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After four hours, the black sand left in the sun turns white. The white sand left in the darkness turns black after twenty-four hours. There is no discernable change in the control groups. Do the results differ if I use oil instead of water?
=== Sand Mastery
What few boooks on sand mastery I've found in Kezare categorize it as a mystical art, its secrets closely guarded, but from my experience, even elements of the unseen can be studied and observed like other natural phenomena.
Take the color of the glow of sand mastery. Manuscripts and carvings show sand ribbons glowing yellow or orange, attempts by artists to show something undepictable with paint alone. Indeed, observed in pure daylight, sand mastery does appear a yellowish white, but a closer examination shows that it shimmers like mother of pearl, iridescent colors shifting and sliding across the mastered sand. This effect is much more prominent in darkness, something of a rarity here on Dayside. Since sand mastery rarely happens in darkness, not many have recorded observing this effect.
I can almost make out every color of starmark shifting in there. Could it be possible that the light given off by sand mastery is a composite of all colors of starmarks? If I can get hold of a prism, I might be able to verify this observation and study it further. This connection gives me hope that while the sun may charge white sand on Dayside, ther might be another way to charge it back in Elis.
=== Further Sand-Sun Experiments ===
I've built upon my earlier observations of the sun's effect on white sand and found something that might be related to the unseen forces I've mentioned in earlier entries.
{{image|Sand_Experiment_Partial_Cover.jpg|side=left|width=225px|How do partial coverings affect recharging sand?}}
I've placed black sand in the sun, covering half of it. After four hours, the overed portion remains black while the portion open to the sun turns white again.
If I create a pattern with stones and remove them four hours later, the pattern remains.
{{image|Sand_Experiment_Pinhole.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Image created by pinhole light recharging sand.}}
I've read about a Dayside phenomenon that prisoners sometimes experience in dark dungeons when only pinprocks of direct sunlight can get through, so I placed a box over an area of black sand and created a tiny hole in the top to let in a small amount of light. After four hours, I removed the box and found this:
A perfect representation (mirrored) of the top of my building looking up from the pinhole with a face in the sky, This won't defeat Skathan, but it must be studied more. And what is that face? Humans seem to see things in clouds, but this is a bit unsettling.
What I need is more access to sand masters willing to demonstrate their abilities. This will help me know specifically how sand mastery can be used as a weapon against Skathan and will also help me understand exactly how sand mastery works. There must be connections between anomalies I've found with the planet, starmarks, and sand mastery. Just like an ecosystem is connected, intertwined, and symbiotic, could the underlying power that keeps our planet in orbit also be the underlying power that fuels - dare I call it this? - magical elements that seem outside the order of nature?
=== Sand Mastery Test ===
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