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Post by Keleero on Aug 31, 2024 16:05:33 GMT 1
**Ah, did he now.** Keleero wondered if Mahrak had misunderstood Flint, or if Flint simply didn't know the difference between siblings of blood and siblings of mind. Possibly both. Whichever the case, it wasn't his thing to meddle with. Instead he focused on the facial tattoos. Better deescalate that, no need to antagonize. **You did live under fairly extreme circumstances, so unusual practices are to be expected.** That was the most diplomatic way he could put what he thought of that.
Once they'd moved on to the actual magic part of the lesson, Keleero had expected things to run more smoothly than when discussing things. He was used to teaching those who'd had a proper introduction to how to feel their magic - he'd rarely taught children. Most at Steepside hadn't trusted other elves to teach their young until they were combat trained.
Keleero held on to his connection with the stone of the cave's walls, left to flounder for a bit at Flint's question for instructions. He was supposed to block, how else could that be explained? Oh dear...
**What does it usually feel like when you block magic?** Keleero chose to ask, dropping his attempt at rockshaping. **Try and call on that feeling and stop me from reforming this wall.**
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Post by Flint on Sept 2, 2024 21:30:04 GMT 1
At least his tattoos weren't badly done: nothing infected to scar and in a simple pattern, not just mere color. It could've been much worse. Then again with him rarely seeing his own reflection, he didn't know the true extend of it. Water was anathema to his fire and often enough too dangerous to get close to.
Flint of course wasn't a child anymore, but he also never had anything resembling training. Only instincts, trial and error and trying to apply what Sapling figured out with his plants. A lot of it went poorly, which was why they focused so much on keeping under control.
**Like I am already in mortal danger.** Which... would be hard to find here. This world wasn't a fraction as dangerous as his home had been and he had no idea if Keleero attacking him would actually work, not when there were no true ill intentions behind it.
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Post by Keleero on Sept 22, 2024 7:38:55 GMT 1
**That is...a challenging emotion to try and achieve through pretense.** Well, it seemed to be so for most elves in this 'holt' at least. Keleero had only had to make believe danger a few times in his long, long life, but he'd had plenty of practice using fear to stay alert and to expect danger even when everything around him seemed fine.
Perhaps too much practice.
Flint did not seem to have had the sort of upbringing where there had been much time for make believe. Keleero could have suggested a deeper sending bond, the sort of teaching bond he had vague memories of from his childhood, where the older could lend the younger knowledge of the older's skills through literal sharing. But... No, no, no, the mere thought of being that closely tied to someone else, to their mind, it set up walls behind the walls inside him, made the warren of his mind twist in on itself and invent new side-paths and dead-ends for potential invaders to lose themselves in.
**We could try some breathing exercises. To get you in the right mindset for magic use.** It wasn't much. It could take years to work, if it worked at all, but at least he could guide Flint through that without wanting to puke his guts out from sheer terror.
OOC: Seeing as we already know they won't succeed in this teaching endeavor, shall we do a mini-time skip to the end of this attempted lesson and end the thread there?
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