[Charloft Winter Bingo] Icy Roads
Hector crouched in an alleyway near his home, his apprentice by his side. The ground beneath them was a sheet of ice; the alley didn’t receive enough foot traffic to have melted quite yet.
"I’d like you to focus to make this spot here," he explained, gesturing to the space right beside them, "change from frozen water to... say, cola, perhaps. Make it look as if a drink was spilled here and froze over instead of water. But you mustn’t be seen."
The ability to change water into another liquid was something he’d been training Lacroix to do the past few weeks, but until now, it had been in the comfort of their own kitchen with tap water or ice cubes. This exercise now, however, gave Lacroix the added challenge of avoiding the gaze of passersby. Magic had the tendency to backfire when viewed by a non-mage, and Lacroix had been cautioned again and again by Hector not to use magic in front of normal humans.
"I’d like you to focus to make this spot here," he explained, gesturing to the space right beside them, "change from frozen water to... say, cola, perhaps. Make it look as if a drink was spilled here and froze over instead of water. But you mustn’t be seen."
The ability to change water into another liquid was something he’d been training Lacroix to do the past few weeks, but until now, it had been in the comfort of their own kitchen with tap water or ice cubes. This exercise now, however, gave Lacroix the added challenge of avoiding the gaze of passersby. Magic had the tendency to backfire when viewed by a non-mage, and Lacroix had been cautioned again and again by Hector not to use magic in front of normal humans.