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This war is getting more brutal with each passing day. If I don't learn to adapt, I'll never survive.
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Maybe if I work on my bow skills, I can get good enough to fight from a safe distance.
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I wonder if Petra would teach me. I mean, she doesn't hate me, so that must mean we sort of get along...
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You are needing my help, Bernadetta?
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Augh! Petra! Were you there this whole time?
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For enough time. I am also thinking we are getting along.
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You...do? Aww, Petra!
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Um, but I mean...I actually could use your help.
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I want to get better with the bow, so I was thinking maybe you could give me some intensive training? But I mean, you really don't have to! It's fine!
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Of course! It would give me delight.
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But there is one concern I am having.
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Oh... It's the fact that I'm horribly untalented, isn't it?
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No, you are not without talent. I have seen you being very light upon your feet.
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But it is only when you are feeling threatened. So for you to have the greatest improvement, I must be giving you fear when I am training you.
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Um...OK? But maybe you could be threatening in a non-threatening way?
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That could be done, but then you would not be having improvement. Terror is what you are needing for this.
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I don't think I like the sound of that...
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Then we must be forgetting this idea. I do not want your heart to be giving out.
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Hey, come on! I'm not completely afraid of applying myself, you know!
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If we are doing this intensive training, you will have to be facing the trial of wind. I am thinking you lack the readiness you need.
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The trial...of wind?
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You know what? Do your worst! My heart can take whatever you dish out and...and...chew it into little, tiny pieces!
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Very well. Once we have our beginning, I will not relent. I hope you have offered your prayers today!
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Eep! On second thought, maybe we should discuss this just a little more before we—Goddess, save me!
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Petra! Enough! Cease! Your arrows are just one big blur!
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Now it is time for seriousness. One hundred arrows from behind!
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I THOUGHT WE WERE ALREADY SERIOUS!
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Is this...the afterlife? Am I dead?
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You have done it, Bernadetta! You are the survivor of Brigid's fearsome trial by wind.
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What does that...even mean?
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This training is meant to be testing our resolve, just as the spirits do.
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Warriors of Brigid who are surviving the trial receive the blessings of the wind spirits.
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You have passed. Now the spirits will be with you always and guiding your arrows.
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I passed? Yes! You go, Bernie! But actually, I'm just happy to get your approval here. It feels...nice.
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It is the approval of the wind spirits, not mine. But I am sharing in your happiness all the same.