Pieta|Squallstorm | Maelstrom

[Kender Bard]

The school mistress rang a bell, indicating to all the children of Squallstorm that the lessons were to begin. As she did everyday, she gave up a little sigh of thanks to the Forces that she taught the younger children how to use their powers and not the older ones.

[Darastrix]

A few minutes after the bell rang, Nina ran in, skirt hitched up and pigtails flying behind her. "Sorry I'm late! Rebecca's daughter gotta shocker lizard and I wanted to see it. It was so cute! When can WE get shocker lizards?" Nina asked the school mistress, blue eyes wide with excitement.

[Kender Bard]

Pieta giggled quietly. "Well dear, in order to get a lizard, you have to spend a little time alone from the town, thinking about important grown up things. If your heart is pure, the lizard will come to you. So while I know you want one, I think you'll have to wait just a little while longer."

[Darastrix]

"Aww...that sounds boring," Nina said with a sigh. By her thinking, anything that fell under the category of "grown up" was bound to be dull. "What're we gonna do today?"

[Kender Bard]

"Today we're going to practice aiming," Pieta informed the girl. Taking Nina's hand, she led her inside and to her seat, continuing to the front of the class. "Good morning, children!"

A chorus of, "Good morning, Miss Pieta!" echoed brokenly around the room. Pieta smiled warmly.

"Well I think you're all getting along with your powers very well, so today we're going to start learning how to aim. Who would like to go first?"

[Darastrix]

"Ooh!" Nina exclaimed, waving her hand in the air. "I want to try, Miss Pieta!"

[Kender Bard]

"Very good then," Pieta gushed. "Come up here with me, Nina." As she spoke, the teacher was taking out their targets; tin buckets - long since overused and discarded - with some paint marking a big circle on one side. She set three of these up in the area of the classroom used for small experiments and demonstrations.

"Now, Nina, can you make a little spark?" She demonstrated, not even touching her sign, by making a couple sparks fly harmlessly from her fingertips into the air.

[Darastrix]

Nina squinted her eyes in concentration, sticking her tongue out a little as she flicked her fingers, making a spark pop into the air. "There!" she exclaimed, bouncing on her heels.

[Kender Bard]

"Very good!" Pieta said warmly. She addressed the class. "And what attracts electricity the most, class?"

"Metal!" they squealed in near-chorus.

Pieta smiled and nodded. "Right! So what I want you to do, Nina, is to use your signs, and say your chant, and send some big sparks at the targets. Just imagine you're throwing them, like darts."