Hotel Selten

Training Helper

“Alright, you are here today for training. Am I right?”

Ophelia nods to Thilda, they are on the training grounds, it’s already 5 in the morning. “Well, I need to unleash my power.” Thilda looks at the brunette teenage girl with her eyebrows raised. “You still don’t know what is your ability?” Ophelia nods again as Thilda stops herself from laughing. “Even a clue?”

“Well, Miss Eve suggests it’s either I have water or telekinesis, Blaise then contradicts that, since my magic is behaving differently.” Thilda holds her chin as she turns to her back. She grabbed some cans and placed them on a table. “If you have the telekinesis, try lifting this or something.” She taps the can as Ophelia looks at them. “Don’t worry, they are light.” She crossed her arms. 

Ophelia closes her eyes and extends her arms, just like how telekinesis works on movies she watched some time ago. She tries to focus and imagine that she is lifting the can. Seconds later, she opens her eyes. She looks at Thilda who shrug at her. “Try again.” She sighs as she closes her eyes and extends her arms again. She focuses and muttering, ‘Rise. Rise.’, under her breath. She opens her eyes again and she saw a disappointed Thilda. “You can’t even lift it at least a centimeter. Try it again.” 

They were disturbed by Peony who seems to carry a jug of water. “I have refreshments!” Thilda turned to her and smiles, “Put it on the small table there.” She commanded, “Alrighty!” Peony puts the jug on a small table and gets some cups. Ophelia tries for the third time to lift the cans but it was a failure, the third time. She tried and tried but it was no to avail. Thilda is really disappointed. 

Peony served them some water, she accidentally slammed it on the table, making a portion spills off the table. “Oops, sorry.” Ophelia drinks up as well as Thilda, “It’s fine, gladly it’s still early, or we will be burning in the sun.” The green-haired girl giggles and she looks at Ophelia who seems in deep thinking. “Hey, Ophelia! You can do this!” The teenage girl looks at her and smiles. 

Peony took their cups as they finished it and the other two continues. Ophelia again closes her eyes and extends her arms. She focuses on lifting the cans. Outside her vision, Thilda was crouching and looking as if the cans have lifted even a millimeter. She saw with her own two eyes the droplets of water that have spilled before slowly approaches the can on the left, it swirls around the can as it levitates on the air. It was already an inch above the table as it drops, making a ‘clank!’ sound, Ophelia opens her eyes and panting a bit.

Unlike the previous ones, Thilda’s face was not disappointed anymore. It was a face of success. “Did I—” “Do it again, try it without closing your eyes.” Ophelia was a bit confused, but the sound earlier might be from the can. She extends her arms without closing her eyes. The water droplets again surround the can as the can slowly levitate in the air. Ophelia’s mouth gape, in front of her eyes, the can is levitating. 

“COOL!” The can suddenly drop as Peony shouts, Ophelia was shocked by her sudden speaking. The enthusiastic girl suddenly got embarrassed. “I am sorry, I didn’t mean to…” Thilda chuckles, “It’s okay to admire that.” The brunette teenager approaches the can and grabs it, it was wet. She looks at Thilda who looked back at her. “If you are gonna ask about the water, you controlled the water to lift the can, but not you lifting the can.” It was a little bit rude, but it’s just Thilda, the one and only.

Ophelia looks at her hand, “So I have the water?” Thilda nods, “Well, another challenge! Peony, get that jug in here!” Peony gives them a thumbs-up as she lifts the jug. “Also the cup,” Thilda added. “Sure thing!” The joyful girl brings the jug of water and cups to them. Ophelia looked at the girl in front of her, confused. Thilda just smirked and places a cup in front of her and opens the jug and makes it sit on the farthest side of the table. 

“Here’s the challenge. I want you to fill this cup with the water from the jug.” Ophelia with her determination, nods. She extends her arms again, and in Thilda’s perspective, a stream of water slowly goes up from the jug. Ophelia imagines to make it go nearer her and the water seems to read her mind. It slowly approaches her. Then, noise from a bird disturbed Ophelia’s focus, making the stream of waterfalls down the table, splashing a bit. “You wasted some good water. Try not to be disturbed again.”

Ophelia sighs as she tries again, the water went up from the jug and makes its way through her. As it reaches her, she slowly puts it down the cup. Thilda smiles and claps, “Good job, but it still needs improvements. The movement was still slow, and you need to do it more effortlessly since you don’t need to be all like that in a battle or something, that just looks so dumb.” Ophelia just nods at her comments as Thilda closes the jug and grabs the cup of water Ophelia just fills in and drinks it. “That’s all for this session. You should go and grab some breakfast if you want.” The brunette girl smiles, “Thank you.” Then, she heads back to the main building. 

She went upstairs where some of the residents are still eating, some already finished up. There were 8 left on the table, including Miss Eve, who seems tired and still sleepy. The eye bags under her eyes says it all. “Good morning.” She greeted, she received some responses. She sat two chairs away from her and served herself with some salad and chicken.

“Were you the one training with Thilda?” Ophelia was gonna bite the chicken when Miss Eve asked her. She nods and bites away, “Oh, I was indeed a little sleepy. I was even unsure if that’s you.” The lady giggled. “Miss, why are you like that…? Uhm… You seem… A little bit…”

“Sleepy?” The lady continued the teenager’s question. “Well, I have to do something last night. I already slept past 12 in the midnight.” Miss Eve smiles to assure her everything’s fine, as well as the others who were eating with them. “I am used to this, I can make it up sometime, so don’t worry.” Ophelia nods as she continues to eat. The lady asked, “How was your training?”

“Well, it’s not actually training. It was a discovery of my power kind. I guess I need to discover more of what I can do.” The lady smiles, “Can you show me what you have discovered?” Ophelia’s heart beats faster as the lady requests that, she was nervous to perform one here at the table since she might screw it or something. 

“I am afraid, Miss Eve. I can perform one after breakfast, but not here please.” She was hiding from her hair a bit as she chews her food. The lady smiles, “Don’t worry, it will be kind of training for you for things that are risky.” Ophelia gulps as she looks at the pitcher with cold water and looks at the drinking glass in front of her. She extends her hand slightly and focuses to lift the water. The other residents who were still at the dining table watch her. 

The water rises a bit, but Ophelia felt the coldness of the water creeps in through her arms. The water keeps rising along with the cold creeping inside her arm. Her hand starts to get colder. She suddenly stops as the water drops, splashing a bit, spilling some of its contents. She holds her hand which is so cold that she can’t take it. The lady approaches her to check her. “What happened?”

“My hand is so cold!” It was painful for her, she was hissing in pain. She turned to the fireplace who was thankfully lit and warms her hand there. “I guess you can feel the temperature of the water too, I really suggest not to control hot water, yet.” Ophelia was rubbing her hands as she looks at the lady. “I wasn’t ready for that.” Miss Eve comforts her. “Are you okay now?” Ophelia nods, “I am glad to hear that. Finish your breakfast and go on your day.” The brunette teenager did, she was full enough to go on another training.

Before that, she went to the laboratory to check on Blaise and say what she finds out about her magic and power. After three knocks, the door opens. “Hey, hey, hey, Ophelia! Good to see you again!.” Blaise with his messy hair greeted while Ophelia just smiled at him. “Come in, come in.” She enters the lab and she saw a messy work table of Blaise just sitting just a few meters away from them. Blaise noticed the little shock on Ophelia’s face, “Well, I am experimenting again in your magic and other magic too. I am trying to find a way to make use of mind-related magic rather than leaving them behind.” They both approach the work table with a lot of test tubes and test tube related machines and other devices. “Tell me about what you found out about your magic.”

He draws his gadget and he’s ready to type in some of her statements. “Well, I definitely have some magic on the water.” Blaise nods as he starts to type, “I still need practice though.” The blonde boy clicked his tongue, “Is there anything suspicious about your magic?” “Well, is feeling the temperature of the water I control is suspicious?” Blaise's fingers were suspended in the air. “That maybe is related to your magic and might be a hindrance for you one day. Anything else?” Ophelia looks down and thinks. “I think that’s all.”

“Ohkay. Base on my experiments, your magic goes well then minutes later it just explodes, just the same as before. I tried to have different amounts of your magic, but it still doesn’t work. Also, its time before the explosion is really inconsistent even in the same particular amount. It’s like it got a mind of its own and doesn’t like any magic to mix with it.” Blaise was scrolling back and forth and tapping a lot of area on his gadget, it seems that the experiment took a lot of time. 

“Mind of its own?” Blaise chuckles at Ophelia’s curiosity. “That’s just a metaphor, but in real terms, it’s just behaving strangely. Didn’t encounter this headache before.” Ophelia lowers her head, “Sorry.” The boy in front of her looks at her, “Hey, don’t be sorry. I am even happy that I encounter this kind of situation, it’s hard to study magic without any reference you know.” Blaise hid his gadget. Anyways, I might be needing another batch of your magic.” Ophelia nods and they went to get another test tube of an extract of her magic.

After that, Ophelia went back to the training ground at 10 in the morning. “Training grounds might not be suitable for you. We need the public bath for your training, gladly everyone is already done bathing. Come on.” They went to the public bath, there was no one there, as Thilda said. It was all for her, along with her trainer. 

“Try to manipulate the water in any way you can.” Ophelia heaved a sigh as she extends her arms and focuses on moving the water. The water in the public bath starts to make little waves. “Go more.” Ophelia squints her eyes as the water starts to rock on the pool. “That’s great. Now try to raise some of it.”

Ophelia stretches and goes back to her position again, the water starts to rise, but not in a good way. She is rising too much water, she is lifting almost all of the water in the pool.

“HEY GUYS!”

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