Once the snow lost its novelty value for Adrien, he found that November in the Avallans high plains was a gloomy time of short, grey days - which would have put him in a bad mood, had he not been so wrapped in the study of magic as he was. When he'd started the study of elemental Fire magic, all he could summon had been a weak, teetering flame; in only two weeks of work, he'd learned how to produce full fireballs and how to direct them with the force of his intention.