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'I have a plan but I"m unsure you'll agree to it. There's an elf that lives deep in the forest. So deep she rarely uses her magic for more than to make the plants grow. She once was very powerful and famous. She knows all the magic pathways in magic. I doubt she can unlock your magic but she can remove the block on your daughters mind and magic and your daughter can pull the magic from you!' Toraka thought quickly. 'I know how much you want to protect your daughter but keeping the truth from her will only harm her later and make her unable to trust you. I beg you think it over.'

'Definitely we can trust this old lady. Her part of the forest is in a completely different time. Not only can we train there and rest we will be safe and still able to get back before she regains any faculties,' Toraka thought quietly. In her excitement she accidently pulled on Ferana's coat and startled her from her sleep.

Janie saw what she thought was Rayne getting lonely and bounced over to her. "Rayne? Are you lonely?" she asked, her eyes wide.
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Ilisia grimaced and refused to speak. Zalexis sighed audibly and thought to Toraka, Then what are we waiting for. We have to try and train and do what's necessary. We have to leave now.
Ilisia looked worriedly at Zalexis but kept her mouth shut.

"Huh?" Rayne gave Janie a confused look. "No, not really." She thought about the magic that Janie would have to use soon. Rayne looked at Janie's dagger. "Can I tell you a secret, Janie? It's about the dagger I gave you..."
Rayne leaned toward Janie and whispered in her ear. "That dagger has an enchantment in it. It'll make any spell you cast stronger. You're already a strong spellcaster, so this will just help so you don't get too tired. There's a catch though, if the blade gets dirty, it won't work very well. You have to try to not use the dagger much, ok?"

Rayne felt a surge of sympathy for the young girl. She never liked the path she'd chosen for herself and resented making others choose the same path. She smiled sadly, remembering her own reasons. "Janie. I feel the same way. I don't like hurting others, I don't even like fighting... But, I didn't have a choice. I woke up in a cave with no memory of my past. I was found by a kind elf who taught me how to fight, to survive. He gave me my scythe, and that dagger." She looked at her scythe. "He even tried to teach me magic. I accidentally set him on fire and he ran around the town in a panic. It was awful for me to watch at the time, but it's funny now." She laughed lightly and looked back at Janie. "I was horrible at casting, but the next day, he wanted to keep teaching me magic. I refused though, I didn't want to hurt him again." She stopped smiling. "But, even after he left me on my own, I learned a lot. I didn't choose very well though. I followed the wrong group, the ones who wanted to hurt people and laugh about it. I hated them for it. I hated myself for choosing it." She looked down so Janie couldn't see her eyes. "When I was there, I taught others how to fight, but for the wrong reasons. I taught others how to hurt others. Now I understand that all I did was make more people like them, and maybe even like me."
She looked back up and smiled again. "I made a lot of bad choices, most of them still haunt me like ghosts, but I know what I feel now."
She stood up and hefted her scythe. "I fight for what I think is right, I won't fight to hurt, but to protect. I want to prevent others from being like me, haunted by my own past." She looked down at Janie. "That's why I don't want you to use the dagger, not just the enchantment's catch, I don't want you to be like me."
Rayne looked over at Ilisia and Zalexis. "There's also a reason to fight, even if I don't like fighting. I want to take care of my new friends, your relatives, because they seem to know what's good and what's bad." Rayne turned back toward Janie and crouched to the ground. "Can you use that as your reason for this time, Janie? Using your powers to protect what you can? Rather than consider it hurting those people, consider it protecting your family. That's why they need you. They can't protect themselves, so they need you to." Rayne stood up and stretched her arms. "Oooh!" Her elbow popped. "Yow. Never pop your bones, they start popping on their own and eventually start to hurt more."

Rayne let her arms fall to her sides. "Janie..." She sighed lightly and crouched down again. "Did you know, these people want to hurt people on purpose? They want to hurt your aunt and uncle, and anyone else they want to hurt. We're trying to stop them. If we win, they can't hurt more people." Rayne looked up at Janie. "Feeling bad about hurting someone. That's what makes us different from them, they don't care who they hurt. If you can feel bad for the one you've hurt, you're still a good person. Hurting the bad guys to protect the good and innocent people from getting hurt, that's my new goal..."
Rayne sat down. "I can't help you with your goal Janie, you need to find that on your own. What I can do, is teach you how to hold a dagger without hurting yourself. That's all I can do right now." She pulled another dagger out of her sleeve. "I want to teach you how to not get hurt. Would you like to train with me? You still have a choice, Janie."

Rayne put her hand on Janie's shoulder. "Yes, your magic's strong. No, you don't need a knife, but I want to make sure you have something to protect yourself. The only cost is what you can take on, Janie. We're not asking you to run through a village and attack innocents, that's what the bad guys were going to do." She couldn't help but feel horrible for Janie. She asked the same questions as Rayne had. "Sometimes, people make bad choices for bad reasons. It's the good guy's job to fix those mistakes. Today, you're the good guy, just like your aunt, uncle, Toraka, me, and everyone else who's fighting. I'm sure your aunt and uncle wish they didn't have to have you go through this either."

(Crap! I'm sorry but I don't have time to continue this anymore. I barely have time to get on gaia. New Job razz So I have to stop. Nice roleplaying with you guys though feel free to add me to your friends list. Neh?)