Getting Ready

Anastasia circled his skin lazily as she lay on his chest. "No. But I can learn very fast." 

"Why do you want to go for it, love?" he asked, tracing a line on the insides of her wings. He pulled the wing gently towards his face and kissed it. These days her shoulder muscles were developing well. He was making sure that she had the proper diet to develop those muscles. After every session of teaching her weaponry and furthering her training as a warrior, he would personally massage her shoulders and back with a special healing oil that he had got from the Mountains of Tibris, from the bark of a tree found especially there. 

"It will be a good opportunity to meet your grandparents and also to learn a few things." She was aware that his grandparents had promised Lila to him.