"Should I call you master, too?"
Althea flinched and everyone else gaped.
"Er, No, please, no need," she answered almost as soon as he asked.
"Besides, what I can share with you is just knowledge passed down amongst my people, further built up by generations of scholars," she told him. "Most of it is not mine."
"Okay, then," Hoffen said, looking at her with a brighter light. The question could've been a test, and her answer was apparently to his liking.
Seeing as that aspect had been settled, Gaia cleared her throat and continued with the orientation.
"An apprentice ceremony can be seen as an adoption ceremony, in a sense, albeit much more formal and heavy because it involved inheritances from the World Knowledge," Gaia began, recalling the things she had been taught growing up.
"The ceremony itself could vary depending on the profession.
