Chapter 259: Package delivery?
"Music sheets!" Irwin shouted as he sat upright in bed, eyes wide.
"Wu- what??" Ambraz grunted from his perch, yawning. "What are you shouting for!?"
Irwin slung his legs out of bed, sprinting into the main room. Grabbing his booklet, he flipped to the page with the cards he'd decided he wanted for his final three slots. The first two, the teleportation and a mental cloning card, were underlined, but without hesitation, he scratched the two options he'd narrowed it down, either to increase his soulforce or his soulforce sensitivity.
"A card that works like Vera's diagrams but shows the music notes of the card as we reforge it," he said as he jotted it down. Then he looked up at Ambraz.
"Oh… that's not a bad idea!" Ambraz said, landing on the table.
"Perhaps it's easier to get, and it would help us find out why I keep failing with these two," Irwin said, jabbing his finger at the two elusive cards. "Someone must have tried this, right?"
"I've never heard of one, but that doesn't mean it's not possible… I'm sure I can find something about it! Go and practice. I'll ask around!"
Irwin grinned as Ambraz rushed out through the small tube that allowed the Ganvil easy access to his room.
"That way, I can play the sheets and see how my play is wrong," he thought.
A quick look outside told him it would be hours till he needed to reach class, and deciding he could just spend his time wisely, he pulled out his soulstrum guitar.
Ambraz didn't return when he started hearing people walk and chat in the hallway.
Irwin finished a simple set of chords that Rosetta had told him. It was roughly the equivalent of putting his finger on the piano on the far left and just moving it along to the other side. Simple, but he still couldn't do it as quickly and smoothly as he wanted, especially when he started changing the power in the soulstrings. Still, he was rapidly increasing his ability to find the chords he needed without looking, and he couldn't wait till he got even more time.