Her apprenticeship was slow and tedious, wrought with many mistakes and scoldings from Belaim, but it only because she was totally new in this world the dwarf had showed her but there was no other way but going forward.  In time her training improved and the fruits of her work became more acceptable.  But the dwarven smith would not settle for anything less near perfection.  Jalna would never become as good as him but at least she would bear the knowledge and secrets of his craft with her.<br/><br/>Smithy wasn't the only thing Belaim taught her.  He imparted to her fighting techniques and doctrines that she admit were more advance than the fighting style of her tribe.  Plus she was introduced to new weapons concepts, some of which were made during her apprenticeship and were used during sparring sessions with the dwarf.  It was also during her stay and training that she looked for answers to Lux, her goddess, praying, meditating fervently but found no answers.  What should she do?  How could she be of help in facing Tenebrax and his minions? Especially being Lux's chosen one, the Lightbearer.  It was during this time that Belaim helped her, giving her moral support and telling her on how to take these dark and trying times, being a believer in the Lux himself and it was due to this that she finally opened up him what was eating her up for the longest time.<br/><br/>At first, she found satisfaction in pleasing herself, but it wasn't enough.  Soon her body, her whole being was craving for something else, something that Valis delivered and to a lesser extent what the orcs supposedly gave her in another reality.  She wanted it so bad that she greatly would settle for it from  Belaim.  And why not? He must think of her as a fool if she had not noticed or sensed the lustful stares he gives her on many occasions; or of the times she spied his protruding bulge under his trousers when she was nearby.  No, it was obvious and inevitable that he wanted her for his own needs, and that she wanted someone like him reciprocating something similar for her, but neither one of them have brought up the matter sensibly, until now.<br/><br/>At first her revelation was rather awkward and embarrassing for Jalna, but her growing extreme need outweighed any shame she was feeling, and she was willing to give herself to her host no matter what!  Oh how joyous Belaim had been, who  could hardly suppress any longer his not so hidden desires , Jalna remembered.  But the actual consummation only occurred sometime later after some hesitation from the barbarian girl's part, but when it finally happened the two got what they greatly desired. As time passed on they would do it again, with Jalna eventually getting used to with Belaim, and in spite of being two different species she would find it in her in loving the dwarf.