After finishing his recovery, it took two weeks for Jonny to get back to where he had been before the incident. He took it easy the first few days, as Helen recommended, then started ramping up his activity. Even once he was back to full activity, though, he had lost a little bit of strength. Not quite as much as he thought he would have, but it still took a few days to fully get back into form. Now, he was feeling good as new, but he had a few new problems as well. The first was that while he could sort of remember how he used his mana against the primaboar, he could not replicate it. Not even a little bit. No matter what he did, the only thing he could do with his mana was circulate it.The second was Tommy. While in the infirmary, he had briefly thought that Tommy wasn’t actually so bad. He had taken that back on the first day out. Sure, life or death experiences helped people bond, but Tommy might have bonded a little too closely. He was now insisting on joining Jonny’s workouts, forcing Jonny into close proximity with Tommy’s worst feature: he never shut up.Day in, and day out, Tommy somehow always somehow had something to talk about. Most of the time, it was magic. The spells he was practicing, the spells he had seen the older kids using, the spells he had seen the nuns use, the spells he wanted to use… Tommy knew that Jonny couldn’t use magic, but he seemed to forget that completely whenever something got him going. I need to figure out this internal mana stuff