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I'm on the Iskaulit right now if you want to come take a look.

Sure! Give me ten minutes?

Sure. I'll see you soon. ＼(=^‥^)/’`

[Sure enough, once she gets to the Iskaulit, there is a room covered in snow, with Nightingale inside, playing with a fox. And tossing snowballs that it's trying to bite out of the air.]

[ Hermione is quick to find the snow-filled room, stepping inside with wide eyes and a touch of wonder. When she spots Nightingale she smiles, walking over with her arms crossed. ]

This is really something, isn't it?

[She gives a small wave in greeting.]

It really is. This kind of magic is so far beyond me that it's incredible.

It does remind me a little bit of home.

[ She reaches out, touching the snow before she fights back her smile and focusses on her friend. ]

You just want it to last, right?

It was snowy there? In the, uh... "Drabwurld"? Am I pronouncing that right?

[She nods.]

Yeah. It needs to not melt even on this ship, even with a bunch of people and foxes playing in it.

You are, yes. It was, a few times, and once there was a long month of snow and freezing weather because of one of the Gods, but other than that it felt like most other places.

[ Hermione pauses, stepping forward and looking around. ]

Hm... I think I could make something work. I might have to come and redo it a few times, but it should hold.

Ugh, gods.

[She makes a small noise of distaste, then continues on.]

If it would be easier for you, do you think you could show me how it works? If I could do it myself, you wouldn't need to bother coming out here to redo it.

I know. It was dreadful.

[ She hums, considering, before she nods. ]

I could try? I learned with a wand, but considering I don't really have that here... It's definitely something I could try and do, since you have magic already.

It's worth a shot, though our methods work very differently... I don't have a wand, since I use a staff instead, but that might be good enough?

It's just a simple weather modifying charm. There's a counter-spell, too, just in case, and a staff should be just as good as a wand. We could try together?

It's worth a try. I'm not good enough to change the weather, but if it's relevant at all, I at least managed to recover my Ice 1 spell.

It's more of a pause spell than an actual weather spell. Consider it a charm, that persuades the weather to stay.

[ Hermione reaches into her pocket, tugging out a notepad and a pen, skipping forward to a blank page before she sits and writes the charm, handing it over. ]

There is, technically, wand movements, but I think just having your staff in-hand and doing what you normally do should work?

[She takes it, and looks it over.]

I suppose... Ice-aspected mana is probably the way to go? We're keeping it from melting by freezing it, in a way. So I would just... channel that mana into my voice for an incantation?

That's the hope, yes. If you just... Do what you would normally do, but pull as much power into the incantation as you can through your voice...

[ She pauses, considering. ]

It should work. I don't see why it wouldn't.

Would it help if you see what I normally do first?

[She's never used incantations herself. Theb only ones she's even familiar with are the ones she saw from Rosella and Swan's memories. But every since Calibrations, she's been working on channeling spells, so maybe this is the chance to put it into practice...]

... That's not a bad idea. A lot of the people I taught in the Drabwurld were people I knew well beforehand, so it made things easier.

[ Hermione shifts, standing up taller and offering a small smile. ]

I'd like to see more of your magic anyway! I bet it's amazing.

Not really... My mother's was so much greater than mine. I'm nowhere near what she was. She was strong enough to help maintain the wards around the entire city, after all, and those were for the capital- the strongest wards in the world.

[She slips into past tense there without realizing it.]

Mine is just elemental magic, specialized for combat. Come on, I'll show you. Stratus can stay here for a bit.

[She turns to leave the room, heading in the direction of the gym.]

But I bet she had more time to learn and practice than you've had so far. And she wasn't kidnapped and taken to strange new worlds, too.

[ Hermione makes no comment on it; she's lost parents before, both of them, though that was her own fault. Her father in the Drabwurld had died, too, but at least he came back, as immortal as he had been before.

Breathing out, she nods her head, turning to follow without hesitation. ]

So your world doesn't have spells that would help for daily life, then?

[It's not that she had more time to practice, it's that she chose to practice more... But the rebuttal dies in her throat.]

Not entirely true. Just, utility magic tends to come from spellbooks rather than learned naturally, and even then, some classes have a lot more than others. The only ones I have are Wind and Flash.

[She flicks a wrist to demonstrate, first having a gust of wind open the door to the gym for them, then just having some pretty lights and sparkles appear where she waves before vanishing again.]

Mostly, I just use them to grab things from across the room, or read after dark.

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