[h2][color=coral]Thuraya Azize[/color][/h2]

Alright; so maybe things didn't go so well the first try, but that didn't stop her. If she was supposed to control this new power, she'd need more practice! And while the evening before, she had no luck with it. Perhaps with some rest she'd succeed. 

She grabbed her hair, pulling it back into a high ponytail and made her way off the Lady of Demons' yard. Back to where she'd been told about the day before, where she'd gone and basically almost trapped herself. 

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[i]The Evening Before... after many, many,[/i] MANY [i]failed attempts:

Sword swung, the newly added yellow stone glimmered in the moonlight and as metal hit earth, she said her command, as instructed to make things easier to learn; [color=coral][b]"Shield me!"[/b][/color] Needless to say; this didn't go too well. The earth came up around her quickly, but it was much too close. Tail curled in as to not get caught in the upward blast of rocks, and she let out a yelp as everything got even darker than it already had been from the eternal night here. 

She hugged her body close to the blade and looked around. Completely sealed... [color=coral][b]"Alright.. Go away, or.. however I get rid of you."[/b][/color] A hand reached up to feel the top of the tomb she'd created for herself and let out a soft whine. Nothing budged. [color=coral][b]"Come on! Go down! Shields down! Rocks begone!"[/b][/color] nothing. [color=coral][b]"Oh... Oh come ON!! You've gotta be kidding me!"[/b][/color] Arm moved back as far as it could in the cramped space and she let it go forward, punching at the rock wall in front of her. Dirt chipped from the side, a single pebble sized chunk fell to her feet and she just groaned. A little in pain for her hand, but mostly in annoyance.

She tested the ground with a foot gently, then a little more firmly before she knelt down and the digging began.[/i] 

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Today, she was hoping to not have to burrow her way out of a self-made prison, but if it came to that, at least she knew how firm the ground was here and how much effort, or how long it would take...

She grabbed the handle of her blade firmly and pulled it from her back, over her head. She looked around for a moment, and upon seeing the spiked tomb she'd made previously, brow furrowed, eyes focused, lips formed a small frown. [color=coral][b]"Alright, you wanna cooperate today?"[/b][/color] About to find out, she swung the blade downward, vertically into the earth. [color=coral][b]"Destroy that shit!"[/b][/color] What she wanted, of course, was a string of earthen spikes to go forward, or a tremor of some sort to destroy the 'shield' she'd made. But instead, she managed to get a pillar to come up underneath herself, flinging her forward. [color=coral][b]"Fuckballs!"[/b][/color] Sword to the side, she landed on her knees and elbows; preventing a face-plant at least. 

[color=coral][b]"Alright ya stupid gem!"[/b][/color] tone was getting more annoyed. [color=coral][b]"Ya wanna play like that?!"[/b][/color] sword in hand again she got to her feet and jabbed it at the small pillar; [color=coral][b]"Get the hell out!"[/b][/color]

A blast from that had her flung backward this time, turning to avoid landing on her tail, she growled. A voice in her mind told her to calm down, relax and focus, and while it took her quite some time, she did so. Eyes closed, deep breaths. She stepped forward a few steps, up onto a larger rock, with her sword in hand, twirling the massive blade once before bringing it in front of herself in both hands, pointed toward the ground. [color=coral][b]"Destruction, or protection..."[/b][/color] Voice now soft, emerald eyes opened, a blank look in them as they shifted toward the pillar. Blade lowered to the ground, and eyes shifted to the rocky tomb once more. [color=coral][b]"Or destruction [i]of[/i] protection."[/b][/color] voice hushed as she took another breath, and she rose the blade only slightly before lowering it quicker, tapping the tip to earth's surface. A small tremor formed from beneath her and she swung the blade out of the ground toward the stone, reducing it to an explosion of earth and rock. 

The calmness left her and eyes widened. It was then, that she gave her panicked command; [color=coral][b]"Shield!"[/b] and again, she was in a rocky covering. All the way around her... a little bigger space inside, this time. [color=coral][b]"Alright... Lower... Go away.... Shields down! ... UGH!!"[/b][/color] she knelt down then, to start burrowing her way out of the trap she'd made a second time, but this time, hands met with the solid stone she'd chosen as her perch to cast from. [color=coral][b]"You've... got... to... be... kidding... me..."[/b][/color]

She sat down then, as hand met the side of her 'shield'. Sigh escaped from her and roughly, she scratched and rubbed away dirt. Slowly but surely... She dug.