It's an easy day

Asune and Clare were both at the training arena, Clare giving you her standard pervness but Asune seemed, warmer than usual. Not even close to Vatarie's sort of warmth but she was a lot more touchy, letting her hands stray on your body and eye linger whenever you moved. Suspicion started growing about those 'experiments' Vatarie mentioned but not enough to question.

Classes were standard. Nothing that interesting and you found yourself focusing on how easy it was to write with your left hand. You'd not trained your left to write all that much, checking if you were ambidextrous and working on that when you were a kid but that was basically it. Maybe it was the sword training before the academy and just the lack of your right. Or maybe your magic was helping to transfer muscles skills from your right to your left. You hope that when your right grows back those skill well go back to their normal place.

Class breaks were spent around your friends with required benefits. Lucia dropped by for a moment to try and talk about last night to get some more tips about how to give her dragon convincingly physical presence. She didn't last long, not because she was scared off, just because Auria crash tackled her and literally carried her off over her shoulder.

When it came time for Stephanie's class you felt some excitement growing. You didn't want anyone to be kicked out of the class but every Friday without fail the class was always fascinating. Mary and her guard arrived with Stephanie beside her. The two didn't look at each other but you could feel some tension between the two as Stephanie walked towards her students and Mary clenched her jaw and took a seat.

The stands were crammed with people and you are pretty sure you saw some bets being placed. Honestly you feel like there should be someone walking around selling snacks or tunics with your faces on them. Maybe that is what you should do with your money, invest in a portable snack shack.

Stephanie walks into the middle of the arena and digs her heel into the sand. She spins around creating a circle a deep grove around her about as wide as her shoulders. She steps out of it and looks at you. "Christopher stand there." She points at the circle and walks to the edge of the arena.

Everyone looked at you and you felt your excitement waver a little. You thought this was supposed to be the students fighting their personal guard trainers. The one's who'd beaten them last time. The whole proving you've grown as a combatant thing.

Walking into the circle you wait for Stephanie to explain what is going on. "If your feet leave the ground you lose." Stephanie tells you then looks at the students. "If anyone can get Christopher out of the circle you will never be removed from my class and I will vouch for you as the best fighter I have ever me." She pulled her dagger out from it's seathe on her back and looked at the guard. "If anyone of you can knock him out of the circle you will win this, and I will acknowledge you as a master."

You blinked at her in utter confusion. You looked over at Mary and saw her grind her teeth. No one moved around you so you weren't sure what the point was. Everyone here had experienced you using your magic, none had any actual chance of getting you of the circle. You can just make a dozen shields around yourself and yourself and they can't touch you. If it can stop an Eve nuke it can stop anyone here.

"And Christopher isn't to use any defensive shields and may only defend himself with this." Stephanie added, throwing you a wooden training sword. You snapped your head to look at her and saw an impartial face looking back at you the training sword landing on the sand in your reach but requiring you to kneel down and grab it.