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"Hey I didn't start it, your daughter did. I just mentioned you were coming to her lesson."

getting up and pulling out a chair for his wife and letting her settle down and get something to eat before finishing off his own food and patiently waiting for everyone else to as well.

"You know you didn't answer me before, Kaelin...you feeling better? or still a bit flustered and under the weather?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I must not have been paying attention. I feel fine, but Lady Inthara likes to make doubly sure. She'll catch up with me eventually; I just want to get as much done before she does as possible."

Setting the final batch of pancakes on the table, Zahara took her own seat and began to eat as well. "Wonderful. We'll start the arrangements and go from there. Tihirii, do you know what you'd like to wear? I was formal at my wedding, but a woman's choice in wedding clothing is completely her own." Blinking. "Faate, why aren't you eating?"

"I'm afraid if I move blood will come out of my nose. And I'd rather not have that happen at the table. I'm just not very hungry." Rolling her eyes at her little brother. "You hadn't been down here yet."

"She has some really pretty shanking robes she wore to one of the Guild meetings a while back. I personally liked those a lot." He knew why his father was being so quiet and also knew that he was probably going to have to talk to him later. "Carbon copies. You should see my older brother. He looks so much like my dad it's scary." Chuckling at his older sister. "I didn't lie either. Here she is, in the flesh. T, this is my oldest sister, Faatallon and my youngest brother, Kithaan."

“Long as she doesn’t catch you doing anything that would work against you in the manners of health.”

With everyone done she was happy to follow downstairs, one hand holding onto her mother and the other onto Kaelin. When they had to go sit down she followed after her father and brother…but slowed down when they got to the arena and the ground texture changed on her. It was loose and her boots weren’t making noise anymore. She was suddenly more interested in such changes than anything else and crouched down to touch the ground, trying to figure what she was walking in.

A whistle from her brother though got her attention and she brushed her hands up and meandered after that warm feeling she got from the men before the unfamiliar voice from nowhere startled her, causing her to attach to her brother’s side a moment before he pushed her off and redirected her attention to the voice’s direction as the woman continued to speak. And staring for a moment…is that what was all involved in this? Did that mean she could fix Bumbles if he got hurt again like he did? The other stuff must just be extra. “Mhm yup.” Simple answer from a child who was more excited over the prospect of magic than the type at this moment.

“Fine, I’ll wear those. And don’t worry Lady Inthara, there are no blood stains on them. They’re my look pretty and deadly but not intending to do anything too nasty robes. A girl likes to look good every now and then after all.” But a nod to both of his siblings as he went on with introduction. “And T stands for Tihirii you two. Half the time I think he forgets my name.” Now she was just teasing him just to do it.

To which a plate of food was pushed in front of her by her father. “You’ll be fine. Just take a moment to gather your energy and stabilize it and you’ll be fine. The more you fight it by not doing your normal things, the worse it’s going to get.”

"Easy enough. Sketching doesn't harm me in any way at all." Which is precisely what she took to doing as soon as they were in the arena. She watched Savvy mess with the sand and leaned down. "It's kind of like the outside dirt but looser." Whispering the information in the child's ear before climbing into the stands and settling down. "Do they always talk like that?"

"If there were bloodstains, we'd merely scrub them off. We've had enough experience with such things in this house." Presiding over the table, she watched her family eat, noting that her husband was eating with his normal gusto when it was a dish he liked and Tihirii seemed to be settling in well for the moment.

Faate's eyes closed and she sniffed a bit of blood back up then let her energy gather and settle into her system in one giant ball the way she'd been taught. And then she began eating tentatively.

"Mom and Dad work for my uncle who has had them do some nasty things over the years. They're part of the reason I became what I did." Watching his sister, "Umm, isn't that supposed to stay inside your body when sharp objects are not involved?" Quirking an eyebrow at his sister. "Is this another runemage thing?"

She watched and gave a small nod.

"you are two steps to far, but that is perfectly acceptable. your first tool in magecraft is to know your enemies, to know the world around you. you can sense magical auras and energy, now I will show to sense the lifeforce."

watching her a moment.

"the life force is all around you. it is the energies created by living things, the part of all beings that is attuned to the flow of mana. through it you can heart, adn feel the heartbeat, the pulse of people. you can sense age and physical strength, but knowing the muscles and the way those muscles move and interact. It is a basis of necromancy to know this essence, to feel it and be able to seek it out. This is how you can know where, and how, to strike your enemies and with what spells in your arsenal that may prove most effective."

Letting that sink in a moment.

"If you have questions about what I have just said, you may ask them now. if not, we will continue with our lesson."

"It is similar to that. but this allows you to feel the presence of people you are also not particularly close to, or maybe don't even care for. and I mentioned your distance because it is a teaching tool, child. the closer you are to me, the stronger you should feel the essence of my magic. take the two steps forward and tell me if it feels stronger to you."

twitching her ears lightly.

"then yes, the dispelling of disease and sickness is already in your hands though it is focused through your family bonds. we will expand on that later. this first lesson will be to find and feel the essence of your family, and myself. Once you are comfortable, let the sense of life flow. let the magic bring to your ears the heartbeats of those around you. the youthful or older energy that your family and myself possess, that marks our ages and our power. these essences flow in the world, across the planes, and feed our power as much as they slowly siphon it away to fill the voids our power and time siphon into us."

"It is like threads in a tapestry, you can find the thread that is your mother, or father, or myself or your brother. bonds make those threads powerful and strong. easy to find. this lesson is sensing and feeling and hearing what is in those bonds on a physical level, rather then a mental or emotional level. and finding the threads of those whom you are not close to, or may even dislike or consider your enemies."

"control comes with time. this is understanding first, child. and your pet does not have one because he is not technically living. Your pet had been injured and dying when you brought it to us...beyond the ability to restore. but we saved it in another fashion. your 'bumbles' is the first successfully liched animal. undead in flesh but not in mind or spirit."

just like that, no emotional response just stating simple fact to her.

"Which also means that your bumbles will never grow old, or die. in a sense. it is one of the crowning achievements of necromancy. but that won't come till much later."

But that was as far as she went on that.

"I need you to do this again. but focus it. think of it as putting up a wall beyond the area you want to effect. so that no one beyond a certain distance will show. once you do that, I want you to focus on your brother, and your father, and tell me the differences in them."

She watched her and glanced at the two men...before turning her attention back to her student.

"why do you think that your brother's light becomes wavy? concentrate on the waves, see if you can figure out why it wavers like that. let the essence of his life force tell you, inform you why it wavers."