Welcome to Gaia! ::

((Maybe Sera should just watch with a sadistic smile but then it wouldn't fit her character : P The candles didn't die yet, poor Ed indeed : O))

Yui headed back to the school structure and started wandering around in the hallways. She was quite upset by her training and needed to cool down. She kept her mind busy by trying to remember where everything was.

"Day one of lessons and you're ready to give up?" Amaya asked, raising an eyebrow before she glared. "Sit down, Edward." She commanded, the flames bursting with new life for a moment before settling once more. "You will have many failures on your way to learning control and many failures even once you learn control and move on to other skills in your magic. You will hurt another student some time during your stay here and you will most likely hurt a teacher. Your mother sent you here to learn how to control your fire magic and do something more with it. If she wanted you gone she could have just thrown you out on the streets, but she didn't. She sent you here. If she sent you here, the woman who raised you, I believe she knew you were cut out for this. And if you weren't cut out for this, I wouldn't have even agreed to training you. Ifrit knows I have plenty of other fire students who would love to not listen to me, but she told me that you were worth it. So whether you like it or not, you don't get to just give up. Yes, training is going to be hard and extremely emotional, but it is for every student. You are not the first and you will not be the last." Amaya told him the flames now turning to a light shade of blue, calming the effect in the room a little.

As she looked at the boy, Amaya felt some pity for him. At the beginning of her training, she almost fell into insanity. It was difficult, facing what you did not want to face, but it was necessary. "We will do the candles solely for at least three weeks. By then you should have a little more control and we'll be able to add a little more to your training besides the candles, however they will always be an important tool in your teaching." She told him, feeling he deserved to know the truth. "Ifrit is the Deity of the fire element. Through my studies I worked hard and she eventually expressed the desire for me to become a master and head of the fire house. She is very important to you, me, and the rest of the fire house." She told him, sitting back a little to stretch.

"You may keep some candles." She told him with a nod. Even at her level of control, Amaya still meditated with candles every day. It was an important exercise for her and it took many of her students years to learn that they needed the very basics to maintain control. She was glad to see that Edward was getting it to a point immediately. "Do you have any more questions for me or Master Sera? This will probably be one of the few times we work alone." She asked, leaning back on her hands now and cracking her back.

Listening to the conversation, Sera now understands what Amaya is doing. By facing his fears Ed will be able to maintain control of his powers. She cursed herself for her sympathy, why did it matter to her if the boy went mad? She acted without thinking, how stupid of her. If the boy will turn mad, it would be another burden off her shoulders... But she couldn't see the boy reacting like that... She cursed herself again. Her thoughts are conflicting each other.

Nodding her head, Amaya laughed a little. "Of course you're allowed to speak to your family. Granted time might be long between conversations with how the mail system is around here." She told him, a few candles behind her lighting themselves now. She was beginning to get a little cold.