When Ashlynn planted Ollie's seed of witchcraft in his chest, she used five items as part of the ritual in order to bind the power of the elements to the newborn witch. The items were mostly symbolic, meant to invoke the essence of an element in a way that would help Ollie access its power. For fire, Ashlynn had used a candle made from cooking tallow collected in Georg's kitchens. For water, she'd used water taken from the Briar, where many cypress trees grew.
But for Air, Nyrielle had contributed one of the slender, dark feathers of her own wings. Unlike the other items used in the ritual, the feather carried a trace of Nyrielle's power with it, granting Ollie the unprecedented ability to summon winds that blew from the Void itself.
The moment Ollie finished speaking the name of his technique, a wind began to rise in the underground dining room, a wind that shouldn't exist in the stillness of the formal dining room, and behaved in ways that no ordinary wind would.
