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True to her word, when we finished our tea she was ready to start. I considered dragging out drinking my tea because I am a little nervous about showing her my memory but that would only delay the inevitable. So, after a thoughtfully quiet cup of tea it is finally time for us to begin.
She reaches her hands across the table and grasps mine. Her hands are warmer than I had expected and amazingly soft. After a few deep breaths she says to me, "Alright, open up your mind the way that you do when you are trying to connect to nature. Once you feel your awareness opening up, push it towards me. I will then open up as well and we will merge our thoughts and feelings together."
Sounds simple enough. I should not have a problem doing this. As I slowly relax and let my awareness slip out I find that it is more difficult that I expected for it to reach out to my grandmother. Maybe it is because I am still so defensive when it comes to her but as soon as I get close I can fe
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"If you are going to stay here I expect you to work hard at learning the craft. You will not sit here idly just waiting for the witches to attack." Elle tells me. "You will call me Elle and not grandmother. If somebody were to stumble on us somehow I do not want them to know about our connection.""Um, that might be a little difficult to hide. We do look a lot a like you know." I point out.She just waves away the thought and walks me across the cottage to one of the doors. When she opens the door I see a room that looks like a wolf sanctuary. There are fluffy rugs sitting all over the room, a huge bed that looks like you could sink into it. There is a window on the roof that will show the night sky.I take a peak at her after I look around the room. She does not let anything slip on her face but the bedroom was obviously styled for a werewolf. For me. When did she do this and how long ago did she have it done? It is clean enough that it could not ha
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Being able to sleep under the stars was amazing. I got used to sleeping under them when I was living on my own and had not realized how much I missed it. Waking up and seeing the sunrise through the window above me was just as amazing as sleeping under the stars. The amount of thought that went into this room has me taken aback. Maybe she knows me better than I realized she had all of these years. Maybe this is her showing that she actually cares about me since she comes off as so cold all of the time.Elle is already awake and making some oatmeal and coffee for breakfast. It has been a while since I have had oatmeal since Dante always makes a more elaborate meal but it sounds pretty good today. In fact, when she sits it in front of me I find myself practically inhaling it. There are little bits of fruit and honey mixed into it making it absolutely incredible.Elle watches me eating in shock at the way I eat the food. She has probably not had to feed many hungry
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I know that Rosa had expected that I was going to be an extremely strong witch but hearing Elle say it was more surprising. Is she going to expect something from me the same way that Morden and even Rosa seemed to?I manage to find some leggings that aren't as comfortable as my normal leggings and throw one of the lighter dresses over it so that I can feel comfortable jogging in it. Walking out into the main area I see Elle still sitting at the dining table seeming to be deep in thought."Is it alright if I go for a jog? I know that you are in hiding here so I do not want to ruin it but that is the best exercise I can get here without any equipment." I ask her hesitantly."Sure, sure. I will glamour you to not look like you and you should be fine. Please make sure that you fly down the mountain first and stay away from your old cottage. That way even if someone sees you they have no idea where you are staying." She tells me.I just nod m
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When Elle had warned me that she was going to be tough on me she was not kidding. As soon as I woke up she had me learning how to make breakfast using the elements. Some of it was simple, like getting water into the bowl. Other ones were much trickier. I was not to touch the spoon to stir the oatmeal and had to use wind to stir it instead. Seems much easier said than done because it took me forever to be able to get the spoon to stir the oatmeal enough. It took me almost an hour just to make oatmeal without all of the additives that she had used yesterday. I swear I even saw a twinkle of humor in her eyes at one point.After we got done eating she did take pity on me and let me use my hands to wash the dishes as long as I warmed the water up with fire. Fire is not something that I have ever attempted to summon before. Just the thought of not having control of the flame is terrifying to me. Elle informs me that that is normal but it is something that I will have to overcome if
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Now that I know what to expect at breakfast I do not take my time trying to figure out how to make the oatmeal. My only issue is still the stirring but the rest of the preparations went together so quickly that it did not bother me that it took quite a bit longer to stir. Maybe tomorrow I will feel confident enough to try to cut up some fruit using air to add it to the oatmeal.Elle just sits silently while I prepare both of our bowls of oatmeal. I am not sure if she approves of how long it takes me to get it all done but she has not been critiquing me the entire time so I would assume that I had not done too badly."I must admit that you are catching on rather quickly. I did not expect you to get breakfast done so fast today. Next, we will go outside and tend to the plants. You will practice connecting to the earth to coax life into the plants and utilizing air to trim off any pieces that are not healthy. This will be difficult but since you can coax life back into th
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The first week of training just flies by. By the end of the week I have already come close to mastering my elements. Even though Elle has not said anything else on the matter I believe that she is surprised how much I have already learned. I have not been for a jog since the mishap with the witches but Elle has helped me learn how to shadow box with a figure made from air to keep myself in shape. I can even have the air push against me as I exercise the way weights would so I am not losing any of the muscle that I had gained while staying with my pack.Today we are going to start working on spells. Elle has also promised to start teaching me how to find spells and disable them before I learn how to do the spells. Apparently, learning how to disable them makes learning how to do them easier. Kind of like untying a knot."Are you ready to move past the basics?" Elle asks me."I thought that some of the elemental work was beyond the basic?" I say confus
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"So, when you look at the spell that I put onto the plant to change its color how do you think you would change it back?" Elle asks me."Um, maybe I would try to convince it to change back?" I suggest."You could. But, then it would just be laying one spell on top of another. That will work but only temporarily and could leave the plant feeling confused. Try again." She says."Maybe I could remind it of the color that it actually is?" I say questioningly."Yes but how would go about doing so? Would you tell it everything was a lie or would you go back to the beginning?" She says.I think about it for a while before answering, "I would go all of the way back to the beginning of its creation. I would remind it of what it actually is and what it looks like. That way it does not have time to second guess the way it is really supposed to be."That was a bit more difficult to explain than I thought. Not completely sure that I explained it ri
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For the next couple of weeks we settle into a routine. When we wake up I start breakfast using only magic to cook it. Now that I have been practicing for quite a while I find myself trying to make it better each day so that it is not as boring. For the first half of the day we work on me undoing Elle's spells and learning how to cast the same spells.After we eat the salad that I prepare for lunch we begin working on potions. I learn how to gather and store ingredients. Elle has me prepare some potions that have a specific process to be followed as they are highly volatile.For dinner every night we have another meal that is minus meat. It varies each night but the one thing that never changes is the lack of meat. Pretty soon I might find myself hunting in wolf form just so that I can eat something higher in protein. I have somehow avoided asking why we never eat meat so far but I am not sure how much more of it I can take.As we eat a pasta dinner with al
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