Rikash "Kash" Salmalin (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kashsalmalin) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} trickstersrealm,@ 2009-10-25 21:30:00 |
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Where: by the river
It was getting worse. Kash hadn't realised how bad it would be, without daily classes at the University, without fooling around with his friends, without practice. His Gift was itching at him to the point where it was almost painful.
Unable to stand it anymore, and unable to sleep besides, he had got out of bed in the early hours of the morning and gone down to the river, which was as far as he could stand to go without travelling by magic, and he didn't think that was a good idea with his Gift all over the place like this. He knelt by the water and rummaged, digging in the mud for some large stones. Grimacing, he siphoned off some of his power into them, a little at a time so as not to smash them, until he felt slightly more sane. It wouldn't last long, the stones, common river stones rather than black opal or sapphire, were sure to disintegrate evenutally, but he could take it back once he had used some of the... excess. As mad as that sounded and as much as his instructors would be disturbed to hear it.
Then he crossed his legs and closed his eyes, trying to even out his breathing as he meditated. The song started to rise out of the air, the violin followed by the oboe, and then the flute. His heart slowed immediately and he realised after a while that his hands were shaking with the cold. He opened his eyes, and in that moment, as the music reached its climax, that someone was watching him.