Transmigrated into a Fantasy World with No Clue What To Do Chapter 24: Chapter 23: Time Flies When You Are Having Fun / The Journey Begins

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Chapter 23: Time Flies When You Are Having Fun / The Journey Begins The following month and a half pass quickly, my schedule was full on most days, with a heavy emphasis on not only learning formal dances I would be expected to perform, as well as proper ballroom etiquette, but also on learning to consciously control my affinities with Lordrin, as he insisted that I call him, though it still feels weird to refer to an instructor informally. My other classes continued as normal and the only real changes to my schedule, besides the daily classes with Mrs. Christies, were that my Saturna mornings were now spent working with Lordrin, and of course, the time I got to spend tending to Rún. In regards to the lessons with Mrs. Christies, the dances got more complex and I thought that I would have a hard time picking them up, but thankfully, some of the memories I had inherited from my predecessor helped. It was something akin to muscle memory, if I had to try and describe it, but it had accompanying memories of learning the dances as Beira as well. Sadly, the etiquette portion of the lessons were not so easily recalled as apparently my predecessor had the same negative opinion as me of the ridiculous rules one is expected to observe in a formal setting, especially when it comes to behavior ‘fitting one’s station’. For her, the behaviors mostly came naturally, but that didn’t stop her from being critical of them, as some of the memories I now possess would attest. Unfortunately, said behaviors do not come naturally to me and, according to Mrs. Christies, I come off as ‘overly timid’ in her simulated social interactions which is ‘not befitting a future princess of the kingdom’. I can’t help it that I get social anxiety. Which brings me to one of her other critiques, my stutter. The harder she pushes to correct it, the worse it gets, that was something I tried, and failed, to explain to her multiple times. She even had the gall to tell me that if I can’t speak properly, I shouldn’t speak at all. Naturally, I went to my mother to complain about the treatment of me regarding my speech impediment and, while she was understanding, she seemed to agree in part with Mrs. Christies and talked about adding time to work with a speech therapist to my already overly busy schedule. I didn’t even know they have those in this world, on top of that, I have already had a dedicated speech therapist growing up as Michael, not that I could tell my mother that. The only thing the work with that speech therapist did is show me that the only way for me to somewhat reliably speak without a stutter is to speak really slowly which makes having a conversation kind of difficult, and even then, it isn’t perfect and gets worse as my anxiety levels increase. As for my lessons with Lordrin, he dropped the lessons on magical theory and had me dive straight into the practical side of things. His first focus was on my ice affinity, since that was ‘my’ original affinity and I had an easier time controlling it and shaping up to my will. Once again, Beira’s memories helping me in this regard as I knew what I was capable of on the night of my… her death, and how she did what she did. Everything else regarding my ice affinity was just built on using that as a foundation and I quickly found myself pushing beyond her previous capabilities. Lordrin taught me a couple of chants to help me keep focus once I started demonstrating higher tier control over my ice which is extremely taxing on one's willpower. Upon being instructed in using an actual chant, I found out that what was said actually mattered less than I anticipated, instead the cadence and subject mattered more because those were the focal points of the chants. For instance, if I were to use this chant “Of glacial ice, of wind and snow, chill this land till nothing grows. Storm of ice, I call to thee, ravage all in sight and leave none be” it would help me to focus my energy in a way that would make it easier to create and