NIKI
"That is my understanding, yes," Niki says with another nod. "I suppose it is not outside the realm of possibility that I would be able to animate larger specimens as well, should the magic grow stronger." Thus far his crowning achievement has been a housecat, but by the confusion already dancing across Melita's face, he doubts she would find it as exciting as it had been for him at the time. Nevertheless, she agrees to let him show her, and it's his turn to fight to keep his expression neutral as he uncaps the jar.
"Very well," he says, holding out a hand towards the butterfly and falling quiet to concentrate. With a slow and deliberate clench of his fist, something frightfully cold pulses through the air, something other, before the insect is suddenly twitching its legs and flexing its colourful wings. A few test flutters and it rises into the air and out of the jar, perching on the rim of the glass before them. "There you have it." Niki smiles.
"Very well," he says, holding out a hand towards the butterfly and falling quiet to concentrate. With a slow and deliberate clench of his fist, something frightfully cold pulses through the air, something other, before the insect is suddenly twitching its legs and flexing its colourful wings. A few test flutters and it rises into the air and out of the jar, perching on the rim of the glass before them. "There you have it." Niki smiles.
my body's on the line now; I can't fight this time now
I can feel the light shine on my face
I can feel the light shine on my face
