"Wh. Who are you?!" Dusk screeched.
"Well, I'm your room mate, I'm Shade, nice to meet you hehe" Shade said as she fazed out of the bunk.
"How did you know I was hidden the bunk's shadow?!" Dusk enquired?
"It's a basic mana tracking spell. Anybody can do it, just I'm more advanced with tracking mages. You for example hold much more mana inside of you than those boys next door that heard you. Nice hiding by the way, even they could see you if they'd shadow sneaked. You need to cloak your mana and your shadow presence." Shade stated.
"Look I. I understand you are my roomate and all but can you not sc. scare me like that. Y, you were completly hidden! What is a shadow presence as well. I don't think I've read that far yet." Dusk enquired.
Well when you are not hiding in shadows using shadow sneak magic, you cannot see people who are using the magic. However if both are using shadow sneak magic, they can see eachother clearly, like there was no walls. I can help you locate others using sources of mana and hide your own mana, hence your shadow presence if you'd like!" She exclaimed.
Now out of the shadows, her black hair and violet eyes could be seen. She wore the same black cloak, but wore a dark purple tank top and leggings underneath. She was hyperactive and also slightly oblivious, but her mana homing skill is unparrelled for a first year mage.
" but only you right, no one else. I d, dont really like speaking t. to others!?" Dusk jittered
"Hence why you are shaking I understand. Sure thats fine. Meet me here at 7pm sharl and I'll show you how to use the arena gem."
"I already know how..." Dusk murmurred.
"Great! Thats one less problem them. See you at seven!" She exclaimed and dissolved into the floor, a very faint shadow glided across the floor and through the door where a sound similar to a flame being extinguishes could be heard, signalising the end of Shade's shadow sneaking.
Dusk breathed a sigh of relief that firstly; her roommate was a girl, and secondly, that she finally left the room. Dusk now had a slight headache from processing shades persona ans quick speech and decided to carry on reading her spell book, passing time untill seven pm. The page Dusk read detailed methods of using shadows for basic combat. This invoved blinding the opponenet with a shadow screen skill and solidifying shadows into fists, claws and basic weaponry like slingshots and knifes. One technique entailed at the corner of the chapter showed a person using shadows to create a trident to keep a shadow at bay.
Dusk flicked through the next pages, shadow sneaking, weaponary, kicking, shadow fire. Dusk stopped at this page and used her left hand to release a silver flame onto her hand, much like the flame she produced on the way to the acadamy. The shadow flame in the book though was black, or purple whilst Dusk's flame, like her hair was a silver like the moon' rays. She read through the page of shadow fire, explaining how to produce and maintain a black kindling of fire in your hand. Dusk sighed and fazed the book into the pillow of her bottom bunk, muttering something as a silver circle and lines appeared on the pillow. A basic, yet difficult to break, sealing spell to dent entry to objects and places engulfed by the shadow realm. Dusk then stood up, extinguished her silver flame and left to find Shade, whom would eventually help Dusk to completly hide her presence in the shadow realm.