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He was again surprised when she started nuzzling him, but he was starting to get his bearings back. "Sure... if you'd like to." he said, smiling warmly, finally starting to be at ease a bit with all of it. He felt warm somewhere inside, happy and content in a way he wasn't familiar with, happy just to be there. With her.

He took her kiss, trying to notice what she was doing and learn from it how to kiss her back. He wasn't sure he was doing it right, but he hoped she'd be understanding if he didn't do as well. His breathing for once seemed to be beyond his control, but he didn't want to stop the kiss, and relished in it until she did, pulling himself just a little closer, and continueing to squeeze her hand. She would have to take the lead since she seemed more experienced than he, but he hoped she wouldn't mind.

Rivven took the moment to catch his breath as well. He looked at her, apologeticly for what ever he'd been doing; he didn't understand a bit about ki, though he knew plenty about his chakra. He didn't know what it meant that her ki was up, though he thought it might be something like his gathering chakra, but still didn't know if it was a good or bad thing, or if it was his fault somehow. He tried to smile reassuringly when he spoke. "That's fine. Don't worry about it, I understand." he said. When she brought his hand to her chest, he reacted much the way he had when she touched his hand in the bar. He looked from his hand up to her face again, a little lost for words. It seemed like an important sign to him, though he didn't know if that was as meaningful to her. "Yes. I'd like that very much, Miss Morgan." He smiled again and tried to see if he could feel her heart beat through his hand. He was pretty sure that meant a lot, and he wanted it to. "Shall I pick you up at the school again tomorrow? Where would you like to go?"

"It has been pleasent." he said, blushing a little. "Well, you seemed to want to go to the forest, so let's head there then. And I don't really need a light, but if you want it would be perfectly alright." He stood with her, brushing sand off of the back of his pants and smiling, trying to look as confident of himself as he could. He'd enjoyed this greatly, but he was already getting nervous that he might do something wrong the next day. He stood and started to walk off, and then stopped when an idea came to him. "My chakra's pretty low, so I can't do anything impressive, but..."
He said, rushing to the water's edge, and kneeling by it. He put a hand to the water, gather what chakra he could feel, frowning a little as he struggled to grab some from his nearly empty store without drawing too much. Water wrapped itself around his hand, little tendrils of it rushing up to his hand and wrapping it slowly about it, carefully seperating the water and the salts and grit. He formed it slowly in his hand, letting the excess drop, and trying to rememer the exact shape of a single rose, forming the flower and stalk out of the liquid, thorns and all, and froze solidly to ice. As a final thought, he brushed the thorns off of its stem so it could be held safely, ignoring where one cut his thumb, and standing again. He turned and held it out to her, smiling embarassedly and blushing. "Here. For you. Its a bit lame, but I'm tired right now... and well... sorry. Guess you can't even smell it." He said, looking doubtfully now at the crystaline rose he was holding out for her. After what she had done... it just seemed childish and insignificant. He should have just let her feel for his heart as well.

"Low chakra, mostly means I'm tired, though there's a bit more to it." He said, not sure of what she had been getting at. Maybe she'd thought what ever was raisinig her ki should raise his chakra as well. "The chakra has a limited amount that your body is capable of holding, dependent on physical and mental fitness. It's drawn from flows of energy in the body at will, though sometimes someone will draw it without trying. Ms. Pale said ki ages you when you use too much, so I'm assuming you have a vaster reach of energy than me, though at an expense if you use it. I can keep drawing chakra until I exhaust myself, and to get the level back up, I need rest, good health, and enough nourishment. It doesn't just raise up on it's own at any given time, not that I know of. I'm not sure how it compares... but we sort of have the avaliable chakra, and the active, whatever is drawn for use. I guess that's a bit much to pick up all at once... why don't we head back now?" He said, hoping he'd made sense, and holding out a hand to guide her back. "Do you want me to walk you to wherever you're headed, or just back to town?"

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Cloud continues to wander, past the beach and passed it all, heading back to the women's dorms looking for a little bit of company.