He looked down at the staff he was holding; he tilted it back and forth to watch the golden tigerseyes on the vipers shimmer in the light. "So beautiful", he whispered. Valerion chuckled; then he got up and walked around the room, looking at the circles that Adrien had drawn on the floor.

"How am I doing?", Adrien asked.

"Excellently", Valerion replied, grinning. "I would say that you have some sort of natural affinity for this".

Adrien laughed. "Really!", he said. He put his right hand on the stone floor and lifted himself up; he adjusted his robes, then walked towards the circle in front of which Valerion was kneeling as he inspected the linework.