What It Does
The air in a room, held — the sound stops, the dust hangs, the breath of the one in the room is the only sound there is. It is the air school's answer to the dark school's hide: the room is the one who is still, and the still is the one who is watched.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Air · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price, and the meter pays the budget while the exchange pays the spell.
The Failure
The room holds the still a beat too long, and the air keeps the tension — the room is the one who is still, and the one in the room is the one who is still, and the still is the one who is hit.
In Stories
The journeyman's air spell; the one the camp casts when the sound is the argument and the room is the one who has to hold.
The door's scale anchor is Galeforce — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.