The underground chamber grew quieter and still. The sound of Adrien's steady voice and the slow synchronized breathing of the candidates filling the space.
The subtle tingling Erend and the others who present here had felt earlier began to thicken like an invisible current swirling through the air.
It brushed lightly against their skin just like a faint prickle of static before a storm, but this one was warmer. Charged with something else more potent.
One by one, faint glimmers began to shimmer around the seated candidates. For those with elemental affinity, the air rippled with their nature like a faint blue glow pulsed around a water-attuned recruits with edges like mist in the morning sun. Another radiated a dim ember-orange color that flickering in rhythm with their breath. And another shimmered with a greenish tint, the aura gently swaying like leaves in a soft wind.
