In Sehun's opinion, she hesitated a bit too much. He couldn't quite understand what the big deal was. It wasn't like he would kill her or anything similar to that. The only thing he wanted to was to end the lesson as fast as possible. He had other, way more important things to do than teaching her but he didn't want to hear from his father. That probably was the only thing that was even worse. “Do you want to give me your hands or not?” he asked again, keeping his indifferent voice.

She looked at him and that took him completely off guard. Usually, women and sometimes even men looked away when they met his gaze, but Siyeon simply looked back without any bashful feeling or fear or anxiety in her gaze. Her lips pressed together to a thin line and she leaned back a bit. “Tell me what you are going to do first.” There was no hesitation in her voice, no nervousness, nothing, despite her situation. Sehun had to hold his sigh back and he ran his hand through his hair. This would cost him a lot, lot of nerves.

“I don't know if anyone has told you about it since we haven't had that in class but I will explain it to you.” Sehun sounded extremely bored and reluctant to tell her anything but she appreciated that he did it, despite his obvious refusal. “You probably already know that we, as Mageíya, can control five elements and that one element is always more dominant than the other four. The truth is that there is a neutral element which we also can use. The shields we use to defend ourselves are made out of the neutral element, as an example. If you can master the neutral element, everything will be a lot easier.”

Ara had never told Siyeon about this and so she was a bit confused but then she slowly got what he meant. During the lessons were they practiced the shields Siyeon had noticed that the shields had been neither of the five elements. To think that there also was a neutral element never had crossed her mind though.

It wondered Sehun a bit that Ara never had told Siyeon anything about the neutral element but since she knew it now it wouldn't be much of a problem. “The neutral element is the base for every other element. Usually, young children learn to control that first before everything else. Mr. Kim told me that Ara tried to teach you to learn how to use your powers through the image with the orb in your head, right? The way my teachers taught me is a bit similar to that.”

Siyeon absorbed every bit of information he gave her but there was something that made her frown. “Your teachers?” Sehun seemed to be irritated by her question because he looked at her like she was an insolent, nosy kid. “Yes, my teachers. Private teachers, you know. Every Mageíya has private teachers before they enroll in High School,” he explained. “Well, not every Mageíya,” Siyeon muttered while Sehun was close to let out a long, long sigh.” “Yeah, whatever. Give me your hands now or I have to tell Mr. Kim and Mr. Zhang that we wasted our day with chit chat.”

The way he spoke made Siyeon want to hit him so badly but he didn't. “Okay, fine,” she mumbled and hesitantly laid her hands in his. They were cool and dry, yet rough but soft at the same time. His long fingers closed around her hands and completely covered them so that they couldn't be seen anymore. “My hands might fall off if you keep staring at them.

Siyeon hasn't noticed that she had stared at his hands and that she had hold her breath for a while. Immediately, she looked up, replying his emotionless gaze. “Now close your eyes and take a deep breath and slowly breath out again. Right, like that.” She did that for approximately five minutes as she noticed a cozy warmth creeping up her arms, her legs until it reached her chest. A slight dizziness started to spread into her head and Siyeon felt like she would fall. Everything around her disappeared and silence surrounded her. “Now open your eyes.”

As Siyeon opened her eyes, mist welcomed her. It was a heavy, thick mist, which wasn't suffocating though. As the mist