Drinks deeply. 

"Let's talk that over with another cup of tea, say?" 

"Oh yeah sure." 

She walks out, taking a little diversion to the side to let her blade fly out the door. 

"You've cleaned out your system of it by now, I bet, and there's enough headroom to fine even if not so..." 

She went to work making it again. 

"So ok. Obviously, a lot of this is probably going to be at least partially meaningless to you, but it is useful for comparisons. Weapon energies are a separate thing and won't be touched upon." 

She hums and strokes her hand along the kettle. 

"Weird how much I kinda just wanna flash boil it, but never quite the same, and besides - that's a waste, here." 

She gestures down at her ripped body. 

"If you ran this test on me, and did the same level of summarization as 'm doing for you, I'd say I have a really great affinity for Yang, Fire, and Metal (plus forge and formation stuff and sub-elements too complicated to get into, with some specialist natural resonances w/ Earth, an overall solid balance between body, mind and soul cultivation w/ excellent compatibility for doing it dual. My affinity for wood, shadow, and water range from totally unusable to sorta workable. even have a decent nascent aptitude for space, oddly enough, though as Respledent Solar Soldier'd probably say, 'm enough of a genius for that sort of thing to be... a lil silly." 

She snorts and points at her. 

"You're... sorta more normal? Solid Wood and Yin affinities on a base of similarily great Mind and Dual cultivation affinities, though actually your elements align pretty excellently for doing balance work in the style of taoist techniques like the thin' you already have, and there's definitely firmly usable. You'll always have a bit of a struggle building your cultivation around body cultivation w/out some dramatic intervention, but your soul and mental energy are good. And for more exotic stuff..." 

She snorts. 

"Void, of all things - should be pretty useful, though techniques are a lil impractical early on. There;s some more... interpretative, bits, of course, but that's the basics. Ususally that sort of ting is for..." 

She waves her hand vaguely. 

"Builders and endurers, focused talents and trick users who go for skill-strats and pulling of 'expertise' in general, even if it translates out to an advantage elsewhere." 

She nods a little. 

"I guess I'm lucky I had a good compatibility with the technique - I suppose that will help quite a bit. And..." 

She blushes again. 

"You really ended up testing my affinity for that sort of cultivation?"

She raised her eyebrows. 

She laughed hard. 

"Ah... It's fun to get to play 'round with this with people who get it from the fics, and such." 

She smiled relaxedly. 

"It's something related to the whole synergistic characteristic you have - some people naturally have energies that sorta... work well with others, natively? It's natural to detect when playing with your energies and so on, 'nd it is useful for a lot of things when cultivating next to other people or so on, beyond just..." 

Eyebrow-raise-higher. 

Eyebrow-wiggle.

"Sex." 

She broke down laughing. convulsing with laughter as she let the awkwardness fade away. 

She snorted hard and laughed back with her, smiling widely. 

"ah..." 

The kettle started going off. and she went up to take care of it. 

"Beyond all that... Don't cultivate for the rest of the day, at least to get strands - you're too unstable right now to get safe results, and you'd probably just end up wasting your time. Three strands on day 2 is great, don't worry about that. And..." 

Hum plop in the sugar and milk. 

"Doing the formation work for the house now, 't'll be up properly in a few minutes. It'll be..." 

She sighed. 

"'safe' here." 

She winced a little. 

"I assume with a lot of caveats?"

"Oh yeah." 

She let her tongue lap down at one of the mugs, lapping up a bit of the still hot tea.

"Gonna be implementing features for a while, but it'll block out sensory technique of less then fourth level 'nless they figure out something clever, block out stuff like ghost spirits 'round the third level, and even trying to brute force invade into the house would take like two-or-three extraordinary meridians running to eventually get it, though someone at the peak could probably get in pretty dang quickly. Without sieging, probably not feasible for a second stage ward breaker or stealth technique user to get in without something special. It should deter most casual predation attempts, and has the standard call for help features, or will  but..." 

"Obviously, you don't have that safety out of here, and it is beatable, and a rush job. You can prob. get away with just staying here - happy to get stuff delivered if you need anything, but it's... limiting." 

She glances back down at it, and drinks a bit from hers. 

"It's ready - though the curve is a good bit more aggressive with this to the right level, you can get away with something a good bit quicker, and it keeps to something solid for quite a while, so don't be too worried about that in general."

"I understand but..." 

Drink tea, focusing on getting a better hang of the essence.

"What do cultivators do all day, if you have these sorts of limitations?"

"Cultivate." 

Dubious-glare.

"No seriously - in a couple of ways, actually. There's a default function of the Nose Aperture that means that you autocultivate, and everything is a part of a path, just not always the one you are walking." 

Conceding-nod-to-the-side, eye-roll.

"Usually, a cult, sorry, 'clan' cultivator is basically just thrown in to learn everything that they can - the amount of time that you can actually spend practicing a fist technique might be only what, 4 hours a day? But you can spend the rest of your time meditating, reading up, practicing forms, sparring, sleeping, listening to lessons, eating, practicing a profession - whatever, as long as it's part of the path. It goes quickly, I find? But like... YOu don't have to do that to your life. 't's the least we can offer you." 

"Yeah - though honestly I might want some help for... how to meditate properly without going for the strands and wearing out like that? Or just... get a chance to relax or..." 

She ran her hand across her forearm, then sighs a little as she notices more impurities.

"Oof yeah that sucks - only-half-reember it but having a lot of baths and stuff helps, and even in as much as that stuff can still happen to me naturally sort of purify it, but well.." 

She twitched her head to the side. 

"'s not the most transferrable thing." 

She tapped her finger against her mug.

"It'll keep. Feel free to go shower." 

Long slow sip contemplative sigh. 

"I know there's a lot kind of front loaded to this but... 

Gosh there's a lot of fun to be had, too. 

'll show you something cool after, promise." 

She smiled a little, cautiosuly letting her shoulders slump back.

And of to the shower, after an unnesscary nervous glance back over her shoulder. 

Showering again so soon after the changes was yet another especially odd experience. It wasn't that it was anything unepxected - the sensual texture to the feeling of her skin - both in terms of the input and output - was something entirely expected, as was the extra lightness and strechiness that made gliding her soapy hand down her legs so easy and comfortable and nice, nor was the slight tinge of aroused heat in her chest something that she especially found unusual, considering that Ruby was virtually objectively hot, considering all the refinements she had gone through, and being gay was just...

Natural, as was the little shivers down her spine she flet when she really focused in on her, though the ideas and swirls of impressions of thoughts from there were something that would need a lot more then just idle notes no the nature of humanity. 

And of course, the further details she was feeling were... a good bit less something that she could just explain away as 'natural'. 

Her chest was a good deal more muscular, the sort of thing that was all clean hard lines forming what she couldn't helkp but think was the proper way for her abs to be, on an excellently taught stomachm or the thing that was so much easier to notice...

Her breasts. 

They had practically inflated to something a good bit larger, the sort of hefty things that you see in models and wet dreams, larger then what ought to be practical for most, but without the sort of sag of strech that she'd associate with seeing that sort of thing in nature. 

She couldn't just say that she was somehow having her pectoral muscles grow to something more substantial, or that there was some trick of the eye or her shifting proportions that made it seem larger then it was. 

They were genuinely large in a way that she just... hadn't had before and...

She let out a warm sigh as she settled into feeling the droplets of water run acrosss them, an oddly comforting weight of it pushing down that just made it so pleasnt to sit there and relax, rolling her shoulders and letting out the small satisfied sighs that the steam of ater washed away. 

It was easy to just slip this into thinking about the commercialization that she could presumably pull off with this, but it was just... Good to have the sort of beauty that people value, incliding her, and that's not... sinful, or anything. 

Still, it'd be annoying for a while that.. 

She laughed, watching her breasts jiggle pleasantly. 

She'd totally be fine without a bra, wouldn't she be. 

But of course. 

Not like that'll make this whole thing more sexual. 

She shampoo'd and conditioned, enjoying the little refinements to the even-ness of her scalp and just... 

The way it was better, beyond the sort of thing worth description, and enjoyed the perfected sheen of it. 

Ah this is cool too, really. 

She smiled, and changed back into something a bit lighter - a tank top with shorts she'd be sure would be unrestricting even with her more muscular thighs, just because being in a good set up for fighting seemed natural for whatever Ruby's idea of fun was.