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Post by ana on Dec 15, 2006 4:12:27 GMT -5
The facility was bigger than she'd ever really anticipated. Yes, Ana had done the tour with her parents when they had come to inspect Mr. Lensherr's operation, but she had become used to the areas that she frequented, had never really seen much of the facilities that were not monitored by the medical and scientific staff.
That was where she was now. In an outside area, with two vats of something - she could feel liquid, but knew that one was most definitely not water, or even particularly similar to water beyond sharing the same state - sitting in the middle of the training area.
Giving Erik a curious look, Ana made no move to take a hold of her power and play with the vat of strange liquid, to find out what it was and see what she could do. It was interesting that she could feel it, though there was definitely something there that felt unfamiliar - even alien - to her body that had become so attuned to H2O.
He'd asked her to take a walk, but apparently he had plans for more than just walking. Still, she did nothing, awaiting his instruction politely even though she was bursting to find out more.
"Are you going to help me learn, Mr. Lensherr?" How he would be able to, the young woman did not know - so far as she'd been able to find out, her talents were unique amount all the mutants on El Dorado (created or natural). But she was desperate to learn more, wanted to make him proud - wanted the man who had given her such wonderful gifts to feel her worthy of them.
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Post by magneto on Jan 8, 2007 10:28:20 GMT -5
Erik looked around the training hall with a small smile of satisfaction. Everything had been set up exactly as he had specified. This exercise would test not only the young womans' powers but his own returning skills as well.
It should prove to be very interesting indeed.
"Indeed, we shall attempt to test the limits of your powers," he squared himself off against the vat of mercury while she faced the water.
"I want you to reach out with your senses, feel the water, then we will begin with some simple exercises, a few little things to get you started," he gave her a smile.
"You shouldn't push yourself too hard."
Not yet anyway.
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Post by ana on Jan 10, 2007 6:47:59 GMT -5
Nodding, Ana reached out with her new-found senses, wondering whether she was supposed to actually do anything yet or just feel and wait for his next instruction. Some of her tutors in the past had been far more strict than others, not wanting her to go even half a step further than she'd been told to. Others wanted her to go forward until she hit a block, and then ask them for help.
She decided to go halfway.
"I can feel the water, but I can feel the other liquid too. It is... not as soft, not as fluid." It was hard to describe, and she couldn't see it well enough to really say much about it other than that it was dark in colour.
"I don't know that I could touch it, move it so well as the water. But I can feel it." She looked up at her new mentor curiously, tugging at it tentatively. Enough to ruffle the surface, but nothing more than that. The same tentative tug at the other vat brought a globule of water zooming in her direction, but she pushed it back toward the container and let it drop with a 'sploosh'.
"What is it?"
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Post by magneto on Jan 12, 2007 12:23:19 GMT -5
He stretched out with his own abilities and lifted a spherical globule of the mercury from the vat before squeezing it down into a disk that sat neatly over the top of the container. It was still liquid, but the effect was impressive just the same.
"Liquid metal, mercury to be precise," he said, fractionally relaxing as the disk settled into place, "the fact that you are able to sense its presence is a good sign, a sign that your own talents could well stretch beyond just the manipulation of water to all liquids."
"Of course it will take time and practise to attain such a level or mastery, but then that is what the valley of shadows is for; trial and error in a safe environment."
On a whim he caused the disk to rise up in to a dome so that the vat looked a little like an observatory. Once he powers fully restored, he would be able to make it look exactly like an observatory, but for now, simple manipulations were the best.
"Now try to match my actions with the water."
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Post by ana on Jan 14, 2007 2:32:43 GMT -5
Liquid mercury? She could feel metal, too? Good lord, was this a sign that she'd start to feel everything? Ana María didn't know that she would be able to deal with walking around and feeling everything around her - it was distracting enough with all of the moisture in the air registering to her new senses at some level.
She simply nodded to Mr. Lensherr's instruction, blue eyes flicking between the two vats for a moment before she stretched out her hand again, drawing out a fist-sized almost perfect sphere of water.
Making a sphere was easy. Water wanted to be in drops. Drops, she'd learned, started spherical before gravity and inertia and the air manipulated them into their more familiar shape. Still holding her hand out, her hand shifting in a movement that was graceful, almost like a dancer, Ana coaxed the water into a disc, rotating as it flattened to sit over the top of the vat - but she'd overestimated the size, and her disc hung over the edges somewhat. That was quickly corrected.
Now came the harder part, though. She could feel the tension, perhaps even the hydrogen bonds between the molecules. They didn't like to be held flat, so Ana only let the disc stay that way for a moment before her hand moved slightly once more, and the curvature of the disc changed so that it was moving toward being a dome. Of course, it was nowhere near as extreme as Magneto's, and she knew that the tension wasn't supposed to hold the molecules together in such a curve.
But she could. Lifting her hand up further, Ana tugged at the water, feeling it stretch out and thin as she tugged it upward. Her lips curled into a smile as she looked over at Erik.
"I am improving every day."
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