CH176 Thera’s Perspective

“Hey Thera!” Yelled the overly enthusiastic green girl as she ran up to her in the training grounds, drawing the few other eyes around as she did and leaving Thera to groan internally.

Despite her better judgement, she was going to be spending the day practicing her magic with Sachel, with that plan being one of the reasons she and Ben hadn’t gone on a two-day excursion into the woods for their weekend quest. It seemed the half-dryad was committed to her goal of making a better relationship with her, and in that vein had rushed to arrange a time they could work on their skills together when they had a chance.

Not that that had been easier either. Unlike Ben, Sachel didn’t bother keeping the fact that she was now the oracle of a god to herself, something that earned her more than a little curiosity from the townspeople when the majority had never encountered one before and left her exceptionally busy spreading the word of Myriad when she’d gotten back.

Now that things had died down a bit though she’d managed to make the time to all but beg Thera for the chance to try and get to know one another better. “Were you waiting long? I could have met you at your house.”

“I wanted to start early so it’s fine. Now that you’re here, what do you actually want to do?”

“We’re going to practice, right? How about catch?” She asked as she pulled a small ball of dirt from the ground with her magic and gently lobbed it at Thera, whose response was to step out of the way.

“Even if my control has gotten better I still can’t manage something of that size, unless you’re up to try playing catch with something like this?” Thera responded, ripping a mound of dirt the size of a beachball into the air, and was about to gently toss it to the side of the girl when she thought better of it, letting it fall to the ground.

“Um, that might be a bit much for me.”

“Unfortunately that’s as small as I can go. I told you when you asked, didn’t I? You lean to control and I tip pretty heavily towards power, any practice together wouldn’t really benefit either of us compared to just working alone.”

“Um, what about life magic! We both have that, Why don’t we practice together!”

“How exactly are you planning to do that? I mean, I guess I could break Skoe’s knee again and we could rush to see which of us could repair it faster, but I’m going to assume you remember how I was fighting for your village? I wouldn’t recommend it unless you want to find a new warrior for your party.”

“Um, well, what about…” Sachel desperately thought but got nowhere and Thera could see the girl struggle, unable to think of anything to do, so she decided to throw her a lifeline despite her desire to just practice by herself.

“How about something like this, we see if you can hit me with one of your dirt balls and I’ll try to stop you with my own. There’s not many monsters in the area that do any ranged attacks so it could be some good practice.”

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