The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5

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>Sam: Playing to vanity is beneath you, but you're both on a tight schedule. These lessons will go a lot faster if Adler was actually willing to learn and didn't rebel on every step. Demonstrate to Adler exactly what your training will allow him to do.

"Look," Sam sighed wearily after I was done hopping around. "Much simpler it will be, and time it will save if ready to learn and you are, and resist me every step of the way you do not. So, what Lengra-Cha training can do, demonstrate I shall."

He tucked his staff into his Elfintory and sat down cross-legged on the ground. He held his hands in a gesture of meditation, closed his eyes, and began chanting "HAMMMMMMMM..."

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A few seconds later, Sam floated into the air and hovered several feet off the ground. Several Ixies applauded.

"Big deal," Typantronn scoffed. "Anybody can fly."

"Your bow, get out," Sam instructed me, "and with your best shot try to hit me."

I pulled my bow out of Elfintory, nocked an arrow, took aim, and let fly. Sam swatted the arrow aside without even opening his eyes.

"Again," he commanded. "A full barrage let me have, as fast as shoot them you can."

I whipped arrows out as quick as I could, one after another, and Sam calmly batted them all aside.

>Adler: Be impressed.
>Tree/Shrub Guards: Be impressed.
>Ixies: Be impressed.
>Angela: Quietly be impressed.
>Typantronn: *Pffft* It's not that impressive.
Angela: Be so impressed with Sam that what's this feeling, that old fox is awakening something within you, love for another of your..... well he is not your kind but, wait you realize too late you have created a love triangle! Become emotionally unstable when you realize you have feelings for both Adler and Sam.

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"AMAZING!" the Ixies cried.

The surrounding trees rustled their astonishment.

"Oh please, sisters," Typantronn snorted. "Tell me thou art not taken in by these lame tricks."

"OMG!!1!" Angela exclaimed. "Wat feels R awakening w/in me? 2 Bhold such martial prowess sets my loins aquiver! O Sam, U dreemboat! But wat about Adler? ZOMG! I has created a LUV TRIANGLE! Who can decide between them?? I'll half 2 maek Sam jelous & then they can fite over me. SO ROMANTIC!!!1!!"

Angela: Decide to move forward with your relationship with Adler to make Sam jealous, yes now you will have a man fighting for your love!
Angela: Begin sign language to confess your love to Adler.
Adler: Completely misinterpret her sign language, apparently Angela wants wants a pair of mittens

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Angela flitted up next to me and began performing a series of elaborate gestures in the air.

"What are you doing?" I asked, noticing her out of the corner of my eye. "Are you trying to tell me something? Speak! You have a cold? Your sides itch? Your transmogrified body is uncomfortable? You need a pair of mittens?"

I stared at the squirming Ixie, trying to figure out what she meant with her strange gyrations.

while distracted by Angela get thwacked again by Sam
Sam: "Ixies are not that interesting Adler"

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"Distracted, do not let yourself be," Sam scolded as he threw a pebble at me. "That interesting, Ixies are not."