Comet

Arctic Wolf

Comet nodded as the deer explained the effects of the next spell. It sounded really cool! Fungal magic was definitely one of her favorites now. Guess this was another added benefit of thick fur, huh? Many of the fungal spells will have a hard time sticking to her.

She steadied herself and waited for them to cast the spell. The gray spores were coming from Tahi's coat, and they attached themselves to Comet's coat. She felt nothing though, but that was because they hadn't touched her skin yet. The wolf knew that she should wash it off rather quickly, one, because it would hurt once it touched her skin, and two, because it looked like Tahi was having a horrible headache.

Comet gathered up her energy, and pushed it outwards. Her pores widened, and her fur was soaked, washing off the spores with the water from her body. The tinted grey water drained into the ground. "That's a cool one!" she exclaimed, "Do you have... any others?"

@Tahi-shei

He considered. "I have one which interrupts casts of magic, but that would be my last offensive spell. The rest are either defensive or useful in other ways." For emphasis, he tried to make yet another small amount of mushrooms spring up at his heels. Thankfully, the spores cooperated, and a small field of whitecaps sprang up around him. "Like this one. It doesn't do much more than this, although it can remove harmful fungus if I cast it on someone." Tahi-shei shrugged.

His abilities were rather diverse, but he still ultimately only had a handful of things he could do.


@comet

Comet

Arctic Wolf

Comet listened carefully to what other spells he could try. She didn't think that she would want the spell that removed harmful fungus because that would mean she needed to have harmful fungus on her in the first place. "How about the interrupting casts of magic one?" asked the pup. "I will start a spell and you can stop it."

@Tahi-shei

A sanguine (happy) glimmer shone in his eyes. "Alright!" Then, a pause. "This one, uh, might actually hurt? I'm not sure," he admitted. "But if it does, it shouldn't hurt much and also I'm sorry in advance." He drew in a breath, and the wellspring of magic with it -- the threshold, the power, higher. Letting electricity begin to gather and crackle, dancing over his skin and then the mission was to aim it. To ground himself, visualize a path, target the pretty blue stone sticking up out of her head.

The electricity shot out in a jagged line, and Tahi felt it fight against him -- he was just barely able to keep it under control, watching it snuff out Comet's spell with a strange sort of glee. "I've never cast that on another person before."


@comet

Comet nodded her head. She was okay with that as long as it didn't hurt too much. After all, it wasn't often you find an animal that lets you practice spells on them. The jagged bolt of electricity struck her gemstone ear, and she felt it stop her bubble spell from being cast. "It worked! You did good!" She didn't feel any pain either.

So, even thought the deer knew mostly fungal magic they could cast some lightning spells too! She wanted to learn some plant magic herself.

Comet wondered if there were any cool spells she could test on the deer, but she had none. So she settled for trying summon some water for them to drink. She was certainly thirsty! The water rose up from the ground and she lapped some of it. "Water if you are thirsty."

@Tahi-shei

Tahi-shei grinned, proud of himself. He nodded gratefully at Comet and began to partake of the water before shaking himself out a bit and taking a step back. "Alright. Those are the only spells I have that I can cast on other Gembound... but I have other things in my repertoire!" Black frills spiked up around his throat on cue, and Tahi-shei all but struck a pose. He was glad they'd worked -- it would have been embarrassing for him to give the preface and then have his spell fail.

He stretched himself out a little and looked around. "Hm... I should probably dispatch these before I mess them up." He slipped over to a rock and nudged one of the frills, straining his neck and dancing a complicated sort of dance to get himself almost totally un-frilled without any of the goo clinging to his fur. He rolled his shoulders. "Be careful of that, it's a pain to get rid of."

"Ooh." The pose with the added dramatic effect of the black frills looked really cool. She laughed a bit at the sight. Comet wondered what the frills were made out of. Feathers? fur? But before she could ask, Tahi was removing them on the rocks.

She walked over and watched his silly dance at trying to get rid of the goo. Normally she would've helped, but the deer had said that it was not good to touch. "I'll help wash it off." Feeling all nice and hydrated, she was not afraid to expend a little of her water on this.

But when she opened her mouth, what came out was not a steady stream of water, but a high pressured jet of water came out instead. And it was headed straight for Tahi's head.

@Tahi-shei

Tahi glanced up at Comet's assertion that she'd help wash it off, and started to open his mouth to protest -- magic could be fickle, of course, and things went wrong -- when she was already opening her mouth. The hair on the back of his neck prickled and the deer bolted, coming to a stop a solid six feet away -- the spray of water had just barely missed him, and his hair stood on end. "Water doesn't help much," he said cooly, trying his best to not appear frustrated or annoyed. "And broadly, it's impolite to cast magic on people without asking permission." Tahi shook himself out a little. "Even innocuous spells can backfire; you could have hurt me without meaning to."

"Sorry!" Comet was very disappointed in herself. She could've hurt Tahi! She unconsciously folded back her ears and let out a low whine. The deer's tone was calm, but Comet's head was going in a frenzy. She reprimanded herself. She would never do anything like that again! "I'm-- not going to do anything from now on." Her magic could really hurt, perhaps it would be better if she didn't do any for the rest of the meeting.

@Tahi-shei

He inclined his head slightly. "That's not necessary," Tahi-shei said gently, "just don't cast anything on me without asking first, alright?" He hummed and spawned another handful of mushrooms, pacing in a slow circle. "Is there anything else you'd like to try out, Comet?" Tahi-shei honestly didn't have much he wanted to do; except maybe teaching Comet more about the ethics of casting and casting towards people who you wanted to be friends with.


@comet