Raizen stared at him.
Not the polite kind of staring - not the attentive, I'm-listening kind. The blank kind. The kind where your brain needs a moment to verify that the words it just received actually came out of another human being's mouth.
"A what now?"
"A new type of Eon." Eiden said it the same way both times. Steady. Certain. Like the sentence was a door he'd already walked through and was now holding open for Raizen to follow.
But Raizen didn't follow. He reached up and pinched the bridge of his nose. Pressed hard.
"Eiden" he said slowly. "You do realize that I'm still in the first Academy year, right?"
Eiden tilted his head. "And?"
"We've got practically only the basics of Eon set down. Resonance theory. Channeling fundamentals. I can barely hold a stable output for more than a few seconds without losing control, and you're standing here telling me about a "new type of Eon" like I'm supposed to have an actually competent opinion about it."
