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fallingUPstairs__x x Crew
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 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:39 pm
Cat sat contentedly in his new teaching space, correcting math homework from his less-magically-gifted students as he waited for Adhara By'arre to arrive. He had had a dream about her the night before, showing that she was very prominent in life magic. As such, he had gathered all sorts of things that could be used to train her, even intentionally giving himself a few bruises and cuts to test her abilities. The Eilian was nothing if not dedicated to his pupils.
He hummed a low tune as he worked, quite at ease with the room he had decorated. Being a magic instructor, he had to be ready for anything, and so the room had something for each kind that he could think of. There was a small water fountain in one corner, a plot of earth that had a few plants growing in it in another, a line of candles and matches in another, and a series of fans and windmills in the last. Other items that he wasn't sure that he needed or not, such as pieces of metal, feathers, and a set of building blocks, were scattered in two cabinets on each side of his desk, which stood in the center. A shelf of reference books stood on the wall above his head.
Cat smiled as he gave a student an A. He couldn't wait for his first, and obviously already talented, pupil to arrive.
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:30 pm
Adhara was, admittedly, a bit frustrated with the Facility at this point. For the second time, her spirituality teacher had been changed, which meant that this was the third one that she'd had since she started going to spirituality classes. But, the big difference was that she wasn't pregnant at the time; instead, she had her daughter with her.
Adelle's wings fluttered a bit in her mother's arms, wriggling and waving at all the people that they passed by, before Adhara entered the classroom where she was expected. Adhi kissed her daughter's forehead and directed her toward the back of the classroom. "Now, Della, mommy has to take a class here right now, so stay quiet, alright? If you're good, I'll take you out for Thai food," Adhara directed her, and Adelle squealed happily, nodding and the running to the back of the room where she sat and bounced impatiently.
Adhara turned to that who was going to be her new teacher and smiled. "Hello there," she said sweetly. "I take it that you're my new spirituality teacher?"
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fallingUPstairs__x x Crew
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:32 pm
Cat blinked in surprise as not one, but two young girls stepped into his classroom. He watched as the one he supposed was Adhara send the small girl to the back of the classroom, blanching a little when he realized that the smaller one was her daughter. Being a good teacher, he didn't let it show on his face when Adhara faced him, smiling happily and extending a hand for her to shake. "If you're Adhara By'arre, then I certainly am. Nice to meet you; I'm Cat." After a moment's indecision, he leaned around her and waved gently at the bouncing child in the back, smiling despite himself. She was very cute.
Redirecting his attention back where it belonged, he clapped his hands in readiness, wings fluttering to accompany the gesture. "So, Adhara, you have life magic, correct? And I do believe that you can grow plants? Or you did at your last class. So, let's get back into the practice of it, shall we?" Cat led her to the patch of earth, where there were several seedling plants growing. "Would you be so kind as to grow me a plant, Adhara?" he asked with a kind smile.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:16 am
"That would be meet. It's certainly nice to meet you, Cat," she replied pleasantly, shaking the outstretched hand and chuckling a bit on the inside as a result of the amusing fact that he was a hippogriff named Cat. When waved at, the toddler squeaked happily and waved back fervently, one of her tentacles waving back while the other one idly fidgeted with the dress that she was wearing that night.
As though responding to the other's wings, Adhara's own wings fluttered softly at her teacher's excite, smiling a bit. She nodded throughout the speech, affirming the things that he believed were truth. When she was asked to grow a plant, however, she stood, a bit stunned and almost confused. There had been one situation in which she'd grown plants, but that was purely on a whim that she hadn't even understood. She'd healed plants, too, but that was different.
Ah, well; it was worth a try. Kneeling down beside one of the small seedings, pressing her fingertips into the soil just as Enzo had taught her how to do, closing her eyes and taking a deep, calming breath. Before her unopened eyes, the little plant started growing slowly, leaves unfurling and bark hardening as it grew from a mere sprout into a healthy young three, from about two feet to a good eight feet tall. It was then that Adhara let out a breath she seemed to have been holding, lifting her hands from the ground and falling backward to sit and marvel at her tree.
Dusting off her fingers, she sucked at the tips of them, given they felt raw and a bit numb from the amount of magic she'd poured into the tree. She chuckled and smiled at Cat. "Do I get an A?"
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fallingUPstairs__x x Crew
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:21 pm
Cat smiled delightedly up at the tree, very impressed at Adhara's skill. Part of him wondered what he was going to do now, with an eight-foot-tree in his teaching space, but most of him didn't care. He was too busy being happy that his student had such power in her. It was certainly an exciting first magical student, that was for sure. Chucking at the teen's question, he circled the tree, wondering where he was going to go next as he did so.
"Oh, definitely. That was awesome," he said enthusiastically, looking over to Adhara with a smile. "Could use a bit more control though, so I suppose that we can start there." Going to his desk, he rummaged around for a moment before finding a ruler and sticking it in the patch of earth, smiling up at the girl. "Simple enough. Just practice getting within, say, an inch of ten right now. I think most of these are daisies and the like," he said musingly, one hand going to his chin as he paused, suddenly realizing that he had forgotten precisely where all of the different plants were. However, he merely shrugged it off; ninety percent certainty was good enough for him. "So I think it should be relatively easy to control. Easier than trees, that's for sure." he said with a light laugh.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:34 pm
Adhara smiled at her teacher and listened to his instructions, amber eyes wide and definitely engrossed in what the man had to say. Out of all classes, she enjoyed her spirituality ones the most, at least the ones that she'd had to-date. Reena and Niita seemed less interested, however, and instead sulked over the fact that they hadn't come to the Facility to learn how to fight better. In their opinions, that would be much more exciting and of course more important than learning how to make plants grow. Plants were boring.
When her teacher was done explaining, Adhara nodded firmly. "Alrighty. I'll try my best," she said, stepping up to where the plants supposedly were, pressing her fingertips into the ground. She could sense where they were easily and focused on only one of them, taking a deep breath and gently easing her magic into the ground, imagining it as a small snake slithering through the ground and into the seed. From there, it sprouted through the ground and sprouted a flower, growth stopping at about seven inches. Adhara chuckled sheepishly. "Only a little off that time," she joked, rolling her eyes at herself and going back to growing the plants, each one shorter and shorter and leaving her more and more out of breath, gaze focused on doing this right.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:46 am
Cat nodded in approval of Adhara's effort, although he got the impression that this wasn't a new skill to her. She hadn't shown any visible signs of boredom, but he didn't want her to grow plants for much longer. That would be boring for him too. He stepped forward and placed a gentle hand on Adhara's shoulder, signaling her to stop. "Very impressive, Adhara. In fact, I think you have this aspect of your talent pretty much down. What say we change tack a little?"
"So, you've obviously been taught all about the growing-things part of Life magic, but I don't think you've been taught any healing abilities," he mused, walking over to his desk to retrieve his student's file and confirm his thoughts. Nodding once more, he smiled over at the woman. "Would that be something that would interest you, Adhara? It's quite a simple concept really, I'm sure you'll get it in no time."
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:04 pm
The young woman was focused enough on the task at hand that she was genuinely surprised when her teacher lay a hand on her shoulder, jumping slightly. Chuckling sheepishly, she pulled herself and her focus away from her plants and turned, righting her glasses on the bridge of her nose and smiling softly. When it was suggested that they move on to a different aspect of her magic, she looked a bit perplexed for a moment, having been unaware that she had any other kind of magic, and nodded, curious to know what it was that her teacher was referencing.
Quietly, she followed Cat as he went to retrieve her file, eyebrows arching over her amber eyes, impressed with the idea that her magical ability spanned over such a far reach of things. Plants and healing...? What else would she be able to do then? She smiled sweetly at the male and nodded in approval, her tentacles wrapping like a sleepy belt around her midsection. "That does actually sound like something that would interest me, in fact. Though, and I have to ask this... how exactly would you be intending on teaching me how to heal?"
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fallingUPstairs__x x Crew
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:31 am
Cat smiled happily when Adhara agreed with his idea, and he quickly replaced the file and walked back to her. He certainly hadn't wanted to waste the day away growing plants when she could obviously have done that in his sleep. He preferred to, you know, teach when he was having a lesson with someone. And standing around saying 'grow plants' wasn't exactly teaching. Or at least not good teaching.
At the woman's question, he smiled a little ruefully, having already asked and answered that question in his mind. He shrugged a lazy shoulder, smiling in a way that was very debonair without meaning to be. "Well, you'd need an injury to heal, wouldn't you?" Cat cast his gaze around the room, looking for something that he could properly use, and when his eyes lighted upon Adhara's fidgeting daughter and her thin, metallic wings, he nodded in satisfaction. "Excuse me for just a moment," he said as he walked over to the little girl.
Smiling, he knelt down in front of Adelle, trying not to surprise or intimidate her. "Hello Adelle. I'm not going to ask you to do anything, unless you want to of course, but I do need to borrow your wing for a moment." Cat carefully laid his hand along the edge of Adelle's wing and, after taking a steadying breath, quickly moved his hand along the sharp edge. He hissed and closed his eyes for a moment, but smiled easily at the little girl as he removed his hand, cradling it as blood leaked from the deep cut. "Thank you very much, young lady."
Now that he was properly injured, Cat returned to Adhara, sitting down beside the woman and exposing his wound. Paying more or less no attention to it, he spoke calmly as he instructed her. "Now, almost always healing requires you to be in contact with the injured person, so you'll need to take my hand. Then, much like you push life into the plants to make them grow, you push life into my cells to accelerate the healing process and, like that, the injury is gone. Got all that?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:40 pm
Adhara looked a bit skeptical at what her teacher said that he needed for her to learn how to heal something. When the man approached her daughter, a mixture of concern and Overbearing Mother Syndrome had her getting to her feet, wings fluttering gently as her tentacles outstretched toward the man curiously, though Niita’s main ploy likely had something to do with pets, if not more than that. However, Adhara trusted her teacher enough to know that he knew what he was doing, and what he was doing wasn’t preying on her child.
Adelle was definitely very wiggly at this point in time, very tired of just sitting on the little bench and watching her Mama do things that she could never even dream of actually doing properly. Or doing at all, really; she couldn’t make plants grow that fast!! When the tall, grey man approached her, her eyes got wide. The words he said merely made her tip her head, but what he did garnered quite a different reaction. First, she gasped in surprise, a hand flying to her mouth, before she squealed unhappily at the wound on his hand, wrapping her arms, legs, and tentacles around the arm with the injured hand, clinging tightly even as Cat stepped back across the room.
Even Adhara gasped softly when Cat sliced open his hand, meeting him halfway across the room to hoist her daughter off of his arm with help from her tentacles and cradle the wounded hand within both of her’s, looking between what appeared to be quite a painful cut and her teacher, listening intently to the instructions and nodding rapidly once they were given. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to steady herself, before letting the magic ebb slowly through her fingertips and into his hand, where the cut slowly began to sew itself back together again.
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:26 pm
As much as the cut on his hand surprised the two girls, Adelle latching onto his arm in concern startled Cat more. He jumped up with a cry, wings fluttering frantically, before smiling a little ruefully. "Don't worry, little one; your mama's going to make me all better. Just watch." That same gentle smile stayed on his face as the girl went back to her mother, amused if anything by their wide eyes. He had complete confidence in Adhara's ability to heal what was in essence just a scary-looking scratch. And if that complete confidence failed him, the doctors in the Facility could patch him up in just a few seconds.
But it looked as if his confidence was proven correct. The hippogriff smiled in satisfaction as he felt the pain from his hand subside, eventually leaving him only with a thick, shallow scar. He brought his hand to his face and examined it, nodding with contentment. "See, nothing to be afraid of. You did an excellent job, Adhara, very well done. I take you don't want to practice again?" he asked with a joking smile, mock-reaching for Adelle's wing once again.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:58 am
The little girl was very obviously pleased when the wound closed over, still hugging onto the man's leg for everything her small body was worth, as though hugging would make the pain even more gone than it already was ( or at least keep it away for longer ). Adhara gave the man a weak smile, resting against the nearest stable desk that was near her, waiting for the fog that had invaded her mind to clear out a bit.
"Nah, don't worry about it. I think... I think that I've prettymuch got the hang of this stuff now," the young woman joked, laughing softly and giving the silvery man a wry smile, wings fluttering softly. "I enjoyed the class, though. Nice working with you and such~" she said idly as she finally got the strength to move from the desk, gathering her things and getting to work on prying her daughter off of the spirituality teacher.
( pssst, 'ni! they should have awkward small talk about adelle's father-figure followed by cat attempting to ask her out. =3= do iiit. )
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