And today, she does.

Okay, change of plans, she's selling her Ant Hauls and then she's going to tell her friends in the Eagle Knights the good news.

Not everyone is available; Treason got invited on a secret mission about a week back, and Eric's at some kind of family meetup in Carpendan. Both Joy and Liberty are in town, though!

Awww, she really wants to show Treason and Eric too. She can tell them when they get back but it's not the same.

In the meantime, she's going to arrange to meet Joy and Liberty at the temple of Milani, it feels like it would be kind of silly to demonstrate on two people who aren't even injured.

"Guess what?"

Joy will play along. ”You’ve decided to start learning some real magic? I think I could dig up an old spellbook from somewhere."

Liberty smacks him upside the head. "It's obviously good news, not her taking leave of her senses. Judging by that smile... you started channeling positive?"

Well, she wasn't smart enough for wizard school, but all things considered that's not actually a bad thing.

"Yes!!! Want to see?"

"Absolutely!"

Great! She heads on over to the channeling area.

When Justice channels negative it feels like reaching inside of herself to find the part of her that wants to hurt her enemies, curling that desire into a heavy ball in the middle of her chest, and willing it out into the world. There's something very satisfying about it, but it's not actually very useful, not anymore.

Channeling positive is the opposite. It's reaching inside of her for the part of her that cares about these strangers, that wants them to be alright, that wants their cuts and scrapes and bruises gone, and letting that desire soar out of her. A few months ago it felt almost unfathomable, but now it comes to her easily. She puts one hand on her holy symbol, looks around the channeling area, and wants the people in it to be healed, and a moment later they are.

(It turns out this is also pretty satisfying.)

Joy is smiling too now, unable to keep up his facade any longer. "Congratulations, by the way. Really. We all knew you could do it, but that doesn't mean it didn't take a lot of work to make it happen."

"As far as I'm concerned, this calls for a celebration."

Smile! "Thank you! Uh, what did you have in mind?"

"Well, we'd been planning to talk to this caydenite I know about throwing a proper party, but I'm not sure if you want to hold off on that until everyone was here instead, so we could just go get something fancy for dinner today."

"That's what I voted for in general," Joy opines, "But I was outnumbered. Your new spear should be ready for us to pick up, though."

"Oh, if we're having a party, I definitely want to wait for everyone to be back." She pauses for a moment. "....New spear?"

"Well, it's not as though we can recommend you for missions with the old one. You've gotta have silver, or it'll just bounce off a devil when you stab them."

Blink blink. "Does that mean, uh—"

"That we think you're ready to go on missions? Well, you'll still need to get whoever is leading it to agree, but as far as I'm concerned? Yeah."

She's excited enough that it takes her a couple moments to actually line up her words. "When can I start?"

"That depends on what you plan to do, and who with."

"I think there's a Steel Falcon affiliate setting out tomorrow or the day after, but I haven't been keeping track of who is headed for Isger."

Nod. "Isger probably makes more sense for my first time, if there's one heading out soon?"

"We can come help you check once you've got your new weapon."

This requires a little detour en route to the chapter house, because the spearmaker they commissioned didn't happen to have their shop set up exactly on that route. It's a relatively upscale place; not one of the really fancy workshops that do in-house construction for weapons enchanters, but only a step or two down from there. The shop's primary business seems to be in woodcarving, with a number of pieces both practical and decorative hanging on the walls; there's an apprentice manning the front when they arrive, but he seems to recognize Liberty well enough to fetch his master promptly.

"You're here to pick it up?"

"She's ready for it now."

"Hmm." He looks at Justice assessingly, but whatever he gleans from it is not voiced aloud; instead he just fetches a cloth wrapped object, and places it on the counter in between them with a light thunk before unwrapping.

The haft of the spear is solid hickory, a smidge longer than spears she used for practice, carved into a straight line of solid wood that ends in a rounded butt. Leather wraps the haft by where her hands would grip. By far the most attention getting part of the spear, though, is the tip; even indoors, the flattened blade shines with reflected light as it tapers into a point. It's the only part of the weapon not made in this store, forged from the sunsilver-mithral alloys favored by Eagle Knights to balance cost and durability with effectiveness - despite this, it's as expensive as the entire rest of the weapon.