"Heh, yeah. Sunburn: not fun. And lunch sounds good." She's also not super used to all this travel.

"Sunburn is less worriesome than heatstroke I find," Friedrich comments as Jana leads them to a copse of trees that cast plenty of shade - perhaps a little more than it should. "But some time off our feet is definitely welcome."

"Haven't had heatstroke before myself, but people sometimes get it working in the summer. It's usually cool though where I live..."

"It's warmer here than some places, and it's sometimes possible to get a version of heatstroke from being too long under the sun."

"One more reason our dear Jana prefers to travel as a shadow."

"Huh! And yeah, that sounds convenient."

"It is rather."

Jana drops her pack and stretches.

"We should see if you can pick up shadow as an element. This one," she points at Friedrich, "can't wrap his head around it."

"Oh, that'd be fun! What do I do first?"

"First, you eat," Jana says, pulling trail rations from her bag and handing them to Melissa, keeping some from herself. "We'll get back on to magic lessons after lunch."

"Alright, alright. Guess food helps memory."

Noms!

"Food also stops you accidentally exhausting yourself!"

"Voice of experience."

"Eh, long hours can be fun."

"You aren't wrong. But hitting unexpectedly at the end of your energy reserves while practicing an element is a little... Startling."

"Yeah, my spells aren't safe to work with tired, so I get that."

"Jana gets to cheat, because Innates don't really get...exhausted like most people when they're using their element."

"Cheating's always fun."

"Unfortunately this form of cheating isn't teachable." Pauses. "Whenever you're ready then."

"I think I am."

Jana smiles, holding her hands up so that it's obvious that there's shadows collecting in her palms. "Shadow's a little more...esoteric, than some of the other elements. It can be a lot harder for people to grasp a hold of. In more ways than one."

"Well, I'm usually good at esoterics."

"Well then. Let's do this the-"

-And the world shifts-

-and everything is shadowed, and different.

"-the interesting way."

"Oh, neat!" She spins around, staring in fascination.

"Welcome to my world," Jana says, gesturing around as she melts from the shadows. "Think you can try to change it?"