"Ah," Kvothe said, frowning a little. "But that seems like a lot of work for no good reason. I mean, it's not very useful in a fight, is it? If you've got to move around a lot? It doesn't move with you, does it? Or I mean, you could use it for trapping things. But you're not going to kill anything with it, or stop any enemies."
Still, he grabbed a stick, and drew a circle in the earth, and then another. Centering himself, he split his alar and brought up both circles simultaneously.
"Like that, you mean?"
He grinned as Harry pointed out his skill, but kept the accent up, because he liked the sound of it. "I suppose I do. Elodin, I mean. He sponsored my promotion to Re'lar. But he doesn't like me much, and I don't understand most of his lessons."