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Who: Everyone messed up by the dragon plot, and visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Blue Fish's clinic!
When: All throughout the Solrius dragon plot and through the space flight to the next destination.

[So several RPG characters, a dragon, and two messianic figures walk into a planet.

Everything is suffering and tears, there's a lot of dead people, there's no punchline. But, hey, for the survivors, the Blue Fish's clinic is treating wounds and generally being a decent place to rest and recover and pray you don't see a dragon again. And for those who weren't involved, there's enough people bedridden here that there may just be someone you want to visit.]

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You're made of mana, right? Or something similar?

... Sure, I guess. Something like that.

Any effect created through application of mana is magic. So there's more to it than just seraphim.

[ ... ]

They're called Artes.

Can you tell me more about them? I heard a bit from Mikleo, but any information is good.

[look you found a nerd]

There are three types - martial, hidden and seraphic. Some are magical, some are hand to hand, and some are something else, depending on who's doing them. They just are - you can't really explain them.

What do you mean, can't explain them?

[That sounds like a challenge, Zaveid.]

It's just how things are. Why does there need to be an explanation?

Because everything has an explanation.

And if you know the explanation behind something, you can make it better.

... Then talk to Lailah. She's better at explaining things than I am.

I'd actually love to. I spoke to her over the comms a bit, but I haven't really seen her yet... She sounded like she knew more than Sorey or Mikleo about how your stuff works, and I had some ideas for experiments to try out. Is she off the Marsiva yet?

Yeah, we've been spending time together so she's definitely not there anymore. I dunno which ship she's on, though.

There's a crew listing on the communicators, you can look it up.

[So, what happens next is probably interesting: First, her communicator appears out of thin air, and then she is using her wind magic to levitate it, a tiny little green whirlwind supporting it, holding it still in the air.]

[ Zaveid reaches out with his own control over the wind - his wind - to wrap it around the device, feeling out how hers changes and connects with his. It's interesting, and he tilts his head, curious. ]

Nice trick.

I've had a lot of practice.

[read: she knows a lot of tall people who store shit in high places.

tall people are the fucking worst.

still, once she notices his wind interacting with the device, she's lessening her own so he can take the communicator if he's after that.]

You can do something like that too, can't you?

[ He's not, really, but he lets it drop, moving the wind ever so slightly so it can fall down onto her bed rather than the floor. He's fine with his own device; he just wanted to see how her wind felt. ]

Something like that, yeah. I'm a wind seraph.

Oh, right, you guys all specialize in one element... Is that just an inborn affinity?

It's who we are. Lailah is fire, I'm wind and Mikleo is water.

[ Was water. ]

We had Edna with us, too - she was earth.

[RUDE, BRACKET TEXT]

And you just have those four elements? Or are there other kinds of Seraphim?

[ NO COMMENT. ]

Just those four. Does there need to be more?

Well, no, just... Sorey was resistant to those, but my Lightning spell worked fine. Overspecialization in elements is a terrible idea...

It's not specialisation, jeez. It's who we are.

Can you learn spells outside of those four elements?

Kiiiinda. Some of my artes can have dual elements, but they're wind based.

... Dual elements...

Okay, when I start experimenting with Lailah, I need you to come too.