Part 8
“We’d already planned our training and learning for the next year.” Reggie said with a slightly-furrowed brow. “But we’ll take your advice, Quewanak, and change our plans. When you talked about it, I could almost feel from Grandfather Yazadril how much knowledge there is about the rules of reality that we don’t know yet. And we need to know how to fight in the void, I mean me and Helemia personally, otherwise we’ll never be able to destroy the demon homeworld. Maybe we can figure out some ways to do it.”
“An admirable goal in all respects.” Mark chuckled. “And now it’s time all three of you were in bed. Say goodnight to everyone, and we’ll get you into your pajamas.”
It took a while for the twins to say goodnight and goodbye to everyone, since they felt they had to include a hug for everyone there, and by the time they were done they were yawning uncontrollably. Minutes later they were asleep.
Midmorning the next day found their family gathered in the back yard for the twins’ first combat lessons.
“I want that too.” Valentia pouted and pointed at the shiny armor the twins were donning.
“Maybe you’ll get some on your first birthday, like we did.” Helemia told her with a smile as she tightened a buckle.
“Or maybe you’ll get something even better.” Reggie added.
“That’s looking good.” Mark nodded as he checked the adjustment of their gear. “Reggie, you’ll want the dart pouch back a bit, it’ll keep you balanced, like that.”
“Thanks Father.”
you’ll want to work on is the spells in your equipment.”
trying it out last night. It’s a lot of
a
Alilia inquired, as Mark and Talia seemed taken
gods for the first time at Hilia,” Reggie explained, “The goddess Visinniria made some improvements to Ria, the spirit in Mother’s sword. These included Visinniria’s physical martial arts skills, both unarmed and with every weapon she used. While they were training in Quewanak’s dream, they wondered why the goddess had given those skills to Ria, who couldn’t use them anyway. They checked and realized that Visinniria had only given those skills to Ria to stay within the rules of The Withdrawal of The Gods, which was still in effect at the time, and didn’t let any gods help any people directly. She could give the skills to Ria because Ria isn’t really a person, but really, they were a gift for Mother and Father, complete with a divine spell that transfers physical skills so they can be used right away, unlike when you
to learn each other’s skills, as well as Visinniria’s. And Visinniria fought The War of The Segregation her whole life until she became a
use the skills transference spell to give us all the fighting skills
you the regular
fun, but really, it would also be a huge waste of time.” Reggie patiently pointed out. “We’ll still need to practice the skills to develop strength with the moves, as well as endurance and toughness. We don’t have much of that yet.
ones that we have won’t make much difference.
Helemia explained. “Besides, you know that fighters are most likely to injure themselves or their training partners when they’re first leaning the skills, and we’d avoid that.
Talia and Alilia, then shrugged. “Well I can’t think of any practical objection, other than dealing
Talia replied with
you’re giving it out.” Alilia chuckled. “I’m not an amateur when it comes to physical combat by any means, but it’s never been one of my strong points, and I could
around pretty fast, and Quewanak will get a big surprise. Actually, I’m surprised you haven’t done it before. You should get the unicorns to all share their skills too. And after the exercise, you should get Quewanak to share his skills with Povon, Kragorram, and Karzog. And when