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The sun was shining brightly on the practice grounds, there were various dummies set up in a row at one end of the yard. At the other side there was a young woman dressed in green shirt, covered in exotic feathers and gold, that was short enough to show her stomach and a matching skirt. She had a golden crown upon her head and a golden key hung around her neck. An old man in simple blue robes stood forty paces to her right next to a odd machine, and there was a few more servants behind her holding fruit, water and towels clothed in similar blue cloth.

"Go!" She shouted. The old man pulled a rope attached to the machine and three small disks shot out of it into the air. The young woman the quickly shot each one out of the air with three small darts of fire. She smiled as each fell to the ground still smoldering.

"Good," the old man stated " You are progressing nicely each shot is getting faster and more precise. Again." He pulled the rope three more times and each time she shot them down as easily as one pulls petals off a flower. "Enough this is getting boring." said Soarina as she motioned for the servants behind her to come forward with the food and water. She took a deep drink of water and some bites of the fruit.

"You know practice makes perfect m'liege." the old man said. "Well I am done practicing this lets move on." she stated as she dabbed the bits of juice from her face with a towel. "But princess,..". "I said I'm done with it Mordecai, moving on" she snapped as she threw the towel back at the servants.

Mordecai bowed his head in compliance, "As you wish, see what you can do to those dummies." "Thats more like it." Soarina smiled devilishly. Then she launched a large ball of flames at one of the dummies and when it connected it exploded into flames. "Again.." he said. "My pleasure," she smiled sending two more projectiles at two more targets.