Two seals sounds fair for it to me. What do you think?

It's not like I know the market. I'll just trust you on that.

So you'll take it?

I will. Though I don't have seals in hand yet.

If you swear to deliver them as soon as practical I'll send you over diagrams for Turtle Breathing now.

Oaths are important, right?

I swear that when I receive Eight Tails' reward seals I will send two to you as soon as practical in exchange, or if this proves impossible due to circumstance or misfortune, work in good faith to negotiate equivalent alternate payment.

Good wording. I accept. I'll DM you the diagrams.

Thank you! Where should I send them?

I will practice this technique quite a bit and get comfortable using it for long periods first but I'm very excited to use this for diving.

You can mail them to my address in Germany and I'll get them.

Will do!

Time to get to training, then! She's in a good mood and thus able to throw her all into it, though maybe not quite as much all as her short, intense session yesterday.

She gets two strands fairly easily over the morning. 

Cocoa asks for the keys to the rental car around lunch. "I've got to go pick up a dog bed for Anna. I'd use agility techniques, but transporting the damn thing would be a pain."

"-Uh. Shit, I already returned it, actually. To save money. I can go get another one?"

"Oh. Nah it's fine, I'll go rent one myself. You need to train, after all."

"Yeah, I do. Still, sorry. It's lunchtime for me though. Kind of want to get out of the house, figure it's safe now that miss black fox has a place of her own? Wait actually-"

She checks for the new technique in her messages.

It's there!

And is learning it pretty much the same experience as the Canadian Fist techniques?

It is. More like the meditation technique than the agility or attack techniques - it's all about a certain kind of qi flow through the lungs - but it has the same kind of hypnotic assisted learning as the earlier ones.

She will go practice this in the pool!!!

While she uses the technique, she has no need to breathe. It does burn qi though. Her reserves are burnt through after about a half hour of use: the need to breathe comes back slowly, like she had just taken a deep breath of air. 

Can she stagger the technique - does it refresh her if she holds off for two minutes and then uses it?

She can! It's less comfortable but uses less qi. 

Oh, excellent. It combines very well with her monster-bloodline ability to hold her breath for a while.

Eventually she gets tired of hanging out underwater for absurd lengths of time and dries off.

Turtle Breathing combines well with my bloodline. I'm very happy with it!