[Amber Brightwing]

Even though not an easy task, there was nothing truly new about the previous imbuing. There was more hidden potential to the technique tough. It was said that activation of the stored spells could be done by voice commands or simple gestures instead of using the Apprentice technique. This was something she wished to further look into and not just to give her even more easy access to her creations, but primarily because she wanted to know how these things worked, purely for the sake of the knowledge.

First she would work on somewhat more simple things though. From what she had read, easily breakable materials such as glass or ceramic could be imbued with a single spell. Breaking the object should release the spell in a fairly safe and controlled way. For this purpose she had let one of the lowlier students bring a bunch of object for her to play with. Another Circle of Arcana was drawn on the floor, but this time it had been drawn counter-clockwise so she could safely sit inside while testing the various objects. The room was a practice one, which could be seen by the various marks where Acid had corroded the surface of the stone that were walls and floor. By her side, outside of the circle, stood a Spirit Minion to help her with the more menial side of things and to give her a means of acting outside the Circle of Arcana without having to leave it.

She started with studying various large shards of glass. Most were eventually put aside as they didn’t appear to be useable, but eventually she found a handful that would be able to hold a spell, which was all that was needed for testing purposes. Her Circle of Arcana was activated and a first shard was imbued with Convoke Shadows, a perfectly harmless low level spell ideal for such a testing. When she let the shard fall it shattered on the floor. The layer of unshaped Mana keeping the spell dormant was torn and it came into existence. Shadows were drawn towards her Spirit Minion and removed him from sight. At least from the regular sight as it still stood out to her Fae senses who could pick up things of Arcane nature without a problem.

There was satisfaction at the result, but she wanted to see there was more that could be done with it. Mores specifically, if it could put spells under the caster’s control. Quickly going back to Clara she started imbuing a new spell into a second shard. Wanting to do something different then just using Summon Undead she instead chose to make a variant version of Guided Acid Sphere. In place of using Abjuration to guide it to the nearest source of life she’d now use Divination. It would link the missile with the nearest mind and let it pick a direction in which the searing ball would be launched. She pondered for a moment to add Abjuration as well so she could try and make something that could be manoeuvred around at will, but dismissed the idea as the shard might not be able to hold an Journeyman level spell.

She let her minion drop the second shard and directed the ball of acid away from her towards the wall. As the glass shard shattered the spell manifested right there on the floor however and as it shot forward it scraped against the stone. Instead of splattering against the wall as suspected it simply turned into a trail of sizzling acid on the floor. It seemed move away from her as expected however, so not a complete failure. A quick retry, now with an upwardly aimed spell confirmed this.