Liam and his friend Maya designated the old, sun-dappled treehouse behind his garden as their secret lab. The air there was often thick with the sweet scent of nearby lilac, providing the perfect purple atmosphere for their experiments. This was where Liam would try to understand the strange, swirling light that had bonded with him.
He held his hands out, palms up, toward the fading twilight. Focusing intensely—not on a specific command, but on the feeling of the purple energy—he watched as the soft aura around him intensified. It spun into two tight, luminescent rings of neon violet around his wrists. Maya, ever the enthusiastic observer, gasped. "Try making it lift something small!"
Liam decided on a challenge: a fallen, dry maple leaf lying on the wooden floor. He pictured the light as a gentle, invisible hand. The rings pulsed brightly, and the leaf quivered. Slowly, agonizingly, the small piece of nature rose about six inches into the air, completely enveloped in a soft, shimmering sheen. It was exhausting, like trying to hold a very heavy thought, and he quickly let the leaf drop, breathing heavily. "It’s weird," he observed, rubbing his temples. "It listens to my concentration, but mostly my calmness."
Maya then challenged him on its connection to color. She produced a smooth, gray river stone and a deep purple velvet ribbon. When Liam focused his aura on the stone, the light flickered and failed to react strongly. But when he directed the energy toward the ribbon, the purple power embraced it instantly, making the velvet shimmer with an unnatural, electric vitality. The magic seemed inherently drawn to its own spectrum.
As they cleaned up, Liam’s foot slipped on a loose board, and he tumbled toward the edge of the platform. Before he could fall, a flash of solid, deep indigo light u felt like stepping onto a cushion of air, warm and protective. This energy wasn't just beautiful; it was reactive and powerful. Liam and Maya exchanged a wide-eyed glance—his purple path was turning out to be much more complicated, and exciting, than they first thought.