Today is finally the day that I start teaching my Apprentices how to shape flesh and mold bone into any form they wish. I could tell that they were almost as excited as I was to get started.

I started them off with something basic, not really simple but something that they will likely end up needing to do in the future. I created a body with no arms or legs and also no blueprint for those arms or legs, basically representing someone that has had their limbs removed a long time ago and is now beyond the reach of traditional healing. They didn’t do very well at first, were it a normal person they would have been in constant agony until the twisted lumps of flesh were removed. Of course, that is why I have them practice on soulless husks that can’t feel pain and not real people.

Askos’ next attempt had hands, but not much else. It was kinda functional, assuming the person couldn’t feel pain and never picked up anything heavier than a fork. Junior’s second attempt was much the same as her first.

And so the day went on with the two of them trying over and over and slowly figuring out what works and what doesn’t. They certainly haven’t mastered it, I would be ashamed of my own progress if they had managed that in a single day, but they are taking to the art really well. And my own guidance certainly doesn’t hurt.

It won’t be long now before there is nothing else that I can teach them. I am both dreading that day and excitedly awaiting it. I will miss teaching them and guiding them towards mastery, but I want to see how they use the skills I have taught them in the real world.

Junior no longer clings to me quite as much, though she is still obviously attached to me. She has even talked about getting a job at a local hospital for a while while she figures out what she wants to do going forward.

Askos has asked me to have someone teach him how to lead an army once I have taught him all I can. I have agreed.

I spent my downtime hanging out with Tiddol, mostly bragging about our respective students. She doesn’t have any apprentices like I do, but she is teaching quite a few people about how to make tools like she does. A couple of them are doing really well, like the guy who figured out how to make a solid explosive substance that is really stable unless you do something very specific to it, she didn’t mention what that thing was. Or the girl that managed, successfully, to create a new clockwork creature, though I still had to seed its soul.

I have noticed that she is getting close to being able to evolve, she doesn’t want me to trigger it as she doesn’t think she is ready quite yet. I give it one big project before she evolves.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.