Part 8
“I’ll ask Grandfather Yazadril for special magic training.” Helemia added. “I’ll ask him for training on magic techniques that get the most results from the least magic power by focusing on precision and efficiency. I’ll be asking Bekamil of The Atoned about that too; he only has a tiny amount of power but he’s over three thousand years old, and he’s gotten really good at using the little bit of power he has. Knowing this should help us a lot in the void when we’re a long way from the sun, and it might help me and Reggie when our own magic starts to work. We might get it all at once like Valentia, or we might get just a little that grows with us, like most elven kids. If we only get a little bit at first we’ll still be able to do a lot with it, even if we can’t get power from someone else when we need it.
“I’m also going to ask for Healer’s training from Hilsith so I can help with her research. And I’m going to ask Quewanak to help me understand more of what we know about demons from Somonik’s memory.”
“We’ll make way better use of our time by splitting up like that.” Reggie added. “We both pretty much learn what the other one learns anyway, so we might as well. And it’s not so hard to be apart anymore. We figure we’ll spend about two hours every morning on this extra stuff, until Valentia’s ready to do it with us. We’ll do it more after that, but she doesn’t like being apart from us either.”
“Well, that all seems like fine thinking.” Talia smiled as she gave them a kiss goodbye.
“Will you be back for lunch?” Mark asked as he came over and knelt down for a hug.
“Yup.” Reggie nodded. “Mother’s making berry pie. I’d never miss that!”
indeed it is meant to happen, or it might drive her away from you if she feels that her choices are being made for her. I’d also like you to make an effort to not treat her any differently than
I can’t say for certain; we’ve been Linked with her a lot so she might have seen something we haven’t showed her, but we
early or get messed up. We still don’t know if Reggie’s really a prophet anyway. Him and Kragorram aren’t even best friends. We were already planning on killing demons anyway, we’ll probably never know what the demons actually call us, and us destroying their homeworld is already starting to be what you said; self-fulfilling, because we’re already working on it just because he said so. The only thing he’s said would happen that did is that Alilia named Valentia that after he said so, but he might have picked it up from
be late back for lunch. Love you!” she added as Reggie opened the
Have fun!” Mark
the kids are off to school, so to speak, we’re going to have more time available.” he thoughtfully stated. “And it strikes me that they’re improving a lot faster than we are, so if we want to
neck and a kiss.
children when they get to be adults, I don’t want it happening when they’re two! And besides that, we won’t be able to provide them with very much guidance if they’re better than us at everything
It seems of little use to study the same specialties that
improving our capability to make war in the void, being able to make more precise and efficient use of our power, improving our knowledge of the Healers’ arts, and improving our understanding