((With apologies for my absence...))
Freina needed the training. That's why she was here. She just... hadn't been expecting what the general threw at her. She'd trained with him before and expected something more like that, simple tasks, not... not a flood!
She froze for too long a moment, because the water was so far from what she'd thought was going to happen. (She also didn't expect her fellow Abandoned to make a towel. Nothing here was going as she expected.)
But when she realized that the water would knock the young man - and herself - down, her instincts kicked in. The same instinct that had seen her use air to try to save her own life caused her to run in front of Oliver and cast, trying to push the water with her air so it would go around them, buffeted back by the wind.
Freina needed the training. That's why she was here. She just... hadn't been expecting what the general threw at her. She'd trained with him before and expected something more like that, simple tasks, not... not a flood!
She froze for too long a moment, because the water was so far from what she'd thought was going to happen. (She also didn't expect her fellow Abandoned to make a towel. Nothing here was going as she expected.)
But when she realized that the water would knock the young man - and herself - down, her instincts kicked in. The same instinct that had seen her use air to try to save her own life caused her to run in front of Oliver and cast, trying to push the water with her air so it would go around them, buffeted back by the wind.
