On the plus side, it seemed unlikely anyone else had been down this way in recent years or the bridge would already have collapsed beneath them. On the minus side, someone really didn't want people casually coming this way, if those metal spikes were anything to go by. He made it across on light feet, and Evie was right behind him, but the crack of the ice beneath Hotaru's feet had him turning to see what the problem was. Given time he could probably raise a rough wall of stone to the height of the bridge from the ground beneath, creating a sturdier, if less pretty, bridge, but in the moment he wasn't sure there was time for that. Instead he knelt immediately, stripping off a glove as he went so he could press his hand to frozen stone while he reached within and stroked the shimmering threads of his magic, playing across the green and brown strings of Earth in his soul and harmonizing with the gold of Healing.
He attempted to work with the boards and supports of the wooden bridge, using his combined Earth and Healing magic to strengthen it and remind it of the life it had once held. He couldn't turn back time, but he tried to call new life into the base the wood gave him to work with, growing it thicker and stronger beneath the ice and anchoring new roots into the stone on their end of it so that it would hold long enough for Hotaru to cross safely.
"Onwards and inwards?" He invited his brave friends with a crooked smile once the danger was past.
Jigano attempts to combine Mastered Earth and Mastered Healing to create new growth along the bridge to strengthen it and anchor it in the stone until Hotaru has crossed. He chooses to continue onwards afterwards.
He attempted to work with the boards and supports of the wooden bridge, using his combined Earth and Healing magic to strengthen it and remind it of the life it had once held. He couldn't turn back time, but he tried to call new life into the base the wood gave him to work with, growing it thicker and stronger beneath the ice and anchoring new roots into the stone on their end of it so that it would hold long enough for Hotaru to cross safely.
"Onwards and inwards?" He invited his brave friends with a crooked smile once the danger was past.
Jigano attempts to combine Mastered Earth and Mastered Healing to create new growth along the bridge to strengthen it and anchor it in the stone until Hotaru has crossed. He chooses to continue onwards afterwards.
