"Does she think I'm stupid?" Matthew muttered, pacing near his bed. "Like, I'm actually going to just eat some weird floating marble because she said it's fine? Yeah, no thanks."
She'd vanished after that little exchange. Poof. Gone. Probably annoyed that he didn't swallow her ghost wisdom pill like a good boy. Since then, he'd been left with the bare-bones crash course she was forced to rattle off before floating away.
Matthew looked down at the spirit stone in his hand.
"So I just... think about absorbing it, and it works?" he mumbled, turning the stone over between his fingers. "Just... absorb it. Right. I'd done it before, so it should be the same this time as well."
According to her, he'd already gone through what was apparently called an "awakening." Normally, it was something that happened to Nexian kids between sixteen and twenty-one.
