[Training] Acceptable Targets (Open)

As Peter slowly turned until they were face to face, Loren immediately sent a pulse of healing magic through both of them to chase away any aches or injuries. While he didn’t think either of them had taken too much damage in the bout, he wasn’t willing to take that chance. It was weird to think that he was the stronger of the pair—especially given how much he’d held back—but he remembered a little bit about what it felt like to be weak in his family, and he cast his mind back to what he would’ve liked to hear then. So first, he grinned broadly at the other man. ”Excellent job.” It really had been: against an opponent with unknown abilities and skills, Peter had held up remarkably well. ”You used every tool at your disposal and the environment to your advantage. Blinding me with water was a particular inspired choice.” All that was definitely true. It wasn’t the other man’s fault that the summoner was much stronger and had more training. But both of those could be fixed with time; Peter already had the right instincts, which would’ve been much hard to instill. LOREN Brought back by satisfaction more times than the cat