Theorist didn't notice until he turned around to put the stew on to cook in the fireplace that the creature he encountered in the forest had followed him home. He wasn't quite sure how to react. Should he chase her off? Why was she even there? An idea hit him. Maybe she was hungry? He could see why it would be difficult for someone like her to hunt in a forest like that. She stuck out like a sore thumb. And he<span style="font-style: italic">did</span>feed her after all. She was probably looking for more food. "You're still hungry, aren't you?" He finally said.<br/><br/>"Well..." He looked down at the pot of uncooked stew. "Okay, you can have some. It has to cook first though." He laughed when he realized what he was doing. This creature couldn't understand him. Why was he talking to it? Maybe he had just felt so lonely for so long that he longed for anyone to talk to. Even if it was a one-sided conversation and even if she couldn't understand. Cyrus knelt down over the fireplace, mumbling some incantation. A flicker first formed in his right hand. Then a small flame.<br/><br/>He carefully moved the flame over to the wood in the fireplace that he had just cut this morning. In an instant, the entire stack of wood caught fire. Cyrus dismissed the flame with a wave of his hand. Cyrus knew a little bit of magic. He was self-taught for the most part, though he did apprentice himself to a hedge mage for a short time. He mostly used magic to help him out with small things around the house. Like lighting fires, cutting wood, cleaning his house, things like that. He knew only simple spells, and so didn't keep a spellbook like most mages. The spells he knew, he memorized.<br/><br/>Cyrus picked up the heavy pot of stew and hung it over the fire to where the flames were licking the bottom. "Okay, we have a while until it's finished. About evening. Until then..." He moved over to a chair that he had near a small table. He sat down and pat his knee. "Come here. Let me have a look at you." He found himself curious about this being. He knew creatures such as this and creatures even more fantastical existed, but this was the first time he saw one up close. He gestured for her to come near, just in case the patting of his knee wasn't understood.