So ya wanna be a hero kid? (Sayren)

[Ximal]

Xi sat at his desk the torch light in his room illuminating the blackness within. Hunched over his desk he didn't bother changing from how he was in the training room, no point, he had work to do and he had to figure out whether or not he'd made the right choice...He swiped it from his mind and let his arm lay on the table whilst one hand pulled and scratched in his book of notes with his quill, the drawing of a snake flowing into his mind and the simplistic morph he'd once done falling into his mind as well. He flexed his fingers before closing his eyes and focusing on the scaled pattern of a snake...The segmented patterns of armour like plating upon the back and sides of a snake the large inter moving fragments. Xi brought his djed from within him to the surface letting his mind force his djed to obey his will and shift his arm from it's normal human like skin to the pattern within his head. His flesh obeyed his mind and shifted slowly twisting growing enlarging, taking it's time with the slow morph. He was after all still a novice. After about three chimes the simple transformation he'd done once prior finished and completed. the back of his left fore arm had shifted from flesh into scales...Xi ran the tops of right hands finger tips over it. Feeling the smooth yet layered levels of scales. Xi brought his hand back over it and brought his mind back to his normal flesh his djed again being forced to obey his will. though he kept his hand near by and could almost feel the oddness of the change. The feeling of the scales shifting and turning back into smooth flexible flesh like a blank canvas. Xi then opened his eyes slowly to look back at the journal of a book in front of him his left and back to normal but he wrote above the top of the page: "To become everything you must be prepared to be nothing." It wasn't what his initiator told him...However it was his interpretation. How he felt about morphing...Flux was to him the art of knowing everything inside yourself...And morphing was the art of knowing nothing about yourself. Dis jointed and broken the pair of them however both focused upon the internal abilities one possessed. Xi began to jot down his thoughts in the journal in front of him, a slow creeping time passed and then Xi eventually heard a knock at his door..."It's open." The obvious person stepped in. Sayren. However it seemed she realized what had happened. and two things were off, the fact she was hiding her hands and the fact she was more or less dripping with perspiration. She wanted to say she was sorry? And she was ready to accept what ever he was going to do. Xi shook his head. "You continued to train even without my supervision. Good. However...You look like you've been through a lot of pain. Sit down at the desk-" Xi rose out of his seat and shifted his items to the side offering his seat to her for the moment. "-At the moment your hands need attention, sit down and don't argue this isn't a favour this is both an request for your own good." Xi stepped to the side allowing her room to sit, when she did he was going to take out a bit of cloth he had torn to shreds by past events and he tore it further turning the tattered fabric into bandages for her hands. He'd wrap them and laayer the fabric pulling tight enough to hold it in place. Right, next time put on bandages around your hands...It'll prevent you ripping your knuckles apart. Second...Go have a bath and get cleaned up. And i understand your frustration, just you have to accept that you wont get praise here, only critique. If I say nothing your doing it right, because that way you can vary it your self. And find out your own style.

[Sayren WindDancer]

A small smile brushed across her lips. Good that she tried to train on her own, but she looked in pain? She unintentionally rose up her hands to look at them. What gave away that she was in pain? Her knuckles were pretty beaten after her solo spar. He didn't even give her much a chance to speak. Just told her to sit as his desk while he helped with her hands. She remained quiet as she sat on his desk, watching him tend to her hands with the bandages. He gave her a critique and told her to go bathe, then explained that they didn't praise at his school, just corrected.

Without warning, she reached over and hugged the man. She wasn't sure why, but she felt that they both needed it. Her because of her current feeling of shame, and him? Well...he just appeared sad. She wasn't sure about what, but she could feel that something wasn't right with him. "Sorry again...for being such a disappointment...it's why I left Endrykas. So I could train and become a better warrior, and be something that my father can be proud of."

[Ximal]

Xi leant over the table and bandaged her hands into a small wrapping of cloth. Xi focused in a little too much on his, onto taking care of her hands and making sure they would heal alright. Because be fore he realized what happened. He'd found her arms latched around his shoulders, Xi flicked his eyes up to her and smirked looping an arm around her shoulders. A small smirk across his face. Xi let go and leant back, before standing up. "It's not about being a, disappointment you just need think. And as far as being a warrior goes, you need to fight not to prove anything to someone else...But to prove it to your self." Xi lifted his hands to fold then across his chest and turn back to face her. " You need a strong reason to fight, you need a reason which is stronger than proving it to someone that you can fight, you need to be able to stand up and have your motivation be more than proving that your up to someone else's standard. The only opinion that matters is your standard. Your own level of fulfilment towards your own ideals of what you wish to uphold. Fight for a belief and fight for a reason. If you fight to proving something make it something you believe in." Xi smirked and gave her a small thumbs up.

[Sayren WindDancer]

She took a deep breath as she looked into Ximal's eyes, "Thank you." She said gratefully, "I know I would've surpassed my brothers, and eventually my father. It was just a goal for myself to keep on with the challenges. Like you said before, you cannot walk if you cannot stand."

She chewed on her lip a little bit, thinking about how she was still supposed to be punished for her three strikes. "By the way...you have yet to give me the consequences for my strikes...do...I have to...pose?" Her face was now completely red as her eyes diverted from his. She still wasn't quite used to the thought of nudity. Her training outfit alone seemed rather revealing of her features. Before she realized it, her knees had already locked up beside each other and her feet wrapped around one another. For a proud person she was just so self conscious of herself.

[Ximal]

Xi caught her words quite clearly, a thank you...Some thing he rarely if ever received even from the people he helped...A good comment though shortly followed that using something head said to back it up...he really couldn't argue with it and at that moment in time, he really didn't want to argue with it. "You've a point. And one i cant really argue with but it's a standing purpose..You need one that lets you walk, then you need one that lets you run. If you do that then you may even end up surpassing me." Xi smirked and turned back around to face her. only to see her chewing on her lip a some what nervous look upon her face. The comment about the favour put it all into perspective. He closed his eyes with a small grin. "In regards to that yes you do however how you do is your choice. If your not comfortable with doing certain things I won't force you too after all it's a favour, and it's actually helping me in a strange way so i leave how you do it to you." He could see the clear tension in her lower body. "Look go get cleaned up once you do come back here and e'll get it out of the way. It clearly bothers you so to make it fair, and even you can ask something of me to countermand and offset the embarrassment. Is that a fair deal?" He smirked and poked her fore head lightly with his index finger. A small motion to show that he was trying to ease the situation. "By the time I'm done you'll see the lesson I'm conveying here as well. Everything i do has a lesson behind it, and a reason for it. I don't just do it on a whim."

[Sayren WindDancer]

Sayren felt relaxed. She knew he wasn't trying to force anything. Just for some reason she felt so shy. She couldn't quite figure out why she was. She nodded at the idea of getting a quick shower. She really needed it. It would get the dirt, grime, and sweat off her and it would relax her muscles immensely. She hopped off his desk and started to walk out the room, pondering about the words he had said. A reason to walk, and a reason to run. She paused in thought at the doorway. She knew this shyness wouldn't be good for her. What if something bad were to happen out on the streets? Or in the shower? It's not like the perp would give her a chance to get dressed and just fall into stance. She tapped her fingers lightly at the trim of the doorway, continuing her thought process when she took a hesitant sigh to face her master once again.

"I...I know...I need to gain more confidence...m-maybe...the favor could be...you painting me while I bathe?" Her face burned with rosy cheeks. She knew she sounded like a stumbling idiot, but something had to change right? And her mind flooded with thoughts like, "What if he took your virtue? what if he is trying to take advantage of you?" She shook these thoughts aside, she had too. Cause second guessing is the one moment your opponent needs to gain an upper hand against you.

[Ximal]

Xi nodded and glanced towards sayren a look of puzzling. For someone s sure of what she wanted...She did need the modesty lift...Xi closed his eyes and sighed as she rose from the seat and headed towards the door. Xi let his shoulders loosen and slump a little the usual tightness in his back releasing lightly. Though as her foot steps stopped Xi flicked his eyes open to look at her her manner changing lightly and becoming the jittery girl he'd seen earlier. Xi smirked and shook his head, before she turned to face him. Her statement was something that he would have done as part of her request had it been possible. He saw the redness in her face again and that reminded him of hoe he used to be...The glaring embarrassment there and he couldn't help but see a fragment of himself in her..." I would however, there's no solid surface for me to draw on in there, if there was i would go with you but i need a flat surface to work on." Xi smirked lightly and had a spark of an idea, to try and help her get over it. "Y'know you could get undressed in here wrap a towel around yourself and go to and from the bathroom like that, it would help build your confidence in yourself." Xi smirked and lifted the towel he'd had earlier from the bed before tossing it to her. "Your gonna have to be nude in front of me any way what difference dose it make if it's now or later?" He was in his own way trying to help her get over any embarrassment and any pride.

[Sayren WindDancer]

She still couldn't believe she actually asked him to do that. Every part of her was telling her that it was a bad idea, but her gut was telling her it would be better for her in the long run. He said he would've approved, aside from the fact that there wasn't a flat surface in that area. Her mind was racing for another idea, till Ximal spoke of one. Her entire body stiffened. It's not like she could object to the idea now. She WAS the one that brought it up. She really did want to bring up her confidence. She gave a sheepish smile, "Can't walk if you can't stand eh?"

She reached around her back and unsnapped the Leather bra off. The release of tension on her chest had already made her relax with a sigh of relief. Then she removed the garment, and thumbed the waistband to her cotton shorts, dragging them down her smooth legs till they reached her ankles, which made her skin crawl up her back from the immediate kiss of cool wind against the once covered skin. She then stepped out of them and quickly reached for the towel. Wrapping the cloth around her swiftly before looking up at Ximal, her face was still blatantly rosy. She wanted to say something, but it felt like she had lost her voice with her clothes.

[Ximal]

Xi was being honest with him self a little shocked at her response when she said "Gotta stand before you can walk." Oddly he could fee him self a little dumbfounded about how easly those words could be applied to almost anything. The sheepish smile was something that gave him a momentary pause before the releasing snap and the drop of her chest the tension keeping everything up there still released and he could see the relaxing effect it had on her. The with a single motion she slipped her leather brassier off, and then her shorts and undergarments in one stroke. Now Xi wasn't exactly sure what she was so embarrassed about, however if she observed with the most careful of observations she might have noticed the slght tint of red in his own face. Barely there. Still the towel slid out of his hands in a single motion. And her face told everything she was still embarrassed however it was less so than she'd thought. Xi smirked. "Well at least it's out in the woods. Not the middle of the city. And I really don't see what you have to be embarrassed about to be honest..." Xi smirked stepped past her scooped up her clothing in one hand before turning to face her again. "Right now you go have your bath and I'll go drop your clothing off in your room for you. By the time I'm done with you you'll have enough confidence in yourself to wear that towel around your waist only." Xi gave a half joking half cheeky smile before opening the door to his room. The walk from his room to hers was the same as from his room to the bathroom.

[Sayren WindDancer]

Her eyes were completely set on him. For a moment, she could've swore even he had a blush on him, but it barely even scratched her thoughts as a small breeze came in and made her shiver once again. He finally spoke and it put her to ease, however, she wasn't too sure what to feel about him saying he didn't see what she was so embarrassed about? Did that mean he liked what he saw? She sighed in the back of her mind, of course he does! He's a man! And then he told her to go on, have her bath while he dropped off her clothes. What he said next made her hide her face behind her bangs. She'd wear a towel only around her waist? She really wasn't sure what to think of that and quickly walked off to the bathroom.

About a bell later, she was now just relaxing in the warm water. She had already scrubbed and oiled herself, now she was just laying in the water, letting it soothe her muscles. She was now thinking about all that had happened that day. She was now a student to one of the most accomplished masters she knew of. Started her first lesson and had learned so much...wasn't too sure about how she felt with him seeing her completely nude...it embarrassed her cause it just somehow all excited her, and she didn't understand why. Wasn't sure if she WANTED to understand why. She sighed as she finally got out of the bath, drying herself a little before covering herself with the cloth.

The moment she stepped out of the room, her still damp skin crawling all over from the kiss of cold burst air. She walked back into Ximal's room to see if was still there, and to put this favor aside, least before it was too late into the evening.