"I... do not have a bike. Hey Puchuu will you get me a bike?"

"Maybe in a couple of days. It seems like it'd be pretty useful!"

"It does, yes. Maybe I can get somebody at school to lend me one for the time being."

"Well, there you go. Or you could just jog. You ought to be able to maintain a full-on sprint with regeneration and significant amounts of vitality and agility. I can meet you there at a certain time but not really go out of my way to escort you."

"Man, maybe I really could just jog, that would be something."

"Physical stats are like that! You should mess around in the woods or Overworld, do gymnastics, climb walls, get used to it. It's instinctual to an extent but it'll help planning, to have a feel for it."

"Anything else like that I might be overlooking?"

"Get used to your weapon, it'll be a magic focus but you can still whack things or block. Use the heal a couple of times so you can learn to feel and judge magical exhaustion. Learn to throw mana bolts, generic no-element attacks, and the Focused Strike. Blowing some Overworld woods up once won't be a big deal."

Bella writes all this down. "Awesome, thank you."

"Happy to welcome another member of the community! Let me know when you're about ready to talk to Gravity or Titanium, they'll be much more sanguine about giving their numbers to a newbie than a potential."

"I will probably go play with my magic for the next hour or two but expect to be at home to the phone till ten after that tonight!"

"'Kay, I'll call back. Or they will."

And Bella will go give her dad a hug and then let herself out into the backyard, and from there the overworld, to leap around and wreck trees.

She's pretty much an action hero! More Hawkeye than Superman, admittedly, but she can scramble up trees with moderate effort, do cartwheels and tumbles, bring her foot above her head, and barely even feel a hard bump against a tree that definitely would have bruised before. Throwing mana bolts is a little weird- Her weapon is a purple and silver staff topped by a sphere of red crystal, which appears in her hands when she intends it- But it's still fairly intuitive and they range from 'shake the leaves' to 'cleave through a large branch'. The lower end tends to dissipate before it hits at any distance.

Wheeee she will keep an eye on the time but bop around topiarying trees and jumping from heights and tumbling around for about an hour and a half. What does mana exhaustion feel like?

She won't be able to figure that out unless she goes really hard on making woodchips or tries out the heal. She still feels like it's 10 am and she's had a good night's sleep and maybe coffee.

Good on her for spending points on vitality, she guesses! Tanya recommended trying out the heal, so - so as not to waste it - she will go for more daring stunts till she is actually banged up enough to benefit from it.

-Yeah, landing bad on a big fall will still mess her up! And hurt! 

Cosmic Heal makes her glow with pale purple light and a sense of silence and starlight. It feels peaceful. It's also much more obviously draining.

Magic exhaustion feels a little like tiredness in a muscle that doesn't have a physical location, and a little like being So Done with some mentally draining activity. It's definitely its own distinct thing and coming from the same place as the rest of her magic.

Huh. Good to know what that's like. If she sits for a bit can she notice it recovering?

It would be hard to put numbers on it, but she's getting over it pretty quick.

Oh good.

As long as she's in the Overworld anyway where is the kitsune?

That way! Down this trail, towards a bit of Overworld that looks like a distorted upside-down forest.

Huh, neat. She's not going to jog fifteen miles right now, though, she's going to drop out into the normal world and head back inside.

There is a note for her saying that there was a call while she was out! She dials the return number.

"Hiiiii~ Gravity Maven here! Teeny Tanya said nice things about you so I'm already pre-impressed, miss newbie psychic!"

"You sound pretty neat too! I just got back from fucking around in the woods, it's very cool to be able to balance at anything quicker than a shuffle."