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    <WOODWIND INSTRUMENT LEVEL INCREASED>

     

    The notification went off in her head as she played the small flute Ben had made her while listening to her various students follow along. At a couple weeks after arriving, she’d long taught them all what she viewed as being most relevant for them to learn, meaning that aside from the few projects Ben got her to help with, she didn’t have much else that needed doing.

    Originally, that had left her plenty of free time that she put towards both training her magic and offering pointers to anyone who had access to the same branches as her, leading to her casually talking with them all and coming to fully accept something that she had struggled with in the beginning. The fact that everyone there was really just people. Knowing their relationship with the demons as a whole had left her feeling conflicted, but that had passed as she taught them various lessons, with her discomfort slowly being replaced with the knowledge that they had been wronged.

    It wasn’t just that they had been created to be no more than an easy and disposable source of faith for their old gods, it was also due to the lives they’d had to live because of them. She was well aware that some gods in the world had rules that they personally advised their followers to try and stick to, but what the forbidden gods had enforced just to keep from being discovered was too much. They hadn’t been allowed to create anything that could be left being and found, hadn’t been allowed to explore the woods that made their home beyond what they needed to for foraging and hunting, and most horrifying to her, hadn’t been allowed to make music for fear of the sound carrying and drawing in curious ears.

    Knowing that she’d set out to rectify it, having Ben make woodwind, string, and percussion instruments for them to play with as she demonstrated what she could and led them in lessons. At this point it was mostly just the children, though a few adults stepped in now and then to learn and it wasn’t unusual to hear the sounds of people practicing late into the night.

    With her level up though came the end of practice for the day as she smiled at them, trying to do better at handling the children than she usually managed.

    “That was great work everyone, I’m sure you’ll all be making your own songs before you know it. For now go have some fun before dinnertime, okay?”

    Getting a round of yeses and wide smiles, they ran off to do whatever caught their attention as she let herself relax. Any day now, Sachel and the others would be arriving, and as much as she wanted to go home after so much time away, there was one other thing she’d need to do first, as much as she wished she could avoid it.

    Unfortunately, Ben just had to keep getting into situations like this. She thought as she shook her head. As if managing to get partially possessed and stabbing himself wasn’t bad enough, he’d also leveled up that skill twice. It hadn’t resulted in any visible changes the way his eye colour had, but the name alone told her there were things going on she couldn’t see. Integrated demonic body, it was clear enough something was happening to him at a deeper level, and she wanted some idea of what the endpoint would be.

    I’ll just need to deal with it. She told herself as she walked through the village to find him.

    In the time they’d spent there, it had grown considerably. No longer just the houses she’d made the walls for, all of them were now equipped with doors, windows, and roofs, with the construction team having set up a well nearby. Beyond that though was the large wall she’d had to put up around the village as a whole. It wasn’t a huge defense, any of the adults would be able to see over it without a problem, but they were in the middle of the untamed lands. Monsters and beasts of all sorts lived there and even that minor bit of extra protection would help them in the long run, at least for as long as they stayed out there.

    It was as she got to the other end of the village that she found Ben, where he was supposedly working on his last big project for them but instead being distracted by all of the children she’d sent off to play earlier, carrying them on his shoulders and running across a bed of stone in an empty pit in the ground that had previously been an empty field, with all of the dirt in it moved to the side to be put back later.

    She watched him silently for a moment, finding the scene charming, even as her old worries came to mind. What if whatever changes were happening could hurt him? What if someone else saw his skills and he was attacked for them? What if-


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    Stop thinking about it.

    She had already decided that she wouldn’t worry about the future, she just wanted to enjoy the time she had with him now, but that didn’t just make her concerns vanish, and Ben certainly didn’t make such a task easy on her. It seemed like every few weeks he just had to do something that would be a problem down the line, not to mention the constant issue that was his lifespan.

    It was obvious loving him was going to set her up to be hurt in the end, but as he turned and saw her, his face breaking into the happiest of smiles, she couldn’t help but smile back. She didn’t know if she’d really made the right choice, but this was the one she wanted.

    He put the kids down and climbed out of the pit, picking her up and spinning her around in his arms after rushing to her, joy pouring from him as he did.

    “Good news I take it?” She asked as she looked down at him, still in his grasp.

    “Completed my quest and my job with it! You’re now looking at a master enchanter! Oh man, I can’t wait to start putting this to use too! So much to learn, so much to do!”

    “Ahem, are we maybe interrupting something?” A familiar voice asked from the side, making it clear that the people they’d been waiting for had finally arrived.

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