''what...? want me to make the room colder then it already is?'' he
questioned, more of a sarcastic remark, but he soon sighed and
lowered his arm's, closing his eye's as he focused.
he knew the room warmed back up a bit, but he couldn't tell much
after Troye made it cold, and that he was easily cold all the
time.
Jacob soon made the room grow surprisingly cold, and a bit quick
too.
Lise nodded. "Keep trying." She said quietly before turning back to
the flower. She thought hard and then remembered the time when her
brother had come back from France, bringing a little snowglobe with
the Eiffel Tower in it. Her love of architecture began there, and
the flower started to change again, but not by much more than
before. "Cold cold cold..." Troye mumbled.
Nyx came across the same memory again.She listened in as the cars
collided making an awful crunching noise and her own screams for
her mother and older brother to wake up.She smelt the oil in the
car heating up what seemed ever so slowly.She listened as the first
responders arrived followed shortly by the fire fighters.She listen
as the younger her pleaded and begged for them to help her
family.The memory then fast forward with her still begging being
heard in the background.It then slowed to reveal her in the
hospital being yelled at by her stepfather for getting her mother
and his son killed."I'm sorry fath--""Don't you DARE call
me father!Not after you murder my wife and son."The flower
begin to respond to the emotions Nyx was feeling.It started to
wither but also slightly bloom into dark black color.
Papi nodded slowly before following Fell to the tree. Settling down
across from her, Papi looked up at the trees. "Miss Fell...I like
only talking to insects. I collect all kinds...I feel like they
know what I'm saying...but I can't be sure, and I'm still not able
to understand them..." Papi sighed as he stared at the
Ranunculus acris grasped in his hand.
"I may or may not have levitated an entire bookcase?!" Nova said
excitedly. She had been struggling to lift things for a while, and
could only do small things, like brushes or pens, but this was a
revilation!
"Animas are hard to teach. It's instinctive, not something can can
be taught. But I can guide." Fell says. "If you feel what the
insects want or feel, it will be easier to talk to them."
"Really?" Asriel says, a smile breaking out on his face. The flower
suddenly turns from it's moody blue-black marigold shape to more of
a daisy, with bright yellow petals and streaks of orange. "Oops,
sorry." Asriel says, calming himself again. The flower goes back to
a dark blackish blue.
Jacob nodded and sighed, closing his eye's again as he tried to
focus on getting the room's temp to what Zia said.
~~~~~
Wisteria fidgeted with the hem of her dress slightly and sighed
shakily.
''u-um... m-miss Fell... i-i did ask if um.. i could bring my cat
Whiskers down from my dorm'' she piped up, stammering slightly.
Papi nodded, deep in thought. When hearing Wisteria pipe up, he
looked over at her. "Oh...hi, I'm Papi. I don't think we had
met...well, I hope we're good students!" Papi chuckled before
turning towards Fell again. "So...I need to feel how they feel to
properly communicate with them?" Papi then noticed a Coccinella
septempunctata resting on a blade of grass near him. Gently
coaxing it onto his hand, Papi stared at the little insect. 'What
are you feeling my little one?' Papi said in his head as he tried
to get, in a sense, a mental connection with the bug.
"Yeah! Well, actually, I was in the library, and studying, then as
I was trying to get a book form one of the big shelves it nearly
fell on me, so I stuck my hands out. I guess some of my fear
channeled into energy or something, and it froze above me! So I
righted it and then came to find you!" Nova explained. She had been
fiddling with a flower, and turned it a pale pink with streaks of
gold and silver in her excitement.
Nyx hums as she watches Asriel's emotions affect the flower.So
the emotion needs to be really strong huh.God I don't want to
relive what happen after the accident.I really don't.She thinks
to herself while running a hand through her hair.
Lise looked at the flower as it changed and thought for a moment.
"Hm..." She thought. Then she remembered something, a very dear
memory that had required some digging to find. It was when she
herself went to Paris with Troye's family. She closed her eyes and
a faint, genuine smile traced her lips as she thought about it,
which was a rare occurence. The flower began to turn bright yellow,
but it still wasn't enough. It was closer than she had gotten
before, and that gave her a bit of hope. Troye meanwhile put a hand
on Jacob's shoulder. "Come on man, you can do it. Just picture the
air getting colder, and concentrate on that. That's what I did." He
said with a grin.
"That's wonderful, Nova. Maybe you'll be able to fight Beyond
finally." Asriel says with a grin. "That's enough, you two, Lise
wins for now, but good job, Nyx. I could see both of your memories
with barely any reaching out, so that's progress."
"Ah, yes, animals are always allowed." Fell replies.
"Good job."Nyx tells Lise quietly.She then blinks at what Asriel
said.Looks like I need to try harder next time.Possibly even
look at those memories.She thinks to herself.
Wisteria perked up and smiled, then stood up and straightened out
the hem of her dress.
''i'll be right back miss Fell i promise'' she said, then raced off
to head to her dorm and grab her calico Whiskers.
Lise nods at Nyx and stares at the flower, not satisfied even
though she one. "Hm..." She said quietly to herself. What could she
do to get better next time? She thought about her time in Paris and
another faint smile traced her lips. That was like a dream. But she
would need something more powerful than that huh?
Fell gives an inward smile, and a squirrel climbs down the tree
behind her, coming to sit in front of her. It chatters quietly, and
she pats it's head softly. "Yes, I promise."
"You do need to try, Nyx, but not necessarily harder. Sometimes
Telepathy takes time. And looking at painful, or happy, memories
will not help. That's... certainly one thing I know." As Asriel
says the last part, the flower suddenly turns a dead gray, it's
petals drooping.