That evening, Kir finally lets me do magic for the first time. My eyes almost fall out of my skull as he tells me that he’ll teach me a spell. The simplest one, of course. But I’m not even disappointed. I’ve been dying to use blood magic properly, without it bursting out of me randomly.
He tells me I’ve actually pulled off one of the hardest spells on Sheila, without even saying the incantation, but it doesn’t feel like a praise. At least not to me. I don’t think I ever want to learn that spell properly. Or maybe I should, so I know how to stop it too.
“You’re going to make me feel pain with this spell. It belongs to the aggressive branch, so don’t be afraid of its effect. You might not succeed on your first try, but that’s okay. You might also cause me a lot of pain, and that’s fine, to
