books are the best

[touchallthebooks]

Who: Khadgar
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: For Twin Roses
When: Several days after the water temple

[Someone got a set of books when he was dragged along, completely against his will, through a temple exploration adventure. And promptly started studying them the instant he got back to Twin Roses and free time. Which lead to a couple sleepless nights and now this.

Khadgar has three books spread evenly around him, a notebook under one of those, and one book in front of him. Or rather, it's under his face. His sleeping face. Learning new magic is fun!

No really, he loves it.]

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[passingthrough]

[She managed to make it until now and life is safer here.]

Right. So, you're eager to learn all you can?

[touchallthebooks]

[That's good at least. Khadgar just has an urge to keep people safe sometimes.]

Yeah. I always have been. I guess that's part of why I was next in line to be Guardian.

[passingthrough]

[It's a pretty good impulse.]

Well, I'm going to teach you something that might not be in your books. You should get rest in between lessons.

[touchallthebooks]

[He chuckles softly. And then huffs a little.]

I usually sleep enough! I just couldn't wait to study some of these. I'll probably try some in a couple days too.

[passingthrough]

You want to try new spells on my ship? [She raises an eyebrow.]

[touchallthebooks]

I'm not going to blow anything up, if that's what you're worried about. [He's not (that much of) a reckless kid.]

[passingthrough]

I'm sure there's a wide variety of newly wielded magic destruction to unleash that's far more nuanced than just blowing things up.

[touchallthebooks]

Don't forget, I've been training as a mage since I was six, I know how to be careful while practicing.

[passingthrough]

I'm more worried about the augment taking it as an opportunity for hijinks. But...sure. [Don't blow up the ship or turn them all into newts.]

[touchallthebooks]

[Yeah, he can understand that concern but at the same time-]

I'm not the mage I should be, could be, I can't just ignore an opportunity to learn more.

[passingthrough]

Concern for the ship and the others aside... I wouldn't actually want to ask you not to. Just be careful. [She doesn't want to be someone suspicious or controlling of powers. That was a problem back home. She just also used to train new mutants and she knows what can happen. And they weren't trusting their lives to a tin can in space then.]

[touchallthebooks]

Of course, I won't practice any of the more violent spells here. I'll probably try those on the next planet with a lot of wilderness.

[passingthrough]

What kind of violent spells are we talking about? [Curious more than concerned. That's appropriate, right?]

[touchallthebooks]

Summoning familiars, walls of lightning, arcane blasts. Nothing awful, [Unless you're on the receiving end.] but nothing I would want to do in a small, confined area.

[passingthrough]

Familiars? Do you mean like black cats?

[touchallthebooks]

No, more like... here, a water elemental is mostly harmless.

[Mostly. His eyes glow and he mutters a spell, the magic forming a creature with gold gauntlets and made of water.]

Our familiars are more like this.

[passingthrough]

Oh... [Surprised, but not really showing it. She's conditioned to be around people using powers all the time.] You just made someone. What... Who? [Unsure how to word this question. "What does it do sounds possibly rude.]

[touchallthebooks]

Not really a someone. It has no will of it's own. It will protect me, fight for me. And I can banish it as easily as I summoned it. I can make one from flame and arcane energy as well. [But flames would probably be unwise.]

[passingthrough]

Ah. It has water powers I'm guessing? Do you have to control all it's moves or does it just know to protect you?

[touchallthebooks]

That's right. I can command it but it knows what it can do, what it's supposed to do. So if you were to attack me, it would react. [With a wave of his hand though, he banishes it. And there's no sign it had been there, not even a few drops of water.]

[passingthrough]

[She'd thought about attacking just to see, and while she opted not to, it's better that the temptation is removed.] You have quite the bag of tricks.

[touchallthebooks]

I've been training most of my life, I hope I've got a good bag of tricks up my sleeve.

[passingthrough]

How old are you when you can first access magic?

[touchallthebooks]

I was... four, maybe five years old? I used it to steal cookies before supper for my siblings and I. I started actually training at six. So probably five, actually. I couldn't have hidden it that long.

[passingthrough]

Does everyone in your world use it?