Atomic Mage by Garrett Carter (short books for teens txt) 📕

scream that was a little too high pitched for his liking he saw it was red and blistered.

"Mother FUCKER!" he groaned through clenched teeth.

Looking at his seared hand and back to the rock it had just been on Cade saw the rock glowing cherry red.

Looking back to his hand he noticed it was still burnt and blistered.

"Why isn't it healing" he asked himself.

Cade focused through the pain in his hand the same way that he had the wall.

Slowly he felt not the humming that he had noticed in the rock but felt the seared skin of his palm then the blood vessels then bones, ligaments, and then the skin on the back of his hand.

"Well I left my burn cream back on earth, lets see if I can do anything about this with these powers of mine." He said to the burnt and blistered hand.

Cade set his left hand next to his burned right hand focusing on his whole left and remembered to mirror them in his mind.

"Would be just my luck to fix my hand and end up with two left hands in the process."

Using his left as an example he recalled his first aid burn knowledge and focused on regrowing the damaged tissues first.

Cades right hand began to slough off old dead skin revealing healthy unburnt skin underneath.

Pain-free and slightly fatigued from the healing Cade got back to the job of getting his shelter made before nightfall.

Placing his hand gingerly back on the now cooled rock with a nice hot bath in his mind he again focused on the humming from before.

"Let us think this through, if I just burned my hand and heat is caused atoms and molecules vibrating and releasing that kinetic energy to reach a more stable state then I must be feeling the rock atoms vibrating." He mused as he tried to sus out how the wall had burned him.

Cade blew out a breath in disbelief, not as wild as broken bones snapping back together or cuts and burns magically healing with nothing but will power.

Wondering where that energy had come from Cade looked around.

An ever so slight depression only noticeable from the terrain around it by its uniformity, he saw an almost perfect circle around where he was standing.

Understanding dawned on him, cringing at the memory of his painful arrival on this planet he remembered seeing the identical but deeper depression this one thankfully blood-free.

Cade had unconsciously converted the matter around him into energy to fuel his power, Magic? Whatever he was going to call it opened up a plethora of options for him even just for now.

Want to build a home in the side of a cliff, use the cliff to power it.

Want to make a campfire, vibrate the wood atoms until it lights itself.

Barking out a laugh, Cade refocused on his soon to be cave home, "so hot and deep and wet oh it's gonna be so good." He said with a grin.

Stepping forward Cade began again on his new home. "Gonna have to pry me out of it with a crowbar" Cade laughed as he got to work.

It's only a flesh wound

Cade awoke on his bed, well-rested after completing his home renovation in the early morning hours.

Last night had been a bitch, working into the wee hours of the morning had drained him less than the actual work it took to dig out his new digs.

Cade looked around at his handiwork in the light of the new day.

Cut out of the cliffside he had fashioned himself a two-bedroom one bath apartment.

The buzzing and humming of the rock around him had become no more than background noise, a friendly reminder that he was making a new home.

Thinking back to better times he had built it around the one Tony and he had moved into when they first got married.

Just a decent sized kitchen that opened to a smaller living room than they had attached to a short hallway that branched off to the two rooms.

All of this had been illuminated by more than a few wooden torches that vented through holes in the ceiling.

One thing he had always had trouble with his oversized six foot six frame was finding a bath that fit him.

Cade always felt like an adult in a kiddie pool at all the places he and Tony had rented while he was serving.

So he had taken a little more time with the master bath creating a monster tub that he could sit in with water up to his neck with his legs stretched out.

In his excitement for a much-needed bath, he had stopped his renovations as soon as his tub was built.

The walk to the river shore had been hurried and treacherous in the darkness, the debris that covered the sandy beach tearing into his feet and tripping him up more than a few times.

He found a new use for his powers as he tried to fill the bucket he had created with water only to have the river water flow into it clear and cool.

Startled once again at the utility of his abilities Cade had collected a floating globe of water as he rushed back to the bathroom as giddy as a virgin on prom night.

He was almost embarrassed to admit he was just as hard as said virgin as he slipped into his glorious tubs hot, wet paradise with a shaky sigh of relief.

Cade had also added a few creature comforts to his place besides his glorious deflowered tub.

His