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When; After the snowball fight, December 9th
Rating; PG, just to be safe.
Characters; Cobray gunofdis and Lyra lyra_of_dust
Summary; After applying to Fuyu's dating service, both randomly end up paired together. Since this is blind, Lyra nor Cobray know who they are going to meet. This may end up being a break in Cobray's own overly serious personality and the correct injection of playfulness he needs.
Log; Cobray was ready. Of course he arrived at the fountain first. He never had to walk anywhere he needed to go, and he had the punctuality of a military man. He sat down on the edge of the fountain, and waiting. Of course, he was nervous. Dating wasn't his thing. As a matter of fact, he never had a date before. This was all so new to him.

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[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

Lyra laughed, and rolled out of the way before kicking some loose snow into his eyes, just like in the fight with Fakir yesterday.

"How'd you do that?" she shouted.

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Cobray stopped and once again brushed the snow out of his face.

"It's a secret, but perhaps I could show you. But first..."

Cobray pointed upwards. A large slab of snow was floating over Lyra's head. Cobray released it and it dropped down toward her head.

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"AUGH!" Lyra once again tried to dodge, but failed to avoid it. Snow was in her hair, on her clothes, and all over her face. She laughed loudly as she becan to brush it off.

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"I love the snow. It's cold, yet not as frigid as space. So, would you like to learn how to lift things with your mind? We could practice on people in the town."

Cobray was recently getting into practical jokes. He thought that this could help push his own career in that area further.

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"Space? You've been in space? You're doing it with you're mind... You can teach me?! Yeah!"

In her twelve years of life, Lyra had already gotten into quite a lot of mischief. Now she was ready to get into more.

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"Space. I used to live in space!"

Cobray looked around and found a desirable spot.

"To get where I need to show you, we are going to have to take a special way. It may be a little disorienting, since I'm almost 100% positive that this is your first time doing this, so please hold on to my hand."

Cobray offered his right hand out to her.

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"Alright."

Lyra looked at him warily, then grabbed his hand tightly, holding Pantalaimon to her chest with the other.

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The familiar red circular symbol flashed in front of Cobray.

"All you have to do is step forward."

Cobray took a step forward and vanished but his hand and arm was still floating in mid-air, holding onto Lyra's hand.

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"Huh?" This was strange- was this some sort of window? Nevertheless, Lyra did not have a problem stepping into the strange and unknown. She stepped forward.

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They ended up on a rooftop, far above where they were previously.

"From here, you can drop snow on people's heads, so I figured it might be more interesting up here than down there. So about this. I assume you have some source of power. Telekinesis, mana, prana, chakra, ki? You do have a familiar that is more intelligent that most people, so I'm pretty sure there is some source of power involved."

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Lyra blinked.

"You mean Dust? It's a kind of elementary particle- it's conciousness. It's what Pan's made out of- it's made when matter becomes aware of itself, and it's attracted to concious beings an the stuff they make. Anyway, most people's dæmons are about as smart as they are. What's a familiar?"

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"A familiar is a counterpart who takes the shape of an animal but is beyond a mere animal. You will need Pan to help you with this. Will he agree? Actually, will you agree Pan?"

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"Oh," Lyra supposed that word could be used to describe Pantalaimon. She was also a bit surprised when Cobray addressed her dæmon directly.

Pantalaimon nodded his head, "Of course I'll help her."

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"Good! What I need you to do is concentrate. Focus solely on Lyra with every erg of thought. Then Lyra, you must focus on your target. A patch of snow of instance. Imagine that you are moving to wherever you wish, then drop it! This is just the basics though. You can do many things once you master them. That is how Astranagun and I do it."

Cobray explained, pointing and motioning along with his speech.

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"But our thoughts always overlap, at least a little bit!" Pantalaimon protested, "How are we supposed to do that?"

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"It's a skill you must develop! Astranagun and I share the same thoughts all the time, but we manage. Besides, how can you deny results such as this?"

Cobray made a snowball and threw it in the air. The snowball swirled around in many directions before rocketing into a innocent bystander's head.

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"Alright, I'll try," Lyra felt Pantalaimon's thoughts focus on her, and she stared at a mound of snow a few feet away and concentrated.

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Cobray wasn't going to take it easy on her and help. It was either sink or swim with him. He was sure she wouldn't appreciate it if he patronized her anyways.

To his surprise however, it was working. She could move the snow. She was a prodigy, he guessed.

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Lyra cried out with surprise as the snow moved- and then it suddenly dropped as she lost concentration.

"Gah! Let me try again." This time, she was able to drop it off the side of the building, and was rewarded with a loud yelp a few seconds later.

"You have to make your mind go a certain way... I think I can do this!" Lyra grinned.

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Cobray laughed outloud. Something he's rarely done.

"As expected of the one paired with me on a date. However, I think this is more Pan's doing," Cobray teased, throwing a snowball at her to distract her.

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"That's not what I meant!" Actually, she had been thinking of the alethiometer- it was a different kind of focusing, but still.

Lyra dodged the snowball by sprawling in the snow, before using her hands to toss one at him.

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Cobray dodged by jumping off the side of the building. He immediately appeared beside Lyra and dropped in the snow. He laughed again.

"How would you like to jump off a building and survive? Have you ever done that before?"

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"Actually I have. You don't jump from to high up, and you land in something soft!" Lyra smirked as she stood up, brushing off the snow.

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"If you are so confident about it, leap down from here," Cobray said, daring her.

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Lyra rolled her eyes, "I said not to high up. This is too high- I'd die."