Azereiah

Elemental Academy [Currently Accepting!] -closed-

Brunhilde wrote some fairly short notes as Emi spoke. It was a pretty simple idea, though she had never experienced that sort of feeling before, except for in a very rudimentary way. Perhaps it felt like the sun's warmth and the cool of a shadow - distinct from the heat and cold of fire and ice...? She made a note to ask later.

"I don't know about air though, on how that works. Perhaps something to do with the wet finger idea on how to know which way the air if facing?"

Brunhilde tilted her head. "Hm. Dunno."
She dipped the tip of her pinky in the rubber pool and held it up. It didn't really help her feel the air all that much better, but her fingertip certainly did get cold. She frowned a little and stuffed her hand into her pocket to warm it back up. She noticed that Avarius had been standing by them and offering the balloons for a little while, and realized that he was offering them to the two of them.

She looked to Emi for a moment, then back to the bag of balloons, and pulled out a pink one. She wondered what color Emi would take - perhaps it would be a first or second-favorite color, or the color that's on her mind at that moment. A little experiment to note in the journal.

"Air sense is sorta hard to explain. Not even sure if that's the right term for it, but whatever. Y'know how you can feel, hear, smell, and in some rare cases see the air? It feels to me almost like it's talking to all of my senses. Oh, and I think he wants you to take a balloon, too."

@Dark Light
@liferusher

Elemental Academy [Currently Accepting!] -closed-

When Emi patted her head, Brunhilde had felt one of the girl's fingers brush across the slightly raised ridge from her old injury. Likely the first person to touch that spot in years, though Brunhilde didn't realize it at the moment. She hardly remembered it existed, except for when she was washing her hair.

Brunhilde gave a short bow to Avarius - a remnant behavior from when she was still taking martial arts lessons from Master Pete Dyer. "Yes, sir!", she replied, and she turned expectantly to Emi, eagerly awaiting her response. She wanted to know more, and to perhaps get to know this person.

@Dark Light
@liferusher

Elemental Academy [Currently Accepting!] -closed-

Brunhilde simply stood silently, waiting for the next segment of the lesson. When Avarius was tipping the green powder into the pool, she felt she had been missing something horribly simple for years.

"It is not quite a one hundred percent accurate representation but treat your hand like your will and move the coloured cloud."

Images of moving fishing boats and dust clouds where the fishermen had upset the fish filled her mind, and she immediately understood what he was trying to teach her. It was... Stupid. She'd gone years, presumably, without thinking a single time about low pressure, even though she was surrounded by reminders for a good portion of her childhood. While these thoughts were ticking through her head, her face grew slightly red from a combination of embarrassment, humiliation, and a small hint of self-directed irritation. With the mild mental storm, she didn't notice the new person approaching.

"...Like a boat's wake."

"I-I-I can't.... Hold myself any longer"

She had started to reach down to demonstrate how the green cloud in the water would split around her hand and swirl along behind it, but was suddenly and unexpectedly interrupted by something warm and much larger than herself grabbing her. Her train of thought derailed, plowed into a small mental village, and burned down the orphanage for important ideas. She yelped in surprise.

...Pink? Very pink. Fluffy pink. It took Brunhilde a moment to realize that this was a person. A person hugging her, completely uninvited. Still, as rude as it was, it was sort-of nice, and she figured she might as well return the hug.

"Sorry, forgive me, I couldn't contain myself. You look way to cute. I hope you aren't mad."

Brunhilde wasn't quite sure how to respond. "...Er..."
She dove for the journal and flipped back to the dossier section, flipped through it rather quickly, and came to the conclusion that this was not someone she knew.

"Your air controll looks great by the way. I have never seen such a thing before I came here... Oh I forgot but my name is Emi hehe."

The walking pink fluffball didn't seem to be a threat. Smelled a little bit odd, but definitely not a threat. Brunhilde checked her journal's most recent entries and discovered that she had recently arrived at the Academy and started her first air elementalism class. Some odd notes about water vapor and running up and down stairs were also there, but they were of no consequence. She flipped back to the dossier section and filled it in as quickly as she could, sketching this new person and slinging in a few colorful descriptive tags, including 'What the hell?', 'Likes hugs', 'RUDE', and 'Friend???'

"I'm Brunhilde. I take it you're new here too?"

She was in class. Right. ...In class. The last journal entry was written several minutes ago, and mentioned nothing about the rubber pool with the green stuff in it that was nearby. Panic spread across her face as she realized that she'd totally forgotten everything she was doing.

She turned to Avarius without even waiting for Emi's response, rather embarrassed. "I- I'm sorry. What were we doing again?"

@liferusher
@Dark Light

Lond en' i' Astald

I'll keep an eye on this one.

Let me know if someone drops out - I've got a character idea lined up.

The Two Sides

@Hawksnest565

Brick decided that he would try to remember which plants were which as he and Aya made their way down the hill to the clearing in question. He expected he'd be away from the camp a lot, so there was no reason not to gather what he could (without hurting the plants, of course). Of course, he had no idea how to use anything of that sort, but every little bit might help.

"I wonder why they cross the river. Looking for a fight, perhaps?" Brick shook his head in annoyance. These kids were sounding like wannabe high school 'gangs', screaming for attention.

There was sense in her request, but he felt it might not be quite so simple as that - though that might just be his thirst for adventure and heroism speaking to him. "I won't cross the river unless I have a good reason for it."

The Two Sides

@Hawksnest565

"I think I've got a good idea of what's where now. Thanks for bringing me up here. You mentioned you needed to gather medicinal herbs, right?"

Brick stood atop the hill and looked out over the area. It was a rather nice view, and he noticed a faint pillar of smoke rising from another spot further beyond the center river - most likely the Broms' camp.

"I'm guessing any time a fight starts, both parties blame the other. Do the Broms ever come to our side of the river?"

He paused for a moment, remembering that they did, indeed, cross the river. They had done so the instant he stepped into the woods. But he allowed Aya to answer anyway.

The Two Sides

@Hawksnest565

"Aye, I'm fine. Sorry for walking so loudly, by the way - not used to being even vaguely stealthy."

Brick quickly made his way to the top of the hill, moving ahead of Aya, and looked over the other side for any sign of other people that may have been lying in wait. Seeing nobody in immediate view, he turned back towards his companion.

"Can't help but wonder whose fault it is that it keeps on going, too. I didn't get a whole lot of details, and you guys don't feel like you're all that violent. Maybe I just haven't met the right people to get an accurate opinion, though. Are there raiding parties or something?"

The Two Sides

@Hawksnest565

"Yeah, given that you didn't charge at me with a fork, I'm pretty sure you're not a cannibal." There was a slight smirk on his face - he found that bit of the rumor to be rather stupid anyway.

"Assuming Sacha was right when she said I was a shifter, I'm pretty sure I'd be the first one in my family. I suppose I can see why your grandmother suggested hanging out in the woods - probably would be pretty un-fun if someone shifted into a hippo for the first time in the middle of Walmart or something."

Brick continued walking, using the sword as a walking stick to drag himself up the hill. The sticks and fallen branches beneath him crunched and snapped in half under his weight, and a couple small birds flew away at the sudden sounds. He wasn't exactly suited to being subtle.

"I wonder why the fighting started in the first place."

The Two Sides

@Hawksnest565

"Boredom, plain and simple. Worked at a call center for a car insurance company, decided I needed a bit of adventure, followed rumors of murder and cannibalism. Probably not the smartest thing I've ever done, come to think of it. Saw what was going on, felt like I should try to help out a bit."

He looked back towards the camp and saw that they, indeed, had a very visible smoke trail. Hopefully he wouldn't need to rely on it too much. Good, solid feels for the area are always better than praying a smoke signal stayed up. Aya was walking a bit further ahead when he looked back, and he quickly caught back up.

"How about you?"

The Two Sides

@Hawksnest565

Brick nodded once and followed behind Aya, his eyes constantly scanning the environment for anything or anyone of note. Even though he was pretty much certain the chances of being ambushed right outside the camp were very, very slim, he didn't particularly want to make a bad first impression by letting his new friend get hurt.

He made note of any and all large tree branches lying around or hanging off of dying trees on the way towards the hill. He could go back to retrieve them later.