knightsoflegend | orientation ♔ i don't remember one jump or one leap

[Diana’s not one for shying away from a problem necessarily, but she doesn’t run into Faye again after the water incident – partly because she’s busy trying to work out how it could possibly have happened. She also hasn’t taken her book out since it happened, except to dry out the pages, once.

Her habit of scoping out the room hasn’t changed, either, and as soon as she’s affirmed to herself that it’s really just Sir Harvey waiting for her, she walks in – noticeably trip-free, this time!] Wynn didn’t make a mistake, did he?

[Uh, cause the goblin thing was unexpected, to say the least and that’s what she figures this is about – or the flooding in the hallway, which she is definitely and delicately ignoring, for the moment.]

Oh, he definitely made a mistake. [Faye comes striding in behind Diana, giving her one of those obviously fake smiles that really just screams 'go die in a fire.']

Beat it. I'm here to talk to my mentor. [She uses the term loosely because she's still not sure how useful Nessa even is...]

[ nessa looks immediately amused ] I see you two have met. That should make things easier.

[Uh, no.

The only way anything between them might've been easy is if Faye hadn't set one of her belongings on fire, and then wound up covered in seawater for doing it. Probably not even then.

She still doesn't think that was her fault btw, but she knows better than to bring it up, much less insist upon it. She’s going to be civil, at least, since leaving is out of the question. There are worse people in the world than Faye Chamberlain, and if someone is going to make this confrontation unpleasant, it won’t be Diana.] A couple of times, yes.

Faye helped with a page of the book I’ve been trying to translate.

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[Faye ignoring Diana now. Like completely. Instead, she turns her best dangerous look on Nessa.]

Should make what easier?

[But she has a sinking feeling that she knows. Diana clearly had magic, otherwise that little incident with the salt water would have never happened. Whatever the older woman had planned, Faye did not like it.]

Working together. Diana here is my new second squire.

[Um… but…] Working together on… what, exactly?

[Nope, still ignoring your existence, Meade.]

You've got to be joking.

Do I look like I'm joking? [ idk that smile is pretty trolly ]

On training.

[Di smiles at Nessa, but actually she’s trying to figure out how this could be beneficial to either of them – or anyone else in the castle, given their short but less than stellar track record so far.]

So… [She’s twisting the opal pendant she’d found on the night of the squiring party between her fingers.] Where do we start?

[Including Faye in that "we" is bound to get her in to quite a bit of trouble, so although she isn't outright ignoring her, she's definitely avoiding her gaze.]

[Faye continues to be disgusted with everything that is happening right now, and briefly debates flouncing to go complain to Gold about it. But she takes a breath and just figures she'll show up the new girl and be done with it.]

Fine. [She will just be over here, impatiently waiting for you to give them some direction.]

Actually, I thought Faye could direct things. She's been taking private lessons and I'd like to see what she's picked up. And there's no better way to demonstrate than to teach someone else.

[Oh. Stunned into silence because giving Faye the reins doesn't seem like a very good idea, but Diana would never tell that to someone who's her superior. Her temple throbs just slightly, and she presses her fingers against her forehead, willing her headache to go away - it's only going to get worse from here.]

[Now Faye's listening, and she actually looks interested in this now.]

Really? [But she's already moving to grab a decorative bowl and move it to a table more towards the center of the room. Next, she starts to hunt for paper.]

Sit. [She's not asking :| ]

[She'll sit, but she's still watching Faye apprehensively before turning to Nessa]

Isn't there something I should be reading? [Making punch and then spiking it doesn't seem like a normal part of training, especially for an organization like this one. And that's what she figures the other girl is doing because hahahaha her and magic. No.]

The essence of being a Knight is action. There's only so much a book can teach you. [ she nods, gesturing for her to follow faye's orders ] Sit.

[This whole thing is making her headache even worse, and she has to peer through her fingers to even see what’s being setting up – which, she mostly can’t anyway (spot 4). If she knew Faye was hunting for paper, she might be less curious and more apprehensive.]

[She comes back and dumps some scrap (maybe???) paper in the bowl.]

Since we already know you're so fond of water, let's see if you can do something worthwhile.

[The other elements are stupid, basically. And Faye is more of a one trick pony than she cares to admit. At least she's leaving the bowl in front of Diana. When Gold pulled this stunt on her, he hid it.]

Close your eyes. [And she'll wait because you are probably going to be a baby and complain about it. Aren't you?]

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[ nessa moves off to the side of the room, aimlessly picking up a book and frowning at the cover, then setting it down, watching them out of the corner of her eye ]

[Uh, no. Diana hardly ever complains, ok. Woodland creatures probably help dress her Disney cartoon-style in the morning, even.

She does cast a glance toward their mentor as Faye is speaking because this doesn't seem like the best of ideas, before curling her hands into fists and closing her eyes. She isn't going to get hurt, not with someone else here she just... needs to trust that.] I told you, I don't know how that happened - it was an accident.

Shut up. [But it's not quite as biting because now she's curious.]

With me it's this voice, something in the back of my mind- a few words that come from nowhere. [She's also closed her eyes now, thinking about it, how it felt. That power.]

You have to listen to it and concentrate. Think about the way a flame looks, how smoke moves and rises just before that spark takes. [You'd think she was talking about a long lost lover.]

Think about the bowl, about the paper. It wants to burn, and it's so easy...

[ nessa's still watching carefully, but she doesn't evince any visible concern over faye's words, just nods encouragingly ]

[Okay so maybe her eyebrows lifted a bit at being told to shut up, but other than that she sits perfectly still and listens to Faye instruct her. The bowl is easy to picture: large, and just slightly ornate enough not to be used for soup or serving punch at a party.

The paper is slightly more difficult but only because she hadn't gotten a good look at it before she'd been told to close her eyes. They had bonfires somewhere, she thinks. Somewhere familiar - maybe where she's from? That's the image she holds in her mind, even as her temples begin to throb with a memory that she can't tug out of her mind. The flames in her mind lick at a pitch black sky, twirling upward like silk ribbons, and the memory of sooty campfires sticks in her nose soon after. Diana feels it then, the same warm sureness that had come over her in the hallway, like a beam of sunlight shining directly upon her.]

Burn bright. [She's not sure why, but the same words Faye used that afternoon stick in her mind, like complimentary puzzle pieces. They're right (spellcraft 16).] Ignite.

[In the bowl, a small trail of smoke rises and Faye has to admit that she's impressed. It's only a moment longer before the heat turns to actual flame and the paper is slowly overtaken by the fire.]

Maybe you're not so useless after all.

[That is... almost a compliment.]

Impressive. [ it's ok, nessa's here for the compliment ] And well controlled.

[She almost sort of doesn’t want to believe that this is happening but the smell of smoke sifts up through the common room, woody and bitter when she breathes in. By the time Diana has opened her eyes again, a small cluster of flames is gathered near the center of the bowl and the heat licks at her cheeks, amplifying her (pleased) blush.] Thank you?

[Obviously, she’s a little distracted right now. Her eyes meet Faye’s first, and then she looks across the room to where Nessa has settled herself, but her gaze always comes back to the bowl full of fire. For a moment it seems to falter, the yellow glow dimming just slightly as her focus shifts.]

We’d be in danger if it weren’t. [This room is maybe a bit too full of flammable stuff and right now Diana is trying to not look directly at any of it, since who knows what else she could combust with her brain.]

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[Faye immediately rolls her eyes.]

Yeah right. Like you could do any actual damage to this place.

[No, but she might be able to ruin your shoes. Not that she ever would. Her fingers curl around the edge of the table, and she meets Faye's eyes, feeling a little bit braver - even if the fact that she just set something on fire with her mind is still rolling around, undigested in her thoughts.]

I wasn't thinking of me.

[ mildly: ] Both of you have the capacity to do great damage anywhere you go - or to enact great good. The power itself that you wield doesn't care which path you choose. It isn't good or evil: it's merely power. You make the call of how it's wielded.

Apparently I make the call on more than that seeing as how you haven't shown me anything since I got here.

The day you develop psionics, perhaps you could actually learn something about powers from me.

[Ouch. Diana bites her lip and looks down at her hands, mulling over what Nessa's told them.] That means it's a weapon, isn't it? [Like an uncocked gun, maybe. She and Faye could protect or destroy like that?]

Is that how Wynn wants us to wield it?

A weapon, a tool, a poultice. It can be many things, depending on the hands it's in.

[Faye has no idea what psionics are. She is convinced she could develop them if she wanted to. She just doesn't want to.]

Is this the part where you lecture us about responsibility?

I don't think either of us would benefit from that.

[Well you'd benefit if you actually applied any of it, but. Diana casts a glance at Faye.

There's not much of a chance of that, is there?]

Learning magic that extends beyond destruction might be useful.

That or boring- take your pick. [yaaaawn]

Controlling the chaos then.

[ that's basically the diana equivalent of sticking her tongue out mockingly. ]

orientation ♔ i don't remember one jump or one leap

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