Ohey fiheir meal, Dawn and Niphru headed out to meet with the rest of their group, finding Viera and Thomas already practig, though the others were not prese. Joining those present, Dawn sat down in one of the chairs, with Niphru leaping into her p.

  As Dawn began her exercises, Niphru moved one of his fmes to the side and began his own, starting with fire. As expected, he had no trouble at all w with fire, rapidly going through all the examples they had been taught. However, he found himself struggling when he switched t air magic, as he could not see the result.

  Seeing this, Viera suggested, “Why don’t you try to have an orb of water surrounded by the air magibsp; Then you shape the inside instead of the outside ahe effe the water.”

  Hearing this, Niphru nodded, beginning to try just that, finding that it also helped keep the water bubble stable despite his ck of skill with that form of magic.

  As the magic stabilized, Viera smiled and remarked, “That was difficult for me as well until I figured out that tribsp; I’m gd it helped you as well.”

  “Thank you for the tip; that does help a lot. It should help just as much with force magic, as well, I think,” Niphru responded as he added two more shapes of fire cirg the water and air struct.

  Spotting his bit of py, Dawn did simir, creating a dozen shapes out of fire and spinning them around for a moment befoing back to practice other forms of magic.

  By the time the others had returned, both of them had switched to practig their force magibsp; Niphru tried to create a ptform he could rest a leg on, while Dawn was using it to ge the shape of an orb of water, as Viera had suggested.

  Half an hour ter, Niphru found himself quite bored, and jumped off Dawn’s p, walking a short distance away. Through their bond, he warned her to catch, a a slow-moving fireball in her dire.

  Slightly startled, but reag quickly, Dawn took trol of the orb of fire and spun it around her hand before sending it back to Niphru at a higher speed.

  Much more startled, however, were those around them. It did, after all, look like an attabsp; Seeing the ease with which Dawn redirected it made it seem more like another form of practice, though a bit more intehan they were used to.

  After a few moments of watg, Miana asked, “Could I try as well, with something slow?”

  In response, Niphru gently tossed a ball of fme so it would pass beside her at a slow pace before resuming tossing others to Dawn much more rapidly.

  With a bit of a strained expression, Miana focused on the fire, seemingly without effetil after it had almost passed her. With an excmation of excitement, she pulled it towards her hand, marveling at actually taking over someone else’s spell, even if it was iionally allowed.

  As she tossed it baear Niphru, he moved his foxfire to pass just above it, then pulled the fme into an upward arc that would pass over Miana’s head.

  Feeling more fident, she mao take trol before it reached her and looped it around behind herself before redireg it back to Niphru. In response, he sent Dawn’s fireball towards her, aoward Dawn, catg both of them a bit by surprise, though everyone recovered quickly.

  After several more rounds of boung the fireballs bad forth, g from the stairs caused them to stop and look up, spotting Morris walking towards them. While Miana lost trol, Niphru took over and dissipated the fme near her, as Dawn snuffed out the one near herself.

  As they paid more attention, they realized that Thomas and Richard had both stopped practig and had been watg them instead.

  Seeing that they had safely disposed of the fire, Morris stated, “That is a very unique way to practice, and very few ever attempt it. Without a good degree of experie is extremely difficult to hijaother person’s spell, even if they do not io keep trol of it. I do reend practig with things you are not skilled at, however.”

  Niphru quickly responded, “We were. It is just that it got b, so I started pying around to rex and Dawn joined in. Miana was ied, so we let her join, too.”

  “Ah, that is uandable; that way, you still get some practice while also getting some rest at the same time. At any rate, I just wao see how everyone was doing, and if you had any worries about the future pns,” Morris remarked, looking at everyo Dawn and Niphru.

  Viera spoke up, “I must admit, I have worries. Light isly powerful or dangerous, so won’t I just be a burden? At least here when we the sewers I help with light and scouting.”

  Before Morris could respond, Dawn replied, “My mother uses light magic too, and she is plenty useful in the wilderness! If you ’t do the burning beam of light, you put lights in front of the eyes of our eo blind them, light up the area so no orips ets ambushed, make setting up camp signifitly easier, and even help avoid getting lost by leaving a trail of tiny lights.”

  Chug, Morris nodded and stated, “Dawn is corre that matter, though you also use your less specialized magic, as well. Dirt or fire ihroat or eyes be crippling. The Church of flict has shown that water magi be used to rip blood from a wound, causireme blood loss in seds. With air magic, you pull air away from the face, causing something to suffocate. You will be fine; everyone is able to help, even those on the floors below, if they were trained for a day or two.”

  “Thank you… Those both make me feel much better about the uping trip. I’ll see how things go when we have our bat lesson,” replied Viera, smiling as her worries were eased.

  Morris then turo Dawn and Niphru before asking, “Would the two of you be willing to help with teag how to use fire magi bat? You both have experience doing so, and that would allow the rest of us to focus on other elements.”

  Surprised by the question and the implied trust, they both looked at each other in surprise before nodding and agreeing.

  Upoing their agreement, Morris smiled, thahem, and begaurning upstairs. Meanwhile Richard and Miana asked how they had bat experience, leading to a retelling of their experiences before reag Arrival.

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