Igor attempted to find his element, the one thing he needed to manipulate the air but he struggles to concentrate. He had focused for most of the day and he had produced nothing, so he decided to call in early, he needed to rest and figure out what else he could try.
His mind kept on drifting through the various ways he could work it out when he finally drifted off to sleep.
Later that night Ateara walked in and noticed that he was fast asleep and he noticed that he looked exhausted from training. He decided to let him be and prepared some food before he awoke, Ateara had sensed that Igor had been struggling, the expression on his face showed that he was frustrated so he decided to take matters into his own hands and advised
When Igor woke up he smiled as Atera placed plates of food out onto the table. He smiled greatfully Ateara decided that he was gonna give Igor some advice, even if he didn't want it. "I think that you are thinking way too much, which is making you way too tense. Let's try to get you relaxed it might allow the air to flow within you, feel its power"
"Really? And how would I do that?" Said Igor
"Yes really!" Ateara continued "Now concentrate as it took me a while to figure out mine as well and a fair while to gain control" Ateara said "Allow me to assist. The Air is calm and it flows around everything, but with control it is powerful". He walks behind him, and places his hands on Igor's shoulders and gave him a gentle massage, his shoulders slowly loosened up. "OK, that seems like that has worked, so sit comfortably on the ground with your hands open, focus on creating a small ball, feel the air around you and create a ball in your hands" Ateara said
Igor just nodded and with Ateara watching and after a short time Igor had managed a small ball. "That's a great start, but remember the more energy you absorb and keep focused the bigger the ball and more power you have".
Now that Igor has managed to produce a single ball of air all he had to do was to concentrate and use it to defend himself, but little did he know that the more he trained the more energy he used and he grew tiresome.
"Remember to take a rest, you don't want to over do it" Ateara yelled out.
Ateara had shown him how it's done, so he decided he was able to concentrate on developing his own gifts further and he occasionally attempted to try something which he hadn't done before or he wasn't sure whether or not it would work, but he knew he just had to try because for the past few days he had been thinking a lot about his family h needed to know how they were coping after his sudden disappearing act.
Ateara managed to get a flicker into Bella's mind but there was no connection. As it was getting late he called it a night.
Soon as morning came Igor was already up and had begun practicing as Ateara just watched from afar not wanting to distract him.
He realized that he had been staring at Igor for over an hour and that he needed to contact his family, he couldn't make the connection right away but it did not stop him from trying eventually Ateara had managed to make that connection with Bella, but it was only for a short amount of time as he couldn't hold it too long.
It was only just enough to engage a few words. Ateara had broken the connection in the nick of time to save Igor from a falling tree nearby. "watch out !!!" Ateara shouted running at him at full force causing him to be thrusted five yards away from where he stood. As they lay on the ground Ateara was on top of him they gazed at each other for a while, Ateara leant closer in then suddenly stopped as if he had just woken up. He got onto his feet and helped Igor up, brushed the dirt and leaves off and headed inside but his arm got caught. It was Igor holding him back he closed the gap and leant in, gàzed in his eyes as if to hypnotize him. Igor touched his lips with his, Ateara didn't know what to do nor did he know how to respond at first, he grabbed Igor with both hands and started to kiss him back.
They were so busy with fingers intertwined into each others hair and didn't realize it had gotten dark till Ateara suddenly felt something strange in the surrounding area. "What is it? Why did you stop?" Igor asked , "Sssh! There's something here in the area, I'm going to have a scout, but promise me you stay put and out of sight" Ateara asked.
He went off and phased he wasn't at all worried about who could read his mind as he was able to use his shield to block everyone out.
As he kept running the scent suddenly became so strong, he stopped dead in his tracks and looked around he thought he saw a shadowy figure but it had disappeared when he took a second glance, he ran back to Igor as fast as he could and he felt as though something was following him. The scent seemed familiar to him but he wasn't prepared to stop this time. As soon as he arrived at Igor's home he was nowhere to be seen or heard. Ateara called out "Igor! Igor I'm back" but no reply Ateara was starting to get worried.
Something spoke out "If you want to see him again, you do as I say"
"Who is this? Show yourself?" Ateara demanded
"As you wish" The figure walked out from the shadow "I am from your past."
Ateara was stunned "Yo…y…you….I…I..I… sense some..something familiar but couldn't remember from where and where is Igor?" he stuttered out his voice growing stronger as he spoke.
"You knew me as Carns and truthfully I have no idea who Igor is and or where he could be at this time" he said
"It doesn't trigger, in fact I haven't managed to tap in to my own past yet"
They started to chat and what started as a five minute chat turned into a whole day of non-stop chatting till Igor finally turned up "Whose this?"
"He is an old acquaintance of mine from my past"
"Past life to be precise" Carns added.
Carns seemed to never want to leave and Igor wasn't overly keen on Carns. He decided to keep an eye on him whilst Ateara spent each day with him unknowingly growing closer to him with each passing day.