lina couldn't believe that Sienna was able to generate heat with just the flap of her wings. The wyrm, no, the wyvern, looked equally surprised, sniffing at her wings as if trying to find out exactly how she did that.
"She can generate heat without even thinking about it!" Adrien said excitedly, writing more notes. "I suggest we spend today learning about Sienna's evolution. Figuring out everything that she can do now."
"We don't have ti for that. We need to open the bakery," Roxie protested.
"Roxie is right. I suspect once the word spreads of what happened in Sunglow, we'll only be getting more and more custors. More likely than not, so of them will be of very high caliber," Gilbert warned, giving Alistair a significant look.
"I'll make sure lina is properly protected," Alistair said, placing his hand on her shoulder.
"I can protect myself," lina huffed.
Sienna let out a loud screech and flapped her wings, indicating that she was also ready to protect lina. Mango let out a bark when another heat wave ca from Sienna's wings. The fox huffed angrily, which resulted in a few snowflakes coming from her mouth. Unfortunately for the fox, they lted almost instantly.
"Oh, yes, flinging a fireball in their face would surely solve everything," Gilbert said bitterly. "I ant political protection."
lina flinched. Politics was not sothing she wanted to be involved in. It was sothing nobles and Church officials delved deeply into. Sothing she, as the [Archmage], tried desperately to avoid by keeping a neutral stance.
Then again, trying to remain neutral and following the Church's orders hadn't yielded good results, so perhaps it was ti for her to understand how she could use politics to achieve her goal—coexistence between the two realms.
"I'll do my best to learn the ways of the nobles…" lina muttered.
"You'd better. I'm pretty sure Duke Sinclair isn't too thrilled about your marriage. You need to prove that you can act with grace, not just with overwhelming power," Gilbert chastised.
"But what about Sienna?" Adrien asked, pointing at the wyvern. "We can't just return to our normal day as if nothing happened. I don't think she'll even fit through the door now."
Everyone looked at Sienna. While her body wasn't necessarily larger, her wings were quite massive. It was hard to imagine that she could fit into the kitchen without knocking a dozen things over in the process.
Sienna lowered her head dejectedly, then shook it and closed her eyes shut. It looked like the wyvern was concentrating on sothing. A mont later, she shrank, just like she usually did as a wyrm. She was larger than her previous small form, which was the size of a large gecko. Now she was the size of a house cat, a bit bigger than Mango.
She didn't appear as sharp anymore, but certainly looked more ferocious than just a small gecko. lina had to wonder whether the Sunglowers would be able to accept this change.
"I suppose that solves the size problem," Alistair said.
Sienna let out a happy chitter and flapped her wing, taking flight. It was clearly a dizzying experience since Sienna wobbled clumsily in her flight and landed square on lina's face.
"You might need so practice before you can fly properly," lina chuckled, gently unhooking Sienna's claws from her hair. The wyvern let out an apologetic growl and climbed on lina's shoulders and back.
It was odd that Sienna was now so large. She couldn't just ride on lina's shoulder anymore, instead hooking her claws into the dress to keep a stable grip.
"I don't think this will work for long. You're going to tear all of lina's clothes at this rate," Alistair pointed out.
"We'll figure sothing out later. For now, we should let Sienna get used to her new body," lina said, seeing her familiar slump a little. Although she couldn't deny that this wouldn't work for long. The dress did nothing to shield her skin from Sienna's claws. Perhaps she could ask Etrian to design sothing with leather shoulder pads.
They headed inside, where lina began preparing bread and pastries for the day, while Gilbert prepared breakfast for himself, Roxie, and Adrien. Alistair bid lina a good day and, after a kiss which might have lingered for a second too long, hurried away to the Town Hall.
lina decided to start the week with a bang. She delegated Roxie to make five shimrtarts and even involved Adrien in the baking process. His task was just put bread in the oven and pull it out once it was ready, but it still freed up considerable ti for lina and Roxie.
While Sienna was still clumsy with her body, it appeared that her control over magic had only improved after the evolution. She used without issues, cooking every pastry to perfection. Even the delicate macarons that lina had initially been worried to entrust to the wyvern.
lina herself put extra effort into her magical pastries. She made plenty of luminfruit macarons, chocolate shimrcakes, and completed her weekly order of healing waffles for the Adventurers Guild. Everything was going smoothly.
More than smoothly. In fact, Sienna was leveling up at an alarming rate.
[Congratulations! Your familiar has reached Level 5.]
[Your familiar has unlocked a new passive skill –
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