From the edge of the training ground, Talyra was watching with the expression she used when she had assessed something and found it more interesting than she had initially expected.
Aisella stood beside her with the calm attention that she brought to everything, and her expression had the diagnostic quality that she used when she was learning something.
Nerith was at the far end of the spectator group, and the leaves in her hair had gone to the amber that Rex had learned indicated something she had not yet processed out loud.
Nerith's fingers were still at her side.
She was watching the vines hold Alexander in place and Rex stand behind him with the relaxed posture of someone who had already won the fight before the other person knew it was over. She wasn't processing it as quickly as she usually did.
She thought, "He used plant growth... He just did it, as if it were nothing."
The leaves in her hair changed from amber to a color that was more like gold.
