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Dec. 3rd, 2011 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[Studying with Lion, because he can take the time to work on magic with his friend. And he had some business ideas to pass on to her as well. But studying first, and it's a little relaxing to just calmly read alongside someone.]
[Except the book he's reading... There's a certain ritual he's turned to. At first, it seemed rather normal among all the other blood rituals. Surely useful, and powerful. But as he continues to read he feels his breath stop and his body go numb and heavy with each word. Everything is wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Even through his detachment he feels the emotions grip his heart and squeeze, hurting badly enough to make him feel a vague sense of panic and pain sharp enough to pierce his detachment.]
[He leans his forehead in his palm, staring blankly at the page. He's glad he can't feel too strongly, or he's sure he'd be crying. He doesn't want to explain to Lion why a book of magic would make him cry, and the thought, oddly enough, makes him laugh bitterly.]
[Except the book he's reading... There's a certain ritual he's turned to. At first, it seemed rather normal among all the other blood rituals. Surely useful, and powerful. But as he continues to read he feels his breath stop and his body go numb and heavy with each word. Everything is wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Even through his detachment he feels the emotions grip his heart and squeeze, hurting badly enough to make him feel a vague sense of panic and pain sharp enough to pierce his detachment.]
[He leans his forehead in his palm, staring blankly at the page. He's glad he can't feel too strongly, or he's sure he'd be crying. He doesn't want to explain to Lion why a book of magic would make him cry, and the thought, oddly enough, makes him laugh bitterly.]