"Things are going to get more interesting with my powers at your hand, Ella" The wavy hair settled around her shoulders as she listened to the crystal's babbling. She twitched her lips over and then kept her steady gaze at Kellen.
"Let's decide a session for our duelling training," Kellen whispered near her. She could have jumped up in excitement outside but her reddened face was all the glory of hysteria gathering inside her. The hazel-green pair waited for her short nod, he was too excited for this huge exchange of their powers and duelling them together to form another new takt.
"Weekend?" She asked looking at him. Kellen avoided the praise as of now and pondered his attention on Ella. He smiled at her.
"Yeah, tell me the time and place and I will come." She pressed her lips together to stop her infinite hanger-like smile. Kellen noticed her sincere struggle and frowned at his face.
"Is something wrong?" He asked her lowering his head. She shook her head and looked down. Within a second she flashed a smile at him with her boldface.
"Evening is fine." She said slyly.
"Alright, and place?" He asked her. Her cheeks flushed again. 'Dumbhead he is asking if you would like to come to his place or invite him to your room' She cursed herself mentally. 'Answer faster doofus' She thought too loudly that it almost scared her that the jacket bearer might hear her.
"If it is too confusing, you come here in the evening today as we will be having a short discussion on the recent leaking of Evil Entities from Dark Realm." He explained the topic of discussion. Ella on the other hand had known this word when the crystal used some kind of Dark Power to freeze her in place. As if her soul was in a time freeze. She was trying with all her might to at least move the fingers over her body but failed to do so. Only after a sudden squeal, she was able to move her tongue and her mouth. She thought that it must be due to the crystal using a takt combined with his Urja to stop her in time freeze and then control the takt around her body.
"Ella," The jacket bearer called her which broke the infinite train of her thoughts about the crystal and the origin of its powers.
"Yes, I will come. Perhaps, I can find something for my own research." Kellen was too worked up for the discussion and now having Ella too with him somehow eased his drained thoughts. Jareth is already with him and now Ella, slowly he will get the whole group together to work on this problem and somehow find a way to push Cassandra and the Shimer sisters out of this.
As fast as they both watched the learners yet had to run their takt again for creating the shell. The learners could only generate a spark which was nothing but the small colour of glowing fire and ribbons according to their colours. What confused Ella was that there were mostly two or three coloured takt for each learner but on the other hand, hers was different and scary. She had almost a huge colour palette of crystal running inside her and another palette of contrasting colours inside. Her face was scrunched up as she thought about how difficult this transition and Urja's power is.
"How will I become the talented Shimer if only thinking about takt horrifies me?" She said to herself slowly.
The day has been set, the session was already over when the sun was bright over their heads burning their skin. It was lunchtime and then the learners were told to practice for their upcoming line-up.
Ella smiled at her group and paced towards the pillars where the corridor invited all the students to pass by and walk towards their desired place.
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Kellen strolled towards the corridor with Jareth walking casually by his side. The jacket bearer was thinking of the topics to be discussed about the Evil entities and he was too occupied with it. "Did you hear that Cassandra's planning to sneak you out alone with her?" Jareth shot a smug smile over his lips.
The Mentalian Shimer was far more authentic when it came to his looks. His eyes were the epitome of the aquatic sea green shade which painted an abstract over his pupils. He had more of a smooth jawline rather than a sharp one and his face was a rectangular-shaped face. He matched the same height as Kellen probably an inch taller than Kellen but doesn't make any difference for someone who looks at them from far away or near.
"Who cares?' He said shrugging his shoulders. Jareth almost lost his huge smile but got it back again as he caught sight of the locket bearer walking towards the wide corridors.
"Ohh How can I forget, you have a date with El..." Kellen almost stuffed his palms inside his face while stopping the mentalian Shimer. Ella caught them messing around on her path.
"What is happening here?" She asked looking at the duo with the weirdest look on her face.
"Mhmm mmhmm" Jareth struggled while moving his body. Kellen shortly smiled and looked at her.
"Ohh don't worry about that, he seems to be having an upset stomach and almost puked over Cassandra." Ella gasped looking at the Mentalian Shimer. Jareth glared at his best bud with a 'you-are-dead' look and followed a pleading look at Ella.
Ella misunderstood his reaction and moved aside, "Ohh you poor guy, you must be feeling nauseous here, Kellen quickly take him to the healing den. but not before having a short run through the washroom just in case he pukes." Ella caught a huge breath after her sentence.
"Ohh yeah, don't you worry about that. I will take him there. But here, he was just about to puke whereas I saw you coming towards us so I pushed my hand over his mouth..." Ella opened her face in the most disgruntled manner and looked at Kellen.
"Seriously, what is wrong with you both? If he is about to puke, why are you stuffing your hand in his mouth?" She asked again shaking her head. Ella was too disgusted with the talented Shimers. 'Does becoming a talented Shimer, make you like this? Or is it just them?' She thought.
"No, nothing, we will meet you on the lawn today as decided." Kellen plastered a short smile and waited for her reply.
Ella got too suspicious over their sudden weird acts but passed those thoughts away after Kellen mentioned about the discussion. She nodded, "Yeah I will come," She said and watched them as the duo jerked each other while straight towards the other side. Rather it was Jareth pushing his weight over Kellen and Kellen holding his mouth to seal his talks.