Playing With Fire

[Celeste]

Participants: Chloro, Celeste
Synopsis: Celeste learns a valuable lesson about how not to put out a candle.

Oval Lecture Hall
This oval lecture hall is large enough to seat a large congregation. Rows
of polished wooden benches rise up from the central floor, each row a
little higher than the previous one. A dais with an elaborately carved
chair sits before a pair of doors at the front of the hall. Wide scrollwork
runs beneath a gently domed ceiling painted with sky and white clouds.


Three candles sit in pewter trays.


channel 'snuff candle'
Celeste begins to weave the appropriate flows...
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Ok.
Celeste weaves a flow of air and water snuffing the candle.


channel 'ignite candle'
Celeste begins to weave the appropriate flows...
_=+=_*
Ok.


Celeste ponders life, the universe, and everything.


channel 'absorb heat'
Celeste begins to weave the appropriate flows...
_=+=_*
Ok.


Flows of fire coil around Celeste. She begins to sweat profusely.


channel 'disperse heat'
Celeste begins to weave the appropriate flows...
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Fail.


channel 'disperse heat'
Celeste begins to weave the appropriate flows...
_=+=_*
Fail.


The building heat begins to burn Celeste, fine hairs singing away and fingernails smoking.


Ouch that really did hurt!!!


Celeste bellows 'Help!'


Chloro has arrived from the south.


Celeste looks around, eyes wide with panic.


Celeste looks around, eyes wide with panic.


Chloro arches an eyebrow. "Child what ever are you shouting for?"


Celeste 's face is red as a beat.


Celeste makes a frantic gesture at a number of snuffed candles.


Celeste says 'Tired.... to put them out...'


Celeste smells faintly of burning hair as she tries to hold back the flows of fire she has taken into herself.


Celeste says 'Can't.... release the heat...'


Chloro takes a deep but measured breath as she looks about the lecture hall. "Explain yourself, and how did this happen?"


Celeste squeezes her eyes shut in desperate concentration.


Celeste lost control of Saidar!


Celeste shrieks in agony as the light of Saidar around her winks out. Her right arm blistering and blackening.


Celeste clutches her arm and falls to the ground, teeth gritted and tears streaming from her eyes.


Chloro shakes her head as she moves closer to the misguided novice. "Child, you must pay more attention in your studies, Saidar does not work that way. We can transfer heat, but not through ourselves."


Celeste clutches her injured arm, eyes rolling with pain.


Celeste says 'I was just practicing putting them out with air'


Celeste makes a pained gesture towards the candles.


The Wheel of Time turns...


Celeste says 'And I thought I could just disperse the heat...'


Celeste touches her blistered arm and winces.


Chloro gracefully kneels down next to the girl fair hands reaching out as the glow of Saidar bursts into existence around herself. "This will hurt to heal, and I cannot guarantee you will be left unmarked."


Celeste nods her head gravely, cuffing at her tears with her uninjured arm.




Chloro reaches into her hand bag pulling out a short ruler and a pen knife. Lifting the ruler to the novice’s mouth she makes a biting motion for the girl to put it between her teeth.


Chloro says 'It will help, and keep you from biting your Tongue.'


Celeste bites down on the ruler, sinking her teeth into the soft wood.


Celeste nods gravely.


A Gray Sister has arrived from the south.


Chloro nodding she lifts the pen knife, a flow of fire swirling around it heating the end till it is nearly white before she takes the novices arm in a gentle but firm hand and begins to lance the blisters allowing them to drain. "I did not do anything as grievous as this, when I was a novice, but I can understand the need to explore Saidar."


A Gray Sister leaves south.


Celeste grunts against the ruler as clear sera runs from each lanced blister, dripping to the floor in a grotesque patter.


Chloro soft sets the pen knife down once the blisters are drained and looks into the girls eyes. "What you are about to see is not to be repeated unless under the direct supervision of an Accepted or Aes Sedai. Do I make myself clear?"


Celeste nods her head emphatically, her hair bobbing with the violence of the motion.


Chloro pulling at the power two thread thin flows of spirit materialize swirling down her right arm hovering above the novice's injury, like serpents they snake their way down into the burn, giving a tingling and numbing sensation as she delves the wound.


Celeste trembles violently.


Chloro says 'It is not so bad, looks far worse than it is. '


Celeste stiffens as the flows intersect with her burned flesh. Steeling herself she makes some response, but its content is nothing more than a series of muffled grunts around the ruler between her teeth.


Chloro flows of Saidar pull from different areas of the room, earth from the stones, water from the chalices and pitchers, and spirit from herself and Celeste. Focusing she weaves it into an intricate grid pattern before allowing it to settle into the wound. Flesh knitting and healing itself while a sensation of being tossed in a cold pond over takes the patient.


Celeste lets out a sharp gasp as the shock runs through her body. The ruler, marked with the arc of her bite, drops to the floor with a clatter. Her sweats begin to dissipate, leaving her clammy and shivering.


Celeste says 'Light bur....bu...bur....save me'


Celeste cannot bring herself to say 'burn'.


Chloro drinks water from a water skin.


Chloro traces a faint narrow scare the length of the burn with her right index finger, the rest of the flesh fully healed. "Not as bad of a scar as I thought there would be, I am strong in healing but not adept as the yellows at it. This may fade with age, but for now you are whole again."


Celeste lifts her trembling arm, as predicted it is not unmarked, a barely perceptible lightening in skin tone disfigures the limb. The pale burn roughly forms the shape of a chora tree, each large blister distorted like a cluster of leaves.


Celeste gasps 'Thank you Aes Sedai!'


Celeste says 'Light it felt like I was being burned up from inside but I couldn't get the heat out of me'


Celeste shivers uncomfortably.


Chloro says 'You are welcome child, now, would you care to explain why you were attempting to do this without supervision?'


Celeste lays her hand on her arm as though confirming that it is relatively uninjured.


Celeste says 'Sheriam Sedai gave me some lessons Chloro Sedai'


Celeste says 'She said she thought I might have an aptitude for fire '


Celeste gestures at the three candles set out on the stone floor. "I thought I should practice some more and... well I was just putting out candles and then lighting them again."


Celeste looks down at the ground in chagrin.


Chloro nods and thinks back to her novice days. "I have strength in fire and water, while I am lightest in air. The wheel weaves as it will. Fire requires balanced emotions and much discipline."


Celeste opens and closes her hand experimentally.


Celeste says 'There didn't seem like there was much harm in it, and I was thinking about big fires, like the ones that sometimes burn down half the city in Ebou Dar. I know I could never weave a flow of air or water large enough to put out such a blaze.'


Celeste says 'So I thought... perhaps it could be dissipated into stone or water '


Chloro pulls at Saidar again a thread of fire lighting each candle. "The easiest way to snuff out a candle I find is without Saidar. "Standing she wets her thumb and index finger with the tip of her tongue before pressing them together on the ignited wick and nods for the novice to try.


Celeste 's face momentarily contorts with fear of the flame. She visibly steadies herself and then pinches out the wick with a visible flinch.


Celeste lets out a nervous breath and sucks on her finger to cool it.


Chloro observes and nods watching the flame wink out. "Good, remember Novice, Saidar is a gift, but it does not make up for what we can do ourselves. Now, I expect you to seek a Aes Sedai or Accepted and request a lesson in fire, be kind and patient when you do so."


Celeste nods her head gravely, her trembling now mostly under control. The faint smell of burned hair permeates the room.


Celeste says 'I will Aes Sedai, and thank you for healing me'


Celeste unconsciously cradles her arm.


Chloro says 'You are also to seek a Yellow sister and have her inspect your arm, perhaps they know of a way to reduce what is left. As penance though, for this was a foolish endeavor, you are to come up with three ways that fire can be used to heal or create instead of to destroy. You may send them to me by Pigeon.'


Celeste nods her head more eagerly, deliberately forcing her scarred arm down to her side.


Celeste says 'I will Aes Sedai'


Chloro says 'Off with you then child, be sure to spend time in the shade if you venture outside until you have that checked in the infirmary.'


Celeste glances guiltily at the candles, embarrassment finally beginning to replace fear and hurt.


Celeste nods in agreement.


Celeste performs a deep and respectful curtsey.


Chloro nods in agreement.


Hallway Outside the Classrooms
This unremarkable gray stone hallway and landing off a stairwell is lined
with a number of doors, marked with the numbers one through twenty. Two
large double doors sit in a pointed archway on the northern end of the
corridor. A portrait of a woman wearing a seven-striped stole surrounded by
battle scenes hangs on the wall opposite the stairwell.

[Wanda]

Love it.

[melosa]

Great stuff

[Ashlynn]

Awards:
2 QP - Celeste
1 QP - Chloro