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An Unintended Audiance (Lani)

Postby Turais on April 10th, 2014, 4:06 pm

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It was about mid day, not that Turais was keeping track really, he was too preoccupied with studying the materials for his Teaching Class as well as the lecture he had just heard in regards to his Intro to Magic class. The Ethaefal was intent on mastering his magical skills, and the only way to do that here was to take classes at the University. He had taken classes in the past here, basic skills like reading, writing and some Philosophy, but he was truly interested in learning about Djed, specifically Auristics, Shielding and Glyphing, all of which were offered here, but only after he took the two pre-requisite classes. And since he was already here and had lots of time on his hands he figured he would take a teaching class as well. The thought behind it being perhaps one day he would teach here, or in one of the other schools. Lhavit had one if he remembered correctly.

The Ethaefal rubbed his brows as he stared at the book he'd borrowed from the Wright Memorial Library. It was an old journal of an old teacher here and it outlined a lot of his techniques for teaching as well as offered advice on how to approach things and how to assign homework that would actually be completed and not just copied, or worse, done by another student who was being paid. The writing style was not very entertaining or captivating, but it was part of his assignments to read this sort of book for his teaching class. The only other option left by the other students in the class was a memoir of a sailing instructor which was more about the subject of sailing than of actually teaching and interacting with students.

Turais looked up from his reading at the empty classroom he had decided to stick himself in for studying, hoping that placing himself at the front, where the instructor would sit, would help him get into the mindset of a teacher, but mostly it was making him miss the sunlight. With a sad glance to the half open window across the room he sighed and turned his dark blue eyes back to the book. There would be time for basking in the sun later, if he finished his assignment in a timely manner and refrained from getting distracted.
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Postby Lani Stranger on April 10th, 2014, 9:18 pm

It was another one of those days. The days when Lani needed something to do. With five classes, Lani had expected it to be rare for her to have free time, between studying and attending class. Except four of her five classes didn't assign work outside of class. Which was just as well because trekking around the woods with a class full of people was tiring enough in itself. The only class that gave her work was Geography. Which was what she had just finished doing. Geography could be terribly repetitive at times, but she was learning, which was the point.

Lani swung her shoes around her shoulder, strolling through the University hallways, thinking of places to go. She had finished in the library, her time spent pouring through atlas after atlas, writing down notes on different regions for her next class. The idea occurred to her to leave the University and explore Zeltiva, but for some reason she wasn't ready to do so. This was the first city she moved to by herself. She liked the compactness of the University, it was a mini-city in itself. One ready to explore.

As Lani walked she tried to take unfamiliar turns, the fun was in finding her way home. But as the girl's stomach began to grumble she realized the mistake. She had no idea where she was. This part of the University was small, and Lani was curious. What was taught here. Lani peered into the glass of a room, seeing a class that was listening to a lecture. Lani couldn't hear what it was the topic and her curiosity heightened, and she went down the hall to another door. The room was empty. The next door paid off. This one had no glass window for her to peer through, so Lani gently opened the door poking the tip of her head in the room. Golden waves of hair fell down past her shoulders, as she took in the room. There might not be a window on the door but the large windows that occupied one wall of the room proved it unnecessary. No lamps were lit in the room, and they didn't need to be. The white afternoon light was more than enough for anyone to see. Desks were neatly arranged facing a black board which had been meticulously cleaned for the next lecture. Towards the front of the room a man hunched over his work, whatever it was.

"Hi there." Lani spoke up, letting herself into the room. Hopefully this guy didn't mind, he might be studying but she only needed a bit of his time. She wanted to know what part of the University this was. She left the door open a crack, her long strides taking her towards the front of the room to talk to the man. She could really come across as intrusive or friendly at this point, the line between the two was shrinking as she neared the man, introducing herself and guaranteeing a conversation. "I'm Lani, are you a professor by chance?"



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An Unintended Audiance (Lani)

Postby Turais on April 11th, 2014, 3:30 pm

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Turais was pretty focused on his work, so much so that he was not even paying attention when the girl walked into the class room. Normally he tried to be a little more diligent about being aware of his surroundings, especially since he was trying to improve his Auristics, but he was such a novice he couldn't sense it when she walked in.

"Hi there. I'm Lani, are you a professor by chance?" Even as she spoke and he nearly jumped out of his seat as he looked up at her, startled, he was not focused enough to be able to sense it. It took the Ethaefal a moment to settle himself before he smoothed out his shirt and eyed the girl up for a moment, his gaze settling on her eyes which gave him pause for a moment as he eyed her again, obviously confused by the lack of other Chaktawe features on the girl.

"Ah, hello. I'm uh, Turais. And no, sadly, I am just a student." He took a pause and looked around for a moment, "Was there supposed to be a class here?" He looked a bit worried for a moment, he was sure he had picked an empty classroom that was not scheduled to have a class until the evening. A slight panicked look took over his features as he looked down at the mess of papers he had left spread over the desk.

"Oh my, I must have lost track of time, is it already getting dark out?" He continued to panic until he moved to the window to look out and saw the light was still the white glow of the afternoon and then he seemed to settle slightly, lifting a hand to trace two fingers across his crystaline horn, obviously some sort of habit he had to calm himself. He then turned his gaze to the girl, looking positively embarrassed by his outburst and decided to just be silent for now to let her explain what she was doing here before he jumped to any more conclusions or freaked out some more.


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Postby Lani Stranger on April 11th, 2014, 8:15 pm

Lani's eyes followed the man's frantic movements. He'd obviously had been concentrating hard on his studies before she interrupted him. Lani felt somewhat bad for doing so, but she only had a question, she wouldn't waste much of his time. Her black eyes glided down his face, somewhat appreciative of his features. He was definitely attractive, light hair and skin contrasted his dark blue eyes. As he sat and Lani stood, he already seemed to be a bit taller than her, something Lani rarely ran into. But she could be wrong. What attracted her attention was the horns that curved around his ears, breaking through his thin hair. Lani could compare the horns to icicles, having never seen a ram or goat with the shape. But what was interesting about them was that they were a pale green that faded to a gentle lilac. Everything about this man looked like he came from the Ukalas, from his height to his horns. Lani dropped her gaze, she had focused on his face too long. Her eyes skinned the papers below her, the wheels in her brain started to turn as she tried to read upside down. "Oh my, I must have lost track of time, is it already getting dark out?"

"Ah, clam down. It's only a little after noon." Lani grinned, letting out a little chuckle. She must've really given him a surprise. "Not a teacher, but studying to be one?" Lani let her long fingers rest one one of his papers swiftly turning it to face her. How did one learn to teach? The idea of acquiring knowledge ot give out knowledge never really occurred to her. Was it like other subjects, just notes an lectures? Or did they apprentice classrooms? What else could he be studying? Surely he needed a subject to teach if he wanted to do so. She turned the paper back to him, letting her hand hang off the edge of the desk.

"I don't think there is a class, I don't really know. What are you studying?" Lani's original question was lost in her new curiosity. The girl had little issue peering through people's things. She wasn't tearing his books apart demanding answers, but the tilt of her head made it obvious she was scanning the papers. She looked up at the man catching his eyes in her own. "Why are you interested in teaching?" She asked watching him measure her eyes. She was genuinely curious about this, learning had always been her focus and she loved to talk to others with the same ambitions. Lani was also beginning to get defensive, she'd never seen anyone like herself and wasn't sure if he had either. People around Mizahar generally have been open-minded to her misfit appearance, but every once in a while someone would have something to say to her about being who she was. Things she never wanted to hear. But her general mood was consumed by her starvation for socialization. She'd done little as far as meeting people, and she wouldn't mind making friends with someone around the University, especially someone who seemed as interested in education as she did.


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Postby Turais on April 11th, 2014, 8:55 pm

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"Not a teacher, but studying to be one?" At her words he looked back up at her, his curious gaze no longer seeming to inquire about her odd appearance but not intent on her words now. "Uh, yes. That's right." He replied softly as he shifted weight from one foot to another as she skimmed his papers, even turning one so eh could read it more easily before setting it back to it's place among the clutter of more papers. He stood again, feeling awkward with her leaning over the desk while he sat. He was almost surprised for a moment when he noticed her height was so close to his own, something he was not used to while among those born here.

The surprise quickly faded as she began asking more questions and inspecting more of his notes and pages. "What are you studying?" He paused and looked down at his papers, blanking for a moment as he tried to figure out where to begin, and then even remember what he was actually taking. Before he could really pin down a good answer she spoke again though, "Why are you interested in teaching?" He glanced back to her with his dark eyes and lifted a hand to touch his horn again while he opened his mouth to speak. "I'm taking some magic courses, the introductory ones, and uh, teaching..." he added as he motioned to the papers she'd already glanced over. "Oh and um, I want to teach because... the world needs teachers, I guess." He stopped and eyed her a moment, suddenly curious about her and why she was here.

"I doubt you came here just to ask me a hundred questions... Were you looking for something, or did you get lost maybe?" His questions were nothing more than questions, he even adopted a look of concern for the girl when he guessed she might be lost. There was no longer a look of curiosity about the way she looked only true concern on his face. While her features had shocked him before, he was no longer focused on them and was not more intent on finding out what she wanted, and why she was here.


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Postby Lani Stranger on April 11th, 2014, 10:42 pm

Turias stood with her. She was right, he was taller than her. He had to be at least seven feet with how the man towered over her. It was somewhat comforting, she'd really only see humans and a few Konti around Zeltiva, this horned man started another line of curiosity. Lani decided against asking him, she didn't like people questioning her, so she wouldn't question him. Her brain was starting to web out in different directions, there was so many question she could ask him. So many things she wanted to learn, but she was already being intrusive as it was. She didn't plan on stopping either. Question after question would leap from her mouth until she was satisfied with the answer. Unfortunately this was quite a rare occasion, she had learnt to deal with the disappointment of holding back questions. Some people just didn't want to answer her. Turias confirmed her guess of him wanting to be a teacher. It was obvious by reading his notes. "Oh and um, I want to teach because... the world needs teachers, I guess."

"I'm not against that, there is always something to learn so there always has to be someone to teach it. Good profession ..." Lani nodded to him. She was about to ask him about magic, when he reminded her of why she was originally there.

"I doubt you came here just to ask me a hundred questions ... Were you looking for something, or did you get lost maybe?" Lani wanted to avoid the question, she didn't want to just drop the conversation. If she had any say in it, she wasn't going to either. Lani yanked a chair out from under the closest desk. The wood scraped on the floor, and Lani checked for a second to make sure it didn't scratch, that would have been embarrassing. Fortunately the wood left no marks nothing against the floor. Lani turned it so she could cross her arms over the back of it, and plopped down on the chair, grateful she was wearing trousers and not her usual dresses or skirts. She turned her head up slightly to peer up at the man through her bangs, a unspoken refusal to leave. "Eh, yea. I came to ask what college we were in. Haven't been to this part of the University yet. What kind of magic do you do?"

Her curiosity was past the point of no return. Magic was such an intriguing concept to her. Even though the R'yse had used magic, she never told Lani much about it, how it worked or what it did. She hoped Turias was willing to have the conversation, she was. "I knew someone that did magic, she went crazy. Nearly killed me because of it. But that didn't faze Lani, R'yse had been sane at one point, and Turias seemed sane enough. "Are you crazy? Have you been getting enough sleep?"



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Postby Turais on April 14th, 2014, 5:43 pm

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Turais was slightly taken aback when she pulled the chair out and turned it to face him while she sat, straddling the back of it. The way she spoke and moved made him wonder how old she was, she did not look very old, but she sure acted like it. He was merely glad she was not in a skirt. As she showed no signs of leaving anytime soon, and having a hunch she would follow him if he went to leave, he sat down at the desk and sighed softly.

"Eh, yea. I came to ask what college we were in. Haven't been to this part of the University yet. What kind of magic do you do?" Ah, so it begins, the questioning. Turais leaned back in his chair looking slightly defeated as he gave in to her questioning with little struggle. "This is the College of Djed." He began as he folded his arms and stared out the window, "And I know a little bit of Auristics, Shielding and some Glyphing, but I'm a novice in all three at current." He explained before looking back at her.

"Are you crazy? Have you been getting enough sleep?" He lifted a brow at these new questions. So she knew someone who was driven mad by magic? That was certainly interesting. "No, I'm not going crazy, and I sleep at night, like most other people." He assured her, "My classes are teaching me about the dangers of overgiving, which is probably what happened to this person you knew. When you give too much it does bad things to you... What happened to this friend of yours?" He asked, wondering what exactly had happened. He was experiencing the effects of overgiving while doing his class in the Asylum, but hearing about what happens from someones viewpoint that saw it first hand as it happened might be useful.


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Postby Lani Stranger on April 15th, 2014, 8:09 am

" ...What happened to this friend of yours?" Lani's eyebrows dropped immediately at the question. It didn't occur to her for him to ask questions back. Lani let her eyes drift for a second, focusing on the jagged nail of her index finger. She debated whether to give him the whole story. Why not? Because it was the worst memories of her life, that was the simplest reason why not to.

"What's it to you?" Lani's nose scruched trying to hide the nerves on her face. Lani wasn't one to obsess about keeping her past a secret, there wasn't much in it that wasn't worth sharing. But Turias had asked her about the one and only time in her young life that she had really wanted to forget. But she understood curiosity, and she wasn't going to deny him an answer based on her emotions.

"Eh, well. She was doing this stuff called voiding, I think. Dunno, messed her up I guess. She left for a few years, and when she came back she was just ... angry." Lani didn't meet his eye, trying to spit out her story quickly and with as little attachments as possible. The scary dark feeling begin to well in her chest. It never happened often, the dark thoughts, but when they did, it scared her. She was just a kid, she shouldn't be thinking about how she had wanted to kill R'yse herself. Lani blinked a few times, trying to push the feelings down. She wasn't that type of person. She didn't have that in her. "She couldn't really feel her fingers at first, then her hands and soon her entire left side would go numb. She was always ... violent, I guess." Lani folded her hands across the back of the chair, resting her head on them and peering up at Turias through her bangs.

"Never seen her act like it, never saw the backside of her hand until then. She was my ma, a Konti, you know. Real nice lady too. She kept opening the hole-things to the void-place. I knew that was making her crazy, what else could? She wasn't taking any herbs, I would have known, but she wouldn't listen to me when I asked her to stop. Then one day she went on a rampage. Her left half was numb and she had woken up to a seizure, I think. We also happened to be starving at the time, so maybe that was why she was so weird that day. She tried to kill me, so I ran." Lani let her eyes sweep the floor, her voice lowering slightly with her last words. "Her name was R'yse, and I left her alone. She's probably dead, I don't ..."

Lani cut her words off, squeezing her eyes closed. She didn't think it could be that hard to tell someone. It was a simple fact in her history, why would it affect her so much? Lani opened her eyes, the previous dark emotion that had taken over her face had evaporated. Clear eyes and curious brows looked up at Turias again. Emotions were easy for anyone to read off her face, Lani didn't bother to hide her thoughts, and she didnt care to do so, either. It could be a little unsettling how easily she supressed the frightening memories, but Lani's mind wasn't dwelling on the past. What were these magics that he knew? Lani raise her head, all the visible signs of her fear had vanished, quickly replaced by the aggressive curiosity that drive most of her education. "What's Auristics? Can you show me?"



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Postby Turais on April 16th, 2014, 3:19 pm

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"What's it to you?" The Ethaefal blinked and looked down, feeling bad for asking now. And as Turais was about to apologize for asking and tell her it was no big deal she began pouring the information out. With every word Turais felt sorrow for how she must have felt. She was my ma..." Now he felt terrible. As she continued he knew his face was showing the sorrow he felt at her tale.

As she closed her eyes and seemed to be done with her words Turais frowned. He felt awful for making her relive that, and even worse that he actually found the effects of her voiding overgiving so interesting, but above all he felt badly for the girl. To have to go through that, with someone so close to you, and then have them turn on you? He could not imagine.

As he was about to offer her his hand and apologize for making her relive that, she seemed to totally change, her previous sadness gone and the spunk he had seen earlier was back. He was, needless to say, a little taken aback. It was like what she had just told him had never happened, it was amazing to the Ethaefal. He no longer let his fall effect his whole face anymore, but anytime he stared out at the day sky, he knew his eyes betrayed the deep sadness he felt as being gone from his Goddesses realm.

"Uh, well... Maybe. I'm still a novice, and it's hard to show someone..." He pursed his lips and eyed her for a moment before caving rather quickly. "Yeah, sure. Why not. Just, don't tell anyone I showed you any of this." He added with a serious look before his face softened and he began to stare at her intently, trying to focus on the aura around her. He was such a novice it took him some concentration to even sense auras, he did not just feel them constantly, not unless someone with a huge aura was very close to him, and then his senses were overwhelmed.

"Everyone, everything, has an aura." He began, keeping his concentration on Lani, "Everyone sees them differently, or I guess... feels? To me I feel auras. I've heard of others sensing colors or smells, whatever your mind decides to interpret the information you are absorbing." He explained further as he began to feel her aura, but just barely, his concentration waning between the explanation and the focus he was trying to use on her.


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Postby Lani Stranger on April 19th, 2014, 12:32 am

OOCAm I tried to give you as best of a description on her emotions as I can, I don't know what you need to read her.
"Yeah, sure. Why not. Just, don't tell anyone I showed you any of this." Lani drew an X on her heart, a slight grin growing across her face. She glanced behind her at the slightly opened door, but decided to leave it. People don't usually pop their heads in. Well except me. Lani shrugged outwardly, looking at Turias. Did she have to stay still or something? A mix of apprehension and curiosity radiated from her as she stared curiously at the man who stared at her. "Everyone sees them differently, or I guess... feels? To me I feel auras. I've heard of others sensing colors or smells, whatever your mind decides to interpret the information you are absorbing." Turais words drifted off, as if he was distracted. Similar to when you interrupt someone reading a book. Lani laid her head back on her hands, quietly looking at the man. She didn't want to mess anything up for him, but she really had no idea what she was doing. His lids drooped slightly and Lani grew worried. Was he going to overgive? Her fear of magic was very present, no matter how much of her life had been intertwined in the strange art. Lani didn't know what she was supposed to be doing while he concentrated, so she decided to concentrate herself. He had mentioned that he wasn't very good, repeatedly, so maybe if she could focus her energy ...

Lani's eyebrows scrunched as she realized how impossible that was. If she focused on her emotions, her emotion would simply be determination. To Lani, the idea of focusing her emotions seemed as if it was reverse auristics. Instead of reading emotions, she could make her own, but couldn't everyone? People were in charge of their own minds, and so they could do what they wanted with their emotions, there was no magic to that. Her brain was beginning to spin again, pulling questions out of every corner. If anything, the one emotion that reigned over all of hers was curiosity. She never seemed to be satisfied with any amount of knowledge. There were always more questions, but never enough answers. Wide eyes followed Turias' every moment, which was very little as more questions bubbled forward. Lani realized she was most likely distracting him, but she couldn't help it, what was he doing?

"What are you doing? How do you read me? Are you reading my thoughts? You really shouldn't do that." Lani tried to keep her voice soft, hoping not to bother him, but still letting her curiosity talk. She wondered how he was going to teach her to use Djed, R'yse had tried once when Lani was small, but Lani hadn't grasped the concept of using Djed from herself. She could understand the idea of using other objects djed, but using her own or finding someone else's seemed so odd. Maybe now that she was older, and being taught by someone more patient than the Konti, she could get a hold of the mystic art.



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