Adrien chuckled with him, a bit embarrassed. "Right, right. Sorry! ...So, I can celebrate?".

"You should celebrate!", Valerion said with an emphatic nod of his head. "This is a very important day for you. Now you can no longer say that you can't do magic".

"Well, I don't know that yet", Adrien commented, a wrinkle of faint worry in his brow. "I don't know if I can repeat it".

"I am absolutely certain that you will", Valerion said, smiling broadly. "I saw how you did that, and, you can believe me - that was not a fluke. In fact, I thought that you were ready yesterday, as well - but I preferred to let you practice on the core shapes some more, so that you couldn't possibly fail".

"Really!", Adrien chuckled.

"Yes, really", Valerion repeated, smiling. "And I must congratulate you - you have already learned so much in the span of not even a week".

"Ah -- but -- but I should have already known how to do it -- there are children who can do what I just did", Adrien mumbled, looking downwards.