"...Hmmm, do you actually like this, Zephyra?" I ask Zephyra with growing disinterest in her modeling hobby, something she picked up recently and which apparently calms her down.
She still carries some trauma regarding alchemy, but she wants to try learning it again to help me, so she switched to modeling — that way she can shape materials into statues, objects, and other things.
"Y-Yes... don't you like it?" She asks, a bit tense about it, not wanting me to get bored.
"Oh, I like it." I lie to her. It's incredibly dull. I mean, I have the Essence of Creation — shaping material is something I can easily do with magic in whatever form I want. So doing it manually with moldable materials is pretty... inefficient. But if Zephyra enjoys it, then it's fine by me to take part.
"Here, what do you think?" I show her a perfectly molded statue of her body. It's a highly detailed copy of Zephyra, so much so that even she looks at it with surprise.
"It's so good!!"
