By the time Dinner was almost ready Leoric had thrown three logs into the pond and set up the Three training dummies across the pond. The training dummies were a three tier dummy, with spinning limbs. If you struck the upper right limb it would spin backwards causing the upper left limb to spin in your direction. One tier was about Knee height, the middle tier was about waist height and the upper tier was about shoulder height. They had seen better days as these were heavily used daily by the brawler.

“I always enjoy my meat moist, if its dry i am not doing my job correctly” He laughed as he winked towards Sophia. “Well before dinner is done then let me set up the last balance log.”

He walked behind the middle training dummy and undid his white shirt fully, untucked it from under his belt and gently tossed it towards a dummy before flexing his hand into a palm shape and launching a blast of wind at the shirt, ensuring it reached the dummy. The now shirtless brawler stretched his back and rolled his shoulders before quickly leaping to one of the floating logs, balancing on one foot before taking a deep breath and diving into the pond.

After a few moments one of the logs began to wiggle in the water as one edge kept sinking deeper into the water, a few more moments later and it was now standing vertically in the small pond. Leoric surfaced and took a lung full of air as he lifted himself up onto one of the horizontal logs, straddling it for a moment.

“You going to join me for some training tonight? Would be interesting to see your capabilities first hand.” He said as he did a hair flip and got most of the wet hair now out of his face. With a quick grab of the log with both hands, he quickly hopped to his feet and caught his balance quickly before leaping up and landing on the vertical log. One foot firmly planted on the now bopping pole as his other leg was bent and his foot was placed gently against his other legs knee as he entered one of his balance poses. Within moments the pole stood perfectly vertical, and even though there was a nice breeze coming through the forest it seemed to not budge the pole as Leoric stood up there before he was shaken from his trance by a cute voice.

“Leo, Sophia, the soup is ready.” Kylie said softly as she dug into one of the sacks they had and took out a few wooden bowls.

Leoric smiled and quickly hopped down into the pond and swam to the edge, as he climbed out he placed a hand on his right shoulder and rolled it again. ”damn thing is so stiff.”

“Kylie, mind going inside and grabbing the bottle of Amber glow for me and our guest here?” He asked politely as he grabbed hold of his bowl of soup and dropped a handful of dried meat into it. She nodded and smiled and quickly turned to go inside as Leoric sat down on one of the stumps near the fire. “The reason the shelter hasn’t been fixed is because I normally was barely here. So I was fine with it being in disarray, but since I found her and decided to keep her safe I have begun working on this area more. Unfortunately there is a problem with the lumber shipments lately, so building a new shelter isn’t feasible. Tomorrow I will bring her to town to stay with my best friend while I head out to secure those lumber shipments and make sure they make it.”

He smiled as Kylie handed over the dark amber bottle, it was unmarked, there was no label, just a cork stopping spillage. With a quick tug the cork popped out and he offered the bottle to his companion for the night.

“Made in Salvar, went through hell to secure a shipment of this made it to the tavern in town. Of course I kept a few bottles for myself.”