eighteenth labyrinth

[lord_wizard]

[The afternoon finds Felix sitting on the edge of the fountain in town with his journal in his lap and a small box of other books at his feet. He seems to be lost in thought a moment, his chin tilted upward to feel the slight warmth of the sun in the early spring air.]

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[malfoy_purity]

[Draco walks past chewing on a sugar quill as he leafs through his notes before stopping and seeing Felix. ]

You know it's not going to move no matter how much you stare at it.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix gives a start, not having noticed Draco approaching.]

Oh. Hello Draco. [he smiles] I actually wasn't expecting it to move. Merely...contemplating some things about the nature of magic.

[malfoy_purity]

By staring at a stone fountain?

[lord_wizard]

[Smile] Not the fountain. The water.

[malfoy_purity]

[Looks at him curiously and then the water.]

You know how you don't fly...can you not produce water either?

[lord_wizard]

No. To my knowledge, such a thing has never been done. Even working with water is considered risky, because of it's fickle nature. Still...I wonder...

[malfoy_purity]

Oh...water and fire we learn at school. Water first obviously.

[lord_wizard]

Why obviously?

[malfoy_purity]

Would you want children to be able to create fire before they knew how to douse it?

[lord_wizard]

[He blinks, vaguely horrified at the thought, then smiles weakly]

Valid point. At least in a common sense sort of way. Thaumaturgically it seems to me that water would be...harder. I still can't quite understand how it can be done. But perhaps it can. Maybe that is what became of Cymellune...

[He taps his chin thoughtfully]

[malfoy_purity]

Cymellune? Is that a person?

[lord_wizard]

Mmm...no, Cymellune was a city. A great civilization that was said to be the precursor of all the kingdoms in Marathat, and likely beyond. Some of it's works and even it's language still lingers, as a parent to our own, but it's capital was said to have been swallowed up by the sea many thousands of years ago/

[malfoy_purity]

Oh. We have something similar, a story of the city of Atlantis. That was said to have disappeared into the sea.

I suppose water is magical in a way. It's certainly used in a fair bit of our history. Regarding spells and feuds and the like.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix seems to perk up with real interest, leaning forward to rest his forearms on his book]

Is that so? I sense a story in that somewhere. Could you give me some examples?

[malfoy_purity]

[Blinks at him taken aback before nodding]

Alright well...water's often used to in potions and spells. Because it's so innocuous there are stories of people using water as a booby trap. For example Ethelridge Barker, he was sent to Azkaban because he used a dark spell to torture and murder his wife's lover.

The lover was trapped in a room there was a jug of water on the table that would replenish itself. The temperature of the room would rise and Ethelridge went to drink the water but instead of quenching his thirst it set his insides on fire and he died. Burned from the inside out.

Admittedly that's not the most pleasant story.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix swallows, unable to stop himself from remembering, because he knows exactly how someone dieing that way would look.]

...Ah, well, few stories worth remembering are entirely pleasant.

It does go to prove that water, though useful, can be just as dangerous as fire.