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((A small piece of rp for you all, based on Ules' past. This is limited open rp, in that anyone who enevr decided on a past could originate around where Ules did, and as logn as they dont contradict anything that i've rp'd, could influence the storyline, as i dont have it set in stone what exactly happened here.))

Talking to brer about cliu recently had him thinking. Not just about cliu's death, but moreso deaths of people a bit closer. His parents. He thought about them on and off, every now and again, wondering how things could be different if they were still around, or if he could have prevented the death. But most of all, he thinks about how it happened to begin with

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It was a sunny day, and Ules was busy reading a book on different magical theories, excited because his parents were to teach him how to combine two local runes he had learned recently, to create a fireball, and perhaps teach him another couple of runes so that he could heal. A swelling feeling of joy swept throughout his body, as he was finally going to be able to continue what his parents had been doing.

He then reached a very interesting chapter in the book, that talked about how though magic is usually channeled from around the caster, it sometime can originate inside them, causing strange effects and sometimes the ability to learn multiple sets of local runes, when most people had come to say that one could only learn universal runes and one set of localized runes. Ules, being a boy of about 14 or so at the time, pondered about this, knowing his parents had always said that their family line was special with regard to magic. Perhaps this was what they meant. he quickly got up to go ask them about it.

His parents were currently busy healing someone. Ules, not having been seen by his parents yet, looked over to see who it was. It seemed to be a young woman, who had several large gashes and cuts on her, and some bruises on her face. The elder Felkos were casting a continuous spell, which was slowly closing the deep, still bleeding wounds, but being as harsh as they were, it was taking some time. Ules knew it would be best to wait until they were done, so he sat down.

Ules watched carefully as his parents' hands glowed with a bit of a white aura as they passe dover the last of the wounds on the woman. After they finished, the girl's eyes slowly opened, blinking once or twice, and taking a deep breath. Standing up, she looked at Ules' parents, and a bit nervously thanked them, before leaving rather quickly

"Mom, dad, why did she rush off so quickly?", Ules asked rather naively

His parents acted a bit startled before responding.

"Oh, well, she was just...shaken about what had happened", his mother stated, though ules knew she was lying, but didnt show it.

"Hmm, alright, well I have a question for you two, if you don't mind"

Ules' father responded, "Alright, what is it?"

"In this book you gave me, it talks about having mana flowing inside of some people, and you told me a while ago that our family is special when it comes to magic, is this why?"

The two wait for a second before responding

"Well, basically, yes, though that book doesn't cover it deeply enough."

"Yes, we'll have to explain it to you sometime, but for NOW, we need to teach you how to cast your first spell", his father said, causing Ules to give a huge smile, and clench his hands in happiness.

"Oooh, im so excited, let's go!", Ules said exstatically, running out to the field they had been using for lessons.

The two parents chuckled and followed after him.

"Alright Ules, first, you need to visualize the first rune, see it inside your head, know the rune, feel the rune. Know what you want to dowith it. Concentrate on this. Then do the same with the next rune, visualizing your target, and then speak the runes."

Ules was sitting down, in a meditative state, about 20 feet away from a large wooden target. He thought of the runes in his mind, really visualized them, until he knew it would work, he then chanted the words in a quiet voice, and then he unleashed a small fireball which rushed at the wooden target, hitting with a hard impact and causing it to both explode and burn on contact.

He opened his eyes, and smiled, realizing that the target was basically gone. He seemed to have a knack for this, he thought.

"Hah, did you see that? That felt great! And the target...wow!", he exclaimed, happy as can be

"Dont get overly confident Ules, a wooden target is easy enough to destroy. it won't do much to any foe yet, you need to tain it"

"That was easily powwerful enough to hurt someone! Heck i bet i could hurt you!", Ules barked, in an overly arrogant state of mind

"Oh really? Then fire one at me, see what it does"

Ules hesistated a moment

"But...I...i couldn't...I wouldn't do that to you!"

"Go right ahead, I'm sure I'll be fine"

Ules' mom rolled her eyes as ules hesitated some more, before finally starting to meditate again. He visualized his dad as the target, and then chanted the runes, causing a fireball to rush at his father. he opened his eyes right after he said the runes, and saw the fireball head toh is dad. When it finally got there, his dad lifted his hand and the fireball bounced right back towards Ules. Ules let out a slight scream and curled up ina defensive position, thinking the worst. As the fireball neared him, his mother quickly chanted a few runes and a small forcefield appeared in front of Ules, which absorbed the fireball. Ules then looked up, with a slight look of fear on his face.

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"Tha...that wasnt funny, dad....", says ules, fairly shaken

"You'll be fine, you know I wouldn't let you get hurt, Ules"

"I suppose...so, are we going to go find the runes I need to heal?"

"Alright, i geuss we can do that, I told you where the first one is earlier, lead the way"

Ules nods, and seemingly oblivious to what had just happened before, he runs off in a cheerful manner, wanting to get to the first runestone as quickly as he could