"Do you have anything against your arrows? Why do you keep destroying them?" Zaos asked.
Aria kept just destroying arrows she used with new arrows for so reason. There was no point in doing that since she already proved that her aim was superb. Still, she kept doing anyway as if that was the only way she could relieve her stress. Regardless, she ignored Zaos again.
"Well, it is good that your family can afford to pay you to destroy arrows like this," Zaos said.
"When are you going to apologize?" Drannor asked while whispering.
This ti, Zaos ignored Drannor. The last thing he wanted was to hear what a guy who can't keep his mouth shut has to say. In any case, since Aria tried to ignore him, Zaos decided to ss with her a little. When she readied her next five arrows, Zaos pointed his right hand toward the target. When she fired the first arrow, Zaos fired an Earth Bullet, and both of them hit the bull's eye simultaneously.
"What do you want?" Aria finally asked.
"I ca to apologize and since you are wasting money destroying that, I might as well teach you how to fire projectiles without having to spend money like this," Zaos said.
"Don't wanna," Aria said.
"Just like I told, you still are the spoiled princess," Zaos said. "What do you want, Aria? Is all this just because you didn't receive letters from ?"
"No, I am acting like this because we aren't friends," Aria said. "If we were, you would have sent so letters."
"You said that I was wrong and you still talk about the letters," Zaos said and then laughed.
"Whatever, I don't really care," Aria said.
"Boy… puberty sure hit you hard," Zaos said.
"What is puberty?" Drannor asked.
"Shut up, Drannor," Zaos said. "Do you want to hear that badly about what happened to while I was in the north?"
"I already know what happened, Drannor told everything," Aria said.
"Yeah, right," Zaos said. "You sure know everything because he was in my squad, he sure knows everything because we saw each other pretty much every day, right? Tell her about how often we et in the base."
"In the last two years? Once a month, I guess," Drannor said.
Aria was trying to keep her cool, trying not to be interested in the subject, but she obviously was. In the end, that was sothing she didn't know. Zaos sighed because she was just a kid who wanted to feel closer to her friends who were away. Since she was a princess, she had duties, and she couldn't fail them because the country needed her and will need much more in the future.
"I will ask for the last ti, do you want to hear what happened from my perspective?" Zaos asked.
"… I want," Aria replied.
"Say pretty please," Zaos said.
Aria glared at him, but in the end, that only made Zaos laugh a little more. Once again, he confird that she was just a difficult kid who had a sheltered life but wanted much more than that.
"All right, sorry, my bad," Zaos shrugged. "I went a little too far now. Well, let's sit down because this will take a while."
In the end, even Drannor was a bit interested since Zaos didn't share much information with him. Not only were they busy with their squads, they rarely had ti to talk alone due to their duties in the northern base.
Although Zaos had planned to only tell so details about the mission and skip the gory part, he still had to spend the whole afternoon and even so part of the evening talking about those three years. Zaos didn't like talking all that much, so when it ended, Zaos was so thirsty that he almost tried to drink water by using a Water Sword. That probably wasn't safe…
Regardless, from Zaos's perspective, his life in the northern base was pretty boring, with the exception of a few rare monts. Still, those two paid attention to all his words and even asked questions about the things he learned by himself while he was developing his own fighting style. Again, Zaos wasn't soone who liked to talk, so they used that mont to make him spit it out everything.
"All right, this was everything," Zaos said and then got up. "I am hungry so I am going ho."
"Thanks for sharing those stories, Zaos," Aria finally said sothing without a frown on her forehead. "You can co tomorrow after lunch; it is the usual ti I train with the bow."
"For what?" Zaos asked.
"You said you would teach how to use magic with a bow," Aria said.
"That was before I had to stay here for four hours giving a report about my last three years," Zaos said.
"So, you are going to break your promise?" Aria said. "I can't believe you."
"I didn't promise anything…" Zaos said and then sighed. "Well, whatever. I guess I can throw away one hour of my ti everyday to teach you one thing or other. Speaking of which, why didn't you learn magic at magic school?"
"I went, but since it was pretty boring and the teachers wanted to teach only the boring stuff, I gave up on it," Aria said. "Anyway, see you tomorrow. Don't be late."
"… Ask your father if you can learn from before anything," Zaos said after sighing.
It seed that Zaos put himself in a ss again… unfortunately, he couldn't give up on it anymore. After he crossed the gate of the castle, Zaos and Drannor parted ways and went to their hos. Zaos was exhausted, even more than the days he spent hours and hours swinging that massive sword that he just gained… still, he wasn't that worried about teaching magic to soone else because he already taught Tyra. Things should be easier this ti, and, in the end, he still needed to make up for it with Aria.
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