After the summoning Haylor was so nice to a let me get to know my familiar.
So this is my familiar. He needs a name.
“Hey you, do you have a name?”
It just stood there and looked kind of indecisive.
“Okay new try. If you want to say yes, nod and if you want say no, shake your head, okay?”
Nod
“Do you have a name?”
No
“Are you a male?”
Yes
“So you are a female?”
Yes
“Are you genderless?”
No
“Uhm, what about Umbra. Do you want to be named Umbra?”
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Yes
“What can you do?”
Yes
After that Umbra suddenly melted into my shadow. It was completely invisible and the only thing that was distinct from a normal shadow was the reaction to light. While a normal shadow disappeared when lightened the Umbra-shadow would just lose intensity but wouldn’t disappear.
“Can you come out again?”
And there it was again
“What do you think about a bit of training”
I got answered with a very vehement no.
“So do you want to play a bit?”
Umbra answered with a quick yes and then he disappeared.
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In the night I just walked through the library and looked for interesting books. Sometimes a book fell out of the shelve and I could have sworn that I saw an pair of glowing eyes looking back but I wasn’t sure.
Damn, Umbra is literally one with the shadows.
I would have liked to go out tonight again but umbra wanted to play in the library and I couldn’t bring myself to leave it alone. Despite knowing it only for a short amount of time I liked it very much.
I tried to read but after the third interruption I decided to play with umbra. I don’t know how we decided what to play: It was liked a silent understanding. We tried to catch each other but umbra was better than me by lengths.
Tamer reached level 2
I was surprised about the level up but in this moment I had so much fun playing with umbra that I ignored the prompt.
We played an additional hour and then opened the library.
“Hey Umbra, the library opens now and I have to work. We can’t play while other people are here. You can’t show your presence to others, okay?”
I only got a thrown book as an answer but I was optimistic and interpreted it as a yes.