Oops

[thecanopycrew]

It's still early in the morning as the increasing winds roar outside the little fairy homes, rustling the small balconies and gusting slightly through the crack in the fourth floor wall. It's nothing but a bit of bad weather, something the week has been full of.

...that is, until a deafening crack is heard outside the tree, only to thunder into the tree itself with such force that it shakes the whole trunk.

The air is quickly filled with ash and soot, blackening everything outside.

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[monster_san]

Fuu instinctively shouted when the stricken tree crashed down and regretted it at once when her mouth filled with ash. She quickly clamped her hand over her nose and mouth as it pattered against her glasses, which at least kept some of it out of her eyes.

This was what she got for cabin fever! She felt around for the trunk and jerked her hand back as she felt the shudder, her instincts screaming earthquake on top of this disaster. She couldn't see a thing... raising her hand, she sputtered "Binding Wind!" through the soot. It would not actually do much to bind particulate matter, but she just wanted the breezes to clear enough of a circle around her to see where she was going. She had been lucky, but others might not be so. Pulling her collar up over her face, she hurried into the soot to look for them.

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[2wei]

Being unable to use wind magic herself was troublesome, but Illya herself had decisively come up with a countermeasure to break wind regardless by using a thin, and fast beam that worked to disperse the air, even as she covered her mouth up with her arm.

"Hey!" the smaller girl waved with enthusiasm, but with a serious inclination to her voice.

[monster_san]

Fuu whirled in the direction of the shout to see Illya clearing away the soot with some magic of her own. She waved back, not wanting to inhale deeply and end up coughing on what was still in her throat. Instead she made her way over so that they were in better speaking range--the tremors had ceased and the ground didn't seem uneven so perhaps this wasn't an earthquake after all.

"Miss Illya! Are you okay?" She looked up through the blackish haze, where the outline of the fallen tree could dimly be seen. "Did you see that?!"