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Tales of Arise | Law x Rinwell | G rated
Fic summary: Astral energy was supposed to be dangerous, something only Renans could wield. Yet here was Rinwell, bright and joyful and the complete opposite, dancing like a butterfly on the winds.
And sometimes, Law wondered.
Magic, Law always believed, was dangerous.
Any Dahnan interested in staying alive learned to identify the tell-tales signs of an astral arte from an early age. The flash of bright eyes. The thrum in the air. The unmistakable scent of power, converging at a single source, before bursting forth in an explosion that shook the world in raw, elemental fury.
Law was intensely familiar with the devastation that was often left in an astral arte’s wake. Familiar with the cruel smirks of the Renans as they looked over their dirty work, the taunts of might making right. The careless ease of astral artes that so easily took life away.
He’d seen it with the Renans in Cyslodia, with Ganabelt. He’d come to expect anyone with that much power to be dangerous, unable to appreciate the life of those who didn’t have that same power.
But then there was Rinwell.
Her artes were dangerous, far more than some of their foes. Hell, he’d seen her summon massive cyclones from nothing, seen her dancing in the gale above him as her chants rained meteors on the battlefield. She was only fourteen, and here she was, fighting alongside the rest of them using her incredible command over astral energy to turn battles in their favour.
But the concept of Rinwell being dangerous just didn’t mesh in his head.
Not when she smiled so brightly, laughed so warmly. Not when he’d catch her pouring over one of her tomes, mild sparks of astral energy gathering in the palm of her hand. Not when Hootle or Alphen would ruffle her hair and she’d make an indignant noise before Kisara gave her Shionne’s freshly baked sweets to calm her down.
Not when her astral artes ghosted over his skin, leaving him completely untouched save for the warm tingle of her presence. When her winds would stop an enemy coming after him in its tracks, and he’d glimpse her relieved smile from across the battlefield. When there was never the same cruel pleasure in her eyes that he’d grown to associate with astral artes.
And sometimes, Law… wondered.