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The sun silently beats down on the grounds, waves of heat radiating off of everything. But then, a soft rumble begins. It grows louder and louder, starting in the mountains and crashing down down down until a great roaring avalanche of snow arrives...

The calm returns but the blistering heat is gone. "How's that, Autor?" Mia asks.

The boy smiles shyly at her, his warm, knitted scarf demonstrating a clear gradient of skill from raw novice to advanced beginner. "It's lovely," he says, squeezing her fingers in his gloved ones. "Thank you, Mia." Releasing them, he turns and places a hand on his hip to watch the next step.

At the mouth of the inlet a narrow cliff juts out into the water, covered by a thin layer of soil to which a mat of short grass is clinging, littered with demon bunny droppings. On this ledge, Korra stands, her feet planted firmly against the ground. Starting with that wide stance, Korra moves a foot and then pushes her arms in front and up, causing the lake bed to shift, and the waters to part as a narrow ledge of earth divides a smaller pond away from the larger lake.

Turning into the inlet, she leaps onto the surface and slides out into the center on a shelf of ice that stretches out in larger and larger crystals as it thickens beneath her. In the center of what will be the ice rink, Korra stops, and takes one calm, centering breath.

And then with her eyes closed she moves again, this time much more fluid in her motions, turning a slow circle on the ice with her arms in front of her, swaying as her weight shifts from foot to foot. A bubble of water rises in front of her, and as she pushes out, the bubble expands, passing through Korra so she's standing in the center of an ever expanding air filled bubble of water, stretching further and further out so by the time it hits the shore any onlookers will feel the cool sensation of water vapor from a fountain. She shifts her movement again, and the snowflake patterns of ice crystals appear at the top and the spread around the bubble, crystallizing and solidifying in a lattice of clear ice.

Then Korra opens her eyes, and finishes the rink as she slides back to the shore. There, a further turn and a sweeping gesture towards one side shatters a large hole in the side, perfect for a double door.

"Neat trick, Avatar," Autor says, accompanied by a saucy grin and an informal salute. With a few simple words, Mia sets a flurry fluttering down in the dome.

Once the rink is complete, the boy heads off to help an industrious ten-year-old set up the food and drinks table. There are some things too heavy for Rae to lift.

[Credit to the respective muns for their pups' part in the EP! Standard party post rules apply, all tags welcome.]

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"It's a sort of energy in me, like an aura."

"And it's not something just anyone with the right knowledge can do?" He's not surprised. But also a bit disappointed.

"It's something that can be gained but it takes time and great effort. Alex wasn't able to use magic when I first met him but was able to gain power greater than I'll ever know."

Hm. He can't be sure this is at all useful. But that cube he found isn't doing anything, so it's worth the thought.

"I think I see."

She smiles a bit.

"A lot of the time, magic comes naturally. If there's something you do extraordinarily well, that might be where it is."

"I doubt my skills as a pilot or an inventor are magic. But I never rule out anything." Usually.

"I wouldn't rule it out. There are....quieter types of magic, I guess I'd put it? Take my husband, for example. He makes potions, perhaps one of the most accessible types of magic ever."

"Potions...like what?" In for a penny, in for a pound.

"Oh, lots of things. Healing potions, luck potions, shrinking solutions, strength solutions, grooming potions, poison antidotes, the list goes on. He runs a shop called Dragonlight and I don't mind taking orders if I mention something you like, though results aren't guaranteed outside of the bar. But he is from Earth, so his potions should work there."

Howard is fascinated. And concerned. Can magic really do all those things? And could science copy it?

"I might be interested in that. But not today. There seems to be an ice rink out there, right?"

"Oh, certainly! Please, don't let me keep you."

"Then we will talk again." And he will no doubt have more questions.

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