rock & roll // Rowan & Forrest
As much as Rowan had learned from sitting in his bathroom every other night and torturing his houseplants, there was the obvious need to progress into bigger and broader experiments. He had felt pretty beat up lately for killing his plants and going out to replace them the next day. The florists were probably getting suspicious of him popping in so much to supply his activities, and he realized it was probably better if he could find a way to practice without burning a hole in his wallet. The logical conclusion had led him to spend his afternoon well outside the town’s urban dwellings, substituting his small bathroom for a larger, more secluded plot in the woods. In hindsight, it was a much better location for the kinds of tests he wanted to conduct using his powers, and there was the comfort of knowing there wasn’t anybody well within distance of him. It wasn’t a huge deal, though. Whatever steps he needed to progress through to grapple his powers were crucial, even if the steps were small ones.
While he had thought offhandedly about what exactly he was going to do once he set himself up in the woods, there was a disconnect of what to do when he finally found himself standing there. Messing with the plants and trees out in the woods seemed like a bad idea, considering the weird character of the town’s landscape and the bad luck it would bring to alter it in anyway. Rowan also found it horribly disrespectful to practice on the trees, as most of them were probably older than him and probably wiser, considering he didn’t even have a grasp on himself yet. Biting his thumb, he searched for an alternative, finding his gaze resting on a rock as he thought. Narrowing his eyes, he reached down to pick it up and play with it in his hands. This wasn’t a facet he’d ever tried to explore before, and it intrigued him.
Collecting the rocks and lining them up on the ground, Rowan concentrated on his intent to pull them towards him without physically touching them. It was easy enough, as he stood directly in front of them, and they scurried to amass themselves on his shoes. He reset them, and took a few steps back to try again, finding the same outcome as the first test. Rowan repeated this, finding the difficulty increasing the farther he moved away, eventually unable to influence the rocks to budge at all thirty feet away. He still concentrated, and believed in his intent to manipulate the rocks, and slowly, they teetered and bumbled along the ground towards his general direction. His concentration left his other perceptions rather lacking; the only thing that mattered was him, the rocks, and the imperative goal that those rocks reached him, one way or another.