Teruvisa: Two Kingdoms

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  One evening a few weeks later, while Jared was lying on his bed going over some of that day’s lessons, he stopped to consider something Ferran mentioned about nature. A saying Ferran occasionally used kept coming to the foreground of Jared’s thoughts: technology is nature, and nature is technology.

  From their lessons about Diestro, the technology of the Light, Jared was beginning to see how everything was connected to Teruvisa.

  Wouldn’t that also include Obalin and Earth? He was surprised he hadn’t thought of that earlier.

  He was about to turn his head and ask Paul what he thought but remembered Paul wasn’t in the bedroom. Oh yeah. He glanced over at Paul’s empty bed.

  Paul and Ferran were downstairs in the living room talking again, which meant Paul wouldn’t be going to bed for while. Jared noticed the feeling of jealousy that accompanied that thought, but he knew he couldn’t blame Paul for wanting to spend time in the evenings alone with Ferran. They had a lot of catching up to do.

  Jared supposed that he would want to spend as much time as he could with his dad too if he was in Paul’s situation. And, the evenings were really the only time Ferran and Paul ever had time to talk about anything personal. After all, during the past few weeks, when they weren’t eating or sleeping, Jared, Paul, and Danielle spent their days in the underground library for Ferran’s training.

  Jared sighed and then turned onto his side. He wasn’t tired, though. His head was swimming with what Ferran had taught them earlier that day, just like it did every night since the lessons started—nearly a month ago.

  With the ton of information he was being bombarded with daily during Ferran’s training sessions, it took Jared a long time to allow his mind to wind down enough for him to fall asleep.

  In addition to the amount he was learning, Jared began to think about how advanced many of the topics were—especially for a seventh grader. However, for some reason, he seemed to understand everything easily.

  It’s not like Jared ever had a hard time in school, but it seemed strange that he could learn something so advanced as Diestro with so little effort. Sure, Ferran was a great teacher, but maybe it was because, although, Diestro could be extremely advanced, it seemed so logical... so natural... so right.