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Being on a boat wasn’t nearly as fun as Luvi thought it would be. The novelty of it died off in the first couple hours. Afterwards, it was a constant feeling of unease and never knowing whether she needed to brace herself. She’d spent much of the first day lurching around her room and wishing that she had wings so she could fly herself across the sea.
The only thing keeping her from bursting into frustrated tears was her ability to keep herself mentally calm. She sat on the small chair in her room with her hands clenched on the sturdy table that was fastened to the floor. She tried to allow her thoughts to flow like the waves so that she might yet get her sea legs.
In truth, the seas weren’t even particularly turbulent – Luvi was simply so out of her element that she suffered. She was disappointed, because she had planned to use her time on these sea lengths of her journey to learn runes. It didn’t look like she would succeed, but she still tried.
Luvi allowed her body to relax a little while she shifted her focus from the motions of the boat to her inner psyche. She knew that she wasn’t anywhere near as focused as she ought to be to learn a rune so she tried to think about tangential topics. She considered runes themselves and how they might function. She knew from practical experience that they were more than simply ‘magical symbols’ that granted power. She took the thought to its logical conclusion – that the runes instead amplified existing power.
The seasick woman also tried to think about how the runes actually granted their boons. They required ether to create, so did that mean that they transferred that ether into the muscles and senses? Or did they affect the soul somehow? She didn’t know if there was a way for her to find out, but she had to guess that it was the former. It made sense for the ether to somehow coat her muscles… or something of that sort.