“No!”
The pair spoke at the same time, Elisa with more vehemence.
“Oookay.”So, she was sitting between two angels who had some issues.Lovely.They were lovely.Salis had brown skin with deep purplish under tone, smooth and perfect, and it was paired with classically even features, a pair of amber eyes, and black hair.
Elisa was a stereotypical angel image, with long blond hair, fairly pale skin, blue eyes, and a round, very cute face.Wave didn’t see a hint of wings anywhere, but their physique hinted at some activity that required lots of core strength, and so did their posture.
“You are making her uncomfortable,” Elisa snapped at Salis.
“No, I’m not,” Salis retorted.
“I’m fine,” Wave tried to interject.She was saved from further bickering by Dr.Johanson throwing out the next round of sparks.This time, Wave almost fumbled with her catch.The spark felt more slippery than last time.
Frowning, she focused harder on holding the thing in the bottle.The damn thing kept trying to wiggle free.Sweat beaded on her brow as she glared at the thing.
“Stay,” she snapped.To her utter astonishment, the spark settled into flowing harmlessly in the middle of the bottle.There was something similar to it than to some of the spells running wild in the faculty library.Not malicious, just something unruly or wild.
“Oh, shit.”Salis’s gasp broke her concentration enough that the spark began to wobble.
“No, no, no,” Elisa groaned next, and that was enough to make Wave glance over.In a spectacular manner, Elisa’s spark exploded between her hands.Instinctively, Wave shied away, and her own spark escaped.She barely had time to fling the thing at the ceiling before it too exploded like a firework.
“Are you all right?”Wave hurried to ask Elisa, who was shaking her hands.
“Yes.The damn thing just zapped my fingers,” she replied.
“Salis?”she asked next.
“Yeah, I’m just trying to see again.It was too close to my face.Dr.Johanson warned us about that,” he groaned.
“So, class,” Dr.Johanson’s voice interrupted them.“What was different this time?”
At that, Wave looked around and realized no one had managed to contain the spark.Silently, she thanked Salis and Elisa for distracting her.Out showing her classmates wasn’t a good way to blend in, scholarship or not.
When the silence stretched to uncomfortable lengths, Wave hesitantly lifted her hand.
“Ms.Spinwell?”
“It was… slippery this time,” she said hesitantly.
“Very good, Ms.Spinwell.The spell wasn’t exactly slipperiness, but more along the lines of hard to hold on to.You all caught it like the previous one, right?The trouble emerged when you tried to control and move the spark, am I correct?”
“Yes, Dr.Johanson,” the class murmured.Some seemed to have some realization, and others just went along to avoid attention.Dr.Johanson deemed that good enough and continued her lesson.
By the time the clock indicated the lesson was over, Wave was discreetly wiping sweat from her brow.Dr.Johanson had made them catch varied sorts of sparks for the entire two-hour lesson, and keeping an eye on Wave’s fellow students to fumble her attempts at the same rate as her classmates had taken all of her concentration.
She filed out of the room with Salis and Elisa.She looked bright and peppy, having excelled in most of the tasks, while he groaned and rubbed at his eyes.
“You really need to keep those things away from your face,” Wave teased him.
“Itriedto fling them to the ceiling like you did,” Salis complained.“Not as easy as you made it look.”
“Maybe you just suck at electricity,” Elisa snorted.“I have to go, Father is picking me up for lunch,” she hurried to say and then hurried down the hall.
“You want to come eat with me in the cafeteria?”Salis offered.
Wave hesitated only a moment.
“Sure.As long as it’s one of the student ones.You know, scholarship and all,” she mumbled.There was nothing to be ashamed of, but still, she felt a bit bad about bringing it up.
