Chapter 229: Training Plan
Kalon brought Thea back to Earth with him and walked her as far as the street outside his building.
She still had the flushed look from Delphinium on her face.
Her cropped top sat slightly twisted from the the fighting she had done, and every time she shifted her weight the fabric pulled tight across her chest.
She noticed him looking and did not fix it straight away. If anything, she let him take the view for a second longer before speaking.
She wondered whether Kalon would enjoy her body today, but unfortunately, he seemed busy.
"You did well today," Kalon said.
Thea’s blue eyes lifted to his. "You think so?"
"I know so. You kept Josinia standing, and you dropped people at range with a skill you only just awakened. That is proper work. Work far above the level that others might even expect from you."
It was the truth. Thea was now much stronger than the average first year student, as she has awakened such rare Affinities.
Her mouth tugged into a small smile. She brushed a loose strand of hair behind her ear and finally tugged the cropped top down a little, though it still left her midriff bare. The movement made her breasts shift under the tight fabric, and she caught him noticing that too.
"It felt different once the fighting started," she said. "I felt in control of everything. When Josinia got cut, I was in control of healing her. And it all felt natural too. I feel like there’s so much potential in these skills."
Kalon nodded.
"That is why you keep training it. Every day. Start small. Take life from plants, then put life back into other plants. Get used to the circuit moving both ways until it feels natural in your hands. When that becomes easy, move to insects and repeat the same process. End one thing cleanly, then use what you took to restore something else."
Thea listened without interrupting, her blue eyes were focused on him. A bit of colour sat in her cheeks from more than the cold London air, and also from the fact her body was quite exposed at the moment.
"And after that?" she asked.
"If the skill keeps growing the way it should, you may eventually restore larger animals." Kalon paused, then added, "Maybe even humans. I do not know the ceiling yet. But if anyone is going to find out, it will be by training properly instead of guessing."
Thea’s cheeks blushed a brighter red at that. With nerves at the thought of becoming so powerful.
The idea clearly sat heavy with her, but there was excitement under it too. She pressed her thighs together slightly without seeming to realise it, arms folding under her chest in a way that pushed her soft cleavage up against the neckline of the cropped top.
"I’ll do it," she said. "Every day. Plants first. Then insects when I’m ready."
"Good."
She stepped in and hugged him before she left. Her soft breasts pressed against his chest through the thin cropped top, warm and full, and she held there long enough that she started to feel aroused from her nipples pressing against him.
When she pulled back, her face was warmer than before and her blue eyes stayed on his mouth for half a second too long.
"Text me when you are free... I would like to spend more time together when you can." She then said, hinting at lewd things.
Kalon smiled, knowing what she was craving.
"i will soon. Go home and rest."
Thea turned and headed off down the street, steps lighter than when she had arrived that morning.
The weight of death has been lifted from her shoulder.
Her hips moved cleanly in the tight leggings, and she looked invigorated by the path he had given her, already turning the training plan over in her head as she went.
...
Kalon went back upstairs, cleaned up, and checked his travel allowance.
He still had room for another planet.
Sifa had been left alone longer than he liked.
Her seduction stage was high enough that he had to really start paying attention to her.
He also wanted to see how far her dragon had come since the last visit. If the beast had kept growing, she would be in a much stronger position on Cryos than before.
He focused on her location and left.
[Initiating Travel Sequence...]
[Adapting body to suit conditions...]
[...]
[You have arrived!]
[Welcome to Cryos!]
The cold hit him first, then the open stretch of pale ground outside Sifa’s mansion grounds.
Kalon expected to find her inside, or in the garden with the dragon nearby the way she usually kept it.
He started toward the entrance, already planning how to greet her, already thinking about how far her stage might climb if he spent proper time with her tonight.
Instead the air above the mansion shifted.
A small shadow passed over the ice.
Kalon looked up and stopped walking.
The creature descending toward the grounds had Sifa’s presence wrapped all the way through it. Ice scales. Broad wings. A long tail cutting the cold air. But the upper body coming into view as it dropped lower locked his attention completely.
It was her.
The body carried the features of Sifa, yet also a dragon at the same time.
Wings emerged from our of the back like a Delphinium. A long winding tail sprouted from above her ass cheeks, and was longer than her own legs. Her ice skin was still made of the same material, but was now scaly like an amphibian.
Most importantly, there was small sparks of blue fire splattering from her mouth, like she had just breathed fire not long ago.
She landed hard enough to crack the surface frost under her claws and raised her head.
Their eyes met.
Kalon stood there face to face with her new form and felt the shock land clean through him.
Sifa had merged with her ice dragon.
She was a dragoness.