When she was the Dark Witch, she never needed any physical strength. Why would she when she could tear a person down to pieces with only a flick of her fingers? But apparently, as Seraphine Storm, her magic was quite useless. And so she admitted that the physical training was partly good for her in case she ever had to face stronger sorcerers... which was, annoyingly, all the damn time.
She never trained her muscles as the Dark Witch, and neither did Seraphine Storm. So, she was doomed.
Rowan told the whole class to take laps and warmups. She was already heaving for air by the third lap and could not finish a single set of the warmup routine. It was irritating for her to not be able to do one thing right!
Urghh!!
But no matter. She could be patient. Her muscles were screaming of fati
