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Chapter 3 by outa outa

Tritera

Leads you to your inspection

She leads you out of the inn to the surprise of the innkeeper who surely would have remembered that beauty coming in to his establishment. Once outside she leads you a little ways out of the town square where you can have some privacy from any onlookers. While walking she asks you some questions about how the fire first got started and you recount the story of the bag ripping and your little tantrum, trying to tell it in a way that doesn't sound so whiney. She just nods along like fire shooting out of your hands is a totally normal and foreseeable consequence of anger, maybe for her it is.

You finally arrive in a lightly wooded clearing. most of your family has headed back and just your father and eldest brother have accompanied you this far. Tritera stops and hands you a gnarled staff and instructs you to try to make fire again.

You feel a little silly standing in the clearing holding a staff while your three companions watch you expectantly. You try waving the staff around to no effect. You look to Tritera for direction but she just smiles and nods. Your dad and brother look a little embarrassed and this sets you off. Can't you do anything right? You wished you could just disappear.

Huh, their expressions are changing. You look at the staff and around you for fire that you might have conjured without noticing. And then you see your arm. Your skin has changed colors to blend in with the wooded area like the camouflage of a chameleon, even your modest tunic is reacting. You actually were disappearing! In your shock you slam the butt of the staff down to steady yourself and to yours surprise it leaves a great crater where it makes contact with the ground and fire shoots out of the top, towards your face. You aren't sure if this will be like the fire that came out of your hand and not burn you but you decide not to find out the hard way. You raise the staff over and away from your head just in time for lightning to strike it. Finally you drop the damned thing and the magic ceases, even your skin returns to its normal hue.

Wow, that was incredible. You're sure you must have impressed the guild woman.

Tritera reacts

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