[action] training center

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[Cid was, in all truth and honesty, not an usual visitor to the training center. He took no real pleasure from killing the monsters here, as it tended to only remind him of the brand he bore; Cid far preferred other methods of training, methods that didn't involve magic and the like.

And yet, here he was.

The original plan had been to come here to fight and get his mind off of things, but that had failed rather spectacularly. Sure, Cid had taken out all the Grats that he had come across, but now that he had a T-rexaur standing before him, he felt like doing little more than keeping it dazed. All excitement vanished after the beast succumbed, and it was just a matter recasting the spell when necessary after that. Cid idly tossed a few ruins at the beast before becoming bored of even that and casting doom on it.

He sighed heavily as the spell slowly but surely counted down. His mind was clearly elsewhere.]

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[Cid stops and considers this. It feels like he's been back for ages, but that's obviously not the case...]

Two and a half months ago. So much has happened that it is seems much longer than that...

[eiusumbra]

[And Shadow hasn't noticed? Not unlikely, with his anti-social tendencies.]

True.

[Shadow is not good with small talk.]

You'll need to change strategies if you're clearing your head.

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A lost cause, Shadow. Once this one is dead, I believe I will simply head back to my room.

[He smiles wryly.]

All things considered, I likely would have had a better time reading instead.

[eiusumbra]

Don't know why you didn't think of that in the first place.

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Because it has failed me thus far, and I believed that a change of pace would have worked.

[Cid turns his attention back to the dinosaur, which at that moment keels over dead.]

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[Shadow glances over to the beast as well. Finally.]

Try a comic book.

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I've never been the type to read them, but perhaps...

[By which he means, no, that's not likely happening.]

[eiusumbra]

[Smirks lightly.]

It's a change of pace.

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[A sigh.]

Yes, I suppose it is.