>>5818832It didn't matter if it was a bad idea, or dangerous, or untested. She wanted this, and so did you. You both were animated as if possessed as you cleared the space in the old, dusty classroom, and in some ways you WERE possessed: not by a spirit, but by an idea… or perhaps by two ideas, different and yet curving towards the same single point.
“What element should we draw upon?” Izirina had asked, almost giddy.
“Humans are mostly water… Maybe that’s safest?” you’d hazarded
“The water summoned forth from the Elemental Plane of Water isn’t LIKE mundane water,” Izirina advised you. Humans shouldn’t drink it until it’s been rendered inert. Fish cannot safely swim in an animated water elemental.”
This only raised further questions and concerns, and yet in that moment—feeding into one another’s excitement as you were—that didn’t give you pause. Rather, it further exhilarated you. You WOULD have your answers—both of you—and that journey to discovery and to understanding began here and now, in this room. You could FEEL it.
“Lightning.”
Izirina paused in her actions, looking to you with surprise in her eyes.
“W-what?” you demanded.
“Nothing,” she said with a smile. “it’s just… Yes. I think so.”
Ever since learning <Summon Elemental II>, your range of elementals which you could summon and control had expanded. There was no Elemental Plane of Lightning, but by drawing energies from two other planes—in this instance, fire and air—you could combine their essences into one ephemeral being and preserve it for a time. It wasn’t unlike how one might cast <Lightning Bolt>, really, just for a longer duration. Combining the principle with <Elemental Infusion> was just one more admixture, with a material focal point to bind it to…
That focal point being Izirina Henzler.