The warm-up session went on for a while; many more crumpled up paper balls were thrown at Adrien, who for the most part defended himself against them. He had just incinerated three paper balls with a wall of fire and he was readying himself for more, but Valerion didn't move; instead, he chuckled. He bent down, lifted the woven basket at his feet, and turned it towards Adrien to show that it was now empty. "I suppose that this is it", he said, "You have destroyed all of my scrapped writings. Well done, Adrien".

"Really!", Adrien exclaimed. "Now what?".

Valerion pondered the question for a moment; then he smiled. "Well, you have graduated from paper balls", he calmly said, "so, let's try...".