Max left a note on his office door indicating where he planned to spend his day, and headed out to the beach.
His usually calm demeanor had been, well, not for the past couple of days, and he really needed to do something to... get control back. So he was standing at the edge of the water, feet just barely submerged, drawing on his metalcraft to ignore the cold. And he was exerting as much watercrafting force as possible.
Which turned out to be substantial even if he was out of practice. From where his feet touched the water out a hundred or so yards, the water was unnaturally still. The waves continued rolling in outside of that half circle, but for that little area he was able to completely still the water.
Sweat beaded slightly on his brow as he concentrated. It wasn't like he usually did this kind of thing. It felt too much like showing off. But he needed to do something. Especially with the meeting he had scheduled.
[Expecting one, but it's open!]