Yves swiftly dismissed the idea of seeking help from or within the academy. It was far too risky. He was not delusional enough to approach his former mentors under false pretences or believe he could sneak unnoticed into the hidden underground chambers. Not a chance, not with all the Socks of Invisibility that this world had to offer.
The second wizard Yves considered was a senior artefact hunter named Urumir Vahl. Since Yves’ own tomes did not address his concerns about his transformation and the new abilities that came with it, he wanted to learn from an expert Worldbender’s experience. Besides individual academy masters, Yves had never encountered anyone who compared to Vahl. Vahl was a versatile transformer who could shift into astonishing creatures and even objects.
After taking on a new, more ethereal form in the mirror world, Yves felt compelled to explore this disposition to understand and control his changing body. It was an absurd idea. Shapeshifting did not fall under the Lightshifter spectrum. It should be impossible for a wizard belonging to one spectrum to develop abilities inherent to the other two spectra. But then again, the physical nature of the Mirror Dimension differed from the known world, and Yves could only describe his experience as a transformation.
When the energies of the Mirror World, the Vicha and the Stalker had quite literally overwhelmed him, Yves had been forced to act swiftly under intense strain and stress. It had not been until after his return that he had started to reflect on what had occurred. The more he thought about it, the more unnerved he became. Like a Worldbender transformer, he had altered his physical form. He had manipulated his appearance and even heightened his senses.
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