"Fine, you look like you need it anyway. They sell coffee at the bakery." Then they made their way out of the tower, out of the castle, and to the bakery. Strangely upon arriving at the bakery, Kitty declined the offer of donuts from the baker. Instead she simply stood there waiting for Elias to get his coffee, once that was done she walked out with him. As she walked she seemed to be leading him out of the town and into the forest, where they walked for what seemed like an hour. 

After said hour they arrived at a clearing surrounded by trees, but there seemed to be something ever so slightly off about the clearing. The air seemed almost too still, it was a bit warmer in the clearing than in the rest of the forest, the ground seemed extra muddy, and some of the earth was disturbed. Kitty stopped in the middle of the clearing, turning to Elias with an unreadable expression on her face. "For someone fairly advanced at magic, you can sometimes be so dense when recognizing i-" Kitty was cut off as she suddenly started coughing, then wheezing, then gasping for air. She clutched her throat, it seemed as if someone were strangling her but there was no one nearby. This continued until her eyes rolled back and she dropped, shaking for a moment before her body stilled. She didn't look like she was breathing.

In all honesty, coffee is bitter and disgusting, but Elias more than needed it to pick him up for the day ahead. He grabbed a simple black coffee and quickly cooled it to the perfect temperature before slamming the solid caffeine into his body. He jittered around for a few moments before calming down and quickly catching up to Kitty, who had trailed ahead.

Elias knew something was off about the clearing the moment he stepped foot in the clearing, the magical energy floating around the area felt far too controlled, and circling around a large patch of mud in the middle. He frowned and moved to investigate when he heard a choking sound behind him.

"Kitty," Elias shouted, turning to watch the vampire collapsed on the ground, shaking. Elias ran towards Kitty and half tossed his staff towards the side, hesitating as he crouched beside Kitty's still body. Her chest wasn't moving, or at least it didn't look like it, probably meant she wasn't breathing. He silently cursed, regretting throwing out his revolver from the night before, it's power could have saved Kitty's soul from death, but there was one other thing Elias could do. CPR. He crossed both hands and placed them in the center of Kitty's upper chest, right above the sternum, and shoved downwards three times. Elias didn't think as he tilted Kitty's head upwards and plugged her nose, quickly leaning down and firmly breathing into Kitty's mouth just like the Lifeguard manuals instructed. He barely noticed the faint metallic taste of blood on Kitty's lips as he repeated the process again and again.

Considering the fact that Elias was otherwise occupied, he wouldn't notice the air briefly shimmer behind him. A figure emerged from the shimmer, and then it promptly disappeared as the figure walked up behind Elias. She placed a hand on his shoulder, a comforting gesture. "She's dead, Elias. She's served her purpose." Standing behind him was Kitty, living and breathing absolutely fine. "Although I admit I'm touched you care, half the time I think you hate me." Kitty gently pulled Elias off the dead girl, leaning down and opening her mouth. There was a little blood in her mouth but that didn't seem to deter Kitty, who pulled the dead girls tongue up and removed a leaf from under it. The leaf then proceeded to burn in her hand, the flesh melting off the dead girl to reveal a clay version of Kitty. "It's a golem, on a smaller scale and leaning more towards human nature than an actual elemental appearance. Best part about golems? They're minions that don't require souls to be made." 

Kitty stood up and turned, putting her palms up as the air seemed to shimmer again then the illusion seemed to melt away. Behind the shimmering wall were four utterly massive figures, but none of them were even remotely human. One was made of pure fire, but it stood tall and imposing, sending out a massive wave of heat. Another was made of air, standing beside the fiery giant it seemed to be fanning its flames. The next was made of water and ice, the ice was the main feature and the veins flowed with water. The very last one was a mish mosh of trees, dirt, rock, mud, a personification of the earth. Each one had a visible symbol in its forehead, seemingly from Norse Runes. "And these are Golem's on a large scale, embodying the elements. Would you like to learn how to make one?"

Elias slowed down and felt a hand placed on his shoulder, it was kitty's.

"What the fuck," he shouted, grabbing his staff and scrambling away. The wizard watched quizzically as Kitty pulled a leaf from under the tongue of the fake Kitty. The model collapsed into clay as she explained it was better than tying souls to zombies and using them as minions. Elias didn't respond, his brows furrowed and his face set in stone.

"That doesn't change the fact that you fucking tricked me," He said, blood leaking into his voice. He lifted his staff and slammed into the ground, the amber crystal on the top glowing a sickly green. Elias drew in the power of life from the nature around him. The plants, insects, and every lesser living being nearby wilted and died, it's life energy being pooled into Elias' shadow, deepening it into a pitch black impossible without a complete and utter absence of light. Elias muttered an ancient word and his shadow split into four, each growing into physical shadows equal in size and physique to Kitty's own golems. Their sickly green eyes matched the hue of Elias' staff. The whole process only took a couple of seconds. "Your golems might be great and all, but that doesn't change the fact that you tricked me," Elias questioned as his irises turned crimson in color and a bloody triangle formed below his eye. The wizard muttered a silent word and the physical shadows charged, Elias followed up with a hail of ice shards aimed straight for kitty. "I'll just assume this one is a golem too," He growled.

At first Kitty seemed startled by the sudden change in Elias, but the startled expression faded into a calm one as she let out a sigh. Surprisingly Kitty didn't move to attack at all, no fire danced across her skin and her hands didn't glow with magic. She just stood there waiting for it all, but there wasn't a trace of fear on her face, she wasn't afraid of Elias. Kitty tilted her head up, looking at the hail of ice shards heading for her. Still the red headed vampire didn't move. Instead she let the hail of ice rain down on her, only choosing to melt the shards that were aimed at vital areas where she would never be able to heal fast enough to live. 

Once the ice hail was over, Kitty's clothes had been ripped to shreds, but thankfully covered what it needed to. She had also chosen to hold back her healing ability, a multitude of bleeding wounds on her body, and some of the ice shards were still stuck into her skin. She pulled one out of her throat, cracking her neck as she let that one heal so she could speak. "Believe it or not my sister's impaled me with ice before when I've pissed her off too. I'm sorry Elias, I shouldn't have tricked you." 

The golems didn't attack either, they would only animate at Kitty's command after all. The shadows pulled the motionless elemental giants apart, Kitty raised a hand to put out the fire golems flames, she did not want a forest fire after all. The air golem simply turned into wind, the breeze ruffling Elias's and Kitty's hair. The earth golem fell to the ground in a deafening thud, trees, boulders, dirt, mud strewn about in the clearing. The water/ice golem melted, a flood of water ankle deep flooding the ground before being soaked back into the earth, leaving it slippery and muddy.

Much to Elias' surprise, Kitty barely reacted to his attacks, only melting the shards that could have killed her and allowing Elias' shadow summons to rip apart her own fancy golems. In his shock, the wizard released the massive buildup of life energy. The shadows and the crimson in Elias' eyes faded with the light in his staff, forcing the residual energy to course through his body and Elias slumped to the ground, sound asleep.

"Elias!" Kitty shouted, worry crossing her cut up face as she ran over to him. Her wounds healed then, fear starting to bleed into her eyes as she picked him up, the fear fading away as she let out a sigh of relief upon finding a pulse in the side of his neck. "Stupid man, know your limits and don't worry me like that." Kitty murmured, slipping her arms under him and picking him up so that she could carry him back. Despite the fact that Kitty sometimes regarded Elias as a child, was cold to him, or relentlessly teased him, she considered him a friend, one that she would go to bat for if need be. 


Some people gave her weird looks as she carried Elias through the town, but she completely ignored him as she brought him back to the tower. But ran into a problem considering the ward on his door, but after picking up Elias's hand and using that to open the door she slipped inside with him still in her arms. Once inside she awkwardly took off his shoes so he wouldn't get mud in the bed, then sort of tucked him in. Still Kitty was concerned about Elias so she took a seat in an arm chair beside the window, suddenly feeling worn and tired. She had been neglecting to feed in awhile so she was weaker than usual, and using all that magic earlier to make the golem's hadn't helped. Eventually despite trying to resist it, Kitty's eyes drooped and she too fell asleep in the armchair.

Elias groaned and shivered as he sat up in bed. He panicked for a moment before recognizing his surroundings and rolling out of his bed. He almost tripped over a small stack of books as his socked feet hit the carpet. He pulled the comforter off the bed after him and dragged it across the room towards the fireplace and plopped down in one of the two armchairs facing it. With a wave of his hand and a snap of his fingers, Elias drifted a small pile of wood into the fireplace and ignited a warm fire, filling the room with the comforting scent of burning wood.

A slight snoring broke the silence between the fire's cracks and pops, Elias turned to the sight of Kitty sitting in one of the armchairs by the window, a beam of light streaming on her face. The wizard cursed silently and quickly strolled over to Kitty, easily picking her up with his newly trained strength and carrying her out of the harmful sunlight and in the second armchair near the fire. Elias turned to sit back in his own chair, but momentarily pulled kitty's mouth open to check for a leaf or some other telltale sign of a fake.

Kitty didn't even stir as Elias moved her, and all that was revealed upon opening her mouth was a set of normal human teeth and not a leaf in sight. But once Elias pulled his hand away and let her mouth close she stirred slightly, curling up in the chair and mumbling something as she fell back to sleep. Surprisingly the girl looked quite peaceful when sleeping, there was no tightness in her jaw or a wrinkle in her forehead when her brows knitted together. In all honesty when she was sleeping the vampire probably looked more approachable. Aside from her current attire. While the active wear had been ripped to shreds, although it covered the important bits, most of the visible tan skin was littered with scars. The scars weren't necessarily from today, most looked older although some looked older than others. 

Normally Kitty would have woken up and left by now, but this was the first moment of sleep Kitty had gotten in a little over two weeks. As a half vampire she didn't need to sleep as much as the average human, but still Kitty always slept the bare minimum, the girl tended to have nightmares. But she seemed fairly peaceful now. She had also been neglecting the urge to feed, so that attributed to her still being asleep. It must have been even more tiring to carry Elias all the way back to the tower.

Elias dragged his armchair closer to the fire and curled up under the thick comforter, allowing the soothing warmth to wash over him as he watched Kitty sleep. Her form looked loose, peaceful, and definitely eighteen years old. The hardened features from centuries of life had disappeared. Dare he say it, but Elias thought it was kind of adorable. The wizard began reading a book on the thaumaturgy of magical weapons and waited for Kitty to wake up.

It was about another twenty minutes before Kitty woke up, stretching her arms above her head and stretching her legs out while yawning, in that moment she looked very much like a cat. She rubbed her bright but still sleepy blue eyes, her features were still softened as she looked around blearily. Her eyes settled on Elias and she seemed to let out a sigh of relief, "You're awake...Good..." She inspected him for another moment, looking for any other signs of distress or illness that might show up after over using magic, when she was satisfied that there weren't any she yawned again. Her eyes and face were surprisingly unguarded and she still looked her bodies physical age. "What are you reading?" 

Kitty's eyes slowly made their way down to the book he was reading, a lazy lopsided grin forming on her face at the topic. "Magical weapons huh?" Kitty stretched her arms again, shifting on the armchair so she was lying on her stomach so her feet hung off one arm rest while her arms propped up her chin on the other. "My mom's favorite, well..." Kitty cocked her head to the side, the grin on her face growing a bit wider. "Technically it was my dad's favorite. But he was kind of a dud when it came to magic, he might have had some normal brains and a lot of brawn, but mom was the witch." She made motions with her hands as she spoke, her voice softer and not as rough as it would usually be. In these moments she seemed like a normal person almost. "He wanted to train me and my sister Diana, and despite the fact that we could heal, he always freaked out when either of us got a cut. So he would ask mom to make all these crazy charms, enchantments, runes and the like, to the weapons and shields. Blades that turned to rubber when me or my sister hit each other, shields that would wrap around our whole body like cocoons. We'd fall over when they did, one time we accidentally rolled down a hill and smacked into a tree." Kitty giggled, yes giggled, at the memory. 


"He always liked to watch her work with magic too, he was absolutely fascinated by it, but it was more about her than the magic." Kitty seemed to perk up a bit and the lopsided smile turned into a fond grin. "He always said that he loved the way her eyes brightened when she successfully did a new spell, he thought it was adorable the way she stuck out her tongue sometimes when she was concentrating, he found it hilarious and attractive that my mother was deceptively deadly. 5'3" and with just a flick of her wrist she could blow a whole house away like a tornado had just decimated it." For once Kitty's eyes didn't dim when talking about her parents, her smile didn't waver either. "I can show you some enchantments if you'd like, carve runes and symbols into the sword so that they would have an affinity with a certain element. But with how much and how quickly you read I bet you already know how to do that, huh?"

Elias continued flipping through his book, the text and diagrams lit by a mixture of sunlight and the crackling fire in the corner. Most of them detailed effective enchantments on different kinds of weapons. Stylized diagrams of weapons which probably cost far more than the enchantments themselves. Not to mention, many of them were incredibly generic; Flaming broadswords, earth manipulating warhammers. All about the most basic and generic as you can get, though the enchantments could be crafted easily enough to equip an army.

Kitty woke up about the time Elias had flipped halfway through the book, her voice tinted with grogginess after having just woken up from her nap. She drawled about the magical brilliance of her mother and her dad, who loved to watch his wife work. Elias perked up when she mentioned the theme of the book, giving the wizard a clear view of her soft and relaxed feature, making her look more like a girl than a crazy vampire.

"I can whip up some pretty good enchantments," Elias responded after Kitty finished speaking, "Elemental magic is basic stuff, you've got to have some fancier enchantments than that."

She scoffed, only one hand propping up her chin now while she waved the other. "Of course I do." Kitty stood up for a moment, although she wobbled on her feet and looked a bit pale for a moment. She brushed off the dizziness and looked down at her clothes with slight dismay. But with a shrug she swept her hands over her arms and legs, leaving a glow behind. Thankfully there had been enough material left for her to morph the ruined top and leggings into a sleeveless crop top and shorts, plopping back down on the chair again when that was done. The fabric was no longer stained with blood either in fact other than the dampness of her hair, some of the ice shards that had gotten stuck in her hair had melted. She tied the messy curly red strands into a ponytail, but balked slightly when she found one strand that was black instead of red. But within a blink it was gone, a pinprick of pain in her forehead that she brushed off too. 

"I can enchant a sword to be invisible, actually more useful than it sounds. If you don't want anyone to know you're armed that is." She put up one finger, her lips morphing into a slight pout as she thought. "I can enchant a sword to conjure up force fields, how strong it is would depend on the power of the user." Another finger went up. "I can enchant a sword to be loyal to its owner, attempting to burn or kill anyone else who tried to touch it." Then she grinned, a certain enchantment coming to mind. "I can enchant a sword that doesn't wound the flesh." The mysterious way she spoke made it sound as if there was more to the seemingly useless enchantment.

Kitty's first enchantment, conjuring a force field, was simple enough. Elias had already applied a similar enchantment to several of his tools in the past, and there wasn't much point in enchanting a sword to not hurt people. The others, however, sounded fairly interesting.

"Invisible swords you say," Elias questioned. The whole idea sounded ludicrous. "Now how do you do that?"

Ideas started tossing and turning in Elias' head. It would be physically impossible for a sword to truly turn invisible. Perhaps it was simply a glamor to trick the human eye, though that would be weak to robotic eyes, or maybe it simply bent light around it, which was hard to do already. The easiest thing Elias could think of doing was forcing the blade to vibrate at beyond the frequency of light, which also meant the handle couldn't be invisible and risked the blade becoming easy to shatter.

"Bends the light around it." She said simply, getting up again, this time she was a bit steadier on her feet as she left the room. She returned a few minutes later with a variety of different weapons in her arms, one knife, two daggers, one war hammer, and three swords. She dumped them on the floor, wincing when it made a long clanging noise that made her head hurt. "I was originally going to save these for when we start weapons training, but magic practice is fine too." She sat down on the floor, across from Elias with the weapons sitting in between them. 

Kitty grabbed a dagger, turning it around in her hand. She held it by the blade, she didn't seem to mind if the blade cut into her hand. Her free hand reached out with her pointer finger, a flame bursting from it like she was using her hand as a blow torch or a welder. She began to burn a Norse rune into the bottom of the handle, it looked kind of like an arrow. "Tiwaz, in this enchantment it's supposed to mean warrior. This rune has multiple meanings, therefore it has multiple uses." Then on the hilt she burned another symbol into it, the first one glowed gold while the one she was carving into the hilt was glowing green. "Pertho, Norse rune for magic." Then on the actual blade she burned a third symbol into it, this one looked like an S. "Sowulo, it means Sun and can also be translated as light." This last symbol glowed white, and as Kitty released the blade and instead went to hold it by its handle the cut that had been formed by the blade bled over the handle. The blood seeped into the blade, the hilt, and then the handle. Within seconds the blade seemingly disappeared from Kitty's hand, but as she tilted her hand up, pressing a fingertip over a seemingly empty space of air, her finger began to bleed. The blade was still there. "Reveal." Kitty whispered quietly, the blade suddenly became visible again.

By directly translating Ancient Nordic runes, Kitty crafted a spell. Something about them seemed primal, instinctive, and their meaning was clear despite their being completely alien to Elias' eyes. Kitty burned the trio of runes into a tiny knife blade with her fingertip. He noted the blood trickling down her wrist.

"Ancient Nordic runes," Elias pondered, "I'd never thought of using those before." The wizard strolled towards kitty, leaning in close to get a better look at the runes, the back of his neck was left exposed as Elias tried to memorize the exact shape and inflections on the runes so he could copy them down on another one of the weapons Kitty had brought up.

"That reminds me, you don't really know any other languages than English right? I can help you with th-..." Kitty was cut off as she made a choking sound, the sound of Elias's pulse was thundering in her ears and instinctively her fangs slid down over her lips. She looked a bit pale in the face and she was breathing a bit harder than normal, a look of hunger was in her eyes. She had neglecting to feed for two weeks, she had gotten so busy trying to think up training regimens for Elias's physical training and finding magical spells and rituals, etc. to keep Elias interested. But after being wounded so much today and the amount of magic she used, her resistance was weakened and damn if he didn't smell so good. "E-Elias you're too close..." Her voice shook as she spoke, suddenly feeling a bit dizzy and light headed as she tried to hold back her own vampiric instincts, her hungry eyes looking a bit unfocused.

Hot breath tingled down Elias' neck as he observed Kitty's knife. He turned quizzically towards Kitty, putting his face just a few inches away from hers.

"E-Elias you're too close..." Kitty half-whispered and stammered, her face started to turn pale. Kitty's eyes glazed over and she started to collapse. Elias caught Kitty and held her up.

"You're hungry," Elias whispered, "Aren't you." The wizard pried the dagger from kitty's fingers and raised it to his neck. "You can drink from me if you need to." Elias began to press the knife blade into his neck.

"No," Kitty muttered, trying to push Elias away with her weakened arms

The wizard easily resisted Kitty. "You can pay me back later," He replied simply, "Now drink."

After a light flourish of the blade, blood welled out of a small cut in Elias' neck, he closed his eyes as Kitty began feeding.

Kitty couldn't resist it when Elias made that small cut on his neck, the scent of his blood completely eroded any control she had left. It wouldn't hurt when her fangs first punctured the skin of his neck, they were too sharp. But it probably stung a little when she bit down slightly, her body shivering slightly as she tasted his blood. O+, her favorite, and it was magic blood. Witches, wizards, and warlocks always tasted so sweet. Her arms reached out and wrapped around him to tug him closer, making it easier for her drink. Her eyes were closed as she got lost in it, for a brief second she wanted nothing more than to drain him dry, but her conscience screamed at her. Kitty pulled away when she got at least a decent amount of blood, breathing hard with bloody fangs and a bit of blood dripping down her chin. 

Slowly she wiped the blood away from her chin, licking her lips as simply stared at him. Her arms were still around him, but only one retracted, her hand moving up to the cut on his neck. Her hands were way warmer than the average humans, they were warm even for her. Slowly her fingertips began to glow, starting to heal the wound that the both of them had caused on his neck, but she never broke eye contact with him.

Elias couldn't quite describe the feeling of a vampire drinking from him in words, not even if a gun was pointed to his head. All he could say is that it felt strangely... good. The sharp bite of kitty's fangs were quickly dulled by the heat of her lips as she sucked the hot, sticky blood flowing freely from his neck. Elias' senses dulled as she did, as if his soul was drifting blissfully away from his body. The wizard was only faintly aware as Kitty's arms wrapped tightly around him as the dagger in his hands clattered to the floor and he fell backwards into one of the two armchairs in front of the fireplace. Kitty followed and drank even more deeply.

Elias snapped back into focus as Kitty pulled away. Her face seemed fuller now, and her tough grip had returned. Elias, on the other hand, felt wobbly and ever so slightly lightheaded. He barely reacted as Kitty dragged her hot fingers across his skin. Each held the other in a tense gaze, neither dared to break it.

Maybe it was the heat pounding in Elias' chest, or the way blood dripped out of Kitty's slightly agape, yet perfectly sculpted mouth. Something had to be done about the heat and tension of being so close. One of Elias' arms trailed to the back of Kitty's neck.

"Pay me back?" he asked, pulling Kitty's lips down on his own. The metallic tang of his own blood flooded through his nose as his hold around Kitty grew slightly tighter, pulling her entire body closer to his own.

"Pay you back....?" Kitty's words came out slowly, a slight bit of confusion crossing her face. Her eyes flicked down to his lips briefly before he was pulling her own down on his, the heat and tension seemed to overwhelm her as she kissed him back. Kitty was tempted to bite him again, his blood had tasted so sweet. But instead she just pulled him closer, her grip on him tightening as one hand rested on the back of his neck after she had finished healing it. 

Kitty may not require a lot of human things considering she was half vampire, but air was one the things that she required. Eventually she pulled away from the kiss, looking down at him with heated and slightly wide blue eyes. Her eyes stared into his for a couple seconds, breathing hard as her skin almost burned. She started to bring her face back down to his, her eyes closing again as her lips brushed his before kissing him again properly.

Kitty's ravenous kiss drew Elias in. Primal desire flowed between the two as Elias fed Kitty with passion instead of blood. Neither had felt the touch of another being in years, or in Kitty's case: Centuries.

Elias hated to feel Kitty pull away, despite the burning need for oxygen. Their heavy breath mingled with the heat and electric feel of the air between them as each gasped for air, Elias' own cobalt eyes locked with Kitty's. Though Kitty quickly fell in for another kiss, this time sweeter and more controlled, gentler. Elias let the kiss linger for a few seconds before pushing kitty away slightly.

"Feeling better?" He asked, allowing himself a light smile as he gazed at Kitty's face.

It surprised Kitty how much she wanted to connect their lips again for a third time, the thought causing her face to slowly turn as red as her hair. Her lips looked slightly swollen from the first passionate and intense kiss, her mouth opening and closing as she tried to make at least some words leave her tongue. "Y-You kissed me." Kitty stuttered out, her hand going to her mouth to touch her lips. They felt a bit cold without his on hers, and they tingled slightly. "You kissed me..." 


Then Kitty seemed to realize that she was practically sitting in Elias's lap, quickly scrambling off with a face that was starting to look redder than even her hair. Her eyes darted to the window, noting the time, the both of them had been sleeping for awhile. Kitty's head snapped back to Elias, looking kind of like a deer in headlights. It seemed so unlike the usually cool headed and sassy vampire, now red in the face and stuttering with her hand still touching her lips. "L-Lunch!" She blurted out, eyes glancing to the window again. "Lunch, yeah! You slept through lunch...." She started to walk backwards towards the door, "So I'll....go get you that." She whipped around quickly just as she was opening the door, accidentally smacking herself in the face with it. Her fumble made her turn as red as possible before she darted out the door, closing it behind her, then practically flying down the stairs to try and get out of the tower as quickly as possible before her own awkwardness and embarrassment ate her alive.

"But I'm not-" Elias stammered as Kitty rushed out of the room. His face flushed with red a moment later as he fully realized what he had done; Feeding and making out with a vampire. Even his own blood had been dripping off her chin. Elias stood up and paced around the room, trying to clear the thoughts from his mind of the comparatively cold and empty space in front of him.

Blood had stained Elias' shirt from the moments before. The wizard quickly took it off and changed into a new one, preparing materials needed to remove the stains later and a makeshift drying rack with some string and a couple of wooden chairs outside. He scrubbed the blood stains with cold water and soap.

About twenty minutes later Kitty returned with lunch, but didn't stay. Instead she knocked on the door then left the tray by it before fleeing out of the tower again. Over the next week she seemed to be trying to distance herself from him, although the success of that wasn't really clear. She would bring him more books, some from her own private collection, some were still about magical weapons. How to make weapons that could change their shape depending on what they were needed for, a sword that could change into a warhammer or into a dagger. Some were about advanced healing magic, he had seemed interested in it the first time Kitty healed him. And the last of the books were about a variety of potions, ones for transmogrification, enhancing strength and speed, etc. Kitty would bring the books to him and sit as far away from his as she could, although she would glance at him every couple seconds and stare for a couple seconds too. Whenever Elias caught her or called her on it she would turn red and shoot up, make some excuse, then bolt out of the room.

Finally it was time for physical training again, they would be focusing on weapons now, this brought Kitty some comfort. She was in her element when working with a sword, her nerves took a break when she had a blade in her hand. Kitty dropped the swords with a clatter, taking a deep breath to calm herself. She was wearing a pair of sweatpants and a crop top with an activewear jacket over it and wearing sneakers. "Elias! Get up!"