Chapter 183 Training First!

I walked up to the window but looked back first.

That eagle was now out of sight, but the way it had just got up after me kicking it, hitting the roof, and then the ground was strange. Eagles were not nighttime hunters, nor did they tend to fly around that much at night because of their poor night vision.

While I was white, there was no reason for the eagle to be over the city unless it had a nest on top of the wall. Still, it was strange. I wonder if Senna had enlisted the help of a shapeshifter or something like that.

Whatever the eagle was, it was gone now.

I turned back to the window and hopped up on the ledge. Listenia was sitting in bed cross-legged with her eyes closed, so I started to paw the window to get her attention. She looked up and smiled at me as she got up and opened the window, scooping me into her arms.

"I was starting to think that you had been captured by one of the roaming parties," Listenia smiled and rubbed her face into my side.

"Why does everyone think that I am so easy to capture? I swear, I need to get a better reputation, but I also need to make myself less appealing. Not that I don't like pouncing around like this, but I do also like just being able to go for a walk," I said, and Listenia pulled back from me with a scowl.

"Don't talk when you are like this. It ruins the cuteness," Listenia said as she brought me towards the bed, but then I transformed into her arms. I knew Listenia could hold me, but the damn woman just let me drop on my ass.

Listenia stepped over me and got into bed with a smirk.

"What was that? Just drop me like hot garbage?!" I complained as I got up. I was a cat, but I had been landing on anything but my feet lately.

"I haven't carried anyone like that before you, so I don't really see a reason to start," Listenia said with a shrug, and I rolled my eyes.

I crawled into the bed and pushed her down the pillow, kissing her slowly but briefly, pulling back slightly after.

"Are you ready to learn how to convert Pure Magic?" I asked, and Listenia smiled.

"And here I thought that you were going to try to get between my legs first. I might not have said no," Listenia said in a near whisper, making my hair stand up in the back of my neck.

"Don't be like that. If I start now, there will be no training," I said and kissed her again before pulling back to sit cross-legged on the bed.

Listenia got up to sit like me, but she was looking over my pants, which were very much clean. Since my clothes transformed with me, they gained the traits of my fur while I was wearing them. They were pretty much spill-proof, but there were downsides to this.

If the clothing was ripped or torn, I would lose some hair in that spot, and I would feel it be torn. I had memories now, but cuts were worse, shaving off sections of my fur in that area. The effects were temporary to my cat form, and I only had to repair my clothing or change. The problem was that it was not always something easy to do in battle and took concentration since just me wearing the clothing made it magical.

"Don't worry, I am clean. If I am wearing the clothes, and they get dirty, I can just transform into a cat and back to get sparkling clean again," I explained, and Listenia lifted an eyebrow with a slight smile.

"Do you think that you can teach me that?" Listenia asked, and I laughed.

"No, sorry, you are stuck with the hurricane in a bubble trick which I will teach you, but you are a bit away from that yet. Even though it is a set of relatively simple spells, you need to keep drawing and converting the different types you need. Doing this is more than making an air bubble and filling it with water, and sloshing around. You are pulling in dust from the air, holding the bubble up, and using different combinations of air, water, earth, and fire. You don't want cold water, and you will have to put the dirty water somewhere after. There are so many moving parts, yet, this will become one of the simplest things that you will learn, but first, give me your hands," I said after my long explanation.

"I assumed that it wasn't nearly as simple as you made it seem. Now that you explain it, I am not sure how I will ever even learn to do something like that. You say it only gets harder, but this feels like I am standing before a tall mountain with smooth vertical sides. How am I supposed to climb this?" Listenia asked and handed me her hands, which I took in each of mine.

"With help. Some things are going to seem even more impossible, but they can be done and learned. You have already exceeded my expectations, so I have faith that you will be able to reach the goals that I will start setting for you. Now, close your eyes, and gather in the magic. Fill your hand with it, and then press your will into it with fire in your heart. This part is important. Each magic has a place that it is pulled from in your body," I explained, and Listenia nodded, closing her eyes.

I could feel her pull at the magic and feel it start to pool. I waited, but there was no change. Not surprising; my description wasn't very good.

I was about to speak up, but I stopped as I felt a disturbance in the magic. I closed my own eyes and took in a very deep breath. I called my own magic and started etching another line of Runes inside my eyelids. Blood leaked out like tears, but when I was finished, I opened my eyes, activating the new Runes.