Chapter 256: Out On The Lake
Half an hour later, Kir met Kordia at the pier directly beneath the lowest-reaching tower beneath the promontory.
Waiting at a boat was Terry, Lumin’s butler, along with a device designed to display local mana flows.
"I think Lumin knows more than she lets on about spirits," Kordia said as soon as she saw the record player-sized device, which looked like a floating compass in a ball of energy, with a triangle-shaped indicator. "We should be able to follow this to any large sources of mana."
"Um... One problem though," Kir said, before giving Kordia a moment to notice the indicator was pointing right at her.
"Oh! Let me just..." She poked around the device, and the indicator wobbled away from her direction.
"I thought you might hide your mana instead," Kir said as he sat in the boat with her.
Terry took up the oars and started to row away from the pier in silence.
"I suppose that would work, but there’s really no point with me," Korida shrugged.
"Why do you say that?" Kir reached out and held her hand.
"My tails," Kordia said, fluffing out her three tails a little. "They pretty much tell people how much mana I can hold if they know about my clade." Amongst Beastkin, Clades were used to categorize and distinguish those with similar animalistic traits. Kordia was of the fox clade, or foxkin, which was pretty self-distinct and had few members, but others like the dog clade could contain a breadth of members under the category - in the same way that corgis and huskies were both dogs back on Earth.
"But that’s just for your total mana, right?" Kir asked. "What about your present mana level?"