The river bath today was cool and refreshing. Hot baths in winter, cold baths in the summer. That is how someone can really recover after a day of training.

I reached home at the same time as father.

We greeted each other and entered. He entered first.

I like this.

This is how they do in the militia. The commander enters first. Not such a thing as letting women go by because they are women.

Father has really accepted me.

How weird.

Grandmother is home still.

Mother asks us to come closer.

She wants Grandmother to teach something to Alvin. An aura control technique which doesn’t produce exploding swords.

It’s so unfair!

I have trained for over two years before being able to produce exploding swords, and Alvin did a Sword of Light in his first try.

I can barely do one today!

If he was a younger sister I would have given him a beating already.

But I cannot bring myself to hit such a cute younger brother.

Hmpf. Whatever.

Father doesn’t like the idea, but mother’s reasons are good.

We cannot disturb the neighbors.

I didn’t used to care for such things, but It was a pain when Jacen and Alvin were kids and cried all day long.

Enough to make me want to get out of the house to train on the forest. I have done it once or twice.

I can imagine the neighbors getting crazy angry with us and getting the family expelled from the village if we anger them enough. So we shouldn’t disturb them.

Nice, father has accepted.

I will seize the chance as well.

A chance of learning from grandmother is something rare.

This is good.