“Rain wake up.”
“I’m up mom”
“Your father can’t make it to your evaluation son, because he has to keep patrolling the town, so don’t feel too bad.”
“It’s ok. I just hope that I get a good evaluation. That way I can go out on patrol with dad or you can teach me magic.”
“It’s fine even if you don’t get a good evaluation. It can’t judge everything that you can or can’t be.”
“Ok.”
I soon went to get ready and went outside the house. The house isn’t all that big. It was a one story house with three bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room. The bathroom was outside, in an outhouse. There is also a small stable that can’t fit multiple horses, but we only have one horse. The horse is my dad’s. I see him get on it every morning before he goes patrolling the town.
Outside the house there was already a carriage. The carriage is here to pick me up and other people from the surrounding towns and villages to take the kids and parents to their age 5 ceremonies.
“Hello, please enter the carriage with the other families.”
“Inside the carriage there is two other children and their parents. One child was a girl and the other was a boy, but the boy seemed to be part animal. This was my first time seeing someone part animal. He had wolf like ears and short hair or fur coming out of all his clothes. His face though, looked like a normal persons face and he had green eyes. The girl had blonde hair and nothing else really unique about her.
We ended up sitting next to the wolf boy and his parents. I sat next to the wolf boy.
“HI, my name is Craw. What’s yours?
“I’m Rain”
“Oh ok. Rain I just turned 5 too. How do you think you are going to do in the evaluation?
“I don’t know, but I hope I do well.”
“Well I’m sure I will do well. My family has always gotten a strong physical result from the ceremony. You know, you should hang out with me since we are both tanking the ceremony. It must be fate meeting and taking it together. I live in the town before yours.”
This Craw sure likes to talk a lot. However, I just kept casually talking to him on the way to the temple. He talked a lot about his family and his buddies/underlings all the way until we got there.
There wasn’t a lot of people at the temple. Only our three families and the people who works there at the temple. I wonder how the temple is being supplied. Then I hear from Craw that the temples are provided everything it needs from the local king. It provides all the funds year round to the temples. The temples use this money to pick up children and their parents, so that each family can get an evaluation for their children once they turn 5. The kids are all picked up around the same time each month. All this is in hopes that a good seedling can be found and sent to the academies in the main city.
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We soon all exited the carriage and entered the temple. The parents are led into another room while we kids enter a different room. In the room there was a man standing next to a pedestal.
“Hi children. Today is your evaluations. It is actually quite easy. All you have to do is grab onto this stone plate. It is an identification of sorts. You can only get these plates at a temple so don’t lose this it. Once you grab the identification plate or id plate. It will give you a slight pinch. This is natural and it will help imbue the plate your information.”
We soon each grabbed a plate.
“Now children look at the plates. It should say your names on there. Next we go to this sphere over here. All you need to do is grab onto it and it will light up a certain color. This color will tell us if you have the ability to use magic.”
The girl walked up first and grabbed onto the ball. Then it started to shine and glow a light white color, a few spots of red, and brown.
“Hrmm… looks like you have the ability to use light magic, a bit of fire, and a bit of earth magic. However, you will need to train harder to use fire and earth magic.”
Then Craw went up next. The ball glowed brown, with spots of red and blue.
“You can control earth magic, a bit of fire, and water magic.
Next I went up and grabbed onto the sphere. It had a smooth feel. Then the sphere started to turn clear.
“What an interesting thing to happen. This means that you can use all types of magic and it won’t be too hard to learn them either. Who are your parents?
“My mom is Jess and my dad is Nic.”
The man seemed to mumble to himself. “Hrm… neither of them have such a unique magic. Except his father does have a unique kind of magic.”
“Ok. I’ll keep a note of that. Next you three will hit this dolls body as hard as you can. This will help us see how strong your bodies are.”
This time I went first. I tried to hit the dummy in the chest as hard as I could, but it only made a small muffling sound. The girl next hit and it didn’t make any sound. This made me feel a bit better. Then last it was Craw. Craw hit the dummy and it made a loud echo in the whole room. The judge didn’t say much about it though. I’m assuming that half-humans tend to have more physical strength.
“Ok now children. Your evaluations are done. Please go back to your parents and don’t forget your ID plates. This will be very useful to you when try to find a job in the future or should you choose to become an adventurer. Your parents will also be notified of your evaluations shortly.”
We all found our parents and reentered the carriage that took us all home. On the way home Craw was talking a lot to me again, but I just let him talk again. He sure likes to talk a lot. We eventually got to my house though.
“What an interesting day! Rain you are going to have to come over to the next town to hang out with me. You don’t talk a lot and I like that about you. You can be me second hand man.”
“I’ll think about it Craw. Well, I’ll see you around hopefully.”
I made a new friend today. Even though he talks a lot. I’ve decided I’ll start going to the next town over to hang out with him, but I won’t slack on my meditation. I think the meditation will benefit me in the end.