"Wait, you... you're... magic?" "Darling, what do you think?" (Fantasy o/o Closed)

Shade shrugs. "I dunno. As I said earlier, I kinda just… made my own door."

To prove this, she goes to a spot, then steps through. She reappears a moment later, carrying an armfull of dry twigs.

Shade snorts. "No shit, Brucie."

She sighs, then quickly builds a fire, lighting it with a burst of fire magic. I seem to be a natural at controlling magic, which is concerning. she tells Farah.

Shade looks over. "I know what I'm doing."

She turns back to the fire, watching scenes from her past play out: her being tossed into the gutter by a group of boys, being beaten, begging for the release of death. She drifts into her memories, brooding. Unconsciously, her fingers move and weave a small tapestry in the air.

Shade snaps back to reality, then sees what she'd made: her city burning, her being spirited away by explosions of plants. She stifles a sob, and tears it out of the air, burying her head in her hands.

Shade continues stifling sobs, not wanting to break down again. Not wanting anybody, Farah especially, to see the broken girl that was saved by the forest. Eventually, she calms down enough to speak.

"I have the knowledge and instinct required. Since birth, I have had the skill. That fire was…" her voice breaks slightly. "I didn't know. How could I have known?"

Shade sighs. "I know. I learned that lesson awhile ago. I gained part of your power, yes, but I also gained some more control. I can do stuff now I never used to be able to do."

She demonstrates her point by wrapping herself in a fire that would not harm her allies, then extinguishing the fire shroud.

"I never could've done that before." she mumurs.

Shade sighs. "What can I do to convince you that I can do this?"

An idea strikes her, and she laughs, transforming in an instant to be more like the old Shade. "Actually… we never finished our fight."

Shade gets up, laughing. "Let's find a mountain or something. Less chances of starting a fire."

Shade laughs. "Oh, now you've done it."

She leaps at Farah, tossing her in the with a call to the largest nearby flying animal, and quickly an answering roar rips through the forest, and Shade laughs. Soon enough, a full grown dragon catches Farah and Shade and takes off to the mountins.

"WOOHOO!" Shade shouts, smirking at Farah.

I get the feeling he wants to be left alone for now. And he has Migina and Brucie. Shade calls back.

They reach the mountains quickly, and Shade pulls Farah off the dragon, naming him. The dragon rumbles and purrs, then takes off.

Shade turns to Farah, a mischevious gleam in her eyes. She creates a lasso of wind to hook Farah off her feet.

Shade chuckles. "Sure, let's go with that."

She flips over Farah, landing and pulsing out a blast of kinetic energy that was entirely her own.

Shade stumbles, but finds her footing, chuckling. "The only thing I've fallen for is you, Farah!"

She throws a fireball at the faerie, at the same time bending the light to make herself invisible.

Shade giggles slightly. I know! That's entirely the point.

She simply thickens the mist into a substance like gel, while still giving herself her full range of motion. She catapults over Farah, then lands behind her. Thanks for the mist, dear.

She then swings a punch at Farah.

Shade watches the wall for a single moment, then grins, tossing a small ball into the air, bright as the sun, burning away the mist. Her form was still invisible, and she knew she could use this. Moving quickly, she starts setting up a trap.

(Fair enough… here: While Euclidean geometry seeks to understand the geometry of flat, two-dimensional spaces, non-Euclidean geometry studies curved, rather than flat, surfaces. Although Euclidean geometry is useful in many fields, in some cases, non-Euclidean geometry may be more useful. Directly from Study.com.)