Hajin watched Elise and Sable for a moment, then pointed at the floor in front of him until both of them sat down, which took longer than it should have because neither one wanted to go first.
"Before I tell you the plan," he said, keeping his eyes on Elise, "tell me something, how do you understand mana?"
Elise straightened a back that had already been straight, her hands folding in her lap out of pure academic habit.
"Mana is the ambient energy of the world," Elise said in a crisp rapid tone that arrived without a pause, "which a person absorbs and channels through their core."
"It requires resonance between the spirit and the surrounding etheric field," Elise continued, her chin lifting a fraction, "before it manifests as physical or magical force."
Hajin let a long breath out through his nose while two fingers went up to rub the bridge of it.
[ CringeSlayer91: ] lmao she just read the textbook out loud
