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Chapter 16: Chapter Sixteen
Breathing never seemed so complicated.
Pressing his eyes closed, Micah attempted to concentrate only on inhaling and exhaling. Under his eyelids, he envisioned ice. He willed it. Wanted to force it. It shouldn’t be so challenging to conjure ice when it was his Element!
A finger pressed between his eyebrows. “You’re too angry to conjure.”
Micah opened his eyes, spying Josiah sitting across from him. “I’m not angry.”
It had been days. Days upon days of being train-bound. Unnerved by his interaction with Josiah and Prithvi at the Terra Kingdom, Micah kept to himself for the long trip to the Eurus Empire.
Books preoccupied him most often. Meditating came second. He only escaped his personal quarters when it was time to eat. Usually, he got by without lunch. As such, he only encountered the royal guards and Josiah during breakfast and dinner before retreating to his compartm
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