[ action ] Letting Off Some Steam

[wishmadeinfire]

[ Let it never be said that Ashura has gotten lazy here in Paradisa. Sure it's a castle of your dreams, granting every wish. One could become lackadaisical here, lazy even, letting the Castle take care of you. But Ashura would not let that happen to himself, not when the Castle so enjoyed tossing more dangerous things at them besides Family Reunions (awkward as that was). 

So he is outside today, in the gardens, having chosen a place slightly to the side to be out of the way of those enjoying the main paths, but still visible. He is dressed simply in white and black, his hair back in a ponytail - his usual sparring attire versus his far more usual mass of jewels and silk. 

And what, precisely, is he doing?

He's tossing fire around. Yeah. 

Fire dances from his finger tips and plays behind him like a comet's tail. He kicked out, fire dancing along the line of his leg, following as he performed a flip (he was not terribly acrobatic, but he managed these smaller feats. It was practice as much as a release for him - but mostly practice. One could ill afford to be out of it, in this world, he was finding. 

Anyone care to join or challenge?]

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[wishmadeinfire]

Ah, forgiveness, I did not mean to offend. I am only surprised. I have never met a sentient book before.

[whitecovered]

Well, I would be far more concerned if you had.

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[He laughed at that.]}

I suppose that is true. So, if you do not mind my asking, do your pages actually hold anything? Or are they blank?

[whitecovered]

My pages hold many words for spells, thank you very much.

[From his tone of voice, he's not actually offended.]

[wishmadeinfire]

Ah, I see. So, you are a sentient spell book, or are they spells you yourself perform?

[whitecovered]

I perform them, of course. My companion has no propensity for magic at all, the barbarian he is.

[wishmadeinfire]

Barbarian?

_{[He chuckled, more for the tone than the words. It was... it was funny coming from a book, okay?]</sub Not much of a high opinion of him.}

[whitecovered]

Well...

[If he were human, this is when he would be visibly fidgeting.]

It is true that he is quite a brute, and meddles in others' affairs more often than not...but he is still my friend.

[That is to say, quite the contrary. Weiss's opinion of Nier is the highest he'll ever give.

...It's just how he shows his love, okay.]

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[His mouth quirked at that and he sat down on a nearby bench.]}

Well, I suppose having a barbarian for a friend can come in handy now and then.

[whitecovered]

Indeed. More often than not, given our...line of work.

[sidequests and killing Shades, all day every day.]

[wishmadeinfire]

And what is said work, if you do not mind my asking? I am most curious what a magical book gets up to in its own world.

[whitecovered]

Defeating Shades, for the most part. My companion insists on running errands for people as well.

[Though by now, he sees that Nier's sidequest habit is actually needed and very much appreciated, given the state of the world they live in.]

[wishmadeinfire]

He seems like an interesting man, and one you care about.

[whitecovered]

As I have said, he is my friend, after all.

[If he could shrug right now, he would.]

[wishmadeinfire]

Better to have friends along the way than none.

So, do you have any fire spells in there?

[whitecovered]

No. My spells are of the darkest, most arcane type.

[When you're a book, you have an aversion to fire anyway.]

[wishmadeinfire]

And what counts as the 'darkest and most arcane'?

[whitecovered]

Spells of dark magic, instead of fire magic.

[Dark Hand, Dark Lance, Dark Gluttony, Dark Wall...

...yep. All the dark.]

[wishmadeinfire]

I had to say that does not very much help me. In my world, we have no such thing as 'dark' magic, only ill uses of our Talents.

[whitecovered]

Hmmm...and I presume these Talents are more akin to magic rather than talent in the literal sense?

[Judging from how he was comparing dark magic to them.]

[wishmadeinfire]

They can be compared to Magic, yes.

_{[He slid his hand through the air, fire following.]}

Mine is Fire, but my world also has Water, Earth, Air, and Light.

[whitecovered]

Are Talent-wielders such as yourself common?

[He spoke of misuse, so...]

[wishmadeinfire]

_{[He thought on it.]}

Like myself? No. Talent in general - fairly so. The actual strength of said Talent varies though. I am unique in how strong I am.

[whitecovered]

Years upon years of training, hmmm?

[wishmadeinfire]

That, and natural talent. There are few in history who have been as strong as I or Yasha.

_{[He was not bragging, it was a statement of fact and that was all.]}

[whitecovered]

An adversary of yours...?

[wishmadeinfire]

Yes, the leader of the opposing clan. He controlled Light.

[whitecovered]

The control of light...I suppose that is possible, since darkness can be controlled as well.

[Namely, his own spells but. Details.]

[wishmadeinfire]

Well, not in my world, but I suppose that does make sense.