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Kelia nodded. "Boys aren't always much help at a wedding, though . . . or so I've been told. I'm not sure if it's true or not." She shrugged. "What do you think of him getting married? Besides that it's kind of fast?"
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"Liam's the next one down, right?" Kelia smiled sheepishly. "Sorry. I have trouble keeping your brothers straight."
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"Ohhhhh." Now Kelia remembered. "That's right." She gave Riley's shoulder a pat. "Sorry. I can't really relate though, for obvious reasons."
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Kelia took a seat at one of the tables nearest the kitchen door and sipped her hot chocolate. "Mmm." Daina had sprinkled cinnamon in it, just the way Kelia liked it best. "Maybe I'm lucky. Maybe not."
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"I won't argue there." Kelia took another long sip of hot chocolate. "Occasionally I wonder how you're still sane."
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After a few adventures, Lucas sighed and sat back in a chair. Sure, it was several sizes too small for him, but what they hey. It was a chair.He absently flicked through the pages of the last book he'd read. Highly illustrated pages featuring things from fairies and ogres to dogs and stags sucked him in. But he still felt like he was missing something.
He grit his teeth and set the book down with a thump. Frowning, he searched for Stephan.
He passed by his brother a few times without noticing. When he did notice, he doubled back and tapped Stephan's shoulder. "So...I think I'm done here for now. What do you want to do next?"
Stephan looked up from his book, a rather fascinating scientific text. "If you'd like, I can show you around the other common areas of the Academy."
[@Sara: Yay, you're back! ^.^ How was your hiatus?]"That'd be great," Lucas said.
Anything to get his mind of the frustration. Or he'd have to hit something soon...
(('Twas lovely. I spent most of it on vacation, cabin camping in the mountains. :D I read a good bit, and I finished one of my novels!))"All right." Stephan tucked the book in his bag for later- he'd already checked it out- and headed for the door. He paused outside. "Anywhere particular you'd like to see first?"
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[@Sara: That's so cool! Which novel did you finish? :D]Lucas tossed his hands out to the side and shouted. "I don't know! I just got here--" He cut himself off and scuffed the ground with his boot. A few pieces of chipped pavement skipped along the ground.
"Sorry," he mumbled. "Anywhere's fine." He shifted his pack and focused on his toes instead of Stephan.
((@C.B.: I'm glad to be back!))((@Merenwen: The Way of the Pen, which I started for Camp NaNo this year.))
Stephan sighed quietly. "Come on, then." He started off down the path, through a small grove of trees- among which he unconsciously slowed his pace- and out again. He gestured towards a large building, nearly as big as the main hall. "That's the training building. It should be unlocked, if you want to take a look inside."
[@Sara: That character interview you did for that story was great. :) *sigh* I really need to pick one project and stick with it. DARN YOU, PLOT BUNNIES FOR OTHER STORIES!!! ;)][BTW, I'm making the description up...not sure if it's accurate or not. :P]
"Whoa." Lucas stared at the place. It wasn't particularly elaborate, but the white posts on the four corners of the building were. Spirals shaped into figures and forms that paid tribute to all four elements glowed in the afternoon light.
The walls were slightly inset, and had windows that were taller than the doors. He rushed up and peered through the nearest pane. He didn't see anyone inside.
Chairs were pressed against the window on his side. A large water cooler with small cups was nearby.
And on the other walls were doors. The one immediately across from him was black and rimmed in red. There were others, all colored for each element, but he didn't pay attention to those.
"I'm going to check it out." Lucas grinned and rushed inside.
((Character interview? You mean the character encounter? Either way, thanks. xD And I knowwww. It can be hard to stick with just one. I force myself, though, unless it's for a NaNoWriMo event, because I don't like not finishing things.))((Sounds pretty awesome to me. :) Also, forgive me if I'm misinterpreting your post.))
Stephan nodded. "Go ahead." He followed Lucas inside, but lingered outside the black and red door. Just as members of one house weren't supposed to enter the other houses, so they also weren't supposed to enter the other houses' training rooms. The door to his own house's training room lay off to the right, heavy brown wood framed in green.
[@Sara: *facepalm* Yes, the character encounter. That's what I meant. :P][Nope, sounds good. :)]
Lucas scoured the black-walled room. It was fairly large, with room enough for at least ten students to stand side by side in all directions.
On the right was a fire pit that glowed with half-awake embers. Boxes lined most of the left wall.
Lucas opened one. Small vials filled with black powder. He opened another one, and found sets of flint and steel.
In the two farthest corners of the room, the walls were glass. Inside the glass was...
"Lava," he whispered. Louder, he said, "Stephan, there's lava!"
There was another door, between the "pillars" of lava. He touched the door. Before he even realized that he'd done it, he jerked his hand back and stuck most of his fingers in his mouth. It was HOT.
((Heh. That's what I thought. But I do occasionally do character interviews, so I wasn't sure if I'd done one of those and forgot.))Stephan, despite himself, peered through the door to watch as Lucas explored. He told himself it was just to make sure his brother was all right, that it had nothing to do with his curiosity. "You all right?" he called, seeing Lucas jerk back from the far door.
He grunted, shook his hand, and held it close. "Hot!"Still grinning, he turned to Stephan. "There's lava back here!"
He wasn't sure why he was so happy about it, but he was.
A maniacal urge to laugh burst in his chest. Then it coupled with a vague, piercing pain that slowly traveled up his arm.
He decided to yell. A bit of the maniacal-ness from the earlier urge made its way into his shout of, "YOW!"
He ran out of the room and to the water cooler. Lucas stuck his right hand out. His left hand clutched his right wrist.
Using his foot, he pressed the button that let out cold water.
As the water struck his hand, he mumbled, "Ow-ow-ow, owow."
Stephan couldn't help it; a smile crept on his face at Lucas's excitement over the lava- and from him, that was the equivalent of laughing out loud. He wasn't sure why lava was so exciting- it was essentially just molten rock, after all, though that did make him wonder if both Pyre and Terrane students could manipulate it- but Lucas's enthusiasm was catching.His smile disappeared at Lucas's yell and dash to the water cooler. He followed his brother and peered at the burned hand. "You'll be all right." Touching the door, it seemed, had been the equivalent of touching a hot stove.
"Good to know," he said through gritted teeth. "Ow." He shook his hand, slowly at first, then quickly when it didn't hurt too badly.
Water splattered on the ground. He didn't seem to notice--until he turned and slipped.
He hit the ground with a muffled thump. "So," he wheezed. "What's your training room like?"
Lucas got to his feet, removed his outer tunic and began mopping up the mess.
Suddenly, he asked, "Are we going to be separated most of the time?" The tone in his voice made it obvious that he didn't like that idea.
"I'll show you my training room in a minute, though you can't go inside." Stephan bent to help clean up the splattered water. "And . . . Yes, we will be separated a good deal of the time. I can't go in the Pyre house, just like you can't go in the Terrane house, and the same goes for training. We'll see each other at meals, though, and outside of training. And you'll make friends during training and in your own house." He stood up as the last of the water was mopped up. "Here, I'll show you my training room." He walked over and pushed the door open.Like the door, the room beyond was filled with shades of brown and green. To the left was a wide planter filled with black soil. A few plants sprouted and grew up the wooden wall, but mostly it seemed to be waiting. The opposite wall was stone, and lumps of rock and clay were arranged on shelves and on the floor near it. Directly across from the door was a second door, with windows on either side, which seemed to open onto a forest.
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[@C.B: Yeah, I know, I saw; I was like, "Ah, LUCAS, get OVER there!!" But he is really reluctant to separate right now. :P][Maybe this will work...]
Lucas examined the room and nodded. "Neat." He wasn't particularly fond of plants (lots of excursions in poison ivy and the like), but Stephan liked them.
After talking with Stephan about home, his excitement about lava, his doubts about making many friends, and a few other things, he gave his brother a hug and returned to the Pyre house.
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