"Hmmm I think I'll go for the practice area, Chromadyne invited me to spar."

Her eyes widen. "Good luck, and don't take it hard if you lose too badly. Chromadyne is an unusually powerful Spirit Bearer and you're brand new, after all."

"Yeah, but it should be fun." He waves and goes.

There are conference rooms and offices and a big central room.

There's the gym! Only one locker room for it.

Gender-neutrality or assumption of femaleness? Who knows.

There's a woman putting stuff into a locker in the locker room.

Her regular clothes get washed over by raiment and she doesn't seem concerned that Kaede is there. Perhaps no actual changing is done here. "Oh, are you new?"

"Yeah! I'm Kaede, it's nice to meet you."

"Omatayo. Light magic, judging from your raiment? That won't play well with mine." She indicates her deep purple dress-ish thing.

"Should be fun to spar against though."

"I'm not really a fighty type. I just like doing crazy things with my solid smoke. It gets a bit old sometimes, you know?"

"What, fighting or solid smoke?"

She makes a stifled sound of amusement. "Fighting."

"Yeah, I can imagine. I'm not much of a fan of it, I don't think—although who knows, maybe I'll get a taste for it—but Chromadyne wanted to spar."

She winces. "Uh, tell her if you want her to take it easy. We Bearers get used to damage and pain fast."

"—okay, I will. I expect her to absolutely crush me, though."

"Yeah, that will probably happen. I'm going to the climbing wall though, not the sparring courts. See you later?"

"Sure, see you!"

She heads out of the locker room. Presumably Kaede follows to find a fairly large multipurpose gymnasium, like the ones at schools.

Chromadyne grins at him and waves him over toward a set of doors.

He follows!

"Ready for your first magic fight?"

"Well, second, I killed a goblin. But yeah."

"A goblin? Lizardy-looking, 'bout three feet tall, basically just charged at you and maybe tried to dodge? Well, Goblins aren't very much of a fight but a good first fight. Get you blooded."

"...blooded."

"Just an expression. Neither monsters or 'bearers have blood. Or, not exactly anyway. But it is violent, figting them."

"—wait I don't have blood?"