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ises Desa gave me,
and more importantly, they were being honed outwards. A sex mage learns to
feel his insides, learns to know every inch of himself and what one should
apply where to make those feelings grow and manifest themselves. But Desa
had no interest in an apprentice who couldn't see, Aimee', and so forced me
into physical exercises to maintain my strength but also to make me aware
of the world about me. That is why he began teaching me combat.
Those were interesting times, Aimee', to have youthful Dragonkin, man
shaped, fighting me. Hand to hand, with sticks, and then with swords, I
learned how to see my opponent, how to hear him and how to smell him. Six
months is not a long time, but it was enough to make me aware of Ryu.
The cheerfulness was facade', Aimee', for inside he was truly hurting.
His rejection at the hands of his peers was often more than he could bear,
and I would hear him sob in the night, whether as a way to sleep or
something from his dreams, I did not know. In the six months I spent with
him, rarely did he have Dragon visitors. Once, Desa came to visit us in
his full dracoform, and the difference between the two of them was
bewildering. Desa was fully three times as broad and four long compared to
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