@Rune_Alchemist@Regitnui@Sailorsadie
Pfft. Eirwen wished that the brown-haired girl was turned on by stepping on people...as actually strange as that was now that she took a brief moment to think about that. Blarg. But Eir was Eir, as it were, and she had become accustomed enough to the smaller, lazier puddle of a girl's comments on her legs in general. Like, was she attracted by or turned on by Leanne's legs? That was one question she really had no idea about right now, though it seemed since the smaller ice elementalist actually got up she would be making a pizza later as promised. Not that she minded doing a bit of cooking now and then to keep herself and her gamimg buddy satisfied. She quite enjoyed it, though of course to get the ever-adorable Eir to do anything else required more than a little prodding...usually with a foot due to her finding the floor a comfortable place seemingly anywhere. Even if that floor on one occasion was covered in spilled chips or snacks.
But the boy seemed to go into some...awkward mode, like the social attention with new people was grating to him. Especially after a human-sized sloth
(or maybe a sloth-sized human) got into his face and demanded recompense for her lost potato-y, snaky delights that lied upon the floor...kinda like they always did in Eir's room on game nights. Though the boy's reactions kinda reminded her of one of the friendly autistic kids who had gone to her middle school, who had been nice to everyone, even Leanne herself actually.
"Woah there," Leanne said, grabbing the back of Eirwen's collar and lifting her up, putting the smol human garbage disposal next to her right side, giving the boy a bit of breathing room in the process,
"Might be overwhelming him a bit there. Sides' Eir, you know you can grab a bag from my stash of snacks to replace it."Though another girl seemed to turn her attention to Eir, getting a laugh at the boy's state and appearance in this situation. A small frown appeared on Leanne's face for a moment. Then letting out a small sigh as Eir's attention was called for by another individual, she looked back at the guy standing there before her, redder than a tomato and fists clenched like he wanted to run...maybe cry....maybe both? Maybe he was scared to have rebutted back against Eir? She had to take a guess, the that seemed like one of the most possible options.
"Hey, it'll be ok. No one's gonna yell at ya or anything for standing up for yourself. Take a minute to breathe slowly, in and out, eh?" she said to Zeke, her tone quieting down a bit as her expression took on a more serious but mostly empathetic appearance. Really, she was trying to not freak poor Zeke out, and was attempting, at least, to maybe help him calm down. Not that she was an expert at the matter, despite the attempted good will.
The redheaded girl sat by the side of the lake, sitting with her legs crossed and her eyes silently closed. Her chest and plump bust rose and fell calmly with each focused, soothing rhythm in her breathing pattern of "in and out". Droplets of water clung to the outside of her body, dripping down bit by bit, drop by drops, even own from the bangs of her her wet hair and also down the sides of her face. Her two-piece bright red bikini was secured on her body still after a couple hours of swimming, and indeed this morning had offered the chance to use her own suit rather than the one-piece swimsuits the Academy provided for use in the pool.
Three months had gone by in a flash, though it had been interesting for that matter. A Fire Elementalist who liked swimming and being in the water as a method to relax and enjoy herself. Heh. The irony was not lost on her, nor on the seemingly many other Water and Fire Elementalist peers who still lat times noted the fact with confusion, awkwardness, or perhaps as if she was doing something "unnatural" or was committing some crime against nature or her own element. She'd shaken it off, but in part that meant avoiding the school pool and instead going to the lake, just to get away from the questions such as "are you actually a Fire Elementalist" among other things. Even if the Fire Elemental jumped up frustrated at her, though, she's probably just flip it off and keep on with her business.
She didn't hate fire, rather liked it actually when it came to learning about her element and its uses, but that didn't mean she had to have some aversion to the water. Pfft. What idiots would actually think that....actually, she felt she perhaps should not attempt to ponder that particular thought. Though if she wanted to try to channel things, maybe making up a chant would be funny. At least a little fire right now might help her dry off in time to pull on her clothes and make it to classes, since she wouldn't have time to go change back into normal underwear and out of her swimsuit. Besides, her clothes sat there not too far away, lying hung over a branch she had cleared of leaves and smaller stems to make it a clothes rack of sorts.
"I am fire, the warmth of life, the heat the sustains the world each day, the breath of life and vitality that fills all things...," the teen girl said under her breath in a steady manner, keeping in time with the rhythm of her controlled breathing, pretending that each breath she let out was a stream of fire that would come out over the top of the lake.
Though she was beginning to feel greater heat coming out of her mouth with each breath, at least. Huh. At least that was something.
