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"Nice form. Mind if I swing a few?"

The wolf strode out from behind the batting cage, his own silver bat in his hand. He'd been there a while, silently watching the superhuman swing some home runs. The high pitched pings as balls met bat was music to his ears, a reminder of a home that he couldn't go back to. He swung his bat around a few times before entering the cage. He strode over to the one, untouched ball on the floor and picked it up, tossing it in the air a few times to get a feel for the weight of the ball.

"Shit...it's been too long since I've held one of these."

With a flick of his wrist, Daniel lobbed the ball into the air. He gripped his bat tightly with both hands, reared back, and as the ball fell in front of him, he swung. The act of hitting the ball caused the rubes engraved on the side of his bat to activate, empowering the bat with ice magic. The ball froze on contact with the bat and it flew straight for the fence, where it shattered into countless shards of ice. He rubbed the back of his head rather sheepishly and chuckled.

"Whoops. Forgot that happens. Uh...got any more baseballs?"

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With his bat raised, he walked to the spot where she'd pointed to and steadied himself as the lady prepared the machine for the next ball. A whump of air signalled the shot and the ball sped towards him. Bat ready, he gritted his teeth and swung just as the ball reached him. A good, solid thwack of the aluminium bat hitting leather signified the hit and the ball sped away towards the fence, another burst of ice magic from the bat impact making the ball freeze solid in seconds and shatter upon impact with the chain-link fence.

Daniel lowered his bat and took a look at the runes imprinted onto the aluminium and shrugged.

"I really shouldn't load this thing with ice magic, huh."

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"Well, considering that you're the one busting the baseballs and also punching holes in the fence, you're pretty well off yourself. Fire, by the look of it. And the smell."

He smirked as he rested his bat on his shoulders, watching the lady swing for the bleachers and hitting a home run that soared through the air as it fell to ashy pieces from the impact. As he felt the air temperature around him rising, he channeled the ice into his bat and into the surroundings, matching every degree of heat with an equal amount of chill, quickly causing water vapour to coalesce in the air around them. She would feel the chill tickle her ankles while he stood by the side, hands resting on his bat.

"Funny, a baseball pitch in the ass end of nowhere and that's where I find another magic user. Uncanny."

Daniel took a few steps back and took a test swing or two with the baseball bat, smirking a little to himself.

"What's say...you and I go a few rounds? I could use the practice."

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"I mean, you're obviously really strong-"

With nary a moment to react, the bat swung towards his middle like a home-run hitter swinging for the stands. He felt the force of the air long before he'd feel the impact of the bat. That didn't give him enough time to fully react, but it was enough.

He pushed himself backwards and threw his body into a C shape, sucking in his stomach and moving backwards to avoid the bat that threatened to disembowel him with a hit. As his momentum moved him backwards, he brought his bat backwards, drove it into the ground and steadied himself as he landed back on the ground, feet digging into the dirt to prevent himself from falling over backwards. With a wary smirk he raised his bat in a combat stance, feet apart.

"Strike one, lady."

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