Jess

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica frowns "Why can't I hurt them if they hurt me? And what if the rules and laws contradict the "Right thing" to do?" she shakes her head "There are way to many double standards. Soon you'll speak of honor and holding a higher ground, or stooping to their level...." She takes another drink of water, swallows and says "I think if people have enough common sense not to hurt me then they should deserve there peace and good health, otherwise they deserve any punishment I dish out to them."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"These are questions that people have written whole books about, honey. They're all hard questions. That's why we said that's the best thing to do now and in general. Life's complex and things happen. And sometimes you do need to protect yourself, but always in line with reason and the law. That may mean deadly force."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica frowns and nods "I understand...." *can we time elapse to the teacher?*

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Yes. Jess falls to sleep in Relan's lap. She is dimly aware in that haphazard and shifting way of the sleeping that the tab was paid, she was put into the car. She is driven into the slum section. Then she is woken up. There is a plain brick house in front of her, very nice compared to the other houses. This area is an explosion of color: flowers, murals and paintings are everywhere.

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica looks around and rubs the sleep off her face "Where are we?"

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"This is Akitake's!", Relan says as she again opens Jess' door. When Jess gets out, she suddenly sees a simply radiant woman in a white dress. A black rose is pinned to her lapel. She sniffes a rose and says, "Life. In all of its tumultous and crimson beauty, it never ceases to amaze."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica will stare at the women. "Can she tell me what I am to become? Or bring it out of me?"

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

*Woman.

"I can indeed, little one. But there is a story of long and old that must be told."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica gets out of the car(assuming she isn't out.) and takes Dejass's hand "Come with me?" giving him a small freightened face.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Dajess says, "Of course. I'll show you inside. And if you're scared, simply..." He reaches into his pocket and takes out an amulet with a triangular-shaped shiny stone in the center. "Tap this."

Akitake says, "There is no need to be afraid, young one. I could not harm such a radiant beauty as you. Tell me: What do you see in these flowers?"

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica will look at the flowers...(what does she see if anything but flowers)

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

She sees flowers. But she meant metaphorically... or did she?

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica frowns "I see flowers...." then she looks up into the old womans face with fire in her eyes. "I see life struggling to fight off the effects of entropy and stay whole just long enough to produce offspring so it may die and wither away, for all things must follow this process because all things are weak and all things will be weathered away by time, and widdled away by fate."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Akitake chuckles. "There is the flowers. And then there is the broader meaning. There is one voice in your head that sees them as flowers, a childlike voice. Then there is another voice, an alien voice, that sees them as rushing life, blood, blooming as furiously as they can... Now, these are toothwort. There is an incompletely dead poplar root underneath this lawn, and these purple flowers are growing off of what is left of it. But will all things be whittled away? What makes you so sure? And is impermanence truly weakness? The explosive is potent yet it is decidedly impermanent: the one is caused by the other."

[Ainsophaur]

Jess looks stern "Yes, they will all die one day. And yes it is a weakness, as mortality is the fate of all things so evading is shall be your all consuming goal."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"You answered a what with a reiteration of what you thought. Not all things die. Your father is immortal. And mortality may not be a loss but a gift. Can you think of why, possibly?"

[Ainsophaur]

Anyways Jessica finishs her clay lessons, and finishes her sculpture.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Itek nods. "I have always thought that to manipulate reality is like art. One develops an intuition or skill, acquires the raw ingredients, and plays. But it is also like playing with fire: One will inevitably get burned. Are you prepared to enter this world of flame and flux?"

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica tilts her head to the side and looks unsure. "I truely have no idea, but if I am not, but may i assume as you are my teacher that you would do nothing that would destory me?."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"I myself would do nothing to do so. I can't promise that nothing you would do couldn't destroy yourself."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica looks at her oddly "I think I already made that clear that im more then capible. I think we should do this."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"You think you're more than capable. A small degree of fear is no debit." Her palm faces upwards, and a screaming of a billion flies is heard. Blistering waves strike Jess, filling her with an incredible fear. A dancing ball that seems to form into a thousand maws is in her hand. "If you show a moment of hesitation, uncertainty, or overconfidence, this will eat you alive."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica "....what do you want me to do...." he stares at it thinking, she lied to me, shes going to get me killed.....this isn't fair...

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The ball disappears. The room seems to shrink again, and her form is innocuous once more. "Only to be cognizant of the dangers."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica will relax a bit and breath again then nod "I can recognize danger well enough...thou i believe at some point I may not care about it and simply let it attack me."(more jessica coming out.)

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

She reaches for a piece of paper. "Very well." Underneath Jess, taking her breath away with its spontaneity, the floor... wall... ceiling... EVERYTHING fall away, as if a brick wall hit by a bulldozer. White space is all that is left. She holds her hand out. "Now: In this space your innate powers will be greatly increased. You must get this piece of paper from me."

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica attempt to comprehend exactly what has happened. "Get the paper?" She looks at the woman, then at the paper and back at the woman again. Then she attempts to explore the nature of her power internally.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Jess reaches inside and finds... nothing. It's a terrifying sensation, especially with something right in front of her. Panic and fear settle in. Akitake stands still.

[Ainsophaur]

Jessica will pull her hand back away from the nothingness "This isn't right....something is wrong...."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"You can't always rely on your power! You can't always rely on anything! You must be prepared for any contingency! Now, get this paper!" Jess feels something within her now...