Pick clapped longer than what is socially acceptable, stood, and accidentally elbowed another monk square in the face.

"Oh damn, I'm sorry" he said helping the monk up. He then crossed to Tea. "That was fun! I didn't know you could shoot fire!" He excitedly grabs Tea's fist and begins inspecting it, "how did you do that?" He continued inspecting the arm unaware he was interrupting anything.

Jiemu approaches the two. "Tea" he said sternly placing a hand on Tea's shoulder, "you have proven yourself to me, and now you may leave with my blessing."

"Great!" said Pick, "well, we'll be seeing you all later then!"
He turned to leave.

Both Jiemu and Tea looked at Pick, but he didn't turn around, so Jiemu spoke first a swiftly, "You better go, that one might get himself hurt." Jiemu snickered.
"Thank you, master." Tea responded, he turn toward Quan, still unconscious. A few monks and an irritated master came to his aid.

"And Tea." Jiemu beckoned, "You might learn something from the elf." Tea looked confused, "I don't know if he has anything good to teach." Jiemu cackled, "Just keep an open mind, the world is now your master after all."

Tea swiftly caught up to Pick, "So you want to know how I did that?" Tea said, with his ego growing a little.

The two ventured out into the Plains of Bohar. Talking about power of Ki.

"So" Pick continued a line of thought, "Let me get his straight Ki is like, body magic?"

He was having a rough time understanding, but was glad to listen to his explaination. 

"Pick, for the last time, it's chi, not ki, and it's not magic, it's source is different. Where magic comes from an invisible power around us, chi comes from an invisible power within us. That is as basic as I can describe it." Tea explained, becoming slightly annoyed Pick, "But if 'body magic' works for, then yeah sure."

After awhile Tea wanted give a little more knowledge, "Chi takes greater discipline and understanding than magic, magic is like using a bucket to get water, but you are always in the ocean. Chi is more of a bridge from your spirit to all of the world. With chi you can increase your strength breifly, control the elements, there could be more to than that too." 

Tea sigh at what to say next, "Because magic is much easier, and doesn't really require discipline, chi became abandoned, but we learn to use it cause we believe we become better connected to the gods. By understanding the material world, we understand why the gods made the way things are." Tea was very passionate when talking about this, it's really all he knows. He turn to look if Pick was listening still.

Pick was indeed listening, but retention was never his forte. Although, he still didn't understand why someone would call the invisible force around a person and the invisible force inside a person two different things, so he quickly went to change the subject as they had been walking for a little more than an hour now, and he had only managed to get bored, "Yeah I understand for the most part" he said with a grin, "but what brought you to that monastery in the first place? You said they were family?"

Tea's eyes brighten, we always loved to tell this story, it always made him feel special, "That is quite the story, when I was a baby, a lone monk found me outside the temple. I was laying near a tea plant, when saw me holding a tea leaf Jiemu, he decided to name me temporally Tea as a sort of joke. After weeks of waiting for my parents to possibly come, it got a point they decided to stop waiting. The temples monks became my family, Jiemu is more or less like my grandfather, until I was old enough he became my master. It was rare for him to take students, I don't think I was special, I think he almost saw me as a blood relative." 

Tea became a little more quiet, though he thinks he accepted the idea of never knowing his true family, it always comes up in his head to want to know. He shook his head, "Uh, what about you, what was life like living with the nomads up north?" 

Pick scratches the back of his head momentarily. 

"Well, I say nomads. That's what we called ourselves, but we were bandits." He paused before realizing he had more to explain, "we weren't evil or anything, but you try living in Sarchu Valley. You almost have to live off of merchants and nomad tribes. It's as if the land itself is trying to kill you what with the toxic fumes, duststorms, And the putrid water. It's a place I'm glad to put behind me."

 Pick stops for second remembering his family. "I'm an orphan too" he said matter of factly, "the people who took me were local catfolk. Anyway,  it was my job to steal from traveling merchants along the trade route. I was supposed to stay useful, and I did exactly that." He said proudly, puffing out his chest. 

Pick's grin widened, "I'd take you there one day, but I assure you it isn't a place I would recommend."

Tea was surprised he mentioned he was an orphan as well, Tea wanted to asked how he felt about it, but thought maybe another time. While there was a pause, Tea decided take a look at the sun, then how far the mountains are. Tea wasn't happy with their progress, he notice their pace was slower than he liked, the talking was distracting him.

A slightly worrisome face grew on Tea, he looked around for any pictographs, this season the Boharan nomads don't hunt near here, but have scouts to check on their symbols. Nothing he could see, this was good and bad, no symbols means no angry nomads, but the symbols offer protection for the night. Strange things lurk in the night of these plains, so he looked for any abandon ruins to hide in.

Tea became more and more stress the fewer options he had, and it showed. Tea stopped as soon as he notice Pick looking at him strangely. "Uhhh, yeah, we need to find somewhere to hide for the night, sleeping in the open plains at night isn't good."

The sky darkened. "I'll take your word on that." Pick said scanning the hills for a place to spend the night. He found it hard to believe a place that seemed so peaceful could be dangerous. He spotted a ruin close enough to walk to before to it got too late.

"I mean, if anything works we could go to that one" he pointed.

The two agreed that shelter is priority and made their way to what seems to have been a large building.

Inside the structure they found rubble and debris. Pick was instantly interested in this place, and began searching for any artifacts that might have been left. 

"Think any of this stuff is valuable?" he asked as he picked up what seems to be a dulled and shattered mirror, "probably not right?" He tossed the mirror aside and continued searching. He moved on to a different room and froze in his tracks.

"Tea…" he said quietly. The ears of the beast he had found twitched, "Tea, we have a situation."

It laid on the ground sprawled out as if it was asleep. It's pointed hyena ears continued to twitch, its piglike snout snored slightly as its large shoulders heaved with every breath. The beast's fur covered torso was built like a bear, its arms were the arms of giant furry man with hands that end in dagger like claws, and its legs resembled that of a wolf.

The beast stirred and began to stretch. It was waking. A chord of panic resonanted within Pick as the beasts eyes opened. It blinked its catlike eyes, and yawned displaying its crocodile teeth. Then, the two made eye contact. The room filled with a pregnant pause. Pick's hand slowly moves towards his rapier, and as he does the creature's eyes follow the movement. The instant his hand touched metal the monster sprung forward with its head pointed downward. Pick could not draw his blade in time and was knocked back into the wall as the charging thing crashed into him.

Tea immediately turned around after Pick said something, "What, what is it?" Tea asked quietly. Pick wouldn't respond, he was focused on something around the corner of the corridor. "Pick what is it?" right after Tea ask this, the beast made itself known to Tea by tackling Pick. 

It's fur almost as black as the night, eyes yellow, and it's posture is that of a canine. It's eyes flicked up, and snorted as if it was laughing. Tea was horrified, he knew what it was, it was a Seltrusk. Tea knew that if he just continued to stare, Pick would be it's meal for the night. Tea shot a bolt of fire, but it was ineffective, it's fur was thick, it's laughing stop as it turn to Tea. It seemed to almost smile at Tea, it began to cackle as it approached him.

Tea wanted to run, two men were not enough to beat this thing, but needed time some to recover from being slammed into the wall. Tea took his stance and held his ground, "Please get up Pick." Tea said under his breath.