"And the weird hair color stays across shapes too," Felix says and then he demonstrates by turning into full gryphon form with a red mane.

"What exactly does 'control' entail?"

"Firebending and airbending!"

"Avatar-style? Really? Gestures and all?"

"The gestures aren't required or elaborate, but it is easier if I," Fenris twirls his index finger in their direction and there is an unnatural whirlwind around her head.

"Why is that a curse? I guess the part about the hair could count as a curse before the invention of modern hair dye. Also, why the hair and why does it stop growing when it reaches the length?"

"We have no idea. As we said, record-keeping wasn't great at the time. It might be that the curse part was just about the hair, but the family refers to both the curse and the elemental powers as one thing."

"And it doesn't just stop growing. If I shaved my head it would grow back to the exact same length in less than a minute."

"That is even weirder."

"Do the elemental powers always come with? And why is it easier to use gestures?"

"So far no one displayed the elemental powers without also having the colorful hair. I can tell you everyone alive has tried. And it's hard to describe why the gestures make it easier."

"The closest analogy I could think of is that without the gestures it's like moving something only a finger, while with the gestures it's like using your entire hand. Except it doesn't quite cover it."

"Well show us more!"

"Fenris is better at it than me since he is less destructive, but sure," Felix says before creating a tiny flame on his palm and then making it dance on his arm.

"I was training to make the air colder," Fenris says, "but the Freeze makes that rather redundant."

He waves his arms vaguely and makes a chilling breeze.

"Cool. Speaking of which, about trading Cards..."

"Yeah, we wanted to trade one of ours for Fly."

"Good, which one?"

"I kinda want to get a better sense of the Mirror and the Illusion before giving them up. And Windy, Silent and Shield are too useful for combat. Through is useful for cardcapturing. The others are up in the air."

"We actually would like to train a bit of every card. But for trading we were interested in the Illusion and the Rain."

"Why those in particular?"

"Well, we would want to test first, but Illusion is a handy thing to have when you need to disguise your true nature. And Rain is both a good combo with the Freeze and Felix would be reassured to have it around."

"Reassured?"

"My power is dangerous."

"Why not just use a water spell?"