>>5322750Pine decides to rest in the afternoon after a morning of learning and exercise.
She spent the afternoon in a bathhouse. Apparently they got a few flamebearers to manipulate the heat in the pools, allowing her and many others to bathe in cold water regardless of season.
She spent some time talking to female giants and serpents about random stuff.
Among the personal life stories, she learns more about the new arts the government is funding.
**Fleshbearing and bloodbearing.**
Each school of magical arts require the bearers to sacrifice themselves, and these schools ask the most. Muscule atrophy and blood loss will be present in every student that wish to pursue them.
To be a skilled bearer, these subjects demands good understanding of human anatomy, physical fitness, and money.
The government favors these due to the healing potential of them, and their specialization in producing high quality healing potions.
There’s also gravitybearing, another school given more prominence due to their ability to improve transportation and projectile weapons. Noi, a witch Pine knows is one of them, and her body and skin can barely hold itself together without assistance.
Pine (and many others) has yet to seen them actually deliver on the promises of better civilian transportation, though.
[Picture of Fleshbearer shaping someone’s facial structure]
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