Corner of Serenity Cove, Friday Night

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Once again, Savannah was on the beach working with things that would make certain people either freak out or grow gray hair -- possibly both.

Currently, she was alternating between using force bolts and the breaking spell against one of the boulders on the beach. She knew that if she could just focus her energy enough, she could make the spells powerful enough to shatter stone.

She just had to figure out how to use the darker spells without collapsing in pain afterwards.

There had to be a way, and she would keep trying until she found it.



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[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve had her own practicing and thinking to do. Unfortunately, she found Savannah before she could get to them.

"What are you doing?" Yes, there was a flail in her voice.

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"Practicing," Savannah said quietly as she focused on the boulder again.

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"Funny, looked like pushing yourself and draining your energy to me."

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"The two are not mutually exclusive," Savannah replied. It was obvious from her eyes that she was in pain, but she fired off another spell at the boulder anyway.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Without even thinking about it, Eve threw a barrier spell up around Savannah. "Stop being foolish," she said. "If you're going to practice this, you do it with me or Sean. We've told you that before."

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"I have to get good at this. I have to be able to do this." Her voice was flat. "I've mastered fire balls and other stuff and now I need to work on these." She ducked her head. "I need to."

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"But not without someone else here!" Eve said angrily. "Yes, you need to work on these, but for Christ's sake, not alone! What happens if you wear yourself out and pass out here alone? It would take people a while to find you. And it's not like Sean and I don't want to help you."

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Anger from her mother was more than Savannah could take right now and her face crumpled as she dropped to her knees on the sand.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve dropped the barrier spell and went to kneel with her daughter. "I love you so much, baby girl," she whispered, wrapping her arms around the girl and holding her close. "So, so much. And I want to help you. Sean wants to help you. You can't learn these things alone and expect to learn them well enough to use them against some of the big bads that might come around."

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"Everything hurts so much," Savannah whispered. "If I can learn all of this and know how to use it then I wouldn't worry anybody when attacks happen. I cold hold my own... I could blow up statues."

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"Motherfrakkin' statues," Eve muttered under her breath. "You will always worry people, Savannah. The people that love you will never stop worrying, no matter how well you can take care of yourself. It's what we do. We worry."

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"But you don't doubt who I am or my abilities," she said quietly as tears started sliding down her cheeks. "You and Sean won't turn away from me if I fail at something and get hurt. No matter what happens to me, you two will always love me."

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"Exactly." Eve kind of wanted to punch Johnny. Not that she actually would, but oh God did she want to for hurting her daughter like this.

Oh, the lecture that boy was gonna get when or if they ever got back together.

"We may flail at you and lecture and flail some more, but we will never stop loving you."

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"And you understand me... that I have to fight and I have to get better because there are people out there who will never stop coming after me. If you shelter me from everything, I'll never learn and I will die."

There were a lot of her own fears and self-doubts bleeding through her words.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"Exactly." Eve pulled away a little, but only to brush Savannah's tears away. "We want to shield you from everything and if we could do it, we probably would. But we can't. So we just make sure you're as well-equipped to face the world as you possibly can be."