“What are you going to do, sir?” he asked, hoping that his voice didn’t betray his nervousness.
“I am going to transmit the memory of snow,” the old man said, and placed his hands on Jonas’s bare back.
Eleven
JONAS FELT NOTHING unusual at first. He felt only the light touch of the old man’s hands on his back.
He tried to relax, to breathe evenly. The room was absolutely silent,
and for a moment Jonas feared that he might disgrace himself now, on the first day of his training, by falling asleep.
Then he shivered. He realized that the touch of the hands felt, suddenly, cold.
At the same instant, breathing in, he felt the air change, and his very breath was cold.
He licked his lips, and in doing so, his tongue touched the suddenly chilled air.
It was very startling; but he was not at all frightened, now.
He was filled with energy, and he breathed again, feeling the sharp intake of frigid air.
Now, too, he could feel cold air swirling around his entire body.
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