Lucia Walsh-Rhys is many things. Impetuous, stupidly heroic, generous to the point where anyone else wouldn't survive it. From New York.
Busting down El's door to get at this soul-eater.
Lucia Walsh-Rhys is many things. Impetuous, stupidly heroic, generous to the point where anyone else wouldn't survive it. From New York.
Busting down El's door to get at this soul-eater.
...She gestures with the jar. "It comes with its own. It wouldn't be much of an offer, the goo in your floor!"
"If soul-eater goo turned out to be useful -" This is a pointless argument. She will stop questioning the gift and take the jar, the whole blasted thing, which is really a very generous compensatory offer though she's heard Lucia brews the stuff by the barrel. It goes on her desk and is wrapped in old homework tied in place with a bit of string to give it a fighting chance should it fall to the ground. And then she will turn to her void and say, "I want a cleaning spell."
The void spits out something at her. She picks it up, looks at it, and hurls it back with unnecessary force. "Try again," she hisses.
...Lucia observes this with a sort of reserved concern, and then starts fitting bits of the door back together to mend-and-make.
Well, that's very decent of her. El will not question this. She looks at her replacement cleaning charm and hurls it into the void too. "Not the bloody mortal flame spell! A cleaning charm!" she snaps at it.
It tries again, to no more avail. Fling.
She turns around so fast she almost bangs her hands on the door bits she's holding. "You asked for a cleaning spell and the void gave you mortal flame?"
"It's not very bright. And has a terrible memory, it gave me mortal flame last June." Skim. Fling.
"I--"
beat
"That's so cool. --I bet mortal flame would work, actually, it doesn't hurt the infrastructure."
"I will bear that in mind if ever I need to clean up soul eater residue with someone else's mana, shall I." The void coughs up another book. "- No! Just a spell to clean! My! Floor! And get rid of the smell! None of this nonsense!" she says to it, shoving the offending book into the void again.
Lucy snorts. “How about mine? I’d do it myself but, uh, I tried to wheedle the void for mortal flame for like a week before an upperclassman told me it hadn’t been translated into a language I know.”
"- how about your what, your - cleaning spell?" After all, last time she thought she knew what Lucia meant by something she was wrong.
"- have you. Capital. And you're just thrilled to pieces to have a demo?" Could this be a weird trap. How could it possibly, really.
"Well then, it would be my pleasure." She holds out her hand, only slightly jumpy about the possibility that Lucia will decide that El is laying a trap and decide to attack her about it.
Lucia does not attack El over it. Lucia passes over a chunk of mana that--isn't totally unreasonable, considering that the common knowledge about mortal flame doesn't have all that much about how much mana it costs besides, like, "a whole bunch."
Well. El appreciates this but not enough to not keep the change.
"I got it in Varhadi - that's a Marathi dialect - if this means you reckon it should be seen and not heard," she warns, backing into the hall so she can flame the whole room.
It's so seldom El has the budget for things like this. It's spendy even on borrowed mana, except she doesn't want to stiff Lucia Walsh-Rhys of her lightshow, so actually it is perfectly economical in its way.
Incantation is incanted. Mortal flame goes up with a
"That was awesome!" Lucia exclaims, throwing her hands in the air. "Even if the mal was already dead. I'm so gonna learn that spell. When it's almost time to graduate and I don't have to care what opinions the void has on what languages I know."
"There, there, there's a fair bit of time left in this academic paradise, you can pick up something mortal flame's been translated to if it is your fondest ambition."
"I don't know about fondest, but pretty fond. Do you have a recommendation. Besides, uh, Marathi? I'm not philosophically opposed to Marathi but--" it would be rude to say she's never heard of it before, even if it is true "--something more people here speak would be better," okay cool that one's probably only slightly rude.