[Training] Water we doing today

Weak and unstable though his new magic was, it was unlikely to be a weapon in any meaningful way. It might, however, make for a worthwhile defense. Given how he had fared against Melita’s projectiles in the past it was certainly worth considering and once that thought had begun turning over in his head there was really only one thing to be done about it.

Field testing.

The letter had gone out – dictated to the scribe he had found to help with such things for a moderate price – to find the honeybee girl and invite her to target practice; nothing lethal, but a new twist on their usual antics of assault and improvement. The usual place, and a time convenient to them both.

Pastries would be provided.

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And at the appointed day and time the mermanta swam through the tunnel that connected the Pool to the ocean and surfaced, pushing his hair back and out of his way as he swam slowly towards the shore to set the waterproof bag containing their reward on a sun-warmed rock for after they had finished.

Melita

Like some child possessed, the beast howls in my veins

The Honeybee had just been wandering out the door of her cliffside home when the note came. Only for her to huff a breath, go back inside, retrieve her blunted arrows (rather than the bloodthirsty lightning, fire, or ice ones), before frolicking her way down to the Miana Pool. Fangorn and Sila came along, the latter testing out her wings against the still sharpened wind patterns, and the former content to bobble behind.

She repressed a residual shudder, following myriad of footpaths and other trails down towards the familiar coastline. To no surprise, the mermanta was already there, and she gave a hearty wave before companions dispersed to their own devices. “Hi Dama!” Pulling out her bow, and the assemblage of arrows, she already began notching one, eyes flickering back over the scene. “What did you want to work on?”

Melita