more of an external telekinetic force to

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do it, since I don't think that kid could truly

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connect with water the way you just have. All right,

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put the water down and let's move on to air.

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You allow the water to flow over the reflecting pool

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again and then condense it into water and stream it

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back down.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, air is honestly the same sort of thing. The

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only difference is that it's everywhere. You can command small

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pockets of air without too much trouble. But if you

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want to do it on a sort of wider scale

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to truly impact the weather that impacts everyone else, you're

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gonna have to overcome a lot of collective belief in

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the weather. What do you mean, Well, I mean that

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most people expect the weather to be the way that

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it is. If a weather man tells them that, hey,

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it's going to rain today, then they generally believe it's

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going to rain, and it does. If they believe it's

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going to be windy, then it probably will be. The

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wind and weather have a sort of natural pattern they follow.

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That pattern can often be predicted using a whole bunch

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of you know, technical weather things, and as such, there

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tends to be a lot of collective belief in the

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weather and well believe that it'll do what people expected

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to do. And as much as that kind of belief

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isn't as strong as a well directed believer like yourself,

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it can still be something to get over, to reach

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into the weather itself, to become one with it, and

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to cause it to do things that other people will

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absolutely not is happening, but won't really believe can or

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should happen. Well, that's rather difficult, But like anything else,

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as long as you believe that it's happening stronger than

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other people believe that it's not, you should be fine.

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I sort of understand you say, nah, you'll get it eventually.

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the same way we did with water. It's just if

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we want to turn that into like a tornado that

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other people are going to see or something, it's kind

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of a different thing.

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Speaker 2: Anyways.

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Speaker 1: As I said, reaching out to the wind is the

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same as reaching out to the water, possibly easier, honestly,

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because it surrounds you all the time, It enters your lungs,

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it becomes a part of you. So yeah, all you

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have to do is expand your consciousness and ask it

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to move with you. He demonstrates by moving through the

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air as if he's again performing some sort of martial

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arts technique. You feel the wind move around with him.

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Then the wind blows so strongly that it lifts Martin

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straight up into the air before placing him down on

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the ground. Ah, you get the picture.

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Speaker 2: Once again.

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Speaker 1: You close your eyes, you relax your muscles, your body,

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and you focus on that place where you feel perfectly content,

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perfectly happy, and slowly you let go of your ego,

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that part of you that knows that you are you

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when you are not the wind. You let go of thoughts,

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and you allow your consciousness to drift up into the

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world again to that perspective where you can see Martin

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and yourself and the reflecting pool. But this time, instead

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of focusing on the water, you focus on the air

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that's all around you, and suddenly you come to the

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realization that wow, air is actually everywhere. Humans are surrounded

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by air in much the same way that fish are

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surrounded by water, but it's just so usual that they

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kind of stop noticing it. You wonder for a second

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if fish really notice that they're in the water until

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they're not.

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Speaker 2: Weird.

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Speaker 1: You allow your consciousness to fill the air around you,

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to remember that the air is in fact part of

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you in some way, and slowly you open your eyes

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and the wind moves with your body that spins around

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in circles. It lifts you up into the air and

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gently allows you to fall down. All right, kid, I

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think you've got it now to create a thunderstorm. What

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Tyrneus did was very small scale, I'd say, and I

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think somebody with your magical ability can do better. As

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I explained, it can be rather complicated to create a

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thunderstorm that people don't expect, because well, their expectation itself

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has power. But you, kid, you seem to be like

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the type that doesn't really care about those things, the

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type that figures out how to do it anyways, the

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type that can believe more than everyone else around you.

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Act type that should be able to manipulate the weather itself,

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especially in this here magical pocket dimension where you know

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there's not billions of people who expect the weather to

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be a certain way. It'll be easier. Here is what

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I'm saying. Grab your flying skateboard thing and let's head

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up into the sky. With a quick focus of your mind,

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you imagine the skateboard of peering out of your pocket

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and flying under your feet. It listens, it shoots out

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of your pocket, out of the little backpack in your pocket,

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expands to its full size, and lands on the ground

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in front of you. You step on top of it

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and feel an almost instant link to the thing. Martin's

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magic carpet flies underneath him and he does the same thing. Together,

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you blast out the main doors of the training facility,

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through the halls of the castle, and out and up

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into the air above. All right, kid, to create a

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real thunderstorm, you're gonna need to do a couple things first,

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and you'll have to gather a large cloud. That means

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calling the water to you. The water is always present

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in the air, unless it's like super dry, but it's

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pretty much always there. Just like a dehumidifier can somehow

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filter it out of the air. You should be able

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to find it, condense it, bring it together into a

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large cloud and allow that cloud to start raining down.

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Your connection to the wind should allow it to pick

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up as well. And well you already understand creating paths

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for lightning. Those three things should create a pretty epic

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thunderstorm if you ask me. Ah, Okay, you close your eyes,

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floating on your skateboard high above the world, when you

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find that you're still in that correct state, that place

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where you understand that the wind and the water.

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Speaker 2: Are all parts of you.

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Speaker 1: But this time you expand your consciousness further, not just

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into a little bit of the air or water surrounding you,

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but into the entire area above the magical castle. You

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grab the water in your mind and you begin to

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condense it from nowhere. Slowly, steam starts to rise up

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into the world, and you command that steam to move

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itself together to collect itself into a gigantic cloud. The

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air continues to produce steam, and as it's created, it

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moves together until the cloud gets larger and larger, darker

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and darker and darker. Good, now, let's make the wind

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pick up a little bit for you know, dramatic effect.

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You expand your mind once again, this time into the

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wind surrounding the place the air itself. You command the

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air to go from being relatively calm to a little

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more excited, to blow through the castle, through the trees,

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and you know, generally, just intensify things a little. The

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more you focus, the stronger the wind blows. You command

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it around in a little circle, a continuous force that

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pushes against the castle and people below. All right, now,

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maybe add in a couple lightning strikes. You focus on

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creating a pathway for the lightning as you did before,

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and you unleash its power. A lightning strike zips down

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towards the ground and strikes a tree beside the castle.

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Another one hits the ground itself. All right, now, unleash

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the rain. Still allowing the cloud to be a part

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of you, you give it the command to condense to

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that point where it can't hold itself up in the

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air anymore. Water starts to fall down faster and faster.

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The wind continues to blast, and you continue to direct

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a few lightning bolts, mostly through the air itself, as

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you don't want to do too much damage below. Ah right, kid,

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good job. I'd call this a real thunderstorm. Below you

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see students and teachers making their way out of the

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castle and looking up but the sky above to see

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exactly what's going on. Most of them know, well, they

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know what's going on, since they understand magic and understand

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that the thunderstorm appeared out of nowhere. As the cloud

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drains itself of all water, the sun reappears. You let

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go of your connection to the wind and allow it

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to become still once again, and you and Martin drift

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back down towards the castle, where you see all of

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the students and teachers staring at you in awe. Why

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are they all looking at me like this? You ask, Oh,

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that's because you just did an incredibly advanced magical technique

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that most of them will never achieve. Even the teachers

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haven't really figured it out for the most part. You kid,

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are a bit of a prodigy. Really, yeah, did you

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really think that most people learn how to create a

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thunderstorm out of nothing in a matter of thirty minutes

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or so? I mean, come on, on the way back

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inside on your skateboard, you pass Rexington and his friends.

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They too look rather shocked as you fly by, rather

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like they might think twice before messing with you again,

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Or perhaps maybe not. They don't seem all that smart.

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You make your way back to the training hall and

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jump off your skateboard and look over at Martin. Well, kid,

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that's probably enough for one day, he says, as he

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pulls a tiny little backpack out of his pocket, grabs

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it with his other hand, spreads them apart, and causes

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the backpack to grow. At the same time, the top

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of it unzips. He climbs inside, steps down a ladder

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that shouldn't really be able to exist, and then the

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entire backpack just floats up in the air and disappears

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from existence. You suddenly let out a large yawn. The

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whole effort of creating a thunderstorm has left to you

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rather mentally exhausted.

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Speaker 2: You reach into your own.

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Speaker 1: Pocket, expand your own backpack with the same gesture, and

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climb inside it. Moving down a ladder, you watch the

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zipper zip above you as you make your way to

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the ground. You laid down in your bed, pull the

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covers up to your chin, and pretty quickly you begin

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to fall asleep. You let go of the tension and

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your muscles. With each breath, you allow yourself to sink

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down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and with each breath,

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you allow your mind to wander off to thoughts of

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new dreams, new magic, and new adventures to come. Good night, everyone, command.

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Speaker 3: The New York Union.

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Speaker 4: No no thing, no more mo.

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Speaker 3: In New York

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