And he liked it, he decided. He liked it quite a lot. He could run far faster than he ever could before, leap on top of buildings (and fall off of them too), and perhaps most excitingly, cast magic.
Of course, the lot of these new abilities, bundled into his 'awakening', came at a price. He was instructed to gather energy with the use of some kind of glass piece, a fragment of mirror, out of which crept some kind of ethereal ghost thing. Initially Morpheus wasn't sure if he should name it, or try to talk to it, but he soon learned it maintained relative obedience to his orders. While it never spoke to him, he could instruct it to move here or there without any qualms out of the creature. It knew what it was doing, too, as it gravitated toward the rare nearby human or two to drift through them almost imperceptibly. Most never noticed it in the late evening darkness, or Morpheus himself for that matter, so he mostly kept to himself against a pillar outside the library. Playing with his cell phone passed the time, but Clay found himself bored in short order.
So he decided to try out this magic of his. Someone spotted the strange wraith-creature regardless, as he heard the panicked screams and hastily-spoken 'get away from me's echoing down the street. It wasn't far, a quick sprint and vault over the manicured bushes landed him in the landscaping kept by the library, and the girl retreated just around the corner of the building. As soon as he rounded on her, she brandished a very familiar canister - one that halted Morpheus almost immediately.
Yet, instead of hosing him down with pepper spray, she began pleading for his assistance. "You have to help me! That thing is trying to get me!" She sounded exasperated and exhausted, and Morpheus felt too far out of his element to offer a decent response.
So instead he settled on his next best trick. "Uh, sure," he finished dumbly, then brushed a hand down his sash. Black soot weighed in his palm, and he simply tossed it at her eyes. At first she hardly noticed, and then she seemed to stumble backward, look around, and begin wandering away. She took no further notice of the wraith. "That's also weird," he commented to no one in particular. Did his magic confuse people? He hardly knew.
Ghouliboo
thank you for suggesting that rp! i hope this works as a start!
