"I think the shield and sword combo is good for me and Violet."

"I think I'll have a spar with Pyrrha. You girls have fun."

"I'd love to, Maya."

"I'll head off and see what Blake's up to."

Sable gives Maya and Jade each a goodbye kiss.

"To the range!"

Aw, she was kind of liking meeting people.

"To the range!", replies December. "Which way is that?"

She does her best to ignore the goodbye kisses.

Ruby looks sheepishly away from the goodbye kisses, blushing just a bit. "Right. This way!"

She leads the way down the hall, Sable dashing to catch up. The range is close by, and soon enough Ruby taps her scroll on a pad on the wall, and the range door opens up. There are racks of various rifles, pistols, revolvers, bows, and grenade launchers against the back wall, and five normal lanes with a sixth for explosives.

Violet looks over the racks of weapons. 

"A rifle first, I think," she says. 

Ruby selects a basic semi-automatic rifle and sets it on the counter at the back of the range, then gets down a box of ammo. One minor thing that's notable is the lack of ear protection. "Oh! Do you know how to reinforce your ears with your Aura?"

"Absolutely not, I'm still a rank beginner."

"Okay! So we're gonna start with just reinforcing your hand, because that's really easy to test. So, first step of doing stuff with Aura: feel your Aura. Look inward, not with your eyes, but with your self. Try to feel the pools of Aura each of you have. It's always easier than you expect, the first time, at least that's what Dad tells me from teaching at Signal."

She feels inward. 

It's sudden, how quickly it appears. An upwelling of energy, cool and crackling, like spring water all rushy in the early days of the thaw. 

"I think I've got it."

"Good. Now pull a bit and wrap it around your hand. The hard part is figuring out what grabbing it feels like, the rest is easy after that."

How on Remnant do you grab springwater? Especially when you don't have hands?

She tries. It doesn't really work. 

"It just sort of... slips through when I make a grab for it."

Sable tilts her head. "What metaphor is your Aura giving you? It's different for everyone."

"It's like a rushy spring but also like electricity. It's cold. I tried metaphorically cupping my hands but I don't... have hands?" 

She hums.

"Try putting the spring at the top of a mountain, and your extremities are at the bottom? So all the electric water just flows down there naturally?"

She tries it. 

It's not quite right, the water goes everywhere... 

Mentally she constructs some dikes.

Heh, construct some -

Yes, Violet. I get it.

Anyway, after some fiddling it seems to settle in.

"I think I've got it," she says.

"Great job! Now, y'know how if you slap something hard enough your hand stings?"

"Yeah, I'm familiar."

"Try it on the table! If you did it right, the sting will be different. Tell me how it's different when you get it right."