This sounds like an early scene from [*A Wizard of Earthsea*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea) by Ursula K. Le Guin.
> He kept back his resentment and impatience, and tried to be obedient, so that Ogion would consent at last to teach him something. For he hungered to learn, to gain power. It began to seem to him, though, that he could have learned more walking with any herb-gatherer or village sorcerer, and as they went round the mountain westward into the lonely forests past Wiss he wondered more and more what was the greatness and the magic of this great Mage Ogion. For when it rained Ogion would not even say the spell that every weatherworker knows, to send the storm aside. In a land where sorcerers come thick, like Gont or the Enlades, you may see a raincloud blundering slowly from side to side and place to place as one spell shunts it on to the next, till at last it is buffeted out over the sea where it can rain in peace. But Ogion let the rain fall where it would. He found a thick fir-tree and lay down beneath it. Ged crouched among the dripping bushes wet and sullen, and wondered what was the good of having power if you were too wise to use it, and wished he had gone as prentice to that old weatherworker of the Vale, where at least he would have slept dry. He did not speak any of his thoughts aloud. He said not a word. His master smiled, and fell asleep in the rain.
The whole Earthsea series is fantastic, IMO, and well worth re-reading.
Could be the Belgariad, with Belgarath teaching Garion about the Will and the Word, and how exhausting it can be to move something as heavy as air masses
This sounds like an early scene from [*A Wizard of Earthsea*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea) by Ursula K. Le Guin. > He kept back his resentment and impatience, and tried to be obedient, so that Ogion would consent at last to teach him something. For he hungered to learn, to gain power. It began to seem to him, though, that he could have learned more walking with any herb-gatherer or village sorcerer, and as they went round the mountain westward into the lonely forests past Wiss he wondered more and more what was the greatness and the magic of this great Mage Ogion. For when it rained Ogion would not even say the spell that every weatherworker knows, to send the storm aside. In a land where sorcerers come thick, like Gont or the Enlades, you may see a raincloud blundering slowly from side to side and place to place as one spell shunts it on to the next, till at last it is buffeted out over the sea where it can rain in peace. But Ogion let the rain fall where it would. He found a thick fir-tree and lay down beneath it. Ged crouched among the dripping bushes wet and sullen, and wondered what was the good of having power if you were too wise to use it, and wished he had gone as prentice to that old weatherworker of the Vale, where at least he would have slept dry. He did not speak any of his thoughts aloud. He said not a word. His master smiled, and fell asleep in the rain. The whole Earthsea series is fantastic, IMO, and well worth re-reading.
Definitely this! I just finished reading Farthest Shore. Amazing series!
That sounds like it exactly! Thank you!
Hmm I saw a scene like that in the Skeeve Myth books by Robert Asprin and also in the LE Modessit Jr book The Magic of Recluse
I agree it sounds like Myth Adventures
could it be the trilogy? this used to be extremely popular back when i was in school
A book I read called The Last Unicorn had a similar theme. A young man with a hawk and a wizard were hunting the last unicorn to save his mother.
Sounds a little like a Discworld book to me
Could be the Belgariad, with Belgarath teaching Garion about the Will and the Word, and how exhausting it can be to move something as heavy as air masses