>>5816125“Mother would say that progress requires sacrifices,” she said.
Of course.
“But,” she continued bitterly, casting her gaze down, “I know what it’s like to… To BE one of those sacrifices… Those failed first experiments.”
“Izirina, you’re not—”
She shook her head hard, squeezing her eyes shut and sending her brown hair flipping this way and that.
“Thank you,” she whispered. “But… I just mean that I understand. I understand you.”
She looked up, smiling with tearful eyes.
“Cast it on me,” she said.
Your heart stopped for a moment.
“WHAT?!” you demanded. “Izirina, no, that’s not—”
“This is what I want,” she interrupted you. “This is the first step to… To where I wish to go. To what I wish to be.”
You didn’t know how to respond to that. Her path… It still wasn’t YOUR path. But perhaps… perhaps in fulfilling her dreams, or attempting to, you could find the answers to the questions which plagued YOUR mind?
“And, um,” she said, blushing slightly, “call me Izzy. It’s… What my friends called me, when I had other friends.”
What did you do?
>You cast <Elemental Infusion> for the very first time upon Izirina>You cast the spell on yourself instead>You refused to cast the spell yet—not upon her, and not under these circumstances[If you choose to cast the spell, please also choose an infusion. Since you learned <Summon Elemental II> as well, you can select any of the following…]
>Fire>Water>Air>Earth>Mud>Ice>Lightning>Steam