Rain Dance

Kimi nodded. "Are you alright?" She asked softly.

"Yeah, nothing I'm not used to," Voltaire answered. His back still tingled and stung some.

"Hi Volty! Hi Kimi!" Ava greeted as she walked over to them.

"Oh hey Ava," Voltaire greeted, holding up the food bag. "Got some goodies for Adair. Is he still in the medical wing?"

"Yes," said Ava sadly. "He's sleeping right now."

"Should we take it to him?" Kimi asked softly.

"I can take it to him," replied Ava, grasping the bag with her beak. "He should be better and hungry when he wakes up."

The phoenix walked off in the other direction with the edible cargo. Voltaire debated following her, and then decided not to. Adair wouldn't be feeling sociable if he was sleeping.

Kimi slid her hand into his again. "Do you want to go back to the room?" She asked

"Yeah, that sounds good," Voltaire replied. "We can get some fire practice in. As fun as setting certain changelings on fire would be, it wouldn't be a good idea."

"Alright. I'm not choking on the smoke anymore" Kimi smiled.

"That's good," Voltaire replied. "Making progress on your own, huh?"

Kimi nodded. "I was lonely and bored."

"The mothers of experimentation," Voltaire remarked as they arrived at their room. "Let's see, we need some targets..."

Kimi shrugged and returned to her corner. She sat down on the blanket and watched him.

Voltaire shuffled around trying to find suitable targets. He didn't want to go to the gym area if he didn't have to. It would be too crowded for Kimi to concentrate. Eventually he decided to raid Ava's nest of some straw and bundle them up to create tall targets. He put three of them four feet apart from each other, placing them against the wall opposite to Ava's nest.

"There."

Kimi looked at the bungles curiously. "What do I do?" She asked.

"Try to hit them with your firebreath," Voltaire explained. "You need to learn how to aim."

"From here?" Kimi asked

"Well, from where I'm standing," Voltaire replied. "The advantage of firebreath is that it's a distance attack."

"I thought I was too close" Kimi replied. "But if you think its far enough..." She exhaled a short burst of fire and struck the farthest target head on, being careful to exhale the smoke afterwards.

"Nice job," Voltaire replied. "Maybe we should back up some."

"Where do you want me to stand?" Kimi asked

"Right about here," said Voltaire, walking a couple feet back.

Kimi got up and stood where he indicated. She faced the targets and aimed again. She hit the remaining two targets just below and left of center. "How's that?" she asked

"Good, very good," Voltaire praised. He went off to make more targets. "Really the gym area would be better for this, but it's usually pretty crowded this time of day."

"We could always train later." Kimi suggested.

"Yeah, guess so," Voltaire admitted, though he had already made more straw target bundles. "Well if nothing else let's see if we can get you breathing white fire. You probably wouldn't have much trouble with it."

"Well how do I make the fire white?" Kimi asked, tilting her head.