The training session with Marissa was exhausting and if I'm being honest I didn't feel any closer to mastering my family trait than I was before. Throughout the three hour session she kept repeating that these things take time and I shouldn't beat myself up. But I can't help but feel that I have one hand tied behind my back. Normally when someone inherits a family trait, they know it's coming. They already have witch's powers and know how to do those things. I was having to learn magic and these gifts at the same time and I couldn't even use magic.
Marissa didn't seem even remotely frustrated with me, which made one of us. About halfway through Cicero even left, though because of my disappointing capabilities are because he had better things to do, I don't know. Finally when it was clear
