"Perhaps," she said, a half-smile tinged with sadness on her lips, "it is simply lonely to be separated from those who are as you are." Or were.
Lenneth shook her head in an attempt to banish the slight melancholy, then surveyed the floor before getting up and moving the chair she'd been sitting in to grant a bit more space.
"There is one other skill I have regained since coming here, but it has no visible outcome, so this shall be the best example," she said. The valkyrie frowned slightly in concentration--she'd not quite managed an effortless cast yet--and then a cool blue light coalesced around the fingers of her right hand, which she drew back to her hip, then arced out and down in a tossing motion. There was a high crystalline sound as the light shot along her fingertips and continued to the floor; where it touched, a clear crystal structure of a similar cool blue grew quickly to just below knee height.
Lenneth looked pleased with herself.
"It will support weight, or it may be shattered and the pieces used for--" She frowned, tried to think of a reason "--whatever you wish crystal pieces for," she finished lamely. "They will float on water as ice may, but it is not ice. If cast on a surface, this crystal forms, but upon a living thing it will surround and trap it... until it breaks free. There is one thing else it may do, but I must destroy it to do so." She paused then, in the case that Hermione wanted to look at it before she did so.
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Lenneth shook her head in an attempt to banish the slight melancholy, then surveyed the floor before getting up and moving the chair she'd been sitting in to grant a bit more space.
"There is one other skill I have regained since coming here, but it has no visible outcome, so this shall be the best example," she said. The valkyrie frowned slightly in concentration--she'd not quite managed an effortless cast yet--and then a cool blue light coalesced around the fingers of her right hand, which she drew back to her hip, then arced out and down in a tossing motion. There was a high crystalline sound as the light shot along her fingertips and continued to the floor; where it touched, a clear crystal structure of a similar cool blue grew quickly to just below knee height.
Lenneth looked pleased with herself.
"It will support weight, or it may be shattered and the pieces used for--" She frowned, tried to think of a reason "--whatever you wish crystal pieces for," she finished lamely. "They will float on water as ice may, but it is not ice. If cast on a surface, this crystal forms, but upon a living thing it will surround and trap it... until it breaks free. There is one thing else it may do, but I must destroy it to do so." She paused then, in the case that Hermione wanted to look at it before she did so.