That was not all, as a hand seal would require either the little finger or the thumb to be withdrawn first or last, depending on what they needed, along with a strict angle and distance between every finger. The slightest mistake in the sequence would leave the hand seal completely ineffective.

At the same time, the radiant specks were starting over from the first hand seal after finishing the full sequence.

Charlie kept watching, focused in case he missed any details.

Hence, after standing in the snow for more than an hour, when Charlie was finally confident that he had gotten the hand seals down to every last detail in his mind, the radiant specks began to fade from the skies.

Still, it took another twenty minutes for the aurora to reform, once again a gorgeous glowing curtain of curtain floating up in the skies.

Through it all, Vera had been trying to identify the hand seals described by Charlie, but she was like an innocent child who couldn't grasp the faintest idea of what th