Running. It's a thing that humans do. They run. They're good at long-distance endurance, they're not too bad at short distance sprints, and some people run for fun. Like Theo. He's running a 400m dash, he started about 25 seconds ago, and he's about halfway through. That's pretty quick for someone who just started running properly at the beginning of the year. He gets first place. The other runners don't seem thrilled.
"No negative-color speed. And the other thing is still there. Now the second part of the test."
"My power is either teleportation or portal creation, but we're not going to tell you which one right now. Focus that you want either one of those powers, but only the one that is mine?"
"Okay..."
So he focuses on transport like Felix, specifically either teleportation or portal creation.
"Huh. Okay."
And he tries to focus on getting Felix's teleportation.
"Working. Except it's completely different from the other thing you're getting from Felix. If I had to guess whatever you're getting before was something like... maybe Felix's grace? or some skill like dancing? It wasn't anything super-natural."
He stops focusing on the teleportation and instead works on his eyesight again – sure, teleportation would be useful, but he'd rather have better eyesight for now.
"That's weird? I mean, I was just aiming to get the movement thing that Felix had, so I guess that was pretty vague? I guess I'll have to be careful about that if I'm aiming for a specific skill."
"Weird? Do you think that..." Felix teleports several feets to the left. "is weird? "
"Keeping a constant improvement mindset in general sounds extremely useful." Fenris squints. "It is so interesting watching another kind of magic. Currently, our magic is stronger, but yours grows. I wonder to what limit... Eyesight?"
"Yeah, I'm doing my eyesight right now. And yeah, teleportation is weird, but I don't know why I would have been getting something else at first."
"Some weird interaction between magic and vagueness?" Fenris shrugs. "I don't regret having magic-seeing, but I wish it was less vague."
"Don't talk me about vague senses. Theo, did he ever got around telling you what was my vision that led us to find you?"
"Oh, I had this dream-like vision with an ancient olympic race where you win. The sun always placed such that I couldn't take a look on your face and there was a flash when you got the golden medal. Then I saw you in a gladiator arena fighting someone with a silver medal until the thousands of vines wrapped around the other fighter. After that the vision sort of crumbled and all that was left was a bunch of symbols that we later figured out are signs and logos of your school and stuff around your school."
"We spent three weeks trying to decipher the symbols' meanings and then only figured out by chance." Fenris smiles bitterly. "Felix's power is far more cooperative when isn't being forced to do something specific."
"That... sounds like a heck of a lot of trouble to go to for a prophetic dream. I mean, not that I'm knocking precognition or anything, but what did you ask it? Just 'where's the nearest magic'?"
"Answers to what? And you're also being evasive with the 'Wouldn't you want to know?' thing, though I guess we've only just met, so that make sense."
"Ah, sorry. That wasn't being evasive, not on purpose. We want to know why and how magic is not publicly known. How they managed when Heirs powers include," He waves at Tamira. "creating a being that doesn't fit any taxonomic classification. We would like to meet where the other people are and what else they could tell us. Or maybe if they need our help. Not to mention it would be nice to have more people to talk about magic."
"Or just to talk to in real life." Vera sighs, resting her head on the grass. Fenris pets her.
"Yeah, that is pretty confusing," Theo agrees. "I'm not sure why it's not known about properly, but I did only find out a few days ago, so I wouldn't really expect to know why yet."
"There is the 'magical people are hunted down so the survivors kept quiet' explanation, teaching us a valuable lesson about accepting differences..."