Once again, Janius flinched. Kaleeth's alarm took him by surprise and he pulled his hand back immediately. Once he processed what had happened he tried laughing it off. "Sorry about that," he laughed while brushing his hands off on his leggings, "it's not often that I cast a spell like that. It slipped my mind that the energy can stay for a while."

Sabine felt better about her spell with Meesei's validation. She had until then forgotten that it was an achievement to even do what she just did. However, she wasn't sure that she bested Janius' efforts. Her smile leveled somewhat when she looked to Janius for his opinion.

Janius had dealt with the heat on his hands by this point. He was similarly impressed with Sabine's spell as he was before. He brushed the bottom on his chin with scrutiny while looking at the rapidly shrinking ice spear. "Well, I never got to shoot at a tree, but just at face value, that was a damn good casting," Janius offered. "As for whether it was better? Hm..." Janius sucked in a breath through his teeth. "I...can't rightly tell. They both would have done serious damage. I would have to see some more examples." Janius grinned and reached out to ruffle Sabine's hair, to which Sabine flinched her eyes shut and smiled wider. "In any case, Sabine, you're doing better than I ever did at your age. I'll have to step up my own practice or you'll quickly be a greater destructionist than me. Well...with some more battle experience, maybe."

Janius faced Meesei and chuckled. "I'm not sure whether to be more or less baffled that you're using conventional terminology for magic, alpha."

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Gallus couldn't help but grin with surprise. "Well that's good," he said, leaning forward. "Where ever did those troubled thoughts go, hm? You haven't gone and completed the exercise all on your own, have you?" Gallus straightened and let out a low laugh, "Maybe you just needed space to stop and focus for a while then. Been very busy lately? Anyway, if you ever have those worries troubling you and you can't seem to deal with them, try doing what we've just done again." Gallus gestured a hand forward, "And if the worries are still there after you've relaxed, question whether they are useful. If they aren't, put them to the side for a while. Oh, and a reminder..." Gallus' tone lost some of its casual tone and prodded Peiter on the chest, "Your beast spirit feels your worries as well. Keep that in mind."

As quickly as it came off, Gallus smile reappeared. "So, anything else? We haven't been able to chat properly for a while with everything that's been going on." Gallus tilted his head to one side. "How is your relationship with Sabine going, anyway? Have you both been enjoying yourselves?"