She nodded silently and readied herself for the new test. As the wood chips came at her, she tried to redirect them all to a pile to her right, the general's left.
But after her panicked blasting away of the ice shards and the more focused random directions of the flames, this one didn't go so well (if you considered the ice round to have gone well). The first few made it more or less in the same area, but after that they were starting to either fall or pat against her sweater and fall to the ground, despite her best efforts to the contrary.
She dropped her hands and sighed. "I'm sorry. It's that lack of control. Or maybe I'm still resentful of it, and it knows that somehow?" She shook her head. "I don't know. But we need to keep trying."
But after her panicked blasting away of the ice shards and the more focused random directions of the flames, this one didn't go so well (if you considered the ice round to have gone well). The first few made it more or less in the same area, but after that they were starting to either fall or pat against her sweater and fall to the ground, despite her best efforts to the contrary.
She dropped her hands and sighed. "I'm sorry. It's that lack of control. Or maybe I'm still resentful of it, and it knows that somehow?" She shook her head. "I don't know. But we need to keep trying."
