Eluna, a forrly retired magic instructor working in the royal castle, returned to the capital after eting Sophia a while back because she wanted to see true magic that wasn't restricted in any way. After everyone got together, the blonde tiger then proceeded to show off every category of magic, including the original type.
"Wow..." Eluna needed a break to let it all sink in. Once she processed it, she eventually addressed Sophia again. "This is... impressive."
"It's actually no- A-Ah..." She tried to play it down without thinking because it really wasn't anything special for her, but the girl then glanced at Ari for a second, who gently returned her stare. "I an, thank you."
"Good." The jaguar showed her a small smile.
"W-Woah..." Maya, Fen, and Aura saw sothing actually impressive. Sophia being sensible, that is.
"It seems like I really wasted my whole life when it cos to magic..."
"..." The blonde had no encouraging words and said nothing instead.
"How long did it take you to learn all this advanced magic?"
"Err..." Sophia paused for a mont after Eluna's question. Keeping Ari's tips in mind, she decided to give a vague answer because saying it was like a week or two wouldn't even be slightly helpful in this situation. "Quite honestly, not a huge amount of ti. I never learned magic the, uhh, wrong way, and I have a very powerful and passionate teacher. That helped out a lot." She glanced at Fen while saying so.
"It's been a pleasure." Fen had about as much fun introducing Sophia to magic as the girl herself.
"How am I able to learn it, too?" Her old instructor's blood was far from dried up.
"Uhh..." The tiger wasn't sure what to reply. "No idea."
"Not exactly what I hoped to hear."
"Well, it's just because I can't use chants or activation words. I'm sohow able to teach Maya a thing or two because she can use chantless magic. Chants aside, I still don't actually understand activation words at all... Sure, it helps you guide your imagination, but why not just put so more effort into it and go all out with chantless? Honestly, I don't get why it exists... I an, when I play around and learn new magic, I often mumble all kinds of stuff, but once I get it to work, it only happens in my mind as I imagine it. Chants make so sort of sense as the user most likely has no plan at all and needs all the help or guidance or whatever they can get, but... I don't know, activation words just give off the vibe of being lazy..." Sophia glanced around and noticed that almost everyone besides her group was staring at her with a blank face, though Ari was facepalming, too. "Err, so, yeah... I'm not a good teacher."
"It's a matter of power, Sophia." Fen addressed her. "Activation words not only help with your imagination, but they also let you use magic if you don't have enough power for the chantless variant."
"But why?" The blonde tilted her head. "What has power to do with the way you use magic? Sure, you need it to do so grand magic, especially when it's uncategorized, as that's usually quite ridiculous. Still, if it's everyday magic like starting a fire or creating a bucket full of water, what keeps you from doing that silent?"
"Uhh..." The wolf had no answer.
"It's not like magic is sentient or anything like that, right? Like it only does sothing for you if you speak to it when you don't have enough power to impress it or whatever?"
"..." Now everyone, including her own group, was staring at Sophia with a blank expression, though Ari also started using her second hand to facepalm.
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