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Fire Magic

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“Magic,” she repeated with a sort of half smile, her head cocked ever so slightly to the side. She chuckled good naturedly, as though the word ‘magic’ was something she had not heard for many thousands of years. She closed her eyes, letting the ball of flame go out, and shook her great head.

“No, it’s not magic,” she said after a moment. “Though, I’m sure it must seem as much… To you.”

With a particular gleam in her eye she did it again, this time swiping her claw through the air in such a fashion that to Caedryn it seemed as though she was pulling fire from the fabric of reality itself. He stared at the writhing ball of flame in the palm of her hand, intrigued.

“Your atmosphere contains oxygen,” she explained calmly. “One of the constants of your universe is friction. Friction creates heat and stress and that, in turn, can ignite the oxygen, if used correctly.”

Without warning she brought down her other hand and snuffed the flame. Startled, Caedryn jumped back, and Rakshiv just grinned.

“Fire cannot exist without a fuel source. Without something to eat, it dies…”

She uncovered her palm and Caedryn hesitantly leaned in to see. The fire had gone, and the dragon’s once yellow palm was marred with streaks of burnt ochre. Confused he looked up at her, only to be met with her enigmatic grin.

“But oxygen is such an abundant fuel source, on this and many other planets, and if I rub the molecules together and excite them in just the right way…” She trailed off and once again dragged her claw through the air, this time slower and more deliberate. Caedryn watched eagerly. He watched the slow movement of her claw, the nearly imperceptible point where she excited the molecules in the air, followed by a bright spark, a low bass ‘thunk’ and the ignition of oxygen that led to the fire. He stared at it, confused, trying to conceptualize the process that the ancient dragon had used.

“…But how?” he asked after a moment. Rakshiv cocked her head to the side.

“I just told you.”

“But…” he trailed off, unable to formulate his words. “How… How do you… I don’t understand.”

Rakshiv thought for a moment, the ball of fire playing games in her hand, but didn’t have an answer.

“HOW do you do it?” asked Caedryn, exasperated. Rakshiv smiled benevolently. The flame licked playfully at her hand before going out.

“I don’t know,” was her answer. “I just do.”

Caedryn was miffed. All that explanation and demonstration for nothing. He glared at her and she smiled back, her tail wrapped around her body like a long fire coloured snake. He opened his mouth, closed it, looked away, inspected the sky, glared at her.

“One of these days,” he said, pointing at her. “One of these days I’ll get your secrets you… You…”

“You what?”

She was smiling, always smiling, as though his petty concerns and peeves were nothing to her. Caedryn had no words, and with a smile she stood and stretched before promptly phasing out of local time-space, leaving him once again alone.

“Don’t be so eager to learn everything,” she said, her ethereal voice echoing through the trees like a ghost. “It’ll all come in time, my friend. All in time…”

He started walking back to the village, not sure if he wanted to feel angry or awed at the powers she seemed to take for granted.

“All in time…”


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I have come to a conclusion. Rakshiv has no idea how she does any of the crap she does and it pisses people off. =P
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Geolyn's avatar
red dragon, blue flame=always awesome. Nice piece--good work on the dragon's "hands"