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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:48 pm
She reached, slowly and painfully of course, to one of the pouches on her belt and pulled out a piece of parchment, setting it on the table and taking some effort to fold it open, revealing it to be a map of Andal with various markings of what things were and who was there. "When adventuring, it's best to go with your instinct first. Any place on the map catch you eye?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:04 pm
Zahara set down her books and stood up, stretching stiff muscles before she left the library, donned her cloak and headed out into the Underdark. She had scouting to do for those rare plants that would save her a pretty penny. And then she needed to get some money to buy the rest. Damn her not having an actual job where she got paid. Piper more or less paid her in horseflesh and feed and whatnot.
Zykariel snuggled deeper into his father's embrace and caught a bit more reverie since he was still tired but it didn't take long for him to be back and ready to roll. "Daddy." Pausing. "Daddy?" Hmm, no response, let's shake him. "Da-ddy!" He shook the still form of his father. "Daddy! We gotta do lessons, remember?" Magic lessons couldn't only be that one morning after all right? He was supposed to visit his teacher every day, wasn't he? "Daddy! Get up!"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:15 pm
Sevilin sighed and opened an eye to look at his son. "You do your lessons with Malikhai, it's fairly early and I don't think he nor his parents are up to supervise." Giving a yawn and sitting up himself, running a hand through his hair and clearing his throat. Hm, throat still a bit scratchy. He wrapped an arm around the boy, pulling him in for a hug and dropping a kiss on his hair before he stretched and gave a yawn.
"Though...we could have our own lessons, learn how to measure your magic so you don't feel bad after you use a lot." He placed two fingertips together then drew them apart, a bright thread of energy being drawn between the two fingertips, showing his son. "See, I use threads too."
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:23 pm
"But-" He was duly snatched and hugged then kissed which just made him giggle. Daddy always felt affectionate this early in the day. He hugged him back and them plopped down before him, crossing his legs and leaning his elbows on his knees and his chin in his palms.
Measure his magic? Could he do that? His body went erect when he saw the energy sizzling between Daddy's fingertips. He reached out and gently touched the thread. "How did you do that?" he asked yanking his hand back almost immediately. He shouldn't be touching raw magic, it often had bad effects to it.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:31 pm
Step one to teaching anyone, get thier attention and keep it. Well he had certinally his son's attention and it wasn't likely to go anywhere any time soon now did it? Nope? Point Sevilin. He put his fingers together to make the thread disappear before putting all of his fingertips together and pulling them apart, producing more threads.
"It's all about control son. Once you know how to gather and sustain that which is in you, you can draw out however much you want at any time. Just like this." The enegry dissipating at the flick of a wrist. "Even a tiny amount," placing thumb and index finger together, drawing them apart to produce a small strand in contrast to what he had been doing.
"Want to learn that?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:39 pm
Purple eyes never wavered, merely followed those strands as they got slightly bigger and then smaller as he moved his hands and then multiplied or got rid of them completely. Yup, he was hooked and he absolutely wanted to learn that. Of course the word control had him biting his lip. "Are you sure I can do that, Daddy? I'm not so good at control, remember?" His hands remained tightly clenched in his lap because he was just itching to try it.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:46 pm
"Ah but you see my son, this is how you can learn it. If you can lasso your magic in so to speak, you won't have to be afraid of it anymore and you won't feel icky anymore." Thus reaching out and taking his sons hands, pulling them out between them and turning them palm up before letting them go. "Alright then, let's try shall we? We'll do it my way. Close your eyes and imagine your magic in you. Give it a color and see it flowing in your veins. Once you see it I want you to draw it into a ball, into right here." Poking the boy lightly in the chest."Don't be scared, okay?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:53 pm
Lasso his magic? Like what Mommy did with her whip sometimes? Hey...he could do that...maybe? But not feeling icky anymore was a powerful pull. He let his father rearrange his hands and then stared at them before lifting his eyes back up to Daddy's. "I'm not scared."
Quick to point that out even though he was. He hated feeling icky and every time he used his magic, he did feel icky. But he paid close attention and closed his eyes waiting to see the green threads spiraling but Daddy said to imagine the magic inside him. Okay. Green. He giggled at the thought of his insides all filled with green slime but there it was. And now it was a ball of green slime. That was even funnier. "Now what?" he asked still concentrating really hard, but one eye peeking open to look at Daddy.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:03 pm
"I want you to make the magic trace where you feel my fingers, okay?" He knew this wouldn't be too hard a task for his son, the child just needed the steps to learn. Thus he touched both index fingers to his sons chest and then moved them out to the boys shoulder's running them down his arm and resting his fingertips in the boy's palms. "Make it come from where you gathered and rest here. Keep it inside, but make it reach out to right here." Again tapping the boy's palms.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:08 pm
Okay pen analogy again. He could handle that. He just pretended he could write with his magic and drew a line from the slime ball to up his chest to his shoulder and then down his arm, stopping at his palm. Then he repeated the same process on the other side of his body. He giggled. "The top half of me is green Daddy."
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:09 pm
Malik was in his study, arms crossed over his chest, head down and legs stretched out and crossed at the ankles, in a reverie. not to bad, considering he'd been quite furious at being told he wasn't allowed to sleep in his own damned room.
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:19 pm
"You, take a break. You keep going at that pace and you're going to wear yourself down. As I understand it you've been on semi bedrest the past few days. Not to mention your left arm is handling badly."
Piper looked to her father, the activities in the arena momentarily stopped. Sheathing her sword she reached a hand up and touched it to her left shoulder. "It hasn't been the same since Kaden." She still didn't like saying his name, or thinking about it. But a sigh and a wipe of her arm across her face. A break sounded nice indeed.
"You should just handle a light weapon in that arm if you're not using your bow. It will wear out faster since you're moving as opposed to you just bracing your bow."
Sevilin gave a chuckle at his son, ruffling his hair. "On the inside it is, on the outside you look just like you. Which is the imporant part because you don't want anyone to see your magic until you want them too. Now put two fingers together and imagine them sticking okay? Your color is your glue. Once you got that in your head, slowly pull your fingers apart. Do it slow, control how much comes out."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:27 pm
Zahara had not been nearly as successful as she'd liked to be when it came to finding what she needed and she had no money to go buy it. Her only option was to appeal to Malik and that burned. But there was nothing else that she could try. Sighing she made it back to the manor relatively slowly and stopped before Malik's study door. Damn. She forced herself to raise her fist and knock on his door.
Zykariel nodded and then looked at his hands and followed Daddy's instructions, imagining that his fingers were more or less fused together with his magic. Of course he thought it was going to be hard to pull them apart so he put a bit too much pull with his strained fingers and a rather big string appeared between his stretched fingers.
"Oops..." Glue was usually hard to pull apart though. So he brought his fingers back together and then slowly pulled them apart, his eyes closed tightly. When he opened one eye and looked there was a little string of green energy sizzling between the little space of his index fingers. Grinning, he glanced up at his father, eyes sparkling. "I did it!"
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:39 pm
"So...why are you down here busting yourself in sword play against tier'dal and such?"
"Remember back in Deepwater at Tournament how Malik was poisoned? I still owe my debt for his life. I don't know what or where I'm going or anything. I figured it would just be better if I train everyday before I go."
"It's a good idea. Though you don't want to burn yourself out or hurt yourself." Though his tone had that of worried father. After all, this was his daughter going to go do something potentially life threatening.
He was quick to react and dissipate the magic that his son had pulled in excess. "Remember, slow. When you pull big like that, it's just like using a lot of magic." But he let his son try again as he might...it was so nice to see an eager student again...and gave an awarding smile and a pat on the head at the boy's accomplishment. "Very good. Now do it a few more times, remember you're the one who says how much magic comes out. Sometimes you don't need a lot." Waiting for the boy to practice some more before new instructions. "Alright. Now I want you to pull the magic back to your ball, put it back to your hands and then back to the ball. Then I want you to put it back to your hands and keep it there this time."
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:52 pm
Yay for positive reinforcement! Affection and a proud smile and he'd gladly do wahtever it was that had made Daddy so happy again. This was super exciting now wasn't it? And being the curious child he was, ever ready to test boundaries he played a bit. He would lengthen and shorten the distance between his fingers alternately just because he could. But then Daddy gave new instructions and he listened then concentrated.
Magic took lots of concentration didn't it? He pretended he was erasing the line but that one didn't work too well in his mind because then ti wasn't there anymore at all so instead he made it into yarn and he was rolling the yarn back up into the ball. Then he traced it back out and rolled it back up before tracing it back out and then stopped. This time he kept his eyes open and squirmed lightly. "Are you s'posed to feel it Daddy? Moving through you like that?"
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