(english version)
The humid forest on the outskirts of the free city of Calistenia witnessed his first evocation. Beneath the thick foliage he raised his hands and pronounced those words forbidden by his instructor. The violet phosphorescence came off his hands violently. The power flowed uncontrollably and threw him backward with force, dragging him across the stony ground to a small rise in the ground. The blow made him faint before the phosphorescence in his hands dissipated, in the delirium caused by the concussion a glow was fixed in his eyes. The mist in the forest thickened and a light rain broke into the atmosphere. Blue lights rose into the now dark sky and settled like stars. His vision sharpened and projected over the forest, through the mountains and beyond the silver waterfall. He saw the trees of the garden of light. He saw the muses of the arts. He saw the inverted mountain crowned with the silver target. He saw her face.
The sound of rain on leaves confused him. "I didn't understand what was happening", he confesed afterwards. Bringing her hand to the site of the wound, he opened her eyes and after a moment, he remembered. He remembered his beginnings in the kitchen, mixing flours. The spiced breads and the carrot and cabbage salads. He remembered how he took a cookbook and reading it he made his first spell. He remembered his instructor. He remembered that it couldn't rain. "I was in the cave. In the depth of the earth. But it was indeed raining" he add. From the height of the cavern, the water moved through hundreds of stalactites with a singular rhythm. The sound of each drop on the surface made him nostalgic; it reminded him of the aroma of freshly baked muffins on an afternoon awash with damp, withered autumn leaves. The memory lingered on him, even after he got up. With dazed steps he hesitated, unable to forget the book, the forest, the blow, the muffins, and the vision.
(version castellano)