conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  She was sitting in the yard with her eyes closed. “Isn’t what you’re doing training, too?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “But it’s so boring!”
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  Claire smiled wryly as May complained. May was working on the first and hardest step in training to use magic—learning to be able to sense magic itself. To misquote a manga that I read a long time ago, “Only once you feel can you begin.” Even if May was a quad-caster, she couldn’t do a thing without first clearing this initial hurdle. “Hey, focus.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Hmph.” May huffed before returning to meditation. Sitting still felt like torture to her, as she loved to do nothing more than move her body. “Can you feel something warm inside you?”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Mmm… I don’t know…”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “There’s no need to rush. Let’s do this slowly, at your own pace.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Okay…” Sensing magic was an abstract concept. If May were better able to describe what she felt, then we could guide her better, but a six-year-old didn’t have the vocabulary to do that. If anything, we were already asking too much of her. “Magic feels…like what you feel inside when you’re happy.”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “When I’m happy?”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yes. When your body feels light, or when your heart is afloat.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Hmm?” May didn’t seem to understand. But Claire didn’t give up. Her teaching methods had improved since she became an instructor at the Academy, and she’d had a lot of practice explaining difficult concepts in the easiest ways for her pupils to digest. I had no doubt May would learn to call on her magic any day now under Claire’s direction. But it seemed that day would not be today.
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Mmm… I don’t get it!” May let out one big shout before sprawling on the ground.
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “That’s all right. This isn’t something you can learn in a single day.” Claire scooped up May, now sulking, and came to join us on the terrace.
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "You tried your best, May."
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “You too, Claire.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “But I can’t use magic…” May pouted.
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Not right away. We can take our time and learn, all right?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Ha ha ha! I guess the world’s second quad-caster also has some way to go!”
conversations.prefix: Rod:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I’ll figure it out soon!” May pouted.
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Oh? Will you?”
conversations.prefix: Rod:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Master Rod’s a meanie! You always play favorites with Aleah!”
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “May,” Claire warned. “We’re the ones who asked him to train Aleah, remember?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Hmph!” May fumed.
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Ha ha ha! It seems you dislike me! Very well, then. You can come fight me first thing once you learn magic!”
conversations.prefix: Rod:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I don’t wanna!” Rod took May’s ill temper in stride, simply laughing her hurtful words away.
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “How are things with you lately, Master Rod?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I’ve been busy testing that one large-scale technique I told you about.” He was referring to what was supposedly a new kind of magic he’d invented. Not even Manaria could beat him anymore, or so he claimed.
conversations.prefix: Rod: