Herbalists' Cache in the running and slowing of time

"good!" sun eater grinned, whirling to snap at the air where other shore had stood only a moment before. "fast. good learn." there was one more thing to teach, he felt, and that was how to take a bruise.

that was how one learned to fight. "other shore. attack with teeth. hard. i protect." he did not wish to hurt her, but the pain built a warrior; half-bites would not prepare her for the lethal slashing in an actual battling.

"try not lose standing," was the final instruction offered before he waited once more.