The Calm

Alexei’s power came with many drawbacks.

One of them was speed.

Sodium Hydride was a more complex item to create than water, and due to that, his power took a lot longer to create it.

While he had been able to create a pretty sizable ball of floating water in just a few seconds, creating enough of the sodium hydride powder to fill up even half of a container took a considerable amount of time.

Then there was the fact he actually seemed to lose some of the ingredients that went into making the substance.

He hadn’t noticed it when he was making water because he was essentially pulling hydrogen from free-floating water vapour in the air. It was an unlimited source.

Whatever he was pulling from in the stew wasn’t unlimited, and by the time he had finished filling two of the containers to their halfway points the steady trickle of white powder being formed had come to a stop.

“Okay,” Alexei said, “Whatever I’m pulling from the stew, I’ve pulled all that I can. That means we’ve got tw