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Deeply serious.

(Cain can probably hear the smile in her voice.) Could I see?

Then we can kill two birds with one stone. If you wanna meet up, I can show you what I've got so far and we can see if I've got any aptitude for your own type of magic.

That sounds good to me.

(She's already getting up to find her coat.) Where can I meet you?

I thought maybe your office, but if that's too work-mixing-pleasure, what about the park over by [ address ]?

Park would suit; my shields have a fairly decent range. Give me ten minutes?

Take your time. I'll be there.

[ And so he will! ]

(And so he is!

She gets there within the ten minutes, as promised; she's there in her bright red IPRE jacket (habit), and jeans, wand holstered at her side. It's good to see Cain, as always; she waves her hand in greeting long before she reaches him.)

Hey!

[ He turns when she calls, raises a hand in return greeting. He's wearing his usual, jeans and a t-shirt and foregone the jacket today since the heat is still pretty bad. ]

Hey yourself. Thanks for showing up, I didn't mean to make it some last-minute thing.

(Is it bad that she's used to the heat? The last planet she had been on had been desert-hot; she had become acclimatised before leaving.)

No problem. If I wasn't here, I'd just be at home. (She shrugs a shoulder, but smiles, eyes bright.) What do you have to show me?

[ Cain's a little jealous. His own tolerance has been slipping with living in Arizona turning the fall and winter, and he's really more about the comfort than sitting through it because he can. ]

Well, there was this frisbee thing... [ He shakes his head, forestalls the explanation and goes quiet. After a moment, he raises his hand and snaps it out in front of him. For the briefest of moments, a bright pink energy appears like a disc before him — a shield — and then fizzles out. ] ... I'm still getting the hang of it, but it's definitely there.

(What's Arizona lol

Lucretia blinks as he summons the bright disk of energy in his hand, instantly intrigued. She hasn't seen a spell like that before.)

It is– is this the first spell you've ever cast? (She's quite impressed. The fact that he can materialise anything at all after such a short time is... deeply promising.)

[ He shakes his hand out once the spell is gone, more of an automatic reaction than anything he's actually feeling in it after the magic. At her question, he also shakes his head. ]

If you mean the first type of spell, yes. I managed this on accident at a party about a week ago and have been trying to get the specifics of what made it work since.

Huh. What's it for?

(She almost wants to try and recreate it just to see if she could get it to work, but she doesn't have enough information to attempt it.)

Just a shield. One of the specific ways you can form this type of magic. You can shape it to form blasts or teleport, too.

(A shield that can form into something that damages and teleports?)

That's– (if she seems startled, it's only because she's trying to wrap her mind around this.) What level spell is that??

Beginner stuff, apparently.

[ Her shock just gets a vaguely amused look, unsure where this really would sit all compared to other magical types. Of course, he's been helping sort through her notes but the breadth of that information has him still weeding out duplicate information before really absorbing it all. ]

This is mostly just the formation of the energy over actual application.

(B-Beginner stuff.

Okay, she started out by learning how to change things different colours just for fun but OK Cain. Lucretia frowns, and glances at her own hands, as if she should know how to do something like this.)

I mean– not that I'm not impressed by your dedication to this, Cain, but have you considered starting a little smaller?

[ He considers her, then shrugs. ]

It's where Victor started me. Apparently they go hard or go home where he's from. You have better beginner steps, I imagine?

Yeah, no kidding.

I– I mean, I started out with very small amounts of magic at a time when I was learning. Maybe a Shield of Faith if I was feeling a little more daring, you know?

Maybe going back to those basics would help me get further with Victor's magic...

[ He considers that, then gestures to Lucretia as if opening the floor for her turn. ]

Mind showing me some?

Sure.

(And she casts prestidigitation, sending a little shower of blue sparks up into the air above them. The spell makes a soft, melodious hum in the silence.)

[ At first, Cain just blinks at the show, then a small smile creeps onto his face. ]

Huh, look at that. It's funny, because that looks like it would be harder than just forming energy.

No, no–

(She beams.) I think that the thing with the energy disk is that it has to have a purpose. Stuff like this, like– um, like sparks, or sounds? I'm not using them for anything in particular, so they require far less concentration to cast.

Really? Then what exactly are you doing to gather the energy?

[ Get ready. He's about to launch into technical and curious questions abound. Tell him the secrets, Lucretia! ]

(She does! She spends probably longer than necessary walking him through the theory but she just wants to make sure that he absolutely understands what she's talking about. For Lucretia, magic is so easy once you understand the theory. It's like slowly putting a puzzle together, piece by piece.

She's also very thankful that prestidigitation doesn't take up any of her spell slots, because she is casting those blue sparks quite often as she tries to explain her process.)

Get it?

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