It was late when I returned to Enusia, yawning and exhausted. I had enough mana to attempt Spatial Rift almost twenty times, yet not once had I even made it to the seventh-circle. But I hummed contentedly, my tail swishing as I walked back through the Sunsinger Gardens, slipping in through a side entrance. The servants and guards we passed peered at me anxiously, but they needn't have bothered. Tired as I was, my aura barely reached the edge of the estate right now and was incredibly stable.
The only reason I even thought of Luke right now was because I wished I could tell him everything I'd learned. All the progress I had made. I could only imagine how he'd smile and pat my head, and pull me close. Thinking of that made me feel a little cold and lonely, but I shook it off, squirmed out of my clothes, and threw myself into bed. Tomorrow couldn't come fast enough.
