The sisters listened to Lykos’ explanation of why he tasked the ward the way that he had, and they found that it made sense. Neither one of them had any real training in Negation, though both of them understood some of the theory and the basics - Lia more than Lana, what with the fact that Hilana had refused it and spurned it in the time that she was at home. Lia, at least, had seen it in action far more often, and heard more about it from their father. But he had gone for the most direct course, which had been precisely what they’d asked of him. To block fire from it and not let it reignite.
Efficiency was a good thing, after all - especially since they were only days out of such an ordeal, and all of them were still recovering. Releasing vast amounts of aether that didn’t need to be spent was unwise, and taking it easy as much as possible was what the doctor had ordered. “Considering how powerful that shield was that destroyed the Void-shade who was attacking us, I would hazard a guess that the Negation is the one you resonate the most strongly with, yes. You’re likely right about that.” Hilana was in agreement.
“We will figure them out,” Lia smiled at him. “I would say that the odds are in our favour. You said that you believed another one to be Kinetics,” she looked at her sister, who put the text on Animus aside to sort through her Featherlight Satchel to withdraw the book on Kinetics, setting it on the table. “Hilana?”
“Kinetics is about the Aether Flux around us. Everything in this world is made of aether, right?” Hilana smiled at the Rathari. “Kinetics is about influencing that Flux and flow of aether to make ripples in it or effects as you would desire to produce. My friend Raithen, for example, has Kinetics, and he uses it with ranged weapons in order to enhance the way that they are used to create a devastating effect, piercing and flying much farther than they could otherwise. One of my other friends uses Kinetics to keep track of everything and everyone around him - he is able to sense things that are otherwise hidden to most of the senses using the Aether Flux.”
She sipped her lemon iced tea, and opened the book, checking the table of contents before turning to the appropriate page. “I thought I saw you use Push, or maybe Pull, earlier. Push is the ability to push an object by thinking about it and using the Aether Flux to will it to move in a direction that is away from you... kind of like ripples on water,” she introduced a drop of air in the pitcher of the iced tea, causing little ripples across the surface of the liquid contained within the crystalline pitcher. “Pull is doing the opposite, you redirect the flow of aether so that instead of going away from you... it goes towards you. Why don’t you try one of those?” The girl selected a date, one of Lykos’ absolute all-time favourite things so far, and threw it before catching it with the wind, letting it bob and dance a distance away from them. It was his for the taking... if he could retrieve it.
