The park, Thursday afternoon

[nuclear_snide]

Bob had spent yesterday back home helping Harry, and had completely missed the shrieking eels. He wasn't exactly disappointed about that, no. He'd made sure to get back by this afternoon, though, because he had an appointment with Anders, to see what the boy could do.

So, he was out in the park, enjoying being outside again, ignoring the still-faintly-eely smell, and waiting.



[OOC: Open park, open post!]

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Anders shows off

[nuclear_snide]

For the one mentioned!

Re: Anders shows off

[not_every_mage]

Anders arrived a few minutes after Bob, looking cheerfully determined.

"Too bad you weren't around yesterday," he said, by way of greeting. "I got to use this stuff on actual attackers."

Which were eels.

Re: Anders shows off

[nuclear_snide]

"The people at the portal office mentioned flying eels?" Bob asked. "What were they after?"

Re: Anders shows off

[not_every_mage]

"I haven't the faintest," Anders admitted, smile dimming a bit. "It's a bit worrisome, actually. Someone must have set them loose and kitted them out but I don't know who."

Re: Anders shows off

[nuclear_snide]

"Kitted them out?" Bob stared at him blankly for a moment, then shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Never mind. I probably don't want to know. You got to use a bit of magic, though?"

Re: Anders shows off

[not_every_mage]

"You probably don't," Anders agreed wearily. "And yes, I did. they didn't like freezing much."

Re: Anders shows off

[nuclear_snide]

"Most living things don't," Bob said. "Show me freezing, then." He turned around and settled on the pond after a moment. "How much of that can you freeze, and how precisely?"

Re: Anders shows off

[not_every_mage]

"We should shoo the flamingos first," Anders pointed out, and did that with a lot of shouting and some staff-waving. Either he'd scared the flamingos or they didn't want to deal with the crazy person: Whichever it was, they were gone.

And then he drew a deep breath, closed his eyes, and found his focus. He world went silent to him as he aimed a very precise blast of ice at the edge of the pond, freezing a crescent-shaped chunk of ice that went about a third of the way around the pond before trailing off into slush.

Re: Anders shows off

[nuclear_snide]

Bob knelt by the side of the pond and put his hand out, assessing how deep the ice was and whether it retained any active magic.

"How far without your staff?" he asked. "And are you straining at all for this, or is it full comfortable strength?"

Re: Anders shows off

[not_every_mage]

It was a solid half-inch of ice, and not one with any particular magical powers.

"Full strength," Anders confirmed. "I could probably do the same another four or five times before I needed to take a rest. Without the staff .... I'm not sure."

He looked vaguely mischievous as he smiled up at Bob. "Want me to melt the ice so we can see?"

Re: Anders shows off

[nuclear_snide]

Bob smirked back at him. "I was going to have you do it after. Go on, then." He stepped back, as much to have a better look as to get out of the way.

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[not_every_mage]

"I'm so glad you said that," Anders laughed, and used his staff to summon a jet of flame that thawed the pond and only scorched a few blades of grass at its edge in the process. "Fire's harder to control, but I always like the danger a little."

People watch!

[nuclear_snide]

Watch Anders, watch each other, talk to Bob, whatever!

Re: People watch!

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

Nathan had been on his way back from the preserve when he came upon this sight in the park. He couldn't not stop and check it out, either. So, he found a bench and watched quietly.

Re: People watch!

[not_every_mage]

Anders came over during one of his breaks and reached to give Nathan's hand a squeeze. "I'm glad you're here. Especially since I haven't embarrassed myself too badly yet."

Re: People watch!

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"How did this all come about?" Nathan asked him, returning the squeeze. "Is it helping?"

Re: People watch!

[not_every_mage]

"He asked me to stay after Tuesday and wanted to see what I could do," Anders explained, nodding to Bob. "I'm not sure it's helping unless the goal is scaring flamingos, but it's fun?"

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"Fun's a good thing," Nathan agreed, nodding. "Is he teaching you anything?"

Re: People watch!

[not_every_mage]

Anders seemed to give the question some thought. "Not in terms of spells or -- whatever," he said. "Not yet. But just having someone I can practice with who knows a bit about what I do is good for me, I think. Keeps me from getting lazy."

Re: People watch!

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"That's definitely good to have," Nathan told him, smiling again. "And if you're able to get spells off that don't hurt someone, all the better. No need to be careful and such."

Re: People watch!

[not_every_mage]

"True, and that makes Bob even better to practice with,"Anders said brightly. "I don't think it's even possible to hurt him."

Re: People watch!

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"You look like you might start dancing and singing at anytime," Nathan joked just because Anders looked so happy about things.

Re: People watch!

[not_every_mage]

"I guess it's been a good few days," Anders said, sounding mildly surprised by that. Not that he didn't have good days fairly often, but they didn't usually reach the burst-into-song level. "Watch out before I drag you into a duet."

Open park!

[nuclear_snide]

If you're just hanging out somewhere else.

OOC!

[nuclear_snide]

Is it bedtime yet?