“Hey” Hades called out to her. She stopped midway and turned to look at hades surprised. Green. Her eyes were the color of the green fields stretching forever, where his mother would chase after him and he would run in abandon. He would look back to see her with her arms outstretched, her head thrown back a slight smile on her face, defiant to the gusting winds around her.
“Yes” her answer
pulled him back with a jerk grounding him to earth.
“Your arms keep it
straight. And arch your sword a complete half circle.” he said briskly. “Only
then you will be able to manipulate your mana correctly. It need to flow with
your body.”
She immediately
flushed, her face fell.
“Oh, like this.” She
asked slashing her sword with gusto.
“Close.”
“Show me.” She asked
offering her sword to him. He sighed inwardly, exasperated. Great he should
have just kept his mouth shut.
“You hold it
perpendicular like this. Moreover, when you slash it forward, you need to do it
smoothly. Your mana is like water; your sword is an oar. You have to guide it
and not get guided by it.” He said cutting the air smoothly with the dummy
sword, so that the air vibrated and rippled like water.
She looked on with
eyes as wide as two pennies and actually gasped when he created the air
ripples.
“I can never do that
and I have been practicing, every day morn to noon. I thought I was just
terrible.”
“Practice is
important, but so is technique.” Something Hades could vouch for. “Why didn’t
you ask any of these guys for help?”
“Most don’t
want…..anything to do with me, they think am stupid.”
Hades did not exactly
have a comeback for that; mortals were not exactly treated with respect in
gaia. In fact, demis were seen as abominations. He wondered whether he should
nod sympathetically, a sympathy he did not particularly feel. Thankfully, he
was saved from any reaction by her response.
“Am korai, I was there
for the initiation. I dunno whether you remember.” She said uncertainly,
shifting from her left to right foot. Her voice was husky and she had a thick
gaian accent.
