An hour passed after Golaniers departure for the campaign those in the fortress have been busy, Sunhale left temporarily to set up the Darkness of Otaper around parts of the border while Yorun trained but Gira had looked around the fortress and as she began to understand its workings she began to realise how small a piece she is in the fortress, she came here to be a healer but Yorun has learned much about it, Golanier and even Sunhale are fairly adept but then there is the other mages supplying the fortress with magic there lies a couple whom have more skill than her and it all makes her question her newfound place there. Gira looks for where Yorun is as an idea comes to mind, it takes her only a few moments to find him at which time she approaches.

"Gira, how are you faring here? Certainly been a little eventful since you should so hopefully this little bit of downtime is good for you" Yorun said with a smile yet Giras eyes still linger on the burns across his body

"This place is nice despite the undead but Yorun... I have a question if you don't mind?" Gira said

"Go right ahead" Yorun responded

"Where did you train? I know you have these two but I can feel you've had more traditional training since me met, did Raeknar themselves train you?" Gira asked

"No, after Gantoral I left the Feirnian Empire for a small time, Sunhale and his commanding officer thought it pertinent to bring me to the heart of the Woorailian Empire. I learned a great deal there and its where we picked up Golaniers soul and body" Yorun said

"You went into the elves empire? They didn't kill you?" Gira asked somewhat surprised and Yorun laughs slightly in response

"No clearly they didn't but I did have what forces I had at the time with me, got them to bring them alongside me but not the point. There in the capital of their empire stands the Qur'Anther Magical Research and Development Institution which given the name you can ascertain everything you can about it" Yorun said

"Do you think Sunhale would be able to bring me there?" Gira asked looking serious which Yorun notices

"You really want to go there hm? Go ask Sunhale if he will and if he does refer to me as Raeknar while there, the look in your eyes is a look I've noticed in mine own whatever it is you're looking for now, go find it" Yorun said receiving a nod in return from Gira

Gira knows where Sunhale is due to sensing him earlier when looking for Yorun, she heads to the room that Sunhale had previously set up the fortress's Darkness of Otaper and within she hears Sunhale alongside someone else speaking though she cannot understand what it is they are saying. She knocks on the door and she hears the speaking stop after a few seconds and then the doors open slightly and Sunhale looks out with the tattoos connected to the magic he uses adorning his face like spiderwebs rather than just being around his eyes.

"I am in the middle of a conversation Gira what is it?" Sunhale asked

"Would you be able to take me to Qur'Anther specifically to the Magical Research and Development Institution?" Gira asked which gives Sunhale a quizzical expression

"I am unsu-" Sunhale said before he was cut off

Gira hears what cuts him off as Sunhale looks back into the room, more words she doesn't understand and then Sunhale responds with words she also doesn't understand. After a few moments of Sunhale and this unseen person talking he turns back to her.

"I can bring you there, as it turns out the people there won't mind and its rather a good opportunity for me as well" Sunhale said

"Thank you" Gira said

Gira steps back and leans against the wall opposite the door while Sunhale closes the door again then after a few moments and a few more unintelligible words behind the door he comes out of the room the tattoos now only around his eyes again.

"Alright let us depart then" Sunhale said

"Right" Gira said

Sunhale then teleports to Qur'Anther with Gira, Gira immediately sees the sight that Yorun saw some time ago a city in tune with nature as if it were a city completely grown naturally despite the stonework and fine details that show otherwise, her amazement is quickly noticed alongside the fact she is human by several elves around yet as they begin to speak to one another they notice Sunhale and immediately they continue on with their day.

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"Follow me Gira" Sunhale said

Gira nods and follows Sunhale through the streets of the city as she is led to the Qur'Anther Magical Research and Development Institution, she feels the extreme levels of magic coming from it and sees an older elf with full grey hair who walks over to them.

"Bringing another human here hm Sunhale? She raise the dead too?" The Elf said jokingly

"Master Vinak this here is Gira she is the one who healed our friend Raeknar before his time in Gantoral" Sunhale said

"Ah the healer, allow me to greet you properly, I am Vinak the one in charge of this place which while lengthy its best translation is the Qur'Anther Magical Research and Development Institution" Vinak said to Gira

"My name is Gira, it is wonderful to meet you Vinak" Gira said

"While you do whatever it is you need here Gira I have someone to go meet" Sunhale said before teleporting away

"Well then Miss Gira, what brings you here?" Vinak asked

"I am a healer but as I'm sure you're aware I am more than inexperienced with it much to my chagrin. More and more my limited knowledge has become apparant to me especially due to seeing Yo-Raeknars rapid growth" Gira said but her face tells Vinak there is something else

"So you come to another empires capital city to learn how to heal better rather than trying other cities within your kingdom? You are a young woman even by human standards but not too old as to not have tried going elsewhere" Vinak said

"There's a few reasons as to this drastic step but admittedly one of them is selfish" Gira said

"Selfish or not I wish to hear your reasons, they help in the teaching process if I understand you better I can help you bring out your magic more bring that mind fully to bear" Vinak said

"its a bit of a story" Gira said

"All the same tell me" Vinak said as he conjures a couple chairs which they both sit on

"My home village is well not the biggest village but big enough that there is always someone in the village born there who has magic, course multiple at a time can be born and such but well I'm no expert on how magic comes into the world for a person to be born with. Not the point though we always had someone with magic and they had typically become healers the one before myself was my mother and she was an amazing healer loved and appreciated by the other outlier villages, I wouldn't be surprised if given Yoruns age he'd seen her at least once. Anyway as a young girl very young I tried to help my mother as much as possible since it was fun and nice to help people, at the time I hadn't known about my own magic so it was just things she taught me about non-magical medicine" Gira said

"You had no knowledge of your magic yet? Typically noticeable from birth" Vinak said

"Well no one had noticed mine not even me, regardless one day when I was around eight I remember going to play in the forest at which point I noticed the grass beneath me flowing in the wind move a little with my hands, I found it fun so I played a little game moving my hands and then I noticed little bits of light along my arms I didn't realise what it was, it crackled as it went along my arms until I move my hands too fast...After that all I remember is a literal jolt of pain as I struck myself with lightning" Gira said as she laid her right hand on her left arm

"Typically ones own magic also doesn't hurt them but untrained and unfamiliarity with magic especially not realising it as your own could make it happen" Vinak said while making mental notes about all this

"I suppose but regardless I spent the next couple weeks in a coma and when I awoke my mother told me that I had magic and accidentally hurt myself... in a permanent manner" Gira said

"Permanent manner?" Vinak asked

"Scan me and you shall see" Gira said sadness teaming in her voice

Vinak scans her and he does indeed quickly notice what is wrong.

"Your heart, it is damaged in a way I have never seen..." Vinak said utterly shocked

"Nor a way my mother had ever seen, she tried everything she could to help me and improved her magic and knowledge of non-magical medicine to figure it out but never could. She eventually passed but by then it had been years since the incident and though my heart remained as it is I could do things as normal save for the occasional heart attack when its strained by magic. I used my magic to heal people as best as possible but my learning had been stunted by my mothers research and I learned as much as I could from the books she had but eventually I learned all I could and overall she had less on magic as a whole given healing magic mostly relies on non magic knowledge" Gira said

"So this is why you wish to learn, to heal yourself?" Vinak asked

"One reason but also because I want to help Raeknar again where I failed, he's got ways he can get rid of those scars and even get himself a new forearm insane as that is but he needs more medical knowledge for those things and I want to be able to help there as well as help those who may need it elsewhere since war can injure even those who aren't fighting..." Gira said saddened at the concept

"You genuinely wish to help people then I can give you training and whatever else you need. I do ask though my not ask others in your own empire? In all this time I'm sure you could have so why here?" Vinak asked

"Rather simple the empire had little care for dedicated magic healers unless they'll also aid in proper combat either as healers or with offensive magic. I cared not for that so I received little help and trying to self fund medical knowledge from a small village is not easy especially since both myself and my mother charged very little if anything to heal people" Gira said

"Well then, I shall teach you all I can and we can go get some medical texts to help you out then" Vinak said with a smile receiving one in return from Gira

"Thank you" Gira said

They both stood up and headed into the building behind them for Gira to begin learning, she is amazed by the pure amounts of magic within and more than that the many people learning there, she is shown to the room she will be allowed to stay in during her stay, she hopes to be far better at healing when she returns to the Kolakinta Mountain Fortress...