From the backyard of their new home, a small path led down to a sandy beach nestled into an old smuggler’s cove.Nathan and Ava sat together, simply watching the waves. It wasn’t their pond back in the woods outside of Elderwood but it was secluded, cut off from the city by the high rocks and dense bush surrounding the small cove. It was also very peaceful. Nathan had always enjoyed being by the water, he found it calmed him, being here with Ava made it even better.It seemed so strange to him that his own magical powers, as uncontrolled and needing refinement as they were, had helped trigger something in Ava. Nathan was not complaining though, having someone to go through magic training with would be much better than going it alone. Even if Ava didn’t want to become a mage, she would have had to do some training, Balthazar had explained once he finished giving Ava her magic test. However, counter to the attitudes in her native homeland, Ava already had a very open mind to magic. Finding out that it was magic that allowed Nathan and Verin, along with Ashuna, the warrior from Venecia, to rescue them had given her a favorable opinion on its use.
