Well Edin didn't hang around waiting for you so he's probably with the others

While you are a bit cautious, remembering the last time you figured Edin would be with someone else, you don't believe he would be taken by anyone else. "Alright I'll help you rehearse." You tell Lucia making her blush diminish a little and spin on her heel.

She walks past the training ground and onto the grass field behind it. She stops and looks at you. You step back to give her space and with a deep inhale she conjures her dragon and takes a pose. She begin to dance slowly getting the specific poses down before she begin to sped up. Her dragon dancing around her as she does.

Watching her you can't help but feel like music would make this better. Dancing in silence might be fine is that is the performance but if there is music couldn't rehearsing without it mean you could be out of sync. You keep the opinion to yourself, you aren't the one dancing after all.

Lucia starts to speed up and her dragon does something new. As it flies around her small fleck of light begin to fall from it's scales. The start as simple white dots but progress into more colours, shiny rainbows gently falling from her dragons wings. You are fascinated by the display and look from the dragon to her and see concentration on her face as her movements slow. You figure that means she is picturing the sparks and making them fall rather than letting the magic do the heavy lifting.

She keeps it up for a few minutes more before stopping and breathing a bit heavier.

"You should treat the sparkles like the dragon's muscles and scales, you don't need to picture each one falling just that as the dragon flies it naturally sheds." You say conjuring your own dragon and replicating her shedding. Your sparkles are much shorter lived and don't have the same brightness but they are much easier to create.

Lucia breaths in and conjures her dragon to copy you. It takes her a few minutes before she gets it. "The sparkles don't last as long. I want them to shower around me."

"Showering around you means picturing it along with everything else. Might be better in the long run but in the short it would mean slowing down like you did at the end." You say, she looks surprised then considers it.

"How much I slow down?" She asked.

"Noticeably." You'd seen it without any magic to speed up your perception but you had also seen the performance enough to have a baseline. "But I've seen the performance a few times so that might be why I can see it." You shrug knowing that isn't super helpful but wanting to give as much information as possible.

"Hmmm." She mussed looking at her dragon. "How about this." She takes her pose again and begins dancing, her dragon created the shower of sparkles but the fade before touching the ground, from the top of her head they stop at about her stomach.

You can see it takes less focus on her part and say as much. She smiles than looks at you expectantly. "What?" You ask hoping she wasn't going to suggest you take part in the performance.

"Just not going to say anything about how I figured out how to do that?" She asks with an eyebrow raised.

You awkwardly rub the back of your head. "Oh right," letting out an awkward chuckle you compliment her, "it looks amazing, the colour shifting is really impressive how long did you spend working on it?"

"Remember when you showed my your wings."

"Yeah." You answer unsure where this is going.

"I saw something coming off them and figured it would look better in my performance." She grinned at you as she said it.

"You're right." You say returning the grin. "And I'm still not performing with you." You add making her roll her eyes.

"Don't need you anymore I'm amazing enough as is." She says with a theatrical bow.

"Oh is that why Vatarie made you sit on the side line?" You quip back.

She chews her lip in annoyance. "I did all the hard work you just pushed her over the line."

"Sure I did." You respond.

"Oh please I could get any woman off faster than you." She hold up her hand and wiggles her fingers. "Years of experience." She points at you hand. "Clumsy clubs."

"Clumsy clubs that got Vatarie off."

She gives you a flat stare. "Yeah because I was enjoying building her up. Just getting her off at once is easy, building up to it the hard and best bit." She walks over and flicks you head. "Anyone dolt can make a girl cum by speeding through the pleasure, a mistress of the art makes the girl's mind melt from the pleasure before bring it to the culmination."

"Oh so that's why Vatarie picked me over you." You say with a smirk.

"Ok first fuck you, and second Vatarie doesn't know what real pleasure is yet, I be sure to show her so she knows better than to pick the clubs next time." She responds.

Through the teasing she had a smirk on her face so you knew she was enjoying the banter but you also wanted to make sure she knew it was just teasing. "Well good luck, but I'm sure Vatarie is as into women as you are."

"Oh please everyone knows she's here because her mom caught her with a maids head between her legs at every opportunity." Lucia says waving her hand dismissively.

At this point you weren't sure that was true. "I doubt it."

She just rolls her eyes. "Everyone knows the upper nobles spend most of this time fucking their staff, not like they actually do anything but look pretty." She mumbles.

Now that just opened up a whole new concept. How far away is this kingdom from a revolution. It your last world there was a time limit on pretty much every monarchy, and they tended to end rather roughly. "Really?"

She rolls her eyes. "Come on I'm just talking about upper nobles, the lower ones do stuff, and we both know you aren't an upper noble."

"Right." You say still unsure.

She gives you a side eye for a moment then shrugs. "Well I'm out of magic so more rehearsing for me. Want to have a bath?"

"Sure." You say as the two of you start walking.

"By the way is my performance tomorrow or the day after?"

"It's ah ..." You are left a bit blank of that.

"Next Wednesday, at the amphitheater." She stares at you and you are left a little embarrassed to have forgotten.

"I'll remember."

"I won't be hear after Lady Stephanie's class so you better." She stares at you a moment longer clearly nervous.

"You'll do fine, still have a few days to rehearse and you're making leaps and bounds in that. Also how do I get to the amphitheater?"

She rolls her eyes. "Honestly it's like you've never been to the capital before." She has a grin and you shake your head to cover your smile. "You free over the weekend? If so I'll take you around. Give you a tour of the city only a peasant can."

You open your mouth to quip then close it, she did have a point and it gives you something to do while avoiding the Church. "Sounds good, I'll head to your room in the morning." She gives you a sideways look and you decide to be honest. "I'm hoping to avoid Aruia and Oriana."

"Oh right the one with the huge tits and the one I'm almost in the pants of." Lucia says with a grin.

"Honestly she might be leading you on just to get you to attend her Church." You feel obliged to point that out.

Lucia shrugged, "Bet I'll be inside her before you are."

You briefly consider taking that bet before thinking better of it. "I'll decline."

Lucia rolls her eyes. "You nobles, no fun all." She smirks and its your turn to roll your eyes. "Come on. Maybe there'll be a girl in the bath I can show you a thing or two on."

You aren't sure if encouraging her is a good idea but you do want a bath.