[ There's a little grimace, a soft sigh, but a nod in the end. No words to be spoken beyond that - though she's probably more used to this nonverbal side of Ren than the Ren that actually holds conversations at length.
He turns his attention to the light switch, trying to set his mind to the task of switching it off. Right. Focus a positive emotion into physical manifestation. He's consciously made it happen... one out of five times, give or take. He just has to pick the right emotion. It's hard, when your specialty is masking emotions, to let them come back to the surface of your own will. It's frightening, almost - joy, he's found, will often either bubble up too fast or can't be readily summoned, and it's hard to use confidence when you're in the middle of failing to accomplish your task. Affection is tricky - he tried thinking about Nora once during a practice session and inadvertently ended up growing flowers out of the entire length of his blanket.
Friendship, though. Like the one he has with Pyrrha, one he looks forward to building more upon... he allows that thought to swell slowly, exhaling gradually through his mouth, and after a period of time that might seem as though he's not going to accomplish a goddamn thing the light switch finally flicks down.
[It'll be easier if she can just show him than explain right away.
She unhooks a leather pouch off her belt as she walks over, placing it down next to, but thankfully not onto, his folded laundry.]
I picked these up down in Aiada's realm.
[Unclasping the pouch reveals a few mushroom stalks inside. They're a teeny bit dented from travel and being inside the satchel but they don't appear to have been damaged too much. A couple are red in color while the rest of them are a peculiar orange and purple. Yang picks up one of the red ones first.]
These can heal injuries if they're rubbed into a wound.
[She then points to the purple and orange toadstools.]
And these'll help calm you down if you're freaking out or something. You don't even have to do anything with them, just touch 'em.
[She puts her hand back at her hip.]
I thought they might be cool to have around the house. You know...just in case.
[Just in case something messes with their Aura and they happen to get hurt. Just in case something messes with their emotions again. ...Just in case she has a really bad episode and can't calm herself down...
She glances at Ren questioningly. Out of all her friends, Ren's the only one she can think of that might know anything about healthy plants and even then, it's just an assumption.]
[ He's not sure what he expected - his first thought was that it would pertain to their pursuit of learning how to use Dunamis, but as she starts to pull out mushrooms he's a bit confused. It doesn't last long, though, and as she begins describing their effects he leans a bit closer to peer at them curiously. So she's... bringing medicinal supplies? It's not that he's opposed - if anything he applauds her mindfulness to collect the mushrooms so they'll have them - but why is she bringing them to--
"D'you...think we could grow them here?"
He lifts his head to blink at her, a little surprised - but after a moment a smile makes its way across his lips, the surprise turning to something pleasant. ]
I'm more used to flowers than fungi, but... I think it might be doable. I can see if there's anything in the library that would help.
[ It's not much, but the idea of having any matter of vegetation to tend to is exciting - maybe once he has these secure and growing, he can look into a proper garden. ]
Can you describe the environment you found them in?
[ Pyrrha sits very patiently as she waits for Ren to demonstrate. He didn't need to, ultimately. Her mild plea for an example had been expected to be answered anecdotally. What he does instead? Well, it takes her a moment to realise anything even happened.
The light switch clicks down. It doesn't do a lot, in the end. It's the middle of the day, and the windows aren't covered. Ren remains clear in her vision; although, she would recommend he turn the lights back on if he wants to keep reading.
Another few seconds of waiting.
Nothing else happens. ]
That's good! Ren, that's nothing to scoff at. This is a new discipline to you. It's much harder to learn something as an adult than it is when you're young, you know?
[ she's proud of her son (who is a year older than her now) ]
[Right. The library. That place people use for studying sometimes instead of board games.]
They were growing in this weird jade machinery. I guess they could have been...incubators or something? [She really isn't sure how else to describe those weird machines.] But it looked like all the plants were kinda...hybrids? Of some other plants growing around Aiada's temple. It was pretty much all jungle down there; humid and wet and kinda gross?
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Date: 2017-11-08 09:26 pm (UTC)[ She can't help you if she doesn't know what you need help with, bro. :( ]
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Date: 2017-11-09 01:27 am (UTC)He turns his attention to the light switch, trying to set his mind to the task of switching it off. Right. Focus a positive emotion into physical manifestation. He's consciously made it happen... one out of five times, give or take. He just has to pick the right emotion. It's hard, when your specialty is masking emotions, to let them come back to the surface of your own will. It's frightening, almost - joy, he's found, will often either bubble up too fast or can't be readily summoned, and it's hard to use confidence when you're in the middle of failing to accomplish your task. Affection is tricky - he tried thinking about Nora once during a practice session and inadvertently ended up growing flowers out of the entire length of his blanket.
Friendship, though. Like the one he has with Pyrrha, one he looks forward to building more upon... he allows that thought to swell slowly, exhaling gradually through his mouth, and after a period of time that might seem as though he's not going to accomplish a goddamn thing the light switch finally flicks down.
That's it.
That's his best. ]
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Date: 2017-11-10 08:37 am (UTC)[It'll be easier if she can just show him than explain right away.
She unhooks a leather pouch off her belt as she walks over, placing it down next to, but thankfully not onto, his folded laundry.]
I picked these up down in Aiada's realm.
[Unclasping the pouch reveals a few mushroom stalks inside. They're a teeny bit dented from travel and being inside the satchel but they don't appear to have been damaged too much. A couple are red in color while the rest of them are a peculiar orange and purple. Yang picks up one of the red ones first.]
These can heal injuries if they're rubbed into a wound.
[She then points to the purple and orange toadstools.]
And these'll help calm you down if you're freaking out or something. You don't even have to do anything with them, just touch 'em.
[She puts her hand back at her hip.]
I thought they might be cool to have around the house. You know...just in case.
[Just in case something messes with their Aura and they happen to get hurt. Just in case something messes with their emotions again. ...Just in case she has a really bad episode and can't calm herself down...
She glances at Ren questioningly. Out of all her friends, Ren's the only one she can think of that might know anything about healthy plants and even then, it's just an assumption.]
D'you...think we could grow them here?
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Date: 2017-11-10 03:03 pm (UTC)[Or not. "At a time" is such a relative term. She arranges herself into a cross-legged sitting position facing him.]
Sooooo, are you hungry?
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Date: 2017-11-10 06:19 pm (UTC)What do you feel like?
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Date: 2017-11-10 06:25 pm (UTC)"D'you...think we could grow them here?"
He lifts his head to blink at her, a little surprised - but after a moment a smile makes its way across his lips, the surprise turning to something pleasant. ]
I'm more used to flowers than fungi, but... I think it might be doable. I can see if there's anything in the library that would help.
[ It's not much, but the idea of having any matter of vegetation to tend to is exciting - maybe once he has these secure and growing, he can look into a proper garden. ]
Can you describe the environment you found them in?
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Date: 2017-11-11 01:34 pm (UTC)[She taps her cheek pensively, making a big show of it before perking up.]
We should eat out. There's lots of good places to eat around here!
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Date: 2017-11-13 11:33 pm (UTC)The light switch clicks down. It doesn't do a lot, in the end. It's the middle of the day, and the windows aren't covered. Ren remains clear in her vision; although, she would recommend he turn the lights back on if he wants to keep reading.
Another few seconds of waiting.
Nothing else happens. ]
That's good! Ren, that's nothing to scoff at. This is a new discipline to you. It's much harder to learn something as an adult than it is when you're young, you know?
[ she's proud of her son (who is a year older than her now) ]
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Date: 2017-11-15 01:39 pm (UTC)Awesome!
[Right. The library. That place people use for studying sometimes instead of board games.]
They were growing in this weird jade machinery. I guess they could have been...incubators or something? [She really isn't sure how else to describe those weird machines.] But it looked like all the plants were kinda...hybrids? Of some other plants growing around Aiada's temple. It was pretty much all jungle down there; humid and wet and kinda gross?
[Hopefully this is a helpful answer.]