Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

[abnormalizes]

This is Evangeline! Sorry, I'm a little busy right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

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[castaside]

[ She'll be able to do them herself after a year to 18 months of study, with supervision only ]

[ A portal pops out in front of her and leads her to the forest in the Autumn segment. He's made sure no unpleasant beasties are around. ]

"Hello again. How's the progress?"

[abnormalizes]

Pretty good! I'm feeling pretty confident with the basic shadow manipulation.

[To demonstrate, she makes her shadow on the grass wave to him.]

[castaside]

"Not bad." For a beginner. She's clearly been practicing.

"Can you guess why I have us meeting in here?"

As he says that, the wind sways the tall trees which creates a shifting light in the area. Her ability move the shadow is gone when the light flickers. Since shadows and light are entwined...

[abnormalizes]

“Changing light source is hard mode?”

She attempts to reshape the shadow again, focusing hard, but to no avail.

[castaside]

He smiles. "Good. Light color also matters, for the record, that's harder mode. You'll know when you're an expert because you'll be able to go into a dance club with the flashing, color changing lights and maintain control."

"But sticking to light and color. My portals are the deepest shadows and they contain every color. if you could see that sort of thing, it's like a swirling rainbow. That's why my shadow blankets and other things I make from them look like spinning galaxies. You've seen one, right?"

[abnormalizes]

"I've been around the house enough to see them, yeah. Very cool."

She has a fondness for the galaxy motif in general, not that it's obvious from her favorite EGO suit being Child of the Galaxy's.

[castaside]

"Maybe I'll make yo one sometime. They're surprisingly warm." Shadows seem like they would be cool, but he can manipulate them to do whatever he wants.

"How familiar are you with color wheels?"

[abnormalizes]

"I'd love one!"

In response to his question, she focuses on a different magic - light creation from the dragon blessed powers. A small sphere of light in front of her changes colors as she talks. "It's basically the colors of a rainbow arranged in a wheel, right? Starts at red, goes to orange, yellow, et cetera, and violet loops back around to red again?"

The visual aid was probably not necessary, but she did want to mention that she could do now.

[castaside]

He nods. "I'm sure there's some gift giving occasion happening soon. And then I can teach you to manipulate the shadow cloth. You can make the blanket bigger or smaller, you could even change it into a cloak which helps you blend in with darkness." Useful shit for hiding or hunting.

"It's good that you have this light power, it'll help. Light makes the strongest shadows."

He nods at her color wheel explanation. "The color of the light matters. When you're using sunlight or a light bulb, the light is white, so the shadows contain every color. This makes them easy to manipulate. When the light is a different color, say blue, you have to use the color opposite it on the color wheel to make the shadows move. In the case of blue light, orange is the predominant color in the shadow."

[abnormalizes]

"Thank you, I'll take good care of it." It'll be useful, but more importantly, it'll be a precious gift.

"Color in shadow is opposite to light color, white is easiest to work with. Makes sense."

[castaside]

"I'll start working on it soon." Minus a few torture dream derailments.

"All right. Try to manipulate the shadow again given the changing light. This isn't a color thing, just a light source thing, so it's a little easier, but it may feel like starting from scratch again. Just be patient and you'll get it."

[abnormalizes]

Evangeline concentrates on the shadow, the way the light changes it. It looks like it's moving, but it's really more like being reshaped, isn't it?

Eventually, she gets it to wave at them again, though more unsteadily than the first time.