Times Change (complete)

Chapter 21

And after Roza graduated we could use the house when we came to visit our children on campus. Unless Roza and I wanted to use the cabin and then the rest of the family could still use the house.

Every day after Abe moved to Missoula a dozen private guardians were secretly allowed onto and off campus. To help with my Roza's training, per Alberta's orders. Those same guardians would meet us in the meadow every mid-day after Roza and I had lunch, which was the middle of the moroi night. That way almost everyone was asleep and could not accidently discover what they didn't need to know.

I had changed Roza schedule to where we would still do physical training first, but then we would do her magic training and we would do her academic lessons at night. That way we were finished with her magic training before the campus awoke for their day time, which was actually night, our time to sleep.

My Roza was doing amazingly well in all of her studies. I think that the reason that she did less than her best in her academic studies before we moved into the cabin. Was because the teachers went to slowly for her they went so slowly that she easily became bored.

Here I let her move at her own pace and because of this she had already finished all the academic curriculum for St. Vlad's. I had already moved her onto the senior academic excellence curriculum from St. Basil's.

But because of this I had to get Alberta to request supplies and books from St. Basils. Because St. Vlad's didn't have an excellence curriculum.

Here at St. Vladimir's all of the students were expected to move at the same pace. But for some students, like my Roza, that just wasn't a realistic goal. She was farr to smart and advanced for that.

Each of the guardians that helped us train had their own protective gear, provided by Abe of course. So that Roza and I could use them as target practice, the more we practiced the better we both became at hitting moving targets.

We got so good at hitting moving targets with lightning bolts that the guardians became weary. And started using plastic bottles filled with sand, empty coffee cans and clay skeet targets as practice targets. They even used the lids cut from the metal coffee cans as targets.

A few times when the lids where struck they would fly towards one of the guardians. And if it had hit them where it was heading it would have easily killed them.

Thanks to Roza's telekinesis and air powers she could stop or redirect the coffee can lids keeping them from harming the guardians. We were all very grateful for that, especially the guardians. After about the third time of that happening we stopped using the coffee can lids. We thought it would be much safer for everyone involved that way.

At night after her academic lessons and dinner were done. We practiced her telekinesis as well as her ability of putting up and holding shields and barriers. A few days after we started she wanted to know why.

*FLASHBACK*

"Mitya, why are we practicing this so hard?"

I sighed, I knew that now was the time to explain to her about Spokane.

"Roza, come sit down babe. It's time for me to tell you a little more."

We sat down on the couch and turned to face each other.

"There is a reason that we have been practicing your telekinesis and shielding powers so much. That much is true."

"I figured that there was. I also figured that when you could tell me that you would."

My Roza, she knew me soo well. She'd always been able to read me like I was an open book. Just like I could do with her. I wasn't used to being so open with people but with her it just came so naturally. I didn't even have to think about it or force it it was just there.