[He's still frowning, but at least he doesn't look as panicked anymore.]
That's reassuring. [He says it dryly, over the fact that she isn't sure. Which - isn't a surprise from Grell and her experiments.] It's definitely not burning you, right? Just your sleeve?
[Bellamy will not stop hovering like a concerned mother duck tbh. Not until he is 100% sure things are Fine. He will not agree it's Neat until he concludes it either. He tests it himself again, sticking his hand into the flames and leaving it under for far longer, with no injury effects.]
[Rhea probably didn't like the sound - which makes Grell think next time she might need to lay down a silence ward for her sake.]
But it's definitely just my sleeve. That it burns the cloth at all means it's no toy to be played with, but the safety in not needing gloves to handle it means that someone might find it interesting. If anything, I can just take notes if for some reason fire like this would be needed in the future.
[Bellamy pulls his hand back, satisfied that the fire as it stands right now isn't going to cause any physical injuries.]
It might be a useful trick. Or even a light, if you can trap it inside something. It doesn't burn people, but it clearly still burns objects just - put it out before it burns up your entire shirt and moves on. Are you gonna run any more tests on it?
[He's not concerned about modesty so much as the fire spreading and catching something like the floor on fire.]
Later, probably. Outside where nothing will catch.
[dutifully she waves the fire out - it still responded to her like fire should, and since it's Bellamy, who's part of her family, she doesn't mind turning away to go get another shirt. the most she can do for this one is cut off the other sleeve and the burned parts and restyle it.]
I'm thinking that it'd be a good bluff of sorts. Doesn't burn you, doesn't burn a person, but if you fed paper to it, it'll still fall to ashes. But it fails to be good enough for what I want...which is to add an elemental twist onto the armor. Imagine for you, that armor with an ice component that struck back when you were struck.
[they may not be at war, but she still has a lot of ideas.]
[He finally lets his own little blizzard dissipate once the fire is gone, and now that the potential danger has stopped being so immediate, Bellamy feels better about being curious. They're not directly at war, but it's still a hard mindset to shake.]
I like the fake out idea. Fire's definitely better for a bluff than ice. [Skin feeling whip-lashed, he briefly lets his fingers flicker with his own fire magic.]
The pushback from the armor isn't a bad idea, though. What kind of runes were you using? I know - [Clarke, is the next word, Clarke and her supply of rune knowledge and magic, but he doesn't want to bring that up right now.] I know some good protective runes? Maybe they could be combined with something offensive, on the armor. [A beat.] Unless that's what you were already doing.
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That's reassuring. [He says it dryly, over the fact that she isn't sure. Which - isn't a surprise from Grell and her experiments.] It's definitely not burning you, right? Just your sleeve?
[Bellamy will not stop hovering like a concerned mother duck tbh. Not until he is 100% sure things are Fine. He will not agree it's Neat until he concludes it either. He tests it himself again, sticking his hand into the flames and leaving it under for far longer, with no injury effects.]
You freaked out Rhea.
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[Rhea probably didn't like the sound - which makes Grell think next time she might need to lay down a silence ward for her sake.]
But it's definitely just my sleeve. That it burns the cloth at all means it's no toy to be played with, but the safety in not needing gloves to handle it means that someone might find it interesting. If anything, I can just take notes if for some reason fire like this would be needed in the future.
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It might be a useful trick. Or even a light, if you can trap it inside something. It doesn't burn people, but it clearly still burns objects just - put it out before it burns up your entire shirt and moves on. Are you gonna run any more tests on it?
[He's not concerned about modesty so much as the fire spreading and catching something like the floor on fire.]
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[dutifully she waves the fire out - it still responded to her like fire should, and since it's Bellamy, who's part of her family, she doesn't mind turning away to go get another shirt. the most she can do for this one is cut off the other sleeve and the burned parts and restyle it.]
I'm thinking that it'd be a good bluff of sorts. Doesn't burn you, doesn't burn a person, but if you fed paper to it, it'll still fall to ashes. But it fails to be good enough for what I want...which is to add an elemental twist onto the armor. Imagine for you, that armor with an ice component that struck back when you were struck.
[they may not be at war, but she still has a lot of ideas.]
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I like the fake out idea. Fire's definitely better for a bluff than ice. [Skin feeling whip-lashed, he briefly lets his fingers flicker with his own fire magic.]
The pushback from the armor isn't a bad idea, though. What kind of runes were you using? I know - [Clarke, is the next word, Clarke and her supply of rune knowledge and magic, but he doesn't want to bring that up right now.] I know some good protective runes? Maybe they could be combined with something offensive, on the armor. [A beat.] Unless that's what you were already doing.