log ; closed

[stargathering]

When; August 15th, around 1pm
Rating; Shouldn't go above PG
Characters; blastiafreak and stargathering
Summary; After the "Victory Kisses" curse, Tyr and Rita need to talk a little more.
Log;

Even though it was largely Tyr's own idea, he didn't have a clue how to approach this situation. When it was Katara, he was a different person then, and both Rita and his relationship with her weren't the same, either. He didn't feel like he could just be rough with her, knowing it would just lead to a fight and nothing more.

He guessed he would just play it by ear and see how it went...

As he arrived at the beach house, the usual little lunch bag in hand, he almost knocked on the door before just entering and making his way up to her study. Just like old times. And like older times, his face was blank as he looked for her.

Comments

[blastiafreak]

"I will," she agreed. "I want to make sure you get the theory behind everything first."

Her own sandwich was set aside as she took a moment. Somehow, she had to try and explain it clearly, without books if possible. She'd been studying these subjects as long as she could remember; there was no way she could recall how she'd started or what she first learned. "Okay, then...Let's start with matter.

"Matter is made of tiny particles you can't see with the naked eye. They're called atoms. When you have one or more atoms bound together, they form a molecule. Interactions between atoms and other particles and exchanges of energy are what's behind just about everything, from how you breathe to how blastia function." She hoped it was a simple enough introduction. How slow should she go? Into how much depth this soon?

[stargathering]

He just nodded and remembered why he didn't really care for science. It wasn't that it went over his head - her explanation was perfectly clear - it was that it all seemed like a lot words that he couldn't really back up in his head. After all, atoms couldn't be seen and therefore the reactions shouldn't either, right?

For her sake, though, he chose to just suspend his disbelief and wait for her to go on. Rita wasn't someone he'd think is just full of hot air. If she believed it, then he'd believe it, too.

"All right, got it. So we're going to be studying atoms and things like that first." And he ventured to assume, "Then I can understand how the blastia work."

[blastiafreak]

"Correct. That'll be part of it, anyway." So far so good, she thought. A general overview of everything they'd be looking at seemed like it would be a good start, so she continued. "We won't be dealing only with matter, though. Blastia run on mana, which is closer to matter than aer, but still isn't quite matter. That, and the fact that it's pretty stable, makes it more complicated to work with. Its behaviour can change, depending on the circumstances..."

She paused, thinking this was too vague. Tyr probably wanted a more specific example, something he could see with his own eyes. "Hang on a minute," she told him, and climbed to her feet in order to go through some of her equipment. She turned up a small vial filled with pale, bluish-violet crystals, and returned to show it to him. "This is mana. Like atoms, you can't normally see it, but you can get it to crystallize in the right situation. In this case, it almost acts like matter."

Now she turned her attention to her hands and, using her blastia for a simple demonstration, produced a split-second flash of reddish light. "And that was also mana, but this time it didn't behave like solid matter." She looked at him again and hoped that was all right. "So...Are you getting this so far?"

[stargathering]

"Not really," he answered truthfully, staring at her with wide eyes. The matter thing might have messed him up. Some of it he already knew, but the rest flew over his head. He asked the first question that popped into his head: "What makes the two different—what circumstances determine if the mana is solid and or not?"

He had other questions too, like why they were visible and if mana and aer were made out of different things and what exactly they reacted with and how it's connected to matter. But he'd go one question at a time to keep either of them from becoming overwhelmed.

[blastiafreak]

"Uh, yeah..." He was right; that was probably way too much at once. For now, she decided to just focus on answering his question, and then she'd figure out where to go from there.

And she needed to explain it...simply. If she could. "Crystallized mana behaves mostly like matter, while non-solid mana is more like a wave, or..." He might not get that, she realized, and decided to simplify it more. It wouldn't be exactly accurate, but that was what later in-depth studies would be for, right? "Think of non-solid mana as energy, like light or heat."

[stargathering]

For Tyr, "a wave" brought up images of lakes and other bodies of water rather than heat or light, though he could think of heat being like a wave, too. (More so than a ray of light, at least.) He thought he understood what she was saying, at least, even though he didn't really understand it fully yet.

"And they can all be contained? Like what you did..."

It seemed like the non-solid mana was in her blastia at least.