(Sorry for that delay, I'm going to be busy on Wednesdays from now on)
Finish up my project and then see how the other students are faring.
You record and label both souls, and are then instructed to put the souls back. You put the grass soul back in but the table... well, it seems debatable whether that will change anything since the wood is dead.
You check on your teammates. You can actually see people's Kahigan quite clearly now as a green haze mixed in with the smoke.
The Cloaked Figure has been brooding over his blade of grass for a while now. It looks like he is trying to write with a quill using his Kahigan. Whether he is writing down the genetics of plant matter, or just scribbling, is anyone's guess.
Honoka Asimathin has destroyed several pieces of grass. You notice that many of them are withered, butchered, or burnt into ash. She seems to have procured some fine white sand from an hourglass with a cap on it, and is pouring a little bit on the blades every time.
Aquarius of Altarium has set his pipe down on the table and is staring intently at the blade of grass. You don't see Kahigan coming out of his back.
Mirroken seems to be finished and is idling about, unscrewing his own thumb and putting it back on repeatedly.
Wait, what?
"Sounds very slow progress. Surely alterations can be made without relying only on Genetics?"
Removing and adding soul had visible effects. Does removing and adding Genetics have any immediately (0-5 min) effects? Teach me more!
Adding the second flower genetics causes a second flower to grow within minutes. You watch it as it grows, very slowly, and progresses into full bloom. It looks better than the original flower.
Removing the second genetics causes the new flower to lose its color and turn grey from white.
"Genetics are nature's way of telling the flower, 'this is what you are like,' and the lion, 'this is what you must hunt.' We can intervene in this process, but permanent alterations certainly aren't the only way to alter nature. You can make transient alterations that last for a while..." he sees what you've done.
"Like what you did there. If you take away the extra Gene, the new flower won't wither away as fast as the whole plant would if you'd took both Genes."Withdraw both Kahigan from the block and the vial, and try to put out the fire, if possible.
[-] Err, the fire goes out by itself. Seems like the wood is too wet to actually catch fire. Good foresight courtesy of the lab instructor?
Speaking of which, it seems a graduate is the instructor for this lab rather than the professor. The professor himself is standing by, answering questions asked of him directly, while the lab instructor goes around intervening. You seem to
recognize him shouting at everyone, by his distinct appearance and voice...
"Alright you knuckle-draggin' half wits! If you want to do anything with your fire, you've got to learn to control it! Now, if you visualize a Kahigan going upwards, you'll use your Sha, which apparently half of you aren't getting. Then you tap the spell catalyst. Like this!"You see and hear a great eruption of flame from the staff. It circles around him like a tornado, kicking up dust and howling like a banshee, but he yells over it, not the least bit terrified of his own doing.
"This is what happens when you put your mind to it. Then you control it like this!"He casts another spell, apparently, focusing the tornado of fire into a thin beam, which he uses to draw a some kind of decorated circle into the soil below.
"So the point still stands then. Mages being the current sole supply of gunpowder is even more of a reason to make sure they are promoting the common good. Who knows what mess could happen if gunpowder got in the hands of unscrupulous individuals."
"It already is! The upper management is clear about honoring the will of the donor."Another girl, the girl who raised her hand at the start of the class ((Page 18!)), mutters,
"It is rumored that the original owner died but was never buried, and his ghost would take vengeance on whomever violated his terms..."