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The morning sun creeped through the window, effectively waking Tsuki. Groaning a slight bit, the man stretched out then sat up. He threw off the covers and stood, going over to the window.

Heh, that's right, he'd forgotten to shut the curtains last night. Not that it mattered.... no one else was around to peek in anyway. The only other person around was his newly acquired apprentice, and she was in the next room, likely sleeping still. He couldn't help but wonder, though. What made him take on an apprentice? He wasn't even the teaching type. Well, it certainly was going to be interesting, that was for sure.

Not bothering to put on a shirt for now, Tsuki left the room and went over to the one he'd given his apprentice and knocked on the door. "Knock, knock, time to wake up!" he called with a grin.

Tsuki smiled when he saw his apprentice was already awake and dressed. Good, good. "You don't have to call me Master, you know," he told her, laughing a bit. "Just Tsuki is fine."

If one looked closely, one could see various scars on Tsuki's chest and back. Some were small, but others looked rather painful. Especially one that seemed to have been made by something stabbing through his chest and out his back. They weren't new scars, no. They were rather old, from an incident 11 years prior, one he barely survived.

"Anyway, would you rather eat breakfast first or go out into the field for some basic training? I was thinking I could begin teaching you something other than just control," he said, seeming to be in thought. Tsuki shook his head and grinned, heading into the small living area. "Well? We can't just sit around doing nothing now, can we?"

"Good!" Tsuki replied, heading over to one of the corners of the living area, and taking the staff he'd kept there. He'd yet to touch it since Ignisi came to live with him, but he hadn't needed it before then. He remembered when he used to use it. It was before he came to live here. Heh, it'd certainly been a while....

Having everything he needed, Tsuki headed out the front door and out into the field that surrounded his rather small house. It wasn't much of a house, just two rooms and a living area that doubled as a kitchen. There was a river nearby, which had a nice supply of fish. The town below was where he got everything else he needed. Though, he didn't go down there too often. The townspeople didn't like him very much. They weren't very found of non-healer mages, apparently.

Once he was far enough away from his house, Tsuki stopped and turned around, waiting for Ignisi to catch up. Well, at least today's lessons were going to be fun, haha.

"We're going to play a game," Tsuki mused with a grin. He took his staff and dug it into the ground so that it stood on it's own. With that, Tsuki took a few steps back from it and put his hands together. He concentrated for a moment before pulling his hands apart, a medium sized ice ball now in the palm of his hands.

"I'm going to throw this, and I want you to hit it and melt it," he told her. "Sounds pretty simple, right? Haha. Don't worry about accidentally hitting me or setting anything on fire, my staff here will protect me, as well as the grass around us. Any questions?"

Grinning, Tsuki laughed a bit. "Good."

With that, the man threw the ice ball into the air, as high as he could. "Try to hit it before it hits the ground," he told her, simply watching. While this game may seem just simple fun, it was much more than that. It tested control, accuracy, as well as speed. All good things to have when using any sort of destructive magic. Something Ignisi needed. Fire was a difficult element to control, from what he learned and observed. But just keeping it bottled inside was even worse....

Tsuki didn't even seem to flinch as the flame missed and headed towards him. Instead, he seemed to be laughing a bit. "Don't over think it. Just do it," he advised her as he made yet another ice ball, the same size as the one before.

"Let's try again, shall we?" With that, he threw the ice ball in the air once more, this time a bit higher, as to give her more time to hit it.

Tsuki couldn't help but laugh at Ignisi's failed attempt. "It is an improvement, yes," he agreed, making another ice ball. "But not successful either...."

The man looked down at the ice ball in his hands for a few moments, seeming to be in thought. "Try to keep your fire concentrated and not spread out. Just like this ice ball here.... It's dense in the middle, and the outside is a flaky crust. Remember that your magic is a part of you, an extension of yourself. Don't over think things, just do it. Haha, you don't think about walking or breathing, do you?"