it's a mingle, a paisley mingle

[timelapsed]

Who: Paisley crew and/or visitors and/or Chloe
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The Paisley
When: Anytime in March p much

[ Welcome to the Paisley, where the drama's made up and the points don't matter ]

Comments

Ok?

[complicatedliar]

[Loki's out to make himself a cup of tea when he notices that someone is doing magics nearby--and it's not Remus. He knows his own student a bit too well for that. So likely...

He wanders up to the bridge, and there is the other human magician, playing with a bit of levitation. Loki leans in the doorway and sips his tea, silently observing for a bit.]

Could be worse.

[He's seen a lot worse. Also much, much better. The whole god thing kind of messes up the relative scale.]

perfect!

[misterprongs]

[ james at least has the control to set the pen back down neatly with a flick of his fingers, and he glances over at loki, looking thoroughly unimpressed ]

I don't have my wand.

[ so. it could also be much better. james is in agreement. ]

Requires a bit more power, to use magic without one.

[ and james is a little prodigy, but he's also just 17 ]

[complicatedliar]

[Loki crooks a finger at the pen, not actually looking at it; it arrows over to him, then balances point first over his finger. There, it idly rotates.]

It isn't a matter of raw power, but fine control practiced over economies of scale.

Have you discussed this with Remus?

[misterprongs]

[ what a show off. but james can hardly complain, seeing as he shows off on the daily, and he frowns at the pen before crossing his arms over his chest. ]

Why, has he been working at it, too?

[complicatedliar]

[He flicks his fingers and the pen arrows forward, hitting the floor next to James's foot and embedding itself there. You know. In a good place for him to pluck back out of the dent it's made.]

If he hasn't said anything, I should hardly be telling tales behind his back.

[Ah, so once again he is the secret teacher. Good to know. He probably shouldn't be surprised. He'd been Billy's secret for years, in Luceti, and they'd been much closer than he and Remus.]

There are more effective ways of training than what you are doing right now.

[misterprongs]

[ when the pen rockets forward, james looks suitably unimpressed, because 1) way to dent hte floor and 2) way to ruin a good pen. and he sighs, tilting back in his chair ]

i imagine you're going to tell me them, and point out that you know the way, and I don't, yeah?

[complicatedliar]

[One shoulder moves in a shrug.]

I rather enjoy teaching, believe it or no. Magics are my blood and marrow and freedom. And what I value most in students is curiosity and enthusiasm. [Because it is such an important, vulnerable thing, sharing something beloved.]

Thus, I see no point in wasting my breath on either of those things.

[Disappointing, but he's used to mortals being very disappointing.]