When Hyacinth comes home to her new apartment for the first time after a long day at university, it's to the sight of moving bots just finishing dropping off the last of her stuff and moving furniture into place. The full-immersion VR pod her parents gave her is safely hooked up in the pod room, her bed is in her bedroom, she has chairs and a desk and some bookshelves. Clothes are mostly still in boxes, waiting to be hung up in the closet. Holovid and a cozy chair occupy the living room. She doesn't have any food in the small kitchen yet.
"I mean." She kindles a Flare in one hand, holding it in place with its Held Spell node. "What's the point of living in a fantasy world if you don't get to have fun with it?"
She holds up her saber, which is briefly wreathed in a dark aura. "Mood," she replies with a laugh.
She looks around for a nice patch of rocks - it's getting barren enough, now - and lets the spell dart out and splash across them harmlessly.
It splashes across the rocks and stays put, a patch of rocky land about two meters across burning steadily.
"Oh that looks awesome." She darts into the flames for a moment and back out. "And my resistance seems to handle it well enough."
"Let me try."
Hyacinth walks out into the burning patch of ground, very prepared to turn right around if necessary.
She isn't burned! It stings a bit, but not in a way that's building up any, and oddly has a sort of cozy vibe.
"I can staaaaaaand in it," she sing-songs. "It stings a little, but not unpleasantly."
"I'm used to this level of pain from Realms of Dragons," she chirps, stepping out of the fire. "It adds a bit of spice. Nothing like that bite that happened earlier."
"Not gonna lie, calling the sting spice inspires Thoughts, but I probably should do more than just flirt."
She charges up a shadow cutter on her saber, then cuts the top off a large rock. It doesn't go quickly, but the blade slices smoothly through the stone, leaving her a chunk of rock in her hand. She starts carving it.
She grins warmly at Sin. "Challenging my art skills a bit. Maybe make something pretty. Start with something easy, then something a little more worthy of showing off, while figuring out how smoothly this thing can cut.."
She cuts it in half, and gradually carves a heart.
... Awwwwwwwww.
Okay, this girl might be strange but she thinks her heart is in the right place.
She is content to watch.
Okay, that worked well, it's smooth but not fast. She tosses the heart-shaped rock to Sin. With the other half she starts working on something more delicate. "I don't want to stop you from practicing, but also I don't mind if you wanna watch."
"... I like watching you work with your hands." Her gaze is maybe lingering a bit on Sable's forearms.
"I'm glad." She smiles gently and keeps working. At first it's a vague round shape, then some short grooves start to spiral around the top, and then gradually it becomes more floral in form.
Over the next few minutes, the shape gets refined to be a delicate rose. Then she holds it out to Hyacinth with a soft smile.
She accepts it, hugs it to her heart, and puts it in her inventory.
"Thank you," she says. "I..."
She ducks her head. "Thank you."