queenoflogs | Well, the weather outside is frightful

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Well, the weather outside is frightful

Characters: Everyone!
Date: Midnight the 16th of December
Summary: The inhabitants of the Garden get their reward for making out beneath the mistletoe, in the form of a lights show in the sky.
Warnings: N/A

In the dead of night, the Garden is dead silent. Without the sound of the city or urban life, only the noises of nature pervade the air. Crickets. Rustling leaves. The occasional footsteps of an animal.

However, tonight, at midnight, the silence is broken by a loud pealing of bells, rousing the people of the garden from their sleep. The bells continue ringing for nearly half a minute before falling silent. For a moment, the peacefulness of night returns to the Gardens.

Then the enormous mistletoe plant begins glowing, with a brilliant white light bright enough to be seen from all corners of the Garden. It fizzes, shooting off heatless sparks, and then bursts, shooting up into the sky and breaking into pieces of glowing light, forming various shapes. Above the Orchard, a series of hearts form, burst like fireworks, and reform. Over the Necessities, nymphs made of sparkling light kiss and dance through the sky, winking down at the people below. Over the ruins, flowers of multicolored light pop into existence and disperse. And above the Viridian Pavilion, fiery red phoenixes swoop through the air, burn out dramatically, and are reborn in a new cascade of light.

The show will continue until morning. Fortunately, now that the mistletoe's light has dispersed, it's not so bright that it should keep people awake.

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"..."

And Akiha lets Kris do magic in her basement. She wasn't so sure about that anymore.

"If you blow up the mansion..."

She pouted a little, thinking that she hadn't done anything to deserve that. "I'm always careful!"

"Just a warning, especially since you just talked about wanting to learn to make fireworks."

Akiha looked back up at the display. "I wish they'd stop."

"How come?" Kris didn't have such a wish but she wondered if it was because Akiha couldn't sleep. She didn't seem like the adventurer type so sleeping with loud noises would be difficult.

"Because it's after midnight. People should be in bed. I should be in bed." Kris had it right; Akiha couldn't sleep with the loud noise.

"And I tire of seeing them. They make me...nostalgic."

"I could make you up something that would put you to sleep." Possibly a horrifying prospect but if Akiha is ever desperate, the offer is there.

"No thank you." Akiha assumed there would be magic involved and she preferred to avoid being affected by that as much as possible. Besides...

"...it probably wouldn't work on me anyways."

"You never know unless you try!" She just had to have enough charisma to bypass spell resistance. That's all.

"I'm fairly certain what I am prevents most things like that from working. Hypnosis is a joke when used on me, for starters." Akiha glanced over. "Aren't you cold? It's freezing out and you're wearing less than I am."

"There is a way to make things work on you if you're willing." And easy enough to teach too.

"I'm not cold at all."

"That requires me being willing," Akiha pointed out. Then she turned and touched Kris' arm to see how cold she actually was. "How are you not cold? I know I'm always cold, but you're human."

"If you want to sleep, doesn't that make you willing?" She peered down at Akiha's hand and reached up to grab it. "Magic. Want me to share?"

"Sleep should be a natural thing. The idea of induced sleep bothers me." Akiha didn't resist when Kris took her hand. "...fine."

"Some people take medicines for sleeping. I don't see how it's any different." Other than the fact that medicines for her were considered all natural. Then again, magic was all natural too.

But with Akiha's acceptance, she pulled her closer and wrapped her arms around Akiha. "There you go."

"..."

That wasn't what Akiha has expected when Kris offered to share. She expected the magician to extend whatever magic spell she was using, not hug her. She stiffened immediately and gave Kris a Look.

But it was warm. Very warm. Akiha sighed and shifted so Kris was more against her back before looking at the fireworks again.

"This is only because I'm cold," she mumbled.

Deny help from one kind of magic and you don't get help from any of them at all. That should be obvious, Akiha! Plus, it's Kris, so what else would one expect?

"I know, I know."

Yes, yes, Kris with her need to be all touchy-feely like she never got enough love in her life and is trying to make up for it all at once. And Akiha was putting up with it. And leaning back a bit into Kris.

"What spell are you using anyways? I still don't know what all kind of magic you can use..."

"I'm not using a spell!" Which was nice because it didn't make her blow her limited amount of spells she could use a day. "It's just a way to utilize magical energy."

"I don't understand." Akiha glanced back over her shoulder. "Your magic is different than the magecraft from where I'm from." Not that Akiha understood that either in any way other than just a broad sense of it.

"Really?" She took a moment to ponder. It wasn't her specialty but she knew about it. "When people get on my level, it's easy enough to turn magical energy into simple elemental...um, furnaces? Or freezers? Make things hot, cold, poisonous; things like that."

"Just by willing it so?" Interesting...

"Mmhmm," she nodded. "I can do it instantly."

"And it doesn't deplete your magic to do so?" That was useful.

"In some circumstances, it will. But like this, it won't." Personal use made it pretty much unlimited.

"Hm. Okay." And Akiha looked back up at the sky. "I wonder how long this will continue. Eventually, it has to run out."

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