Myrra, chapter three- Recreation. *Completed, 04/27/2011*

Song is from the same place, but the song for this chapter is "Detour in My Life."

Chapter three:
Risana woke first, and wondered where she was. 'Oh. Wait. Banishment. Grr... ' She thought to herself, and accidentally caused a small shard of ice to hit her door, causing a loud noise. This, of course, woke Syr, who complained about said noise.
"What time is it?" She yelled.
"Morning." Syr said, stopping at Risana's door. Risana walked up to her.
"Could you move?" She said, glaring.
"Oh, sorry!" Syr apologized, following as Risana went to the kitchen. "So... Why were you hired to catch me anyway?"
Risana nearly dropped the plate she had been holding. "Isn't it obvious? You disobeyed the laws."
"I meant what got you into that kind of work."
"I- I don't want to talk about it. Don't ever, ever ask me that again, you understand that?" Risana said softly, carefully setting down the plate.
"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean bother you." Syr replied getting her own food.

They finished in silence, and Syr suggested afterwords that they explore around their new home. Risana reluctantly agreed, and they left. Off in the distance they could see a village of some sort, not so far as to be an incredibly long trip, though. Risana walked along the edge, looking at the water miles and miles below. Syr wander through the forest, stopping at a small clearing with a little pond.
"Amazing. Truly amazing. What could be in there, I wonder?" Risana said to herself, leaning a bit too far over the edge. She fell, but managed to stop herself by freezing her arm to the earth, but as a result became stuck. "Syr?!"

Syr, having gotten a bottle of the water from the pond, had been walking back to the house. She heard Risana, and looked over at the edge to see Risana's hands, covered in ice, holding onto the edge. "Oh no! Are you okay?"
"I won't be, if you don't help!" Risana snapped, then added "Sorry. You're the proper water mage, just encase me in water. I can do the rest." Did I really just apologize to her? She thought to herself.
"Okay! I'll need to find more water, though..."
"My room, underneath my bed, is a small crystal. Bring it here, and draw from it." Risana said.
Syr goes and gets the crystal, which was blue and shaped like a cube. "This is it?"
"Is it blue and cube shaped? "
"Yes."
"There's your answer. Now help. I don't want to learn about the great oceans that much!"
Syr focused on the crystal, and water started flowing out of it, making a large puddle. She made the water surround Risana completely, leaving a bubble around her head. Risana partially froze the water, literally climbing through it. Then the crystal made a loud cracking sound, and broke in half.
"Oh! I broke it! I'm sorry!" Syr said quickly, thinking that she wasn't careful enough.
"It's fine, it's supposed to do that." Risana replied, brushing of some ice from her arms. "Why did you help me though, not that I'm complaining?"
"Why not? You were in trouble."
"But- Nevermind." Risana said, walking back to the house. "You should eat. Ice mage crystals tend to take a lot out of a water mage."
"Oh." Syr said, beginning to feel dizzy. She walked to the kitchen, and got herself food.

Back in Kaylen's house, she and Yon had finished setting everything up, and were going to look around. Yon decided that they should go see more of the area around the village, and pulled Kaylen along happily. They wandered the area for a fairly long time before Kaylen took Yon back to the Bornwell, and they found a nice little garden to relax in. Kaylen touched her necklace, looking at the one Yon was wearing. She thought back to the time she got her own necklace.

She had been about ten, and was being taken to the mage examiner to be check, as all ten year old children were where she lived. She knocked lightly on the door and heard a "Come in." She opened it a little, peeking in. It was a small room, with a desk with a chair in front of it and one behind it. The examiner, an old man in white and gold patterned robes, sat in the chair behind it. She sat in the other chair looking down. "Don't worry, child. I don't bite." He said, grinning. "Now, look at the materials before you." He gestured at the desk. On it was a cup of water, a lit candle, a small open box of sand, and a glass sphere suspended in the air by golden rods, and in front of each was a small gem, blue, red, brown, and white respectively. "These are representations of the four main elements. All you need to do is put your hand over each crystal, and if the crystal moves, then you have magic in that element."

"Okay." She said quietly, placing her hand over the white crystal, which didn't move. Neither did the brown or red crystals. But when she placed her hand over the blue crystal, not only did it move, it jumped straight into her hand. The examiner was as surprised by this as much as she was. "My oh my, it has been far to long since that has happened!" He said, smiling. "Well, that means you have water magic, and powerful at that. Now, I have something to give you, seeing as I've been carrying it far too long anyway. Order mages do not need water magic foci, that's for sure!" He added, laughing. He handed her the necklace, and the water crystal, which glittered beautifully in the light. She didn't really understand what he meant about foci, but the necklace itself was beautiful.

She was taken to be trained in the mage schools, one of the better places for teaching young mages, water mages especially. Her necklace was examined by some of the best water mages at the time, and they all said to take good care of it. She followed their advice, always wearing it whenever she could, and if she couldn't, she had a special spot in her room just for it. The necklace glowed sometimes when she was wearing it, usually when she was learning something new. This delighted her, and she found a few other ways to cause it to do so. The one she liked the most was to try to control it like water, which made it glow a bright yellow and blue light.

Kaylen was snapped out of her daydream by the sound of Yon's voice. "Mother? Are you awake? You looked like you were asleep!"
"I'm fine. I was just thinking. Oh, it's getting late. You need to be in bed!" She said, grinning. They went back to their home, and both fell asleep quickly.

While Kaylen was daydreaming, the mages were traveling, heading towards this little town. They started talking about their training, how they each took slightly different paths of Water magic. "Why did you choose ice, anyway?" Syr asked.
"I find it rather... interesting. The patterns of ice crystals, the uniqueness of snow, that kind of thing. Why did you choose to only use water?"

"Because the water just wants to have fun, but still does it's job. It can be warm and friendly, or fast and deadly. It's just so adaptable." Syr smiled. "And because there was the nicest teacher for it ever!"

Risana grinned at this. "My teacher was not so nice. She knew everything, though. I still can't believe you didn't know about the crystals."

"I might have fallen asleep a few times." She pretended embarrassment and then laughed. "In addition to his looks, he was also one of the most boring people ever!"

"Heh. Well, I guess, if you want, I could teach you more about them..." Risana said.

Syr's face lit up, and she nodded. "Please?"

"Sure." Risana smiled. I guess she's not too bad. They stopped to rest for the night, Risana forming a shelter from a nearby pond.

Will you be posting more chapters more often now?

Whenever possible. But my inspiration is from said music, and sometimes it takes a good while to find a good song.

Is the inspiration from music that has a message that fits your story? Or is it any music?

The music is mostly related to the mood of the chapter it's chosen for.

Updating a bit, again.

Done with this chapter! Yay!