The rest day was mandatory.
Amaron woke on day one hundred and fifty-two — week three, day eighteen of the Kell program — to find the training chamber locked and a note posted on his door: "Rest day. No training. No mana circulation beyond passive absorption. No technique practice. Your body is adapting to three weeks of continuous stress. Let it. Resume tomorrow."
The note was signed by Mordain and had the quality of an order rather than a suggestion.
Amaron read it, accepted that he had no choice in the matter, and tried to determine what 'rest' actually meant when every part of him wanted to keep working.
