location: beach who? future ocean bro babe @divinelyembraced
christmas was approaching in a rapid pace, which meant … lev had been back in camp for almost …a year? did he make progress? was he… doing better? could he say that for himself? could he claim he'd improved since coming here? other than getting involved with the forge's son… that was. not that that wasn't an impressive step in a direction lev never thought he'd go, but it wasn't quite what he wondered about. when he came back to camp, he had … basic control of his element & now he was doing better - for sure, but .. had he made the maximum progress? or did he need to optimize his training… in a way? could he? what else could he possibly be doing anymore?
practice. practice. practice.
lev had chosen the best & the worst moment to be falling into a deep mental epiphany, because he had been at the beach in front of the poseidon cabin, practicing & he hadn't even been doing too badly. in fact, he'd been doing okay, but with his focus out the window & doubts creeping up on him, lev lost control of the wave he'd been bending left, right & upwards. eyes shot to the side to look for potential casualties & he found one one near proximity - close enough to the shore to be hit with the full brunt of it. fuck, fuck, fuck.
"move!" taking off in the guy's direction to pick up the shambles of yet another failed attempt at belonging, he couldn't …believe the guy was just staring at it like he wasn't about to get crushed.