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[unfriendlygreen]

[ he makes it his picture ID ]

was it crayons?

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yes
i was melting them earlier

[unfriendlygreen]

why were you melting crayons? if it's for wax play please just buy candles properly made for it.

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calm down i'm not brand new
it was for a magic something not a sex something, i only needed the wax & i thought it was more interesting than candles

[unfriendlygreen]

the colours are more fun, yes.

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exactly, sometimes this stuff is very boring

[unfriendlygreen]

what are you doing?

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trying to like, combine things. i'm not very good at doing more than one thing at a time.
controlling the fire + moving the liquid, in this scenario
i thought it might be useful

[unfriendlygreen]

it's tricky because you can control environmental magic too. can you tell fire what to burn the same way you tell plants to grow?

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sort of. i have to pay attention or it just does whatever it wants
if i'm making things grow and i get distracted they just stop

[unfriendlygreen]

fire is trickier.

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idk if it doesn't gel w the nature stuff or it doesn't gel w me
it's hard to tell

[unfriendlygreen]

there's likely a clear division between elements for you, you might be more adepts with certain kinds.

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yeah, sometimes i'm not sure if i just made myself really good w the earth stuff bc it's literally all i did for years

[unfriendlygreen]

i don't think it makes a difference whether you were born attuned to earth magic or made yourself that way, you'll still have trouble with the direct opposite element

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its very annoying, fire magic is like. the flashiest stuff i can do.

[unfriendlygreen]

Fire doesn't come naturally to me either. I started out with gardening.

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you havent mentioned that before
what was it like for you, learning this shit for the first time?

[unfriendlygreen]

Confusing. My parents thought I was good luck and I wanted them to be right. I spent a lot of my time farming, willing the crops to be healthy, and they were— I didn't have much control over it.

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right, you said something about warlock kids before

( he was.......very drunk, but nick kind of recalls the mention. )

did u get training, do they have like warlock school for magic where ur from?

[unfriendlygreen]

there's the Spiral Labyrinth but they don't normally pick up kids. My parents were Sighted, so they asked questions to... pixies, I believe? They ended up finding another warlock who taught me the basics. I set out on my own after they passed.

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spiral labyrinth actually sounds like somewhere they teach magic. mine just sounds like one of those schools exclusively populated by kids of politicians

( he doesn't say what he thinks, which is that all of that sounds quite lonely )

do you still grow things?

[unfriendlygreen]

[ ragnor spent a lot of time on his own. he hadn't grown close to anyone until magnus. ]

I had a small garden before prince of hell events. It's been a complicated few years since.

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do you have a garden here? i cant grow shit outside this close to the beach but i bet its fine where ur place is

[unfriendlygreen]

we tend to a handful of plants and herbs for the apothecary. i told magnus he should hire you.