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She gracefully waves away his apology, just as she'd done with his letter. "It allowed for another student to find her place, and you are always welcome to train whenever you desire even if you don't hold the official student title. But I would be happy to bring you in to help with more complex sparring." Utilize his powers in tandem with her own to put her students in more difficult scenarios to help their magic grow. Startled by a carcass dropping out of the sky, Hotaru catches it by the edges of her fingertips and a bit of magic to buoy it above the ground. Looking up at Eira, she smiles, heart fond. "Thank you, Eira," she calls heavenward, a pleased pink touching the skin of her ears as Noah confirms her favoritism. "I have always liked her too. She has grown so much from when you first found her." An understanding hum precedes the softening of her expression, sympathetic to his plight. "Not to mention many fled the second the barrier fell after years of containment." Nothing had a greater desire for freedom than caged things. "If you would hear a suggestion, perhaps restoring the quality of the land itself would help. Crops and cattle still struggle to grow there after years of the soil suffering in the barrier, and the Ascended had no need for food to focus on fixing it. People will not stay where they will starve." Then again, that would require a quest from a god, and the Grounds would need a leader for that. "Do you have any thoughts on prospective leaders there?" She awaits his insight, already constructing plans to help in any way she could. the valkyrie