Welcome to Gaia! ::

Tessa had frowned at the weight of the textbook she'd just been given. Back at school she'd not exactly been one for intensive studying, rather she learned best from active listening and the work that came after the lectures. All the same, she took to the text, eyes sweeping over it as she stretched, trained, and stress-tested her new limbs. In time she would find that either she was getting used to the limbs, or her nerves were healing better than expected as the mental tick that was the ever so slight lag in the limb's fine motor functions reduced considerably as she practiced through the night.

[The Next Day]

The old man would find the Faunus in an unusual position, very much not in bed but quite awake in time for her early morning workout. She stood in the middle of her room, toes pointed at the ceiling as she strained the muscles in her hands, grunting lightly as she regularly flexed her muscles to correct her balance every time her weight shifted from directly above her thumbs, the sole dights that held her weight aloft.
She quickly returned to her feet and followed after the old man, bare feet slapping against the hard floor until she arrived at the man's side. An odd request was made of her, to touch a fountain that she didn't remember being there the day before. Something anomalous was afoot but strangely she didn't feel unnerved by it in the least. Perhaps he had a sort of magic like the old gods in her people's stories.
The girl did as she was told and placed her hand alongside the man's, her fingers a bit deeper in, an unfortunate effect of her much larger hands. Tessa took a breath like her...she supposed she was to call him her mentor now, she mimicked his breathing and relaxed her body in preparation for whatever was to come next.