Ascend

[22:28] Harmonize.

Lea was about to put the lessons she learned from Eiphraem to use. Rather than the ocean, this time, Lea instead opted to use a lake. So, she undid her dress, allowing it to fall to the ground, revealing a pair of shorts and a shirt underneath.

Even her underclothes left a lot to the imagination. You weren't getting anything unsavory here.

Lea took several steps into the water, until it was about knee-level, and allowed her gaze to meet Rory's, uttering off something:

"I'm gonna talk to the water and ask it to believe in me. Are you ready...?"
(Lea Elisheva)

[22:33] Being a bit taken aback at the sudden undressing, Aurora was caught off guard. She thought lea was going to do something dangerous, like diving deep down but apparently it was going to be different.

After hearing those words Aurora knew what Lea meant. Or did she? Magis can control nature and manipulate it as they wish to. Was this what Lea meant by "talking to the water?". Her eyebrows drew closer and she spoke with an inquisitive tone,

"I am. I hope you know what you're doing, though. I cannot swim and I surely cannot carry another person out of the water."

She focused on Lea. Something about her demeanour and her words was different. This was Lea. Expecting the unexpected was the norm when you were with this one. What was it that she wanted to show?

"I am ready. Go ahead."

Clenching her fists,Aurora watched.


(Aurora Brielle)
[23:17] There was silence.

From here on, not a word would leave Lea's mouth, and not a single command would leave her mana circuits. The bonds she had to form were something ineffable; transcendent. They were not something that could be commanded or controlled, merely guided. Such is the nature of true love, is it not? When one lets go of what they want, and allows themselves to be, dissolving the difference between the loved and the lover, only then can you say your love is true.

And that is the kind of love Lea held for the world. A kind of love where she didn't want it to be a certain way, she just wanted it to be. It's a love she communicated with naught but action.

That action being dance.

As before, every step was a letter, and every pirouette finished a sentence. Her emotions were one with herself, communicated through action so fluid that thought and words coulddo nothing but desecrate it. Lea's calm and gentle nature manifested through her movements, and the water listened, beginning to move on its own, starting with small ripples and waves. Anyone with the slightest magical sense could tell that Lea was not manipulating the water on her own; nay, this was something deeper, something more profound.

Just as Lea danced, so too did the water, its movements growing more profound as time went on. But, despite her actions being more controlled than they were prior, there was still a subtle gentleness to the water that made all who bore witness to it believe that everything was going to be okay. For that is what Lea is; a healer. A protector. A guide.

Or perhaps she is just Lea, and nothing more.

Every action seamlessly flowed, from one to the other. The chain of cause and effect was clearly visible in this dance, as every movement Lea made corresponded with a movement the water did. For both Lea, and anyone who witnessed her, they now existed in a world where everything finally made sense, where everything seemed right. Her sensitivity enhanced, the world around her becoming more vibrant and alive than ever before, but she was so enraptured in her performance that none of it mattered.

And yet, her mind was in two different places. The Lea that everyone saw, the one so hopelessly lost in her performance, might as well be unconscious, as nothing could break her out of this trance short of physical action. But for Lea's very essence, the most fundamental part of Lea that experienced the world and evolved and changed in response to her experience, she was somewhere else entirely. Where she was remained unknown even to her, all she could perceive was what she saw.

The golden threads of causality that weaved the universe together.

She had yet to interface with them, yet to harmonize with them, but shecould see them, and that was enough. The most fundamental energy of the universe was Kraus' very own divine magic, as it flowed everywhere, through everyone, yet was only visible to those who could harmonize with the order of the universe. This experience was so powerful, so profound, that it resonated with Lea's own divine blood.

So strongly, in fact, that...

They sprouted.

To an outside viewer, Lea was only dancing, with water flowing around her in a sublime harmony. Impressive to the eyes, sure, but that was nothing compared to when her inner experience manifested outward. At long last, Lea sprouted two angelic wings from her back, and through them, Lea rose up from the water. But the water quickly followed behind her, coalescing around her in a dome that protected her from the world outside.

Lea was no longer merely angel-blooded. No, for this moment, Lea was truly, and fully, angelic.

With that, her dance finally came to a conclusion, finishing it off with a midair reverence that dispersed the water around her, causing it to gently fall back into the lake as a kind of gentle rain. With it, Lea also landed back on the ground, and the wings behind her dispersed, leaving behind two much smaller, yet still angelic, wings.

Our little Lea had finally grown up.

Not through combat, tragedy, anger, or other kinds of stress, but through harmonizing with the most fundamental aspects of creation, if only for a moment. The manifesting of her wings, as well as the strenuous nature of her performance, exhausted her beyond compare, causing her to collapse. She was unconscious, but still alive and well. She was different, yet still the same.

Lea was still Lea, and nothing would take that away from her.
(Lea Elisheva)