Somewhere in the process, she wraps an arm around her shoulder. 

She's a little tired, but well aware enough to notice and instinctively nuzzle and press back up into her.

*MMmmmmmm~" 

"Thanks for sharing all this, btw - always nice to get to grab more options for music and stuff. For now... Uh, I'll take care of the sparring field and talk to the chat a bit about this all? There's probably more stuff you can get in good will with this sort of stuff, 'nd it's good fun." 

"Same to you - it's good to get a chance to cast off a limitation I didn't need and you're... quite nice company in the right headspace, at least." 

snort.

"Right back at ya." 

She lay down on the sofa, kicking her feet back up on the armrests, trying not to think about how close her butt was to her face at this angle. 

Got affinity test back from Ruby - Wood, Yin, 'Balance' are my strong ones, and apparently my energy is best suited for mind and dual cultivation. She seemed decently pleased with the results and called it solid - I just... don't know what that means, and would like your thoughts.

Ooh nice to hear from you, Moonsilver! 

A Yin affinity is usually a good sign of the future of a female cultivator - I know that she didn't highlight body, but it'll probably make you a bit more compatible with refinements to yourself in those terms. 

Plus, it means you get more perks early on!

That's a decent list of affinities too - it's not too uncommon for people to just have one, you know.

Balance is a useful one - though a touch hard to get right - expect you to have a bit more... 'swings' then you'd otherwise get, though it can be a useful way to keep a diverse skillset. 

I'm Fire, Yang, Yin, and Balance aspected elementally myself, at least for the basics - I find it offers a lot of options and synergies for some of the purer ones. 

Oooh!

Wood is great for herbalists, and gotten a lot of mileage out of it cooking, too. 

Ruby's usually pretty reluctant to heap praise, so I expect you'll have a bright future!

Though it's probably worth mentioning that you can pursue whatever you'd like, and your affinities will help you somewhat - there's just more and less obvious applications, and different strengths of the effect. 

Yeah - though there's really an obvious application for everything too - a metal affinity helps with well, metal attuned alchemical ingredients, even if the overall process is a good bit more complicated.

Oh and I half-forgot - she mentioned void as one that she saw, too? Not sure what to think of that. 

Elemental affinities that aren't one of fire, water, earth, metal, wood, yang, yin and 'balance' are... 

Less conventional, one might say.

There's as many elements possible as stars in the sky, as one might expect, but the basic compositional elements that the chinese paradigm focuses on is those, and you'll always have at least one of them, and it's thought not to be possible to have more then four  - whereas other elements it's a lot... looser. 

You can have affinities for weapons or processes or metaphysical elements that aren't part of that system or any number of things. Void is a strong one, or at least one well understood the upper levels of for being quite useful in a number of combat and mental applications. 

And thank you for sharing this - I'm sure it will help the seniors pick out gifts for you!

It's always wonderful to see the windfall and reactions!

Oh!

I'm sorry I don't have much to offer, but the Spirit Black Tea is a decent source of Wood qi, and focusing in on that with your meditations might help, as well as influencing the area that you cultivate with that sort of thing - I've seen a lot of pretty places with all sorts of things scattered about to go for the best results!

Though actually, still haven't gotten rid of some of my left-over blood and qi pills - happy to mail some over!

...I want to protest that those are valuable, but at this point, they really shouldn't be too big a deal, and it can be helpful to keep a generally good reputation on the quality of the items you sell and those were... 

Fine. 

For those ridiculously low standards, at any rate.

Aww.

It's always a little fun to see you a little defensive, Steely Student!

And honestly half-just want to ask to run over now!

Have to prep the garden for my absence, though, so I'll be a while. 

Is it really so expected for everyone to come over? 

Sort of!

The seniors have there own time tables - Glacial Glave Grandmaster tends to go into seclusion for weeks of cultivating, and is off on that sort of thing now, I think, and some juniors can get stuck, but well...

Cultivators like gifting there presence, too, you know~?

That's one way to put it, MMM.

Getting to know each other personally is a good way to network, and when cultivators have enhanced memories, there's a lot more that you can do with that then you might expect. It's good practice to be a part of the scene, and it's useful to show up as part of that - but it's also definitely a way to show off. 

I understand ^^

Cultivators are... really different, aren't they? 

It really depends on perspective! 

The thing that's easy to forget is that there's just... not a natural place in the modern day that people would end up with the sort of confidence and comfort in there body that cultivators naturally get unless they mess something up - not to mention the differences in how growing up with it works. 

There's a lot of people who work a lot more like simply naturally gifted people out there, but there's certain...

Ways that they try to be something different, or even manually go for something different!

Really, cultivating by default includes little modifications to better understand the path, and by the time that you get to the metaphysical optimizations...

I like to think that nothing nesscarily changes, but...

It's been nice, and rather different, to have this wealth, amongst other things.