[Xyltha Thanole]

Xyltha's breathing had by now settled to a more relaxed manner, his memory of the arduous trip upstairs fading into the vaults of his memory; only to quicken once more at the seemingly innocuous question posed by his new tutor. His mind went blank, or perhaps more accurately, churned into a sea of chaotic emotions and thoughts. He couldn't even begin to piece together an sentence containing the remotest intelligence. A thready nervous tension rose in his mind, a new feeling which he found unsettling.

He took a deep breath, and with it cleared his mind of all extraneous thoughts. And began to compose together a reasoned sentence as to why he did indeed want to learn magecraft, and not just any sphere, but specifically Sorcery.

"Learning magic has long been a goal of mine. I freely admit, I have no deeply secretive reasons nor altruistic motives to learn magic, specifically Sorcery. I do have a personal selfish reason: Sorcerors can travel with impunity. I have longed to traverse every land in this Empire, and perhaps even beyond, and the thought of teleporting across the expanse of the Empire and returning within one Brightening has a certain appeal to it.

I hope you don't take offence to my honest, sincere answer to your question. As for the other spheres, especially the two you mentioned, well I don't know too much about Elementalism other than it's mages playing with the elements - which I find quite interesting in its own way, just a bit... raw and too uncouth for elves like me. As for necromancy, I don't think playing around with dead corpses all day would do me too much good. For one, I'd have to stay up all night to play with them without other people finding out..."

He hoped that his touch of humour at the end would alleviate the sombre environment of the chamber.