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Nyra studied the students she had been assigned as they stood stone still kneeling in a circle each one reciting one of the memory chants they had all been taught from childhood, it steadied the nerves and allowed them to ignore physical discomfort and fatigue as they endured the almost brutal training required to teach young, headstrong children to contain the power in their blood, and resist their impulses that left uncontrolled would cause no end of misery to themselves and anyone around them. Each student was focusing on the stone at the center of the circle, it was the very heart of the tower, planted in the solid bedrock the tower was