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[blastiafreak]

[The video's not very clear when it comes on; it's dark and gloomy, showing hints of thick dust and cobwebs--a glimpse of a window reveals deep fog--and then it shifts to Rita's wide-eyed face. When she speaks, she's trying very hard to pretend she's calm...and failing pretty horribly.]

I-is anyone else stuck in this weirdo place? I mean, it's not like I need help or anything, but-

[A loud creak and sudden clatter of footsteps interrupts her, the shutters to the window abruptly blowing open, and she jumps with a yelp.] Aah--! Uh--it's not sc--just where's the exit, already?!

[Maybe realizing that the video's still recording her little freak-out, she quickly shuts it off.]

[ooc: Tags slow forever. ._. Sorry!]

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action; ♥! And time for sleeeep~ Good night!

[blastiafreak]

[Without error!]

[Since her eyes are fixed on the piece of red paper within the flask, she misses the expression on his face. Mana continues to collect for a few seconds until the tip of the paper shifts to purple. As soon as it changes, Rita closes the valve, and the colour continues to creep up the rest of the paper.] There--you saw, right? This shows that we have enough.

action; ♥! Good night~!

[stargathering]

[ Without explosions! ]

[ He nods quickly. ] Yeah, I saw it. [ And it's still cool to see it change colours. If she hadn't explained earlier, he'd think it was just like dye. ] Now do we use the binder, or...

action; ♥! Morning~

[blastiafreak]

[Especially without explosions!]

Yeah, that's right. [She smiles, then passes him a measuring cylinder. Since he decided to get it, she's decided he should have no problem pouring it out, right?] We need fifty millilitres. Oh, and we need an aer crystal, too...

action; ♥! Good morning~♥

[stargathering]

[ So careful!! ]

An aer crystal?

[ She didn't mention that before. He glances up at her before returning his attention to the binder and cylinder. He doesn't have any problem taking off the lid, but he's still really slow and careful about it. ]

action; ♥! /o/

[blastiafreak]

[Safety first~!]

[Rita removes the tube from the flask and replaces it with a rubber stopper so that the mana remains trapped.]

Yeah. It's a tiny, solid piece of aer, and it'll help catalyze the crystallization of the mana.

action; ♥! \o\

[stargathering]

[ Don't forget!! ]

[ He leans in close when he begins measuring. With this, he actually wants to be as exact as he can. ] I see... You mentioned something about aer before... That's what it's used for?

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[Never ever!]

[She glances over, and nods to herself as she watches him. Precise measurements are important to her, too.] This is what I use it for now, but it used to be the fuel for blastia and the substance that comprised the cores. Using it like this won't give us the same problems we had before--a massive, world-wide aer imbalance.

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ It's impossible! ]

Ah, right. [ He remembers now. That's all he says until he has the binder measured out and set aside, though. ] Are you sure it's okay like this, though? Even though it's only a little...

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[No reason to even think about it!]

[She reaches for the binder he poured out and uncaps the flask so she can start adding.] I'm certain. It only became a problem in our world because the blastia needed such massive amounts for fuel. A little bit like this won't upset the balance.

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[stargathering]

[ because it's natural?! ]

[ He nods and watches as she pours it in. ] I get it... There probably aren't even enough blastia in the City to make it a problem anyway...

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[Naturally-!!]

[She adds half of it and swirls the flask to mix the substances together.] Exactly. Nobody besides me is making them here.

Oh, the aer crystals are in that fridge, too. The small brown bottle.

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ Kya~! ]

[ He immediately gets up to fetch them while he continues talking to her. ]

There's really no-one else in the City that knows how to make them except for you?

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[♥~]

[Rita will just keep swirling the flask while she gives him an immediate response.]

Nope. There's no way.

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ ♥! ]

"No way"?

[ He knows she's confident, but... ]

How would you know? There are a lot of people coming here all the time...

[ He pulls out the bottle and returns over to her. ]

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[blastiafreak]

Because nobody but a mage from my world would know about blastia, and any mage from Terca Lumireis would know who I am.

[Which might go beyond confidence, though it seems like a simple fact to Rita.

She points to a beaker filled with small tools like knives and little metal spatulas so that they can use one to take out a crystal.]

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ Definitely crossing the confidence threshold there... Tyr will argue with her- ]

You're only seventeen: someone could come here from before you were a mage.

[ He's not sure what she means by that little gesture at girst, but soon understands she means he shouldn't just dump the jar over his hand... He plucks out one of the tools before unscrewing the bottle. ]

[ also, going to watch a movie! o/ see you later! ]

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[She pauses in swirling the flask to stare at him, eyes narrowed.]

What do you mean, only seventeen? I'm still the genius mage, you know! Besides, unless they're from thousands of years ago, no mage from before my time would know more about mana and blastia than me.

[okay! have fun! o/]

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ There are people who are confident and proud of their achievements, Tyr decides, and then there's Rita. Rita is another person entirely. ]

You can't be serious... What about your teacher? [ And be pulls out one little crystal from the jar, and just holds it there. ]

[ Thanks! :D ]

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[Rita would be okay with this as long as by "another person" he means "genius"...right? Right?]

Huh? Teacher? I never had any teachers. [She keeps staring at him, though she has the presence of mind to shove the flask towards him so he can add the crystal.]

[Welcome back!! :3]

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ Intelligence has nothing to do with it in this case... ]

[ And he's caught a little off guard, but quickly drops the crystal in. ] Then whoever you learned from.

[ Thank you!♥ ]

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[Just attitude...]

[The mixture in the flask starts glowing brighter when the crystal is added, but Rita pays it little attention as she resumes swirling it and adds the rest of the binder.] I'm telling you there was no one else. I learned by reading books and experimenting.

[♥!]

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ Pure attitude. She can back it up, but...wow. ]

[ And he stares at the flask - that little crystal really did something! - though he still pays attention to what she's saying. ]

Someone still wrote the books you read.

[ ♥~! ]

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[She could do with reeling it in sometimes...]

[Science~! Now that everything's in there, it's getting a lot more viscous, too.] Okay, but I also expanded on them with my own research.

action; ♥!

[stargathering]

[ Definitely. Definitely. ]

[ It shouldn't be this cool-! ] And you still didn't do it all on your own.

action; ♥!

[blastiafreak]

[Sob yep.]

[Tyr can learn that science is awesome-! And sometimes boring...] It was close enough, okay?