Spell Weaver [Book 2 Complete]

Alex got to his feet, making incomprehensible noises as he fought down the desire to attack the odd beast that had appeared.

While he knew to that something was going to appear, he wasn’t quite prepared for it to be only a few inches from his face, flying, or this… ugly.

He looked over the back of his couch to see the floating, eel-like creature in the same position it had been in before his totally manly and dignified reaction.

Jesus, what are you?

Alex’s fascination grew as he looked at the blue floating beast. Its head looked almost like a piranha, with big bug-like eyes and teeth that protruded slightly from his lower jaw. Except, instead of a fish’s body, it had one more like an eel. The companion floated in the air, its long body lazily moved as if pulled by an unseen current. On the top and bottom of its body were some very thin-looking membranes, like long transparent fins.

Oh, right, I can check its Status.

Alex remembered that the companion posts mentioned the first thing you normally wanted to do was to give it a name, then he would be able to access the Beasts Status Window, similar to his own.

Well, shit. I have no idea what to name you…

“There’s really only one thing to do here. I’ll pick your name, the same way I pick everyone’s name in games that I’ve played.”

Cautiously, Alex moved back around the couch to grab his phone.

Doing his best to keep one eye on the floating monster, Alex opened his phone and went to his browser to open a fantasy random-name generator.

Sylphor, Aegirion, Vireon, Kytheris— Blah. All these sound so pretentious. We want something cool sounding, but we need something that can at least be shortened.

Alex continued to scroll through names.

I refuse to name you something like Chompers or Jerry.

“Ah, here we go. Still sounds a bit pretentious, but at least it sounds pretty noble. Also, it’s easy to shorten it.”

Alex smiled and looked up to the small companion, which was still floating passively where it had appeared, watching him intently.

“I’ll name you Valtherion.”

As soon as he finished the sentence, a golden light enveloped the floating eel monster, and Alex heard a sound in his mind, something akin to a dolphin’s call underwater.

He reeled a bit as he realized that it had made the noise directly into his mind, rather than out loud. Before he had fully recovered, the two-foot-long animal had floated over and was gently running its forehead into Alex’s chest.

Alex froze, unsure of how to respond and not wanting to anger the little beast.

A few tense moments passed before it swam through the air and did two laps around Alex’s head.

Uhm. Okay. That was kinda cute.

“Uh- Status Window,” Alex said, somewhat uncertain. As he would normally use the same command on himself, this time, he attempted to direct his thoughts toward the little creature above him.

Without issue, the window appeared.