[Spritely Zombie]

Gokan watches as a fire mage boils a bucket of water into steam and several other mages attempt inneffectually to fill similar buckets. He frowns for a moment another similar bucket that had been placed before him, half-full.

As he glowers at the water within the bucket, it slowly begins to swirl, like a whirlpool. Meticulously Gokan eliminates all extraneous thought and focuses upon the water. In his mind he meticulously builds up an image of what he wishes the water to do. The swirling continues to grow in intensity, until eventually the bucket topples over, spilling it's contents over the floor.

Several other mages in attendance, and at least one of the examiners start laughing. Gokan smirks shuts his eyes, drops his head and sharply intones a single syllable. At first, nothing happens, then the surface of the water bulges in several places before seperating into a dozen small puddles.

Each of the puddle bulges out from the floor about three inches. A drop of sweat flows down Gokan's forehead.

This shouldn't be this hard...

Each puddle slowly molds into a perfectly sculpted inch tall depiction of one of the mages in the room. The shapes distort, becoming charicatures of the failing mages, tripping over their own feet, filling buckets with the water that composes their own heads.

The sculptures suddenly rush together, coalescing into a large shapeless mass from which features emerge. Finally the collected mages are staring at two Gokans, although one is significantly shorter than the other and composed of water. The duplicate steps into the bucket and Gokan intones another syllable, banishing the animating spark of the minor water elemental and the water sloshes back down into the bucket.

Gokan finds himself breathing heavily and somewhat over-warm.