[SE] [Training] run baby run

there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters

It isn't often that Jack takes himself off for the day, but there's something to be said for a little bit of quiet, especially when you can suddenly summon lightning with little more than a thought. The magic had been useful against the void sea panther - for the brief moment he had been able to do anything to it, granted - but having since tried to use it with more subtlety, even the captain knows when he needs to improve.

The Ark can be seen from the shoreline of Metacarpal Island, a ruddy-sailed speck in the deep water, and Jack has rowed himself in one of her smaller boats, dragging it ashore and heading up the beach to find a space where he can practice without the island itself trying to make him into a meal. Rolling up the sleeves of his cloud grey shirt (it's new, crisp, and by the tailored fit of it, clearly picked out by Flora during their trip to Stormbreak), Jack takes a breath, gazes out towards one of the bleached skulls in the sand, and focuses.

On the plus side, the lightning that cracks down towards it does hit. But where Jack had intended to merely crackle it with electricity, instead, the skull explodes. And with no one around to see his startled hop backwards, he's once again thankful for his choice of location.