The training that I've done has been going on and on and on.
Repeating it, waking at before the sun rose, stretching and getting ready to run in the morning, running past ever changing routes that Sply changed up almost everyday.
Sply brought me to the same place for three years making my aim, better and better, still with much practice I've been so well, that I'd barely miss my shots.
Sply has actively always seen my achievements, slowly, more and more times, acknowledging me whenever I had been hitting the targets.
Then once the sun breaks through we'd end up heading back to the house, where I would eventually go inside, Sply would leave and I'd hangout a little with Marcilene.
Many times, having either Elsa or Wes at the house to play with her, because she's felt more comfortable to play inside the house than to do it where she could loss her head covering again.
She has also been way more comfortable with Wes and it irks me at times, but by the time I've been able to ask, the sun rises to its peak.
Making me begin to get ready to go back into Warren Forrest to prepare for training with Apatite, who for whatever the reason may be, never made me even attempt to begin to try and apply my Soul Energy to the bow to amplify my arrows.
So I just gave up on even trying to ask her anymore, which kinda sucked, which means I just left my bow at the house where I always left it.
We would sit in the same place, everytime, and she'd tell me to do the same thing over and over again, making my Soul Energy wrap around my arm then dissipate from my arms, again and again, until the numbness had just almost disappeared from my arms.
Our relationship together has also been better, both of us, starting to talk more and more about our differences in our lives or what we've done for the day, She also told me that her mother has slowly been getting worse, making it so that she also has to go and hunt alone sometimes, her father staying back to care for her mother.
I've offered many times to go on hunts with her, for a good perspective of training and she has rejected me.
When we ended talking, we both returned back home, I've began to get used to the feeling of the forest, which made me very much able to go around the place without much need for me to rely on my left eye.
The darkness of the trees have just been an accessory now, just something that's there when I'm strolling in and out of the Warren Forest.
The house has for a very huge majority of the time, been Steel and Marcilene alone at the house.
With the exception of Wes and Elsa on many nights.
Two more birthdays pass and times here, still feel better than any day in my other life, hoping that, it never ends.
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The moonlights shines down on me.
Sliding my legs off of the bed, Marcilene and I've grown more, our bodies now fighting over the bed in our sleep.
My legs have been now touching the ground from the point of where I'm sitting, makeing it very easy to get off of the bed.
Wearing a white garment, button up, with a black sash like sewing done into it for style, and black joggers like bottom, that get tight around my ankle to stop from any uneeded snags, with a small insignia, done by Flock on the bottom of them.
They were all gifts for my eighth birthday, and I'v fallen in love with them.
Leaving the room, I close the door softly not to wake her, my height before could never really look over the the staircase handle bars, but now, after three years I've been able to see a tad bit over the edge of the handles.
My feet with a bit more pep in my step hop down the steps with each landing swiftly yet softly on each as I get down.
As soon as I get down I yawn and stretch my back, with a good pop.
Steel opens the door to leave, not seeing me heading down as well. His back illuminated softly by a red aura.
'Damn it, where my eye patch."
I go into the kitchen and wash my face, the same as always.
After washing my face I go over to the livingroom and grab my bow, finding my eye patch on the couch.
Grabbing it, I pull it over my face, with a great amount of difficulty.
"Damn. I need to get a different eye patch, sooner rather than later."
I say as I manage to get it over my face, it just snaps of my face, the fabric ripping from the one the wraps around the backside of my head.
"Freak."
I say with forceful annoyance.
Instead of staying there and just being annoyed by what happened I just pick it up off the ground, walk to the kitchen table, put it down and leave it there.
Walking back over to beside the door, I grab a sandal like footwear around my feet, the straps white, that I pull tightly over my feet, to ensure it doesn't break off and fly away.
Tilting my body slighty right, to lean over into the livingroom, I grab my bow, slinging it over my shoulder and opening the door to walk outside.
Heading over to the gate, that I'm now very clearly taller than now.
I lay my bow down there and begin my stretches, ending it after about three minutes of long popping and relief in my bones and muscles.
I grab my bow once more and begin my jog toward the square.
It takes me about five minutes to get to the square, and after many trials and errors before wanting to impress Sply I've finally remembered the route to get to the training area.
Passing the many buildings in the square and then every single time, almost without fail, I pause for a second at the colosseum.
Remembering the time I saw Jahar.
Then I take a breath and begin back toward the same place as before, going toward the training area. Finally stepping on dirt after a good amount of time making my sandals slap against concrete.
"You got here slow again."
Sply tells me standing right outside of the training area. In an aura color of the night moon, almost the same as the soft white that many creatures give off, but darker, more gray.
"Sorry."
"Don't apologize, it doesn't help you in anyway whatsoever, just get here faster."
"Yes."
I say.
"What happened to your eye patch?"
"It broke."
"How?"
"To small."
"Okay."
She paused before turning Lin toward the dirt path and continuing down to pathway, instead of going into the training area the same as before.
"We not training today?"
I ask her.
"No, we are, but today I'm going to teach you something different."
"Okay…?"
Without question I follow after her, slinging my bow further up my arm more to make sure that I don't drop it as we get further down the pathway no longer exists.
Makingit just dirty that has some hoof marks or carriage wheel marks on the ground.
The environment changes slightly as well, making the place have more trees than before, making it mean that the place is really different from the square of Squea.
Sply turns into the trees and stands below them.
I stop behind her and see that I've grown taller than her small figure.
She lifts her poncho over her head and turns to me, the top part of her face covered in darkness.
"Okay. Today I'm going to teach you an ability nearly essential for Archery."
Her gray aura shining over her body.
She takes a step backward and her body vanishes, the same as her aura.
"What the hell."
I look around left and right not finding her.
"That's Soil Displacement."
She yells out from somewhere above me.
Making me turning my face up to see her, yelling down at me. As she comes down.
Her feet slamming on the ground.
"How'd you do that?"
"I changed where my body would be, like teleportation, but on a smaller scale. Teleportation works in many people, Soul Displacement works only on the user."
She paused:
"That's what'll help you if you ever need to switch for a better vantage point, and… it'll also mean that you be learning how to shoot from off angles and balance on bad terrain. That's the whole point of this training."
"Okay."
A smile creeps onto my face.
'Finally, a different way of training.'