After the excitement of your last mission, taking at
least a day off seems well deserved.
When you move around, you feel an frantic energy moving underneath your skin. Your magic is more active than ever, instead of a gentle movement, it is racing through you like lightning. Daiyu apparently feels the same, since she barrels into your room, grabbing you by the arm and dragging you back to hers while babbling in exited Chinese.
When you enter her door, you suddenly understand her joy. Just ahead of you, using the sofa as a stand, you see Cuifen shakily standing. She tenderly puts her weak leg forwards, placing more and more weight on it until she winces, but she remains standing. She turns to look at you, more specifically, the loud Chinese that Daiyu is still letting out. She smiles and waves you over, Daiyu gleefully dragging you closer. Once you are in range, she grabs you in a tight hug, Daiyu taking the chance to make it a threesome.
She eventually releases you from the hug, looking down at you with slightly teary eyes. "I... I believed doctor when said leg would return fully." She bites her lip and you can see her wiggling her toes slightly. "But, is indescribable to actually have back." She hops slightly, wincing in pain and nearly collapsing, but her smile stretches even further.
Given that she is actually mobile now, you don't feel so bad about your previous idea. "That's amazing, it's good that it's healing so quickly." You step back, out of her personal space. "Actually, do you have any winter clothes?"
She tilts her head and looks at you oddly, before shaking her head. "No, have no been shopping yet and did not take any with us."
You suck in a little breath, well, it's not that inconvenient. You didn't have any either, so you were going to have to use plan B. "That's fine, I was wondering if you wanted to come out with me today, I was going to see if I can't create a localised Winter." She makes an intrigued noise, so you continue. "I want to make up to Una for being away so often, so I thought that I could try and bring winter to her for at least a day."
She makes an understanding noise and nods, before glancing down at her leg. "Am not doing anything, am fine with coming, but do not expect much movement." Daiyu is already flittering around, looking for something, so you step out of the room and head back to yours.
Una looks up at you curiously from the table, evidently having seen you being dragged away, while Morgan just smirks at you smugly. Still, you step closer and gently pat Una on the head, letting her lean into you before speaking. "Una, I want to show you something today, you want to come and see?" She nods up at you from under your hand and Morgan also nods after you send her a glance.
Right then, Plan Surprise Winter is a go.
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Your group ambles into your training area, Una curiously poking you every few minutes as you go. You refrain from saying anything, but Daiyu keeps sending her amused glances.
Once everyone is roughly in the middle, next to a large crater from spell testing of some sort, you stretch out your thermal sense and focus. You
carefully lower the temperature around you, reaching up into the sky as far as you can go. You make sure to let your guests feel the cold, but only a slight chill, rather than the sudden burst of sub-zero temperatures you were using. Slowly, ice creeps out around you and their breath forms large plumes in the air. While they were distracted with the ice creeping around their feet, you
finally felt tiny little snowflakes begin falling from above.
You carefully watch Una's face as she stares upwards, delicately guiding a falling snowflake with tiny thermals so that it lands gently on her nose. She lets out a surprised squeak and shakes her head, glancing around at the sudden downfall of snow. You were a little surprised yourself, you had barely managed to coax a light layer of snow out of the clouds above, but it was suddenly falling as thick as any snowstorm, only in your area though.
You try to sense into the cloud, but your efforts just frustrate you. You let out a huff as you hear a silent tinkling laugh, you glance around, but everyone else is pre-occupied staring at the sudden wall of snow. You try to sense
deeper into the cloud but you feel the snow suddenly lessen in intensity, then a playful boop on your nose. You snort in surprise, looking around and seeing that the snow has settled into a large, foot deep layer, but only in your training area.
The fuck?
Any further thoughts are interrupted by Una, via snowball to the face. You blink in surprise as a tiny film of magic keeps the ice from entering your eyes, turning to look at where Una was standing, arm still outstretched. "You know of course, that this means war?" She has only a moment to regret her decision before you scrape a hand through the soft and fluffy snow, a pulse of reinforcement turning it from a poof to a mini-avalanche. She lets out a loud shriek as she is suddenly buried, and everyone stares at the Uni-cicle that you have created.
A little bit of effort from you keeps her from feeling the cold as she struggles, freeing an arm then the rest of herself. She ducks down behind the little wall you created and glances around the corner at you. "Challenge accepted."
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An hour later, you were tiredly juking through battlements and around castle walls as you dodge thrown snowballs.
How does she have so much energy? She had teamed up with Morgan earlier, then Daiyu had betrayed you half-way through and joined their alliance, leaving you running around like a madwoman. Through all of this you were busy keeping the snow cold, keeping
them warm and dodging snowballs, so you really didn't have any time to fight back.
You had just vaulted over a small wall when you come face to face with Daiyu, lifting a large chunk of poofy snow, aiming at your crouching form. You close your eyes as your inevitable loss flies at you, only for it to pass your head completely, nailing Morgan straight in the face. You blink up at her and she smiles down at you. "Cannot betray battle sister! Was
ruse to ambush." She lets out a hearty laugh as she drags you to your feet, towards a secret stockpile of snowballs she had been collecting. "Come, I will show you their secret passages."
/LINE BREAK\
You slowly creep up behind Una, looking down over her battlements as she is. You gently reach up behind her, dropping a formed ice-cube down the back of her shirt and making sure she feels the complete extent of the cold. The sudden cold makes her jump upwards, frantically shaking her shirt until the ice-cube drops out the bottom, leaving her staring up at your triumphant face.
You gently reach down, pressing a hand to her shoulder and flick your wrist. She dramatically falls backwards, into a carefully prepared pile of snow, as you speak in a deep gravelly tone. "Long live the King."
/LINE BREAK\
When you are done, you carefully embed the scene into your memory. A full castle of snow, battlements and cover reaching across the area, holes drive through the walls in desperate escape attempts.
You slowly melt it down to water, then quickly to steam, and it is as if it never happened. The only signs being a very slight dampness of the ground.
When you get home, Una is smiling cheerfully constantly, but she falls asleep quickly.
Must have worn herself out, no wonder with all the running she was doing. You gently set her to sleep, sharing a smile with Morgan as you quietly relax on the sofa together, tea in one hand and biscuits in the other.
Haaaa. You lean back in your seat, letting out a long relaxed sigh and getting a sideways glance from Morgan. You gently shake your head as you close your eyes, setting your empty mug down and curling up slightly.
She shuffles to the right, letting you stretch your legs and lay down sideways, gently shifting your head from the sofa to resting on her lap. She runs her fingers through your hair, gently murmuring inaudible things until you fall asleep.
/LINE BREAK\
[] Magical Training
-[] Medical Animal Testing
-[] Write in
[] Investigate Dragon(?) Mountain
[] Help the reclamation of England by killing nests
-[] How many/long?
[] Hunt Powerful Magical Creatures
-[] Unto Heaven and Earth - There have long been tales of some
truly ancient creature living deep in the mountains of Switzerland
-[] Do Not Fear The Dark - Check the Concentration Camp is clear.
-[] A French Legend - Kill the Peluda once and for all.
