Lolotaru took the notebook from her outstretched hand and began to skim through its contents as he spoke to her.
"Hm...that's too bad. If you don't see him soon, we may have to be more proactive in our search."
His eyes traced the lines and designs scrawled across the pages. She had little enough experience, sure enough, and any creative flourishes of her own were sorely lacking, but that was to be expected on the first of such assignments. The students first inclination is to parrot and not innovate, a tendency which left unchecked will lead the neophyte not so far into arcanima at all. Still, his own successes had hardly been immediate or his talents readily apparent. And despite her experience with ink and parchment, she was clearly a careful and accomplished mimic. After the first few tries, he could find hardly any variation in her reproductions of the symbols he had drawn for her. It's a start.
He looked up over the edge of the notebook at Joz. "And what did you feel? Tracing these, I mean."
"Hm...that's too bad. If you don't see him soon, we may have to be more proactive in our search."
His eyes traced the lines and designs scrawled across the pages. She had little enough experience, sure enough, and any creative flourishes of her own were sorely lacking, but that was to be expected on the first of such assignments. The students first inclination is to parrot and not innovate, a tendency which left unchecked will lead the neophyte not so far into arcanima at all. Still, his own successes had hardly been immediate or his talents readily apparent. And despite her experience with ink and parchment, she was clearly a careful and accomplished mimic. After the first few tries, he could find hardly any variation in her reproductions of the symbols he had drawn for her. It's a start.
He looked up over the edge of the notebook at Joz. "And what did you feel? Tracing these, I mean."
