"She will be okay. She may pick up some scrapes and bruises along the way, but she will be better off in the end." Kaleeth answered, attempting to be reassuring. "Aurana will learn how to understand and deal with danger, which will let her make herself safe."

Kaleeth focused more directly on Aurana. "Just...try not to make yourself [i]too[/i] excited about it, okay? It's not like you're going to be going out trying to find fights. The best thing to do is to try to avoid having to fight anyone; you just want to know how so you don't get hurt if something ever goes very wrong. Fighting is...well it's not like storybooks you might read. It's terrible, painful. You want to be peaceful whenever you can, okay?"

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Meesei was unfazed by Lunise's persistent and seemingly unending pride. No matter what Lunise said openly, she could not truly lie to herself about Meesei's capabilities. "If there is ever more time in the future, I certainly would not mind more challenges. It likely does not surprise you for me to say that lycans enjoy challenges. We always challenge each other to be our best, and I suppose I am no different. I suppose we could learn much from each others' techniques, and I would not be ashamed if you were the one who managed to finally defeat me in a magical duel."

After a moment, Meesei gave another chuckle. "Well, I suppose I cannot say that I have [i]never[/i] lost a magical duel. I of course lost to my father during my initial training, and after that, I did end up losing a duel to an ancient vampire lord from the second era. Fortunately, it was only a practice duel. Also fortunately, she did not end up being an enemy to us."

Although she was also having to maintain their air bubble, Meesei was able to dedicate some of her magic to trying to push away the sand they had kicked up in their duel. No doubt there would be a wonderful view around them once it all settled down.