✿ Thirty-Fourth Ink Drop ✿ - [Action| Voice]

[chiisaichou]

[Miyabi woke with a start, finding herself sitting on a rock in the snow, leaning against her sword and sheath. Rubbing her eyes, she caught a glimpse of something shimmering off to the side. Wh-What--]

Mallet...?

[What in the--oh...oh, that's right. She'd made herself bigger the previous day, to practice...for the war. Miyabi closed her eyes,

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[action] If you get this like, 5 times, my net was being dumb. 8|; also GLEE

[chiisaichou]

[Strangely enough the mist - though it makes Naoki feel slow and heavy - has a strangely comforting feel. It wasn't a dark presence, more like a zen kind of calm. A mist one could just relax in.

Of course, once he breaks the tree line, he'll find a young girl pushing herself up on her sword, rubbing her brow free of sweat. Ugh. She was so out of practice. And the power caps were not helping any. Nor was the fact that her head was ringing like a bell - so Naoki went unnoticed as she held out her sword to try again, breathing deeply.]

[action] Yaaay |D

[chiisaichou]

Eh?! [Miyabi blinks just as the finishes making one line of ink in the air - which instantly hardens like a blade, and...topples the nearest tree. O-Oops, unintentional Powerslash!] ...Oh, shoot. I'm going to have to fix that now, too... What a waste of ink.

[Finally, she turns to Naoki, wiping her face.] Yes...I'm fine. Sorry if I...startled you.

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[chiisaichou]

[He may see, then, that at the very tip of her sword's hilt, a calligraphy brush was dripping ink onto the snow. Curious indeed.

A little breathless, the girl sits on a nearby rock to rest a while.]

It's all right, you didn't know anyone was here, right? Hehe...I couldn't figure out how to work that thing. [She motions towards the direction of the battledome.] So I came here instead.

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[chiisaichou]

I-I'm really not very good with things like that...

[She even had a bit of trouble with the electrical appliances in Salt's house when she still lived there. How do I technology? 8|; But she does see you eying her sword, Naoki, and smiles.]

Heh, it's easier if I show you. [She goes over to the fallen tree and holds out her sword. With a bit of filial magic to boost the skill a bit, she paints a large, black spot on the cut stump. In a second, a new and beautiful tree springs right up, magically.] The brush on my sword's hilt lets me paint with the power of my gods from back home. It's based off the Divine Instrument called the Celestial Brush. That skill I just used was called Bloom.

I use those powers to fight with as well.

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[chiisaichou]

[The tree is as real and thick as the first, and the girl beams at Naoki's praise, just a teensy bit flustered from the exertion. Bloom is a Skill she's all but mastered completely.]

Thank you very much! Yes, there are a lot of them. Thirteen Brush Gods, each with about two skills. I think... [She pauses, counting on her fingers for a moment, balancing the sword on her shoulder.] Twenty-eight?

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[chiisaichou]

Ah... [And her smile dissolves a little as she laughs sheepishly., looking away.] I only know a few. They're very hard to learn, even back home. Here's, it's almost twice as difficult. I was practicing one just before you arrived, mister.

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[chiisaichou]

[She nods slowly. It took her weeks to learn Blizzard, and she's forgotten how to use it now - with the lack of snow in the Spring and Summer. She can barely manipulate snow now, let alone ice. Regardless, Miyabi smiles and bows her head politely.]

It's nice to meet you, Naoki, I'm Miyabi. You can call me Miya, though, if you like.

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[chiisaichou]

[D'aw, what an awkwardly cute little derp you are, Naoki. |D She takes a seat on the rock - still a bit fatigued from before - and tilts her head.]

What were you doing all the way out here? Were you going to practice as well? [Then he was involved in the draft, too? Miyabi can't really remember.]