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whatamithinking ([personal profile] whatamithinking) wrote in [community profile] glowfic2016-02-17 09:13 am

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Edie has mixed feelings about the roses.

On the one hand, magic exists.

On the other hand, ow.

On the first hand, perfect healing.

On the second hand, ow.

On the first hand, flight.

On the second hand, holy fucking ow that one's definitely the worst, yep, ow ow ow.
iamnotpolaris: (cheerful)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, not all at once. She sketches out the parts she's not actively working on, so she doesn't forget, and works on one piece at a time. Once she's gotten the bracelet down she'll work on generating larger volumes of object.
pythbox: A book. (Default)

[personal profile] pythbox 2016-02-17 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Her volume capacity has been increasing bit by tiny bit, but when she actively works on it in particular, it starts going a little faster.
iamnotpolaris: (dangerous)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
This is less interesting than working on complexity's careful wiggles or duration's tricky twists. She switches to mass after less time than she spent on the more interesting two. And then, getting tired of aching quite as much as she is, she peels the black rose out of her, takes a Tylenol, and emails Cass to see if she knows anything about how the roses might interact with things like drug overdoses, addiction and withdrawal. On the grounds that it seems like something that someone with roses might experiment with, she is careful to clarify, not because she strikes her as someone who would have any experience with that kind of thing in a less floral context.
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[personal profile] the_greatest_show 2016-02-17 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Cass responds:
Who, me? :D

Most of what I've tried is painkillers, and those work okay except on the black flower for some reason, I haven't gotten exciting enough about it to tell if the flowers do anything for addiction.
iamnotpolaris: (curious)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm fine. Apparently painkillers work on all but the black and white ones, which is unfortunate considering that they pretty definitively need it the most. How are you doing?"
iamnotpolaris: (wistful)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"As long as you're okay. You know there's no hurry on any of this, right? It's not like we're actual magical girls with monsters of the week and an impending boss fight. Don't push yourself."
iamnotpolaris: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think you're doing yourself harm right now, just--make sure it stays that way, okay?"
iamnotpolaris: (having none of this)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good."

Since TK is apparently great she puts in her own blue rose to replace the black one. The insubstantial bruising is significantly more pleasant than the other roses' methods of joining. Now, what can she start out doing with telekinesis?
pythbox: A book. (Default)

[personal profile] pythbox 2016-02-17 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Moving small light nearby objects short distances, not very precisely!

A lot of the mental dexterity involved benefits from her practice wiggling imaginary objects through the conjuration magic, though.
iamnotpolaris: (okay)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's vaguely unsatisfactory. Is there a limit to the number of nearby small light objects she can move short imprecise distances?
pythbox: A book. (Default)

[personal profile] pythbox 2016-02-17 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The limit starts out at one. If she practices and tries hard, she can increase that limit, along with the limits on how big and heavy and far the objects can be. Her mental grip gets 'stronger' and her mental reach gets 'longer', slowly but steadily, as she works.
iamnotpolaris: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Can she do a little of this while also getting her up-till-now neglected homework done, it's not as interesting as conjuring and Professor Roth is not particularly forgiving of late assignments.
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[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good.

...

The blue flower hurts a lot less than the black one, it feels kind of weird. Not being able to conjure things feels weird too, she spent long enough practicing that she keeps absentmindedly trying to draw a marble or a necklace or something through and minding the absence.

...

Fuck it. The ache didn't bother her that much, and it would probably be best to get used to it as soon as possible, considering how much worse taking it out and putting it back in is. She doesn't bother to take the blue flower out again (the nonblack flowers barely hurt while they're in, really) before sticking the flower of It Really Really Hurts back in her arm. Ow, but the resulting pain is frankly dramatically much less than the pain of putting it in, so there's that. Great. Let's conjure a bunch of pebbles and juggle them while finishing this worksheet.
pythbox: A book. (Default)

[personal profile] pythbox 2016-02-17 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Conjuration and telekinesis work together very neatly indeed!
iamnotpolaris: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If she works mostly on complexity and duration and drops all the non-conjured items she was futzing with, can she simply toss newly-formed items into the pile of floaty things?
pythbox: A book. (Default)

[personal profile] pythbox 2016-02-17 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
She can absolutely do that.
iamnotpolaris: (cheerful)

[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent. And maybe test/train her weight limits by generating gradually massier items.
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[personal profile] pythbox 2016-02-17 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They are heavy and difficult to drag through the magic, but at least her mental grip doesn't seem to get 'tired' except as an extension of general mental fatigue. She can keep this up as long as her concentration lasts.
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[personal profile] iamnotpolaris 2016-02-17 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful.

Her concentration is, sadly, diverted as she has to finish the rest of her schoolwork (she has never resented its intrusion more than she does now, this is fun) but she manages to force at least a few more grams out of her capacity before she looks at the time and makes herself go to bed.

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