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Valentines is for friends too

Who: Yujinn, Lawr, Open
Where Kitchen
When: Valentine's Day (Noonish)
Rating: G
Summary: Yujinn is meeting up with friends.
the Story: Yujinn was in a cheerful mood. He was humming slightly as he cooked; making something fairly mild and a little sweet, since that seemed to be the order of the day for this holiday. He set the food on the table, the tea still heating on the stove. he'd taken the bread from the dining room, since he had no idea how to cook that on his own.

Since everything seemed done for the moment, he took a seat, readjusting the barrette in his hair, since it was only mid-way down his back now, and not the length he liked for braiding it.

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"I'm glad you think so." Yujinn smiled, eating some of the bread.

"I know we haven't had a chance to do any lessons lately, but have you been able to practice?"

Lawr quite suddenly looked very sheepish, and sank down in his chair as he chewed very slowly and set his fork aside. He was staring at the counter as he answered quietly,

"N- not too much. I'm sorry..."

"You don't have to feel bad, it's alright." He smiled reassuringly.

"Wonderland doesn't give us a lot of time."

It wasn't not practicing that made him feel bad, per se; rather, the fact that it had been so long since his last lesson that he'd totally forgotten that he needed to practice at all. That was what the sheepish look was about. Then again, he wasn't about to explain all that.

"Yeah," he broke into the couscous again, a more hesitantly than before. "I guess it doesn't."

He smiled, "You're still probably better than Princess Ishtar."

He offered his hand across the table, 'Here, let me show you."

Lawr smiled meekly as he slowly extended his hand to Yujinn.

Yujinn took his hand, turning it pal mup and shifting the fingers slightly to the correct position for a very elementary light spell.

"Do you remember the words?' he asked, then slowly recited them away.

Lawr repeated the phrase carefully, albeit with a bit of a mispronunciation toward the end. He frowned, trying again just a bit more slowly. His face broke into an amazed smile as a small pixie-light flickered in his palm.

"See? You have a decent amount of talent for a beginner.

Yujinn smiled warmly.

Lawr was still grinning like an idiot when he took his hand back, staring intently at the light for a few moments before it flickered out of existence. Even if it was gone, he felt like he could still feel the heat of something in the palm of his hand.

"I guess..."

"Ishtar still has problems with simple spells." He grinned.

"Another simple spell is 'burn be gone'; which can cure trivial injuries. They taught it to schoolchildren in my world."

That sounded like a useful one too. Lawr was a bit clumsy at times. It would be a very practical thing for him to know. The food was forgotten, his attention turned solely to Yujinn's instruction now.

"That sounds helpful," he gushed, trying and failing to not sound as excited as he was.

Yujinn grinned, it was nice to have an eager student.

He repeated the spell -- more of a children's rhyme than anything.

"It can heal burns and cuts and bruises, nothing serious.'

"It's better than not being able to do anything about it... I hate papercuts. Especially if I don't have a band-aid."

He wished he had known a spell like this when he was working back home. He didn't want to think about how often he couldn't sit from being sore in areas he didn't want to think about either. He tried to repeat the spell, closing his eyes and leaning forward a bit in concentration. Commit it to memory, commit it to memory...

"That's true. It can be handy, and it doesn't take much energy at all."

Lawr didn't know how he could be sure this was working. He was a bit more confident in his ability than he'd been previously, but he still felt he needed some assurance. Perhaps it was this strange line of reasoning that led him to take his knife up and drag a shallow laceration through the tip of his index finger.

He hissed in a quiet breath, frowning a little as blood pooled to the surface around the blade. But he just as quickly dropped the knife and began determinedly muttering the rhyme Yuujin just taught him.

Yujinn blinked, ready to stop him; but it was a shallow cut, and he remembered doing similar things when he wanted to test a new spell.

Lawr smiled a bit when he managed to knit the wound closed. His skin looked as if it were creeping back together, like two ants marching toward each other and then becoming one. It was still tender, still quite obvious beneath the superficial layers... but it was a start.

"...I never ever thought I'd be able to do things like this. And I definitely didn't think I'd be learning from an angel."

There was that angel thing again, but maybe he looked the part. (Yes, he can be a little vain...)

If magic doesn't exist on your world, it would seen amazing. I think the machines here are incredible.

If Yujinn didn't correct him, Lawr was going to keep right on assuming the man was an angel. He looked like what Lawr had always imagined an angel to be, and he'd never seen the man being unkind to anyone. Why should he believe anything less?

He tried to think for a moment, about whether or not magic existed in his world. The answer was a resounding 'no.' There were tricks... sleights of hand, and illusory manifests. There was not real magic. Although not so long ago, Lawr might have said he believed in it.

Forced prostitution tended to kill a boy's sense of wonder.

"The machines? What, like the fridge?" Lawr asked, pointing toward said appliance across the room.

Lawr had been upset when he's corrected him on that before, there was no reason not to let him think that. He must miss Michael a lot.

"The fridge is one, yes. We didn't have things like that. These communication devices are amazing. It reminds me of the ruelle mirrors, with the same dangers, but a lot more versatile."

"There are a lot of really amazing machines back in my home. I never really thought of it before, but I guess that's kind of our magic. It's... how we got by without it."

"I guess it's easy to get used to. This sort of place helps us realize what we have, I suppose."

He grinned.

"And that we're better off without it."

Lawr smiled wistfully, resting his chin on his hand after he'd responded to Yujinn.

"For a number of worlds, I suppose that's right. Not that I can go back to my world."

That's right, for Seeu too, Wonderland was definitely better.

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