A scream for help.

For a few days he didn't encounter the little girl again. It was to be expected that she would lose interest in him once she got her answer. And she had also found the fact that the mysterious old man was nothing more than a simple soldier boring.

One day he was sitting outside his house carving a piece of wood when suddenly he could distinguish someone in the distance running on the beach. As the runner got closer to the town it became clear that it was a little girl and that she was crying. Then, moved by an old instinct that had not yet completely disappeared, he got up from his seat and ran to meet her.

-My brother! Help!

Esther yelled when she saw him approaching her.

-Where?!

-There!

The girl pointed to a section of the beach far ahead.

-Run to town to ask for help!

He ordered without stopping. Despite his fifty-one years, he was still in a good physical condition, so it didn't took him long before he reached the point that Esther had pointed out. He looked out to the sea and saw two children fighting the violent waves and trying to get back to shore. He quickly plunged into the water and started swimming towards them. However, the sea was rougher than usual and he soon realized that it would be impossible for him to catch up with them in time. So he stopped for a second. He had come to that town with the intention of disappearing, of being forgotten, of never using magic again. But he couldn't let two children drown in the sea.

He rested his feet on the seabed, he was still in shallow waters. Then with his right hand he drew three circles and three threads of white light appeared where his fingers had cut the air. Then he placed his palm in the center of one and pushed it in such a way that it fell onto the water forming a kind of platform while the other two remained suspended. With a leap he stepped on it and took a step, before his foot made contact with the water one of the other two discs interposed creating a second platform. The same thing happened when he took the next step and the next one after that. So he ran forward in that way followed by the third disc.