Thirteenth Link

[colorbymemory]

Who: Namine and YOU
What: Namine takes some time to practice magic
Where: Traverse Town, Fourth District.
When: Sometime in what would be the afternoon
Warnings: None should be needed


Normally, Namine would have been one of the first to revisit Twilight Town when it opened again. She'd missed the chance to visit. Before she could, though, she'd seen the conversations on the communicators about possible new, more dangerous Nightmares. If that was the case, she should wait until others had verified the worlds were safe.

For right now, Traverse Town was safe enough and she hadn't been able to get out to practice her magic much. She knew she should practice her fire and lightning spells, since they were her weakest, but they were also her least favorite and the most difficult for her to cast. She decided to start with Blizzard. It was a good warm up.

Her new Iceguin Ace, Frosty, seemed to like it as well. When she froze a patch of ground, he dove and slid, Archimedes flapping in the air around him as if demanding why he was acting so undignified. It was so funny, Namine couldn't help laughing.

Comments

[wavesinherheart]

Not a long list, no. But it's still a good start. It provides the basics, so to speak. Something to build off of, or sometimes combine into new sorts spells, in the few cases where they can be combined.

"All good spells. But if it's really Fire and Lightning that you want to know more about, I'll do what I can."

[colorbymemory]

Namine knew nothing of possibly combining basic spells into new ones. However, Ienzo had impressed upon her the necessity for a thorough knowledge of the basic spells.

"I probably should work on those. I might need them someday."

Objectively, they were very pretty, useful spells. It was too bad Lightning had bad associations due to Larxene, and Fire, well...She hadn't seen Vexen burn, but the echo in Sora's memories had been enough.

[wavesinherheart]

"Alright," Aqua answered with a nod. "Would you rather start with Fire or Lightning?"

It makes no real real difference to her one way or the other. Sure, there's a difference in how she'll likely be going about it, but that's no surprise. They're different spells after all, and even if the basics are the same, bringing about each effect is very much not.

[colorbymemory]

Namine tilted her head to one side for a moment as she thought. "I think Fire."

Possibly due to her improved relationship with Axel before arriving in the Realm of Sleep, and Lea having been here for a while, she had a greater affinity for it. Mostly her problem was in actually using on Nightmares. Focusing too hard on trying to cast the spell and visualizing something burning did bring up unpleasant mental images more often than not.

[wavesinherheart]

"Fire it is, then."

There's a moment of consideration as Aqua takes into account the place their standing and figures that it should be safe enough for fire practice. There aren't exactly a lot of nearby targets to aim at, but they'll work things out, she figures.

"Can you show me what you've managed so far? Or tell me, if you'd prefer."

[colorbymemory]

Namine tilted her head in thought for a moment, then furrowed her brow in concentration. In her mind's eye she focused on the image of a ball of flame shooting towards (and hitting) a nearby wooden box. The box wasn't close enough for them to be in danger if it did catch fire, but it made a good, nonliving target.

Once she had the image firmly in her mind, Namine raised her hand and spoke. "Fire!"

A small ball of flame arced from her the box, not catching it on fire but at least charring a portion of it respectably.

[wavesinherheart]

It's a good a target as any, and one that won't end up accidentally injuring anyone besides. And even the fact that it doesn't catch the box on fire isn't a bad thing in Aqua's mind. True, she might know a few spells that could do so, but Fire itself isn't one of those spells, as far as Aqua knows.

"That's good."

It'll take work to get to not be something that Naminé needs to think about, no doubt, but it is a good start all the same.

[colorbymemory]

Namine beamed at the compliment. "Thank you."

The concentration required was one of the pitfalls of Fire. It took so much for Namine to summon up enough flame to char part of a box. She'd chosen that as a target specifically because it wouldn't feel any hurt, but it was still difficult. Oh, well. At least Aqua had seen what she could do. "Maybe I have to want something to burn for the spell to work?"

[wavesinherheart]

She most certainly had seen what Naminé could do. There's very definitely room for improvement overall, but that would have been true of anyone who'd been just starting out.

"Maybe?" she answered with a shrug. "But even most of the fire spells I know don't actually set things alight, most of the time."

There's a different spell for actually setting enemies on fire, and Naminé hasn't actually mentioning having heard about that one. Not, of course, that Aqua had asked for a full list of what she'd been told about, but she'd have almost expected that it would have come up under the circumstances.