Notes: kitsune grow at an evolved rate they grow very fast until they are the equivalent of an 8 year old. As soon as they hit 8 growth slows down exponentially. Theorists believe it’s an evolutionary trait that grew out of the need for children to be able to move around by themselves fast after birth so that they could survive.

kitsune develop very rapidly, tripling their weight in ten days. Their gray eyes are open by their second week and the mother is able to leave them for brief periods of time. By the third week, the cubs are capable of moving around, and over the next ten days they begin to establish an order of dominance. By the third month they can start eating small foods that they have caught themselves.

The reason I mention this is to point out that an 8 year old is equivalent to our 8 year old. But, a fifteen year old is only equivalent to a twelve year old. Growth continues to slow down as kitsune grow older eventually stopping around 136 (on average). When kit starts secondary school at age 50 he will be equivalent to a high schooler at 15 years old. Albeit one that already has on the job training.

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Im not sure if this chapter has too much info or if I wrote it well but I tried.

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Today is graduation everyone in class is finally 15 and after today we will all be going to our separate tutors. Dad, my tutor is waiting outside just out the library gates. I’m so exited one part of tutoring is we get to learn everything our tutor knows. So I’m going to learn magic! Dad takes care of everything in our property so I will be able to learn a whole lot! Tutors are decided by the matriarchs of our family Ashlie is going to be tutored by her aunt. I kind of feel sorry for her dad says her aunt is mean. But when I told Ashlie this she just got even angrier at me. I don’t think I can do anything right when it comes to her.

Anyways watching the sun coming through the window I noticed it’s finally hit the five o’clock line on the line its time to get out of here. Teacher says one last thing before we head out,” now remember your mentors are going to help you learn the occupation you will be serving in through your life. Make sure you learn their teachings well. And if you feel that an occupation is not suited for you talk to the civil servants in charge of your districts.

Your teachers will report to the dean of the school monthly on how you are progressing so don’t slack off. Otherwise you might get stuck in a servant’s class when you get back. Now go!” That’s it! We can leave! I run out the classroom dodging desks, chairs, and other classmates on my way to the door. “Bye guys,” I say to the rest of the class. Only one or two students wave back halfheartedly. They as eager as I to get out of the school where wave been stuck for 7 years. On my way out the door I see Ashlie glaring at me, we never really did get along the same after that day...

Turning left around the corner as I rush out the door I see movement dodgeing to the right I barely miss another student running the other direction 'idiot almost ran me down' I think to myself in my mind ignoring the fact that I am sprinting the other way. I know dad is waiting just out the small wooden door to the library so I slow down and push open the door as if I hadn’t been running trying to slow down my heart and keep my breathing steady.

”Hi dad, were out,”i say to him. “yeah I barely heard the bell ring.” I can feel myself blushing at my dads response, 'he knows I ran here' I think to myself. “well son anyone you waiting to see before we leave? This might be your last chance for a while. No? OK, lets go then”. I hear other students shout goodbye to each other as they exit the building. But I know no one will come out to say good bye specifically to me. I haven’t made a good friend since Ashlie betrayed me and we are still tense around one another. So no one will come out for me, they just call out goodbye in passing. Like I'm that one kid in middle school that was in all your classes but who you never talked to just sort of acknowledged their odd presence.

Anyways that’s all over from today! Now I start to learn my trade. I heard from mom that “male kitsune have traditional roles in society” whatever that means all I know is that I'm going to be trained by dad! All these thoughts cross my head in a second as I excitedly start to follow dad. I wonder what will happen today? Last time I was with dad during my punishment I just followed him around while he worked now he will be teaching me I'm so exited. I follow dad all the way home.

Learning from dad has been fun its been a week since school has gotten out and im learninfg to do more of what I saw him do on break. After we got home dad started to teach me how to use the hand axe. He handed me one telling me it’s mine to use. The axe looks allot like a mix between a tomahawk and a hatchet it’s the most used tool in our work because we use tons of wood in the village. Most of the buildings in the forest are made of wood. We need wood and metal for our magical instruments and sometimes use wood to cook our food. I asked the cook Sheila in our home why she didn’t use magic all of the time to cook and she told me. “Its easier to cook with magic most of the time but if it’s a large meal cooking multiple things at the same time. Then it’s better and easier to focus on the food and not focusing on magic at the same time. After all you don’t want to be so focused on having your magic not burn the truffles that you forget something else you are cooking at the same time.”

This made a lot of sense to me as any magic I tried was really hard to focus on. Dad has been showing me how to do repairs with the wood on our home and fences. But it’s hard because the trees in this forest are so tough we have to learn how to coat the axe head in mana to be able to cut through it. Dad said it took him 20 or 5 years to learn and until then he was in charge of trash and chamber pots. I’m not looking forward to this. But I still get to learn magic! We need to start the fires in the morning to the females don’t waste mana. Do all the house hold chores. Then practice combat. Dad says that we have developed small magic’s to help in these tasks…

Also the dreams have continued and lastly I have started to move around a little in them it’s weird though they seem have all sorts of sights I’ve never seen. Once there was a large metallic beetle toy I was playing with it. I still remember that as one of my weirder dreams. The whole dream it seemed like I was pushing around the metal beetle with a short dwarf character riding on top of it with no beard and straight up hair called trollie.

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(Small time skips)

//20years old->I’ve finally about mastered how to sheath the hand axe in mana. It’s not easy you have to imagine the whole thing as covered in a glowing force field. If you do it right you can see your own mana surrounding the axe and it cuts wood like a shadow wolf goes through a herd of goats. The first year I either couldn’t get my mana to focus or I just imagined the mana on the cutting edge of the axe, it cut good but then got suck after the first inch into any wood. (That was a pain to get out)

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//22 years old->After sheathing dad began to teach me some wind and earth magic with earth magic you can sense where dust in the house is and wind helps you clean it up in some of the harder to reach places. I have to rest after every use though so I only use these spells when we’re cleaning the house for important occasions.

//26 Y.O.->Water magic is amazing I can cast it way easier than earth and it cleans dust and dirt like a charm. If you focus you can even direct the dirty stream over the floor and out the door! No need for sweeping and mopping ever again> muhaha! But the real issue is how can I use this for pranks?

I’ve found that other kitsune don’t like windblown in their ears. Once when mom was at work and I was looking around after finishing my job (near her window) I noticed her scolding her secretary for letting someone annoying in. the secretary didn’t look like she was paying utmost attention. So as mom was speaking to her I created a small breeze and blew it in mom’s ears. Since males have smaller mana reservoirs I used all of my power to do this. All the sudden I heard a fart noise moms ears stood straight upright as she jumped and started screaming at the secretary for not paying attention and letting go in her office. I had no idea wind magic could make that noise! I couldnt help myself I cast it again. It was a long time before moms yelling calmed down that day.

//31 Y. O.->The dreams have come back stronger I couldn’t figure them out. Why are these coming to me? My baby sister was born this year at first I was exited and hung around a lot. Lately mom hasn’t been paying me any attention though and the baby doesn’t respond to me at all. I think ill just hang out with dad.

//56 Y. O->I decided not to go back to school. Mom is less focused on making me her perfect child now that she “has a daughter to train so she’s ready to inherit the house.” My sister is a prodigy in everything but only at the level of Ashlie not above. I haven’t seen Ashlie in years but I hear she’s focusing on her house and learning the ropes of leadership.

I pranked mom again I tied all her office stuff up agianst the ceiling so there was nothing against the floor. I think she suspected me ill have to never reveal this to anyone.

//86 Y. O.->Nothing interesting I’ve noticed my mana pool is expanding the dreams have grown clearer and I think I know what they are trying to tell me. I’m growing disgusted with kitsune policy but I have nowhere else to go.

//99 Y. O->Mom is starting to talk of marriage and alliances. Recently I’ve heard that Ashlie has been campaigning to have males put into a lower caste in society. In my opinion the only route that can get us lower is slaves.

//103 Y. O.->Ashlie is winning in her efforts to become an elected official in the clan, she wants males to stop learning magic. And that magic should be banned for any who are not female. Many are getting behind her efforts because of her promises that this will free up more of the males time so that the time could be used more efficiently to serve and pamper the females more exclusively. How would that even work!?? We do everything around here, and magic is the only thing that makes us feel alive! I can only see this as useless campaigning promises of a corrupt official. I can’t see how this will work. Dad says things have been going in this direction for a while and that all the other males in the tribe accept it I should too. But I know better I have been taught…

//104 Y.O.->This year has been horrible dad passed away early in the summer in an accident. It was a huge surprise since kitsune are basically immortal except for war or fighting and dad always stayed close to the village. But rather than a fight it was just a stupid accident. One of the kitsune in primary school was showing off testing out there magic and the power went out of their control. Because it’s not permissible to use magic at that age without an instructor they were doing it in the forest. Her magic hit a tree and it was knocked over and fell onto dad. They heard a cry and got scared of being caught and ran off. I found dad late that night after searching all day for him. He was barely alive. Taking him back to the house I thought mom could fix him. But she said that his blood had too much bad stuff in it because he was hit in the gut some of the waste got into his blood stream and with hours to settle into every tissue there was no way to get it out. If those kids had admitted their mistake and got help when it happened he could have been saved… I hate this.

//104 three months later->The kids got off scott-free. I don’t remember their punishment probably because it was too light for me to even consider a punishment.

My magic has improved allot lately, most of it is based of memory and imagination both of which I have in plenty, now at least… I keep thinking of leaving now that there is nothing holding me here. Mom is still focused on my sister and I am still alone. . I hate this place but I will stay around in dad’s memory

//104 one month after that->She won Dear Gaia how will this go down.

//105 ->life is the pits mom is looking at engagement promises. Because of our lowered value (males) are not even considered as breeding material just as moving dumb slaves. Just something to have around to make life easier. The best ones are even silent about it, at least to a women’s thinking. I need to leave this place there is nothing for me here.

//133->I’m engaged about to be married and it’s to Ashlie… I refuse! Anyone who campaigned to have men’s rights lowered, can you imagine the life I would lead? I can’t and I won’t, I’m leaving today. There’s no reason to stay here anyways. But before I go……

So I’ve tried building up to it but I almost think I was too secretive, has anyone figured out the point of the dreams? It plays a big part of why kit is the only male in the village that is not accepting of his role as a servant. It’s also a large part of why he started getting better at magic at such a young age of 86. Hint magic is highly affected by memories and imagination. If you don’t get it from the hint I guess you’ll have to wait until the next chapter.

Also should I include more of kits pranks? He started getting serious about them around 86-90 lol.