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"Yes, if you took your eyes off her one second, you will never know where she would be next." Her teal eyes were warm as she continued to talk about her Lady. "Milady always had a mysterious feel about her. And there were numerous of times that I caught her conversing to plain air. But who knows, maybe she was chatting to beings that I just and others could not see or hear. She also knew about things that can sometimes frighten one even though she never possessed some side precognition or information gaining ability of some sort."

When Ashnah had visited Adnah's Cemetery, she had met the spirit of her grandmother, Alice Morley even if it was for a brief second. Once her spirit had said with a smile, "Finally, I get to meet you, Ashnah." She was gone.

Throughout the whole visit with her paying respects to her family members, she had only saw her grandmother's spirit. This was why she had decided to ask her grandmother's nanny, Krynn Corbyn about her. She had practically raised Alice herself after her mother, Esme Morley had died.

Anzor Morley had introduced his daughter to Krynn Corbyn yesterday. Not only being the child's grandmother's nanny, she had been the child's father nanny as well. The silver head had assigned Krynn as his daughter's nanny as well.

She was a female in her seventies with all her thick auburn pulled to the back of her hair into a simple bun. Even though she was in her seventies, she looked to be within her early fifties.

This was because of the humans' genes of this magical world. It's people aged at a slower rate than people of Earth and the average life age expectancy was one hundred and fifty years. But this slower aging rate would only begin after someone reached the age of twenty-one.

'Speaking to beings that could not be seen?' Ashnah repeated in thought.

"And even though I watched her as she grew into an adult, I could never know what was on Milady's mind." Her dark brown eyes closed then opened. "Even Archduke found that the same, and Milady knowing that left her diary and letters behind." Realizing the final statement she said, Krynn pointed out a little be nervous. "......Of course Lady Ashnah could read those when she becomes an adult... Or when Archduke decides to pass them down."

At first Ashnah had not thought too much about the last statement her nanny had made, but seeing her reaction like this, she said within her mind. 'Is there something about the diary and letters?'

Then there were three knocks on the door. "Excuse me for a second, Milady." Krynn answered it and walked back to the brown haired child. "It seems like Sir Benjamin has arrived to teach you, Lady Ashnah." She informed.

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Anzor had set up a room for Ashnah to be taught in. The room was designed as a basic class-room that could be found in Emphraim Kingdom, but on a smaller scale. There was a black board, a teacher's desk and a single student's desk.

The room had been painted in a medium green hue, because it had been researched that the hue helped promoted peacefulness and calmness; and improve efficiency and focus.

Colourful posters were plastered over the walls, showing of the numbers, alphabet, months of the year, days of the week, vocabulary words, the different kinds of elemental magic and many others.

There were small bookshelves placed against the wall with textbooks and a play section with toys in one corner of the room.

Ashnah was already seated and Benjamin Morley stood in front of the chalk board.

He asked a series of questions. "Now before we begin, do you need to use the lavatory? Do you need your favourite colour pencil? Book? Or toy?" He had asked these, because before he had agreed to teach Ashnah, he had personally asked teachers who taught children within her age group. And they had shared their experiences with him.

"Uh...no." Ashnah sweat dropped for a bit. "It is alright for you to begin, Uncle Ben."

He picked up the white chalk, then said, writing on the board. "Today, we will be doing the introduction of magic. But first before we know what magic is, we have to know what mana is." Ben paused then continued. "Mana is a raw energy or power found within the environment and all living things that can produce a variety of actions. Depending on how much mana an animal or human has, they can manipulate their mana into magic. But if an animal or human has too little mana, they cannot change their mana into magic."

"So from what you are saying, magic is the refined form of mana." Ashnah said it as a statement more than query.

Ben nodded his head. "Correct. Through mana manipulation, this is how we refine mana to become magic. Some basic of examples of mana manipulation is gathering your mana in your legs to run faster, you gathering it in your ears to hear better, or layering your entire body with it to provide more protection. Once one have learned some of those basics he or she can move onto turning mana into magic."

Ashnah opened her light purple notebook just to write down a few points she saw on the board.

"The way one manipulates mana into magic is through mana control and thought." The midnight blue eyed noble stated, then pointing is index finger to his head. "You can control the mana to a certain part of your body, then change it with thought, seeing what you what it to become and-" He opened the palm of his hand which light blue lightning crackled from. "-The result." One does not require incantations to utilize magic. "Anything you were confused with just now?" From what had been told to him by teachers, some children had a little bit of trouble comprehending this part. Ben had questioned to make sure.

She responded. "No, not at all."

He moved on. "Okay. Then there are two types of magic." Ben went onto list. "These two types of magic are main magic which is the elemental magic and side magic which is anything but the main magic." The noble with azure blue hair wrote "main magic" and "side magic" on the black board, each drawing three lines from them. "Do you know the different types of main and side magic?"

"The different types of main and side magic are common, rare and extremely rare." Ashnah answered.

"Indeed they are." He added the different types of main and side magic to the two webs on the board. "Some examples of common main magic is fire, earth, water and air. Can you list three rare main magic?"

"Ice, magma and lightning."

Ben gave a head nod to her correct answer. "And some examples of extremely rare main magic is light, darkness, space and gravity. Then onto to the side magic, as I have said before side magic is anything but the main magic. Some examples of common side magic is super vision, super strength, flying and invisibility. Examples of rare ones are: magic communication (psychic communication), the ability to talk to animals and analyze. What about extremely rare?"

"Hypnosis, nullification and teleportation."

"Wow, did my intelligence rub off you already?" He quirked up an eyebrow.

Ashnah giggled then smiled, tilting her head to the side. "I have always been like this, Uncle Ben."

Ben too smiled. This little cousin of his was not like average kids her age. "Also, when it comes to main magic, humans have the potential to use all of the elements but is only born with one. That element they are born with mostly depends on the main magic within their family. And humans can have more than one side magic."

And the lesson continued on this.

••••

After having dinner and having already been tucked into bed by Ellen, Ashnah started to close her eyes to go to sleep. But before her amethyst eyes were completely shut, she saw the spirit of a beautiful fifteen year old girl appear before her and the mark on the back of her right shoulder lightly burned.

"You are Alice's granddaughter, are you not?"

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Hope you guys were able to understand the magic basics of this world.