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Kayla was sitting down in the middle of the Hallow at the Soulwardens' Sanctum and closed her eyes, trying to focus her senses beyond her senses. Both of her hands palm up. White tanktop, hair in a braid and a pale gray pair of sweatpants. There's incense burning. Her tools are laid before her.
Mary pads her way downstairs on quiet feet, carrying a tray of pant pots and a few packets of daffodil seeds, wearing dark shorts and a white shirt/ She stops to regard Kay with a soft smile, then moves further into the Hallow, padding around her cadremate and setting the pots up on a small table.
"Hey." Kayla opens her eyes "I've been trying to feel for something in particular using what I understood from it so far. Not quite working." a little laugh follows and she gather her tools in one little pile. "What were you planning?" she points to the thermos she left on one of the seat. "Thanks for the coffee this morning."
"Maddy showed up with a lot more. She'd swung by Ethiopia to get them." She offers a smile. "Ever thought about asking her to take you along? I wouldn't mind some travelling as well, when we get chance. And you're quite welcome. I would have asked to join you, but you seemed far too peaceful to wake up." A nod as she shakes one of the packets. "You talked about learning best through seeing change? I thought seeing flowers grow might be a good step there."
"You just want to grow a bouquet to give me in a superb romantic gesture, don't you?" Kayla accuses with a mischievous smile and wink. "Yes, I thought about it, It's just, going there make some things really real." she pat her chest, over her heart.
"I would love to grow a bouquet to give to you in a grand romantic gesture." Mary winks back. "But I can't make them grow quite that fast, and when the spell's released, they'll go back to how they started. But you'd be able to see for at least a little, if you study and watch." A wide smile. "And it means I get to spend time sitting with you."
"Really, It wouldn't be permanent?" She turns around and then turns around to study the oncoming spell with her normal sight up, tilting her head to the side as she seems curious about the process.
"Sadly not." She smiles gently. "Sorry hun. But you get to enjoy my company for a few hours. We don't have to stay for the whole thing, of course." She grins at her, then produces her own mage tools, chanting slowly as spellcasting goes on. The flowers begin to grow, though her eyes do blink and there is a faint exhale. She squeezes Kay's shoulder lightly, settling herself. "I'll get you flowers later on." She promises.
"It's okay! You could recycle the same seeds for a few times instead of keeping them in water" She grins and shrugs her shoulders, watching and listening to the high speech "Do you need me to help you out?"
"I should have thought of that." She admits wryly. "I'll weave you into the spellcasting next time." A nod. "I'm learning about teaching myself." A rueful chuckle before she gently kisses Kay's cheek, the flowers beginning their fast (relatively speaking) growth.
"It's okay, I'd love to do cooperative magic more often." She leans forward and study the growth of the flowers with wide eyed curiousity, each detail is narrowly taken in as she studies it. "Oh I see... the more I think about it, the more I think time might work out."
"Mm, time?" She ponders this, studying the slow but steady growth herself. "And we should. How about sensing life? I can cast it here and now on us both, you can help, which means you'll sense Life magic being cast, and then you can feel the plants growing."
"Oh that would help, and I mean I'm also starting to understand how understand time magic." She comments with a grin. "Want me help for that one?"
"Time.. hm. Now that's a thing to know." She nods keenly. "Please. Just, one sec." And another spell is chanted, though falls apart. There's a soft curse as she resumes, taking a little more care this time.
Kayla smiles brightly and she start chanting along with Harmony, she set the wooden bowl in front of her and traced it's contour, then carried the gesture around the glowstick braid.
Harmony leads the chant, voice raising as she gestures with tools and lets magic swell around them. And then Kay can sense everything living. The growing flowers, the mushrooms, worms in the dirt, rats scurrying beneath them, and the Life mage next to her. Mary's own lips stretch in a delighted grin as she savours the connection gained.
"Oh my god, I just imagined Heather jumping onto a kitchen chair and screaming about the rats." She mumbles lowly and smiling gently. Kayla leans forward and resume her focus on the flower. "This feels amazing"
"You're never far from rats. But let's not tell her that? We can be nice." She winks, then smiles, rubbing Kay's shoulder gently and focusing on the growing plants herself. "It really does. I like to keep this up a lot, because, well, I'm aware of everything. You know their existence in a way you didn't before."
"And with my death sight up, I can feel them in a different way." She shrugs and quickly wipe at her eyes and she tap her fingers on the ground.
A nod there as she closes her eyes, focusing. "Reach out with your senses. See if you can sense individual life in the tangle."
Kayla remains quiet for a while as she tries, reaching out toward Mary and grabs one of her hands between hers. "I'm feeling the movement under the earth here." referring to the worm,
This is where Mary would normally bring Kay's hands to her mouth for a kiss, but she's trying to be good, so she simply squeezes her hand with a soft smile, edging a little closer. "Good, mm. There are others too. How many can you focus on at once? Life is all around us, lights in darkness. Sometimes snuffing one another out, sometimes fading, but new life always emerges."
"Right now, one at a time. I could focus on something else than the worm, but I'm not sure I want to." A little chuckle and she leans in again. "Well, I know which I want to study, but I'm sure I'll be overwhelmed."
A playful boop of her nose. "Behave. For now." A slow grin. "But is this helping with you getting a sense of the arcana, do you think? I hoped immersing would be a good step."
"It is helping me out, to see it relate to other thing, to feel it while I see through my own lense, to feel the flower changings, the see the worm feed." She nods gently. "I can feel how to draw on it from my own path."
Mary nods, casting her own senses out. It's perhaps a morose lesson, but Kay's a necromancer and this is about changing states, so perhaps.. there. She rubs her hand gently, then indicates a small patch of earth. "Focus there. Look for the spark of life that's flickering. There's a worm there in its last moments, and about to move from my purview to yours."
"Aww poor worm." Kayla pouts and focuses on the worm, coiling in the earth, sensing life flicker and death encroaches, it may not be enough yet, but the small feeling draws understanding further, she reaches out to the soil and earth and rest her hand atop of it. "It's life will continue in flower and mushroom and whatever else consumes it."
"And that's it, yes." Mary nods keenly, studying Kay's reaction. "A cycle. Nothing ever truly ends or begins, it's just a transformation. You see now?" A slow smile.
"Yes, thank you." Her eye flutter open and she grins, her eyes a little damp. "Don't laugh and give me a hug." she open her arms for it.
"Why would I laugh at you for you having a heart?" Mary asks. The hug of course, happens, Kay tightly squeezed and Mary beaming. "You cried for the worm. You're a wonderful person."
Kayla chuckles, she rest her head against her shoulder. "Cookies?" she points back up the stairs, indicating the kitchen probably. "Or well, any kind of snacks with tea."
"Cookies." Mary confirms, letting all the spells save the web of life fade away. "Yes please." She runs a hand through Kay's hair, then stands, offering a hand. "And tea. Most certainly!"
She take the offered help up and helps herself up along with Mary. "Thanks!" She paces herself to be one step behind her until they reach the kitchen.
There's a moment of silence from the woman in front of her. "Kay?" She asks curiously, and impishly. "Are you staring at my butt?"
"I am not staring I am casually glancing at it." Kay corrects very immediately, as if she expected to have to defend her choice of positioning.
"That's it then." She declares. "Next time you can lead and I'll be the one doing the casual glancing." She laughs quietly, going to the fridge to retrieve a plate of raisin cookies and offering them to Kay. "Safety check while I get the tea brewing?"
"Certainly." Kayla set down the plate and begin the process of scrutinizing the plate of cookies for surprises. "No prank on this one, just normal cookies."
"Good. I doubt she'd rig fridge food, but you never know." She grins, setting the kettle to brew. A glance at the framed Creampuff Incident photo. Ah, good times. "Hm. We should try one on her sometime. Thought that might spark a new prank war."
"We'd need to do something we know she'll find funny and possibly not magic, she's equipped to deal with that." Kay says as she gather a few of the cookies for them both, before letting the rest sit back into the kitchen.
"Mm.." She bites her lip, pondering. "I'll run some ideas past you later if you're up for that." A warm smile as she pours out tea for them both, meandering to the couch to settle on it, pulling legs up under her as is her habit and patting the spot next to her in invitation.
Kay sits down next to her and grabs the tea cup poured for her and sips it, testing for flavor and feeling for the heat levels. "Sure, that should be entertaining."
She smiles softly, then turns to partly lie down, resting her head on Kay's lap and half closing her eyes. "Any other schemes we should hatch?"
"I'm trying to figure out what to wear for when you glance at my peach." Kay says lean down to kiss her cheek. "Gotta look good!"
A smirk plays on Mary's lips, fingers touching to Kay's cheek when she leans down. "I could offer some suggestions later.."
"Send them to me on my phone, so I can keep track of 'em." More kisses her cheeks many times in a row. "For now, I think jsut a bit of quiet is going to be magnificent."
Her cheeks flare a touch and she curls up, getting comfy with a soft, pleased smile. "That sounds like heaven.."
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