09-07-2022, 05:16 AM
Cara took note of the professor extending a hand first, silently requesting the book back and she couldn't figure out if that was a good sign or a bad one. Maybe she should have tried harder to pay attention to reading lessons. It wasn't her fault the lessons were dull enough to put a rooster to sleep as he crowed at sunrise, maybe if they hadn't been so she would be in a better position and maybe she wouldn't feel so nervous and sure she had just done horribly on her first class of the day.
She handed the book over, holding back on gripping her fingers into a fist until they were hidden from view hanging by her side when she lowered her hands down. Thankfully as the professor finally spoke, her reassurance that Cara had done well seemed to help ease up on the tense state of her frame. Not much though as Professor Moore then politely pointed out the few mistakes she had made and it turned out to not be as many as she had first thought. The ones that seemed to get her were the ones with letters that didn't sound out as they did in her head. With practice as the professor went on to mention she would get better at it and with luck that wouldn't take very long and she could move on to more important lessons and training.
Cara stood stunned for a few moments, the words Professor Moore had just spoken not just swirling in her mind but for some reason around her stone heart. While she didn't think she deserved a thank you for nervously having to go first on the reading test it had been the next part that had gotten to her. No one had believed in her before, well, they hadn't said it out loud or that she believed they actually meant it. Her father had said it maybe once or twice when they had worked together as he taught her the ins and outs of a blacksmith but after abandoning her she knew he hadn't meant anything by it. She couldn't help feel the same way when the noble woman had said it during their first wand lesson, as much as she had wanted to it was still a deep wound in her heart at the time that just didn't let those words sound anywhere close to sincere as much as they could have possibly been. Though since the noble woman had also dumped her now here at the school Cara could only assume she hadn't meant it either.
This time though, something didn't feel the same from either of those times. Something about this or maybe the words felt different but just what she wasn't all that sure. The only thing she could tell was that it had shaken her guard enough to get through deep enough to stun her for a moment and ponder what she wouldn't normally anymore. She blinked, finally pulling herself from her deeper side as she realized Professor Moore had asked if she had any questions. While she couldn't very well ask about what was on her mind at the moment she tried to think if there was any on her mind outside it.
"No questions Professor. None except what you would have me do next now that my test is complete?" Cara replied politely and her voice still slightly quiet to not be heard beyond the professor's desk. While she didn't want to hope to much that this was her que she could take off and do something until it was time for the next class, with her writing turned in and reading test done she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do now while the rest of the students were tested on their reading as she had just been.
She handed the book over, holding back on gripping her fingers into a fist until they were hidden from view hanging by her side when she lowered her hands down. Thankfully as the professor finally spoke, her reassurance that Cara had done well seemed to help ease up on the tense state of her frame. Not much though as Professor Moore then politely pointed out the few mistakes she had made and it turned out to not be as many as she had first thought. The ones that seemed to get her were the ones with letters that didn't sound out as they did in her head. With practice as the professor went on to mention she would get better at it and with luck that wouldn't take very long and she could move on to more important lessons and training.
Cara stood stunned for a few moments, the words Professor Moore had just spoken not just swirling in her mind but for some reason around her stone heart. While she didn't think she deserved a thank you for nervously having to go first on the reading test it had been the next part that had gotten to her. No one had believed in her before, well, they hadn't said it out loud or that she believed they actually meant it. Her father had said it maybe once or twice when they had worked together as he taught her the ins and outs of a blacksmith but after abandoning her she knew he hadn't meant anything by it. She couldn't help feel the same way when the noble woman had said it during their first wand lesson, as much as she had wanted to it was still a deep wound in her heart at the time that just didn't let those words sound anywhere close to sincere as much as they could have possibly been. Though since the noble woman had also dumped her now here at the school Cara could only assume she hadn't meant it either.
This time though, something didn't feel the same from either of those times. Something about this or maybe the words felt different but just what she wasn't all that sure. The only thing she could tell was that it had shaken her guard enough to get through deep enough to stun her for a moment and ponder what she wouldn't normally anymore. She blinked, finally pulling herself from her deeper side as she realized Professor Moore had asked if she had any questions. While she couldn't very well ask about what was on her mind at the moment she tried to think if there was any on her mind outside it.
"No questions Professor. None except what you would have me do next now that my test is complete?" Cara replied politely and her voice still slightly quiet to not be heard beyond the professor's desk. While she didn't want to hope to much that this was her que she could take off and do something until it was time for the next class, with her writing turned in and reading test done she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do now while the rest of the students were tested on their reading as she had just been.
