The Hands

[10:19] Lea walked over to a nearby tree, and fired a small pulse of holy magic at it, creating a small, yet noticeable, cut in it. She winced a bit, not liking the idea of harming an aspect of nature on purpose, but given she was about to attempt healing it, it wouldn't be so bad.

"The thing about holy magic and water magic is that, alone, they can't necessarily do much actual healing. They soothe pain and can patch up minor wounds, but not heal."

To demonstrate, Lea shifted her usage of holy magic to a healing one and it enveloped the tree, but it didn't heal the gash. The tree appreciated feeling less pain, surely, but it wouldn't even express that. After, she rose water from the area behind her, but that was even more useless for healing the tree than the holy magic was.

"I'm not sure if I have to weave the two mindsets together or try something new entirely."
(Lea Elisheva)
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[10:44] Aurora could sense Lea feeling disconcerted. She wasn't one to hide her emotions and it was clear that hurting the tree had caused the little mage to feel guilty. Looking at the sea, she thought for a while.

Aurora stretched her hand, creating a small orb of holy magic and sent it out to the sea. The orb landed on the surface of the water, creating faint ripples and dissolving in it.. leaving no trace.

"Y'know, what I think?", her tone was an austere one. She was in serious thought, for she wanted an answer to this.. as well as help Lea feel better. What she done to the tree wasn't her fault, it was because she wasn't trained fully yet.

"Water.. nurtures life, as well as destroys it. I don't see the wounds of the fish healing as soon as they come in contact with the water, yet it gives them life and vitality. Water is not a healing element, it merely sustains life. A seed is given life through water, but the tree grows from within. I think that water can be your Gungnir, cleaving through the mist and forging its own path and giving life to whoever is wrestling with death."

She paused, approaching the tree and touching the part where it was cut.
"Lea, you once told me holy magic can soothe pain and patch up wounds, right? Means it has a property of creation, of regeneration. The tree cannot be healed by holy magic for reasons we don't know yet. Perhaps holy magic does not work on wood cells. You are better suited for the battlefield, or the hospital. Holy magic can be your caduceus, Lea. You will be wielding the destructive, yet sustaining power of water on one hand and the healing, nurturing power of holy magic on the other. Perhaps, polar opposites aren't meant to be combined but used in their own way together."

Aurora looked at Lea with an endearing look, hoping that her explanation would ease the pain in her heart.

"Does this make sense, dear?"
(Aurora Brielle)
[11:30] Water magic to sustain, holy magic to nurture... with everything else that Aurora said, she suddenly had an idea.

"Thank you... that gives me an idea."

Holy magic as a wand, water magic as a spear... perhaps her job wasn't to combine the two. After all, holy water had an offensive element, able to be used to attack things just as much as it could be used for healing. Solely focusing on the healing aspect and what she had to do to make that happen was limiting herself. Using them separately, yet together at once, was the correct answer.

Water coalesced around Lea's body, utilizing it for the soothing and protective ends that it normally was whenever she wasn't using it for offense. This was water used for its soothing means, where it naturally tracked down whatever ailed the user and eased their pain.

Her holy magic, on the other hand, was focused in her right, as evidenced by how her aura was more dense in her right hand. This was holy used for offense, towards aggressive ends. To attack in the name of defending that which is precious to you.

Rather than holy being the wand, and water being the sword, she reversed it.

"I've got it. Are you watching, Aurora?"
(Lea Elisheva)
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[11:35] "Yes, I am.", Aurora looked at Lea, who was completely different from how she was a minute ago. Apparently, she had stumbled onto something magical and it was a significant discovery.

Things were getting interesting..
(Aurora Brielle)
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[11:41]

The right hand was the hand of severity, and as such, the holy focused within was more about her faith and belief in her own power. Faith was a motivating factor; it was assertive. It caused one to move forward, inherently, by virtue of putting hurtful things behind them or moving forward towards whatever they may have faith in.

Water as the receptive element, the nourishing element, and the feminine element.

Holy as the assertive element, the progressive element, and the masculine element.

That was it.

The water enveloping her body found itself charged with holy magic, gaining a soothing, nurturing glow that completely changed its nature. Her very aura, which was only holy magic up until this point, now had water gently swirling around it, making it even more magically potent. Lea was already a calming and soothing person to be around just by virtue of her personality, but this took it up to the next level. She gave off the air of someone who could heal one's physical, and perhaps even mental and emotional wounds just by being around her.

And so she lifted up her hand, causing the water surrounding her to circle itself around the tree. For the first time in her life, she managed to heal something non-human, causing the small gash she created within the tree to patch itself up, good as new. Unlike holy magic, which could only soothe pain and heal very minor wounds, and water magic, which healed mostly by virtue of being the element most compatible with the human body and thereby capable of tracking down where the wounds were, holywater could flow into anything.

Anything organic, anything compatible with water was capable of being healed. And while it wasn't nearly as potent as nature magic was for healing trees, holywater was still capable of mending their wounds to a degree that its two composite elements were simply not capable of.

When the "dust" settled, Lea looked upon the results of her work, her face beaming with a vibrant smile. She looked over at Aurora, clearly unable to contain her joy over having successfully utilized an entirely new kind of magic. She couldn't hold her excitement in at all, quite literally jumping for joy.

"I DID IT! I ACTUALLY DID IT!"

"THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUYOURADVICEWORKEDIDIDITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

(Lea Elisheva)