Even though the elf officer had been seemingly hard at work, he soon did look up at Rubii once she had come over to him and offered her help.<br/><br/>"I've been examining these charts and maps. Perhaps you would like to help me if that were alright."<br/><br/>At the moment, though, he was really going over his Earth magic incantations all over again. Some people had thought that he was something of a natural when it came to Earth magic, but that wasn't true.<br/><br/>Rather, he was so good at it because he constantly drilled himself on it and never really cut himself any slack.<br/><br/>That kind of an exacting routine was precisely the reason he always remained sharp, but it wasn't a routine that would have really shown itself at all to her.