It's okay. Like I said, those are good instincts. It's on me for not making it clear you shouldn't use magic.
[It is on him; he's the teacher, he should be more wary of those sorts of things. If he'd messed up, he could have actually hurt her. They've got clerics, and pain is an important lesson for training, but it was not what he'd wanted to do now. So he feels like shit about that, but pushes it aside to focus on the training.
Clearly she agreed to this at some point in this conversation.]
Your skills with lullabies aside, you see the problem here. If your enemy's got a defence against that or they cut off your casting, you're in trouble when they come in for the follow-up. Dodging's not just a one-time thing. It's something you need to be able to transition in and out of without losing your footing.
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It's okay. Like I said, those are good instincts. It's on me for not making it clear you shouldn't use magic.
[It is on him; he's the teacher, he should be more wary of those sorts of things. If he'd messed up, he could have actually hurt her. They've got clerics, and pain is an important lesson for training, but it was not what he'd wanted to do now. So he feels like shit about that, but pushes it aside to focus on the training.
Clearly she agreed to this at some point in this conversation.]
Your skills with lullabies aside, you see the problem here. If your enemy's got a defence against that or they cut off your casting, you're in trouble when they come in for the follow-up. Dodging's not just a one-time thing. It's something you need to be able to transition in and out of without losing your footing.