Later during the night, Claudia pretended to be asleep until Callum, Ezran and Rayla were. She probably should've been sleeping, too, but she had other things on her mind.

Claudia got up, carefully leaving so she wouldn't wake them up. She didn't go that far from them, since she didn't particularly want to get separated, but she did go far enough to find a good place to read.

"Okay, book." Claudia said, sitting in the grass, "Tell me about primal sources."

"Well, there's the moon-"

Claudia almost screamed a little, turning around quickly to see Rayla, "Oh, Rayla. What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question." Rayla replied, walking over towards her.

"Reading." Claudia answered, "I was going to read about primal sources, and I thought over here was a good place to do that."

"Shouldn't you be sleeping?" Rayla asked, sitting down. Claudia shrugged as a response, opening the book.

"You know, if you really want to know more about primal sources..." Rayla started, "Why don't you come with me?"

Rayla held her hand out to Claudia, so she took it. She and Rayla had been fighting a lot lately, even though they had just started getting along. But right now... It didn't seem like they were fighting.

And Claudia didn't want to fight.

Rayla took Claudia away from where she had attempted to read, towards where there seemed to be a cliff. It wasn't surrounded by a lot, and it was easy to see the sky.

"So, you're gonna tell me about primal sources?" Claudia asked.

"Something like that." Rayla smiled, "You know what all the primal sources are, right?"

"Yeah." She nodded. Rayla stood near the cliff, looking at the sky. Claudia followed her, though she wasn't sure what Rayla was doing.

Rayla turned towards Claudia, "The primal sources are the source of all magic here. And pretty much everything is magic. It's everywhere."

"I know." Claudia said. She almost mentioned how many possibilities there were, how many things she could do but thought it was probably best if she didn't. Especially not to Rayla.

"Almost everything that lives here has a primal source. And what you use them for..."

"I thought you wanted to tell me about primal magic?" Claudia interrupted. Rayla took Claudia's hands, holding them.

"I did. But first you need to understand why we find it wrong." Rayla explained, "It's not just a few spiders, Claudia. It's... everything. Just look."

Rayla let go of one of her hands to gesture, turning her head towards where there were some kind of magical birds or something, "You could use those birds, or Bait or me."

"You?" Claudia questioned.

It wasn't like she didn't know elves had a primal source or anything, or all the things they could be used for. But she never really actually met an elf before now, not one she had a conversation with, anyway. And...

I want to trust you.

Not one that was her friend.

Claudia looked into Rayla's eyes, and Rayla took her other hand again, "Even elves could be..."

"Yeah." Claudia replied, quietly, "I know, but isn't it... different? I mean, if it's not elves?"

"Not really." Rayla said, "We're not any different from everything else you use. We have a primal source, like them."

"So I'm sure you can see why..." She continued, letting go of Claudia's hands, "Why we have a problem with it."

Claudia didn't know why she was starting to understand, she didn't know why she wanted to. I mean, she used it for everything. It was just kind of who she was.

"I'll try and stop using it."

And she didn't know why she wanted to stop. Rayla might have been her friend, but was she even Rayla's friend?

She smiled at Claudia, and she started to think that yeah, she was Rayla's friend, "Really?"

"Yeah. I mean, who knows." Claudia replied, "Maybe I'll just, find something else to do."

"You could learn primal magic."

"I'm not really sure about that." Claudia mentioned, "I mean, it's never really been my thing, not like it was with Callum. I haven't been able to find a primal source that really... seemed like something I could learn."

"I know you can." Rayla sat down, so Claudia sat next to her, "I could tell you about the moon."

"No thanks." Claudia said, "Callum already told me so much about the moon. And the sky."

"I see." Rayla smiled, and for a few minutes they just looked at the sky.

"You can see so many stars from here." Claudia commented, softly, "It's beautiful."

"Claudia?"

"Hmm?' Claudia glanced at Rayla, smiling.

"What about the stars as your primal source?" Rayla asked, and she looked like she might be blushing.

"Oh, that's..." Claudia stood up, "That's perfect."

Rayla stood up and watched as Claudia continued.

"I mean, it's one of the only ones we didn't try." She commented, "Because there wasn't a lot about them in the book."

"Probably not. There isn't a lot known about them." Rayla mentioned, "Well, mostly, not a lot that we understand."

"Then I'll learn everything I can." Claudia hugged Rayla, "And then, maybe I won't need to use anything else. Maybe this is what Callum was talking about."

Claudia looked through the primal magic book, flipping through the pages to find something, "I'm going to learn star magic."

"It might be difficult." Rayla added, and she was looking at the map she had apparently brought with her, "But we could probably find you a book, or something... Maybe over here."

"Where's that?" Claudia asked, briefly looking away from the book and looking at the map.

"It's a place where we might be able to find a star elf." Rayla answered, and she smiled at Claudia, "As long as you wear your disguise, they'll just think you're another elf. And maybe, talking to tell would help you unlock the star arcanum."

"So basically, the one primal source I think I might be able to learn..." Claudia asked, "Is the one that would be the most difficult?"

"Pretty much." Rayla said, "But I know you can do it."

Claudia smiled, and then remembered something, "We should probably go back soon, huh?"

"Maybe." Rayla replied, and Claudia took her hand, smiling.

"Come on."