The Beach, Late Saturday Morning

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

The waves lapped at the shoreline.

It was a chilly sort of beautiful, Genesis decided, gazing out over the ocean. The sand and snow under his feet crunched with each step. And yet the ocean was unfrozen. He doubted it ever did freeze entirely.

Was there a cold strong enough to do that?

The wind moved briskly, stirring his hair and setting his coat aflutter and Genesis stood, arms crossed and looking over the ocean. He wondered if the ocean had ever felt heartbreak. That would be enough to turn it to ice entirely.

He shook his head, amused at his folly. Well and good enough, he was being foolish. There was time for that, however, as he waited.

[He’s expecting one, but totes open!]

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[heromaniac]

Momoko stood in the distance and watched Mr Rhapsodos for a few moments. HE WAS SO ROMANTIC! His long coat moving behind him while he stayed perfectly still and stared out into the waters. The way his hair moved with the wind; he didn't even bother to fix it, either! The wind just put it back as if playing with it for a moment was its only desire.

She snapped a picture with her phone before moving on, sighing at what would be the MOST PERFECT SCENE EVER if only there had been a sunrise in the background right then.


[OOC: Had to. HAD TO!]

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

The wind and the sky and a single man.

It should have been a lonely scene, but he found himself quite content. There was something thought-provoking about so much water. The brisk breeze only added a hint of motion that kept him from looking less like a man, and more like a statue.

Still waiting.

[OMIGOD ILU. <3 <3 <3]

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Unlike her mun Cassidy was right on time as requested. She had been extremely excited about this and now that she was here, she was probably still a little bouncy.



[[OOC: So sorry. Having migraine issues today.]]

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

Bouncy and moving enough to attract his attention. Genesis shook his head and glanced over his shoulder to see Cassidy.

"You're on time," he said, mildly approving. "Good."

[*hugs* No worries! SP is awesome!]

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy smiled and nodded. "You did give me a specific time." And it would have been bad form to be late.

She was here now and that meant she should probably try to calm down the bounciness.

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

She'd work it out of her system anyway.

"Punctuality is not always a gift people have," he replied lightly. "Have you thought about elemental magic since we spoke of it?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"I've thought about it a lot, sir, and I really would like to see if I and my Craft have that kind of capability."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Alright," Genesis said, with a nod. "Would you show me a standard blast of your power then? Over the water, please."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy turned to look at the water and after a moment, her hand came up and a blast of the White flew out over the water.

She had decided to start slow and on the base end of her current powers just in case anything should go wrong.

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

He narrowed his eyes as it flew over the water.

"And that, you said, was pure energy? What were you thinking while you called it up?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Purely Craft," Cassidy nodded. "Just that I needed to make sure that I aimed my blast carefully out over the water."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"What does Craft come from?" he asked, almost patiently. "From within you, or is it drawn from the world around you? In a barren wasteland could you manage the same magics as in a tropical rainforest?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Craft comes from within me. I was born a witch and was able to do Craft from a very young age." She said. "It will usually work anywhere I am -- as long as I get proper nourishment and get plenty of rest when I need to in order to fill my energy and power reserves back up so as not to go beyond draining to breaking myself."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Breaking yourself?" he repeated.

That sounded most inconvenient.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

She nodded. "It rarely happens without the help of someone trying to destroy what I am," she said calmly. "But I know that if a witch doesn't take care with how much power she uses and she doesn't take food and drink to replenish herself, she could cause herself irreparable damage."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

Next time, he thought, very dryly, he was bringing sandwiches.

"I trust, as this is practice only, you'll keep me informed of the slightest difficulty?"

Despite what he proclaimed, he was not at all interested in breaking his students.

Mocking them, surely, was different than that.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Yes, sire," she promised. "It would be bad Protocol to not let my teacher know if there is something going wrong with me."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

He nodded, shortly.

"We'll discuss this more thoroughly later," Genesis informed her. "Your strengths and weaknesses will do me no good if I do not know them."

As for the moment...

Genesis held out one hand, flame sparking in his gloved palm but not burning, as a ball of it formed. Then, with casual ease, he flung it out to sea like a miniature comet. "Fire," Genesis said, "the great destroyer and purifier. What do you think, when you think of fire?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Witchfire," she said immediately. "It can be used for warmth, ritual, and light, but if you use too much of it all at once, you could take the chance of total destruction."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Can you produce Witchfire?"

If so, this would be simpler.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

By the time the questions was finished, Cassidy had a small ball of witchfire floating slightly above her hand.

It wouldn't do to get burned, after all.

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

He twitched his lips in a faint smile.

"Can you combine that with a blast of your Craft?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

She pursed her lips. "Now that would be one of those things I've never tried."

She focused -- and probably thought too hard about how to combine the two.

Therefore, when the ball of fire flew out from her hand it didn't go very far. "Damn."

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Giving up already?" he needled.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"A Kaeleeran witch never gives up," she murmured, focusing on trying to blend her powers again. This time the witch fire managed to go a little further before dropping.

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Fire is generally linked with passion," Genesis observed, seemingly idly. "Whether it be romantic or not, it evokes a certain level of--intensity."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy called up another ball of witch fire. "Some people would consider anger a passion, right?"

She used a blast of Yellow and the witch fire did make it further than the end of her arm before it dropped to the sand at the edge of the water.

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Think of passion as--added colour," Genesis explained, studying her. "You can be irritated, which lacks passion. Or you can be enraged, which is passionate. You can be alright with something which is passionless, or you can be in love with something, which is passionate. Attempt to apply that to your magic."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

It wasn't hard to think of something that would cause her rage to start to flicker. This time the witch fire flew further in to the water with a blast of her Tiger-Eye power.

[apples-n-poetry.livejournal.com]

"Much better," he said, mildly approvingly. "What did you change there?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"I thought about something that makes me angry," she admitted.