"Raina, is it that time already? Oh my, time has gotten away from me. I have been getting to know Julia a little better and have been testing her but I must not have realized how late it has gotten. Please, come in and we will finish up before I start on your next lesson." Elle says to me with a smile when I walk in.
Finding a place to sit on the sofa, I watch them in confusion as Elle seems happier and easier going with Julia here. She does not normally smile at me and I would have never expected her to be okay with me showing up late. Maybe having Julia here will be good for her psychologically.
Elle is holding her hands over Julia's when I feel the wind in the house pick up some. So she must be an elemental witch. Still unsure as to what else she has been tested on, I just continue to study what all is going on.
"Good, I understand a little more what we need to work on. You can actually join us today for our lesson since you are both at about the
A short practice with Elle means that I have more time to spend with Dante. It seems like every time that we eat dinner together lately it involves other parties and sometimes even ulterior motives. It has been quite a while since we have been able to just sit together and enjoy dinner.Knowing that he is in the kitchen getting our dinner started, I head upstairs to take a shower so that I can help him once done. There is nothing more relaxing than cooking together and enjoying a meal together as well. After an extremely rushed shower, I am out the door and on my way down to the kitchen.Dante is in the kitchen listening to some popular pop song that I am unfamiliar with and dancing while he stirs up some food. Trying hard not to giggle at him, I watch as he shakes his butt while tossing together some vegetables. When he starts to shake it even faster I cannot help the giggle that escapes. He turns around quickly and notices me leaning against the wall."I take
The next few days all blend together with the plethora of training that I am both teaching and receiving each day. The wolves are getting less wary of their shadow helpers so they are beginning to focus on their form more and put more effort into their training.Now that I can test everybody's moves at the same time I can move people to smaller groups that go by skill level instead of everybody being in the same group. I end up with four much smaller groups that need to train at differing levels.The level that is the lowest is full of mostly younger kids that are not paying attention well and the elderly that are having more problems keeping up. The next level is those that are not quite behind but are still struggling to keep up. After that comes what I call the advanced level that is up to learning new techniques weekly. The last group is the elite group that might soon be moving to train with the guys if they wish.Now that the women are getting much b
"So, is this your first time working with illusions?" I ask Julia.She seems really happy and excited when she nods her head yes. For her first time that was not bad. Then again, I only trained on them for one day before managing to trick all of the witches before. I keep hearing that it takes quite a while for someone to learn how to do illusions but maybe that is just something that Elle likes to say to me to boost my self esteem."That was pretty good. It was a bit dramatic so it was hard to pass off as anything but an illusion. Besides that, if I hadn't figured that part out it was very believable. The only thing that I would suggest is maybe to watch some butterflies fly together closely before trying it again. I could not tell what it was but something just seemed off watching them." I suggest."Okay. I love to watch nature so no problem. I am more than happy to try tricking you again. Elle told me about how you managed to trick her." Julia say
After practicing for another hour I am close to giving up on the auditory illusion. I have not been able to get any closer yet to getting it right. If I open my eyes, I can slowly strip away one visual element at a time until only the sounds are left but that is not something that would be able to trick anybody if I had to do that every time."So, do you think that if you try somebody's voice that you are not quite as familiar with then you might have some more luck? It just seems like every time you try to recreate his voice it comes with a visual of your bedroom. Maybe somebody that you have talked with here would be a good start? Then you wouldn't have to visualize anywhere other than where you are standing. It might be kinda like cheating but if you can do that then I am sure that it might help you get to where you can do it with other sounds as well." Julia suggests again."You know, for being just as new to this whole learning the craft thing, you sure do h
Once I calm down a little bit, Dante walks me into the house and sits down on the sofa next to me. He calmly rubs my back as I keep taking deep breaths to try and relax a little."Do you want to tell me what happened? A lot of pack members were worried to see their Luna walking lost in thoughts and close to tears." He tells me.So that is why he was waiting at the door. I know that I can tell him anything but the thought of crying over the possibility of hearing their voices again seems a little silly. Still, I do feel better after letting the tears out so maybe talking about it more will help as well."Elle began teaching me something similar to an illusion. It is an auditory illusion. So I can make people hear things without changing what they are seeing. It is a lot more difficult and it took me a while to get a right. Once I finally had one good attempt I realized that with auditory illusions, and heck even full ones, I would be able to see and hear my paren
We ended up never making it out to dinner last night. Instead, we just ordered a pizza and stayed in the bedroom all night. We were not all over each other for the entire night, but instead we spent time together just talking. We talked about our parents, our families and the types of parents we wanted to be when we decided that it was time to have some pups of our own. Even without going out we ended up having a really good time in our own little world.Today the world is done waiting for us though. We have to get back to teaching our classes and I have to get back to learning the craft as well. Even though yesterday ended a little rough after training with Elle, it overall ended nicely. Having the one on one time with Dante with nothing to worry about has really helped me to clear my head and feel a little better about my decisions that I made."Alright everybody. I talked to Dante last night about our class and we have come up with something that we would like
"So, for now, you want me to train with the young kids. Right?" Julia asks.I nod my head and say, "Yes. They have been training for a couple of months now and with the basics that I would guess you know it would be the perfect way to get you up to the right skill level to do some more intense training. Plus, it will be like training your patience too. These kids can really test it most days. They aren't too bad with me since I am the Luna but when I am not paying attention the will get up to almost anything. So, if you are ready to begin then I can start you when their class starts in about 15 minutes.""Alright, I will wait over here until then I guess." She says a little half heartedly.Understandably, starting your training with a bunch of kids under the age of 10 cannot exactly seem fun to a grown adult. These children are wolves though so almost everything physical comes to them a lot faster naturally so there is a chance that she will struggle to ke
Elle has something planned for us. Not something that I was expecting by any means but she definitely had something planned. Today, she wants us to try and talk to the plants to find out where they want to be situated in the garden. According to her they are unhappy and if we want top results then we need to find a way to make them happy."So, where are we supposed to start? They aren't exactly sentient in the way that we are used to." I say uncertainly."How about you find the most unhappy plant and learn what it needs. It might be more simple than you think." Elle says mysteriously.What is that supposed to mean? It is difficult enough working with her most days but if she is going to be like this then I have no idea how I am going to figure this out. The plants are able to give us general ideas of what they need by giving us feelings and pictures but they cannot respond with words or answer questions. This is going to make rearranging the garden more di