"I had little choice in the matter." Like a great deal of his skills he had to twist into something other than what he'd been trained to do. Finding the joy in it and teaching himself to think of it differently- he had gotten through that part of the process well enough to walk the rest of the Kestrels through the idea. Slowly they were coming around to it. The distinct lack of punishment for failing has helped a great deal. One does well at first or one does not, there was no pain for not picking it up quickly.

If anything it seemed as though Vitta laughed at herself when she misstepped, now. Something that would not have happened a month ago. So quickly they have come so far, his fledglings.

"But it is something I have come to enjoy for its own sake."