They say that promises, sweeten the blow

@Leviticus
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Leviticus had settled in to his new role of principal rather easily. He wasn’t really the autoritary type, but people seemed to respect him and the new directions he had for staff and students alike. He jawned, turning on the light in his office and stopped for a second a he looked down at the floor, a teenage girl sleeping on his floor was not something he usually saw on monday mornings. She was however quick to introduce herself and he nodded, furrowing his brows as moved over and placed his bag on his chair, taking out a few notebooks as well as a laptop. ”Well Mariella, I have met you already – beautiful little baby you are, or were for you,” he said with a small chuckle. It was still awfully weird for him to think that his yet to be born child was walking around in Gaia, let alone was in this time. He placed his sunglasses in a drawer before he turned to Mariella and half sat on his desk. ”Would you care to explain what you are doing sleeping in my office – and not in, you know, your bed at home?” he asked, tilting his head to the side. He was rather good friends with Veronica, her mother, and had seen the twins from time to time. Mostly it was getting back into the groove of having a kid in his arms. The last child he held were when Joy was a mere babe, and that was many centuries ago.

Leviticus let the young girl take her time, he knew what it was like to be kept up in ones thoughts more than many others. From what he gathered something had happened, she needed some peace and her abilities were acting up. He looked at her flame in her hand, seeing it jump a bit as it was clearly hard for her to control. Getting to his feet he helped Mariella to her feet, looking into her eyes, almost as if he was studying her. ”Well it’s not as much control as it is moving with the elements – I hope I atleast have told you that in the future,” he said with a small chuckle. Their ability was a rarety, and it was an ability that Leviticus had spent most of his life mastering. She looked no older than seventeen, and she was still far too young to understand the implications of this ability, but he wasn’t going to send her away. That would put a danger on her and her surroundings. ”I’ll just ring up your mother, letting her know that I have you, and then I’ll make a few calls to get in a substitute for my lessons today,” he said with a polite smile. He couldn’t just run off without taking care of a bit of his work first. He called around first, getting someone to take his place in the classes he would have been teaching today. When that was sorted out he found his private phone, ringing up Veronica. She was probably still sleeping as it went straight to voicemail. ”Hi Ronnie, it’s Levi. I got your rather grown daughter in my care today – Say hi to Jess from me, and call me if you need further notice,” he said into the voicemail. Then he grabbed his phone, putting it in his front pocket, as well as his wallet, stuffing it in his back pocket. ”Now, let’s get out of this office and out into the sunlight – Maybe staying at the academy would be the best idea, so let’s move to the lake,” he said with a smile, opening the door for her. They moved down the hallways, out into the sunlight and down towards the school lake, often used by the sirens of the academy. He stopped a bit away from the water, looking at Mariella before he nodded, taking off his jacket and dropping it on the grass. ”Close your eyes and tell me what you are feeling,” he said in a calm voice.

Leviticus had had long enough of a life to know when someone felt out of it, so to speak. He could sense that in the young siren as she stumbled over her words to finally slur out a long string of emotions. Instead of interrupting her, he let her finish, opting to listen and take in everything she said. Leviticus was maybe a bit odd in his teaching methods, but he always wanted his student to tell him as much as they could in the moment. His green eyes looked at her hazel, giving her a reassuring smile, letting her know she was in a safe space. ”Now, I cannot read emotions, but I think I know what you are feeling right now,” he said, stepping closer and nodded towards the grass. He laid down on his stomach, sending her a smile signaling her to join him. ”Grief,” he said as she had laid down with him. He held his hand over a patch of grass, making the earth underneath move around a bit. ”Your mother’s are very smart, so I’m hoping you are aware of the five stages of greif and loss,” he said with a smile, moving the earth up. Two small golems of earth started moving around as he moved his hand, controlling it as he was speaking. ”First is denial,” he said moving one of the golems away from the other, making it cross it’s arms, turning it’s back to it’s little friend. ”Here, the world becomes meaningless and overwhelming,” he said, looking at the golems with sad eyes, using his emotions to channel the story he was showing with the golems. ”The denial helps us survive the initial shock, and helps us cope with the need to survive without the thing we have lost,” he said. He made the golem change element, now being made of fire. ”Then anger strikes,” he said, making the fire man jump around with a frown on it’s little face. ”Anger had no limit, but it becomes the anchor that gives you a sudden structure to this feeling of nothingness,” Leviticus explained. He knew about loss more than most he knew. Living for so long could have turned him bitter and lonely, but he had chosen a happy life. He had chosen it, because everyday he made that choice. The other earth golem he turned into a small whirlwind, fueling the fire man. ”Next comes bargaining,” he said, frowning a bit as he made the whirlwind and the fire man stand off in front of each other. ”You start wondering about what ifs, we want to go back in time, changing things we said or did in hope that it would have changed the reality we have right now,” he said breathing in. The whirlwind was turned into a crying water man, sitting down, wrapping it’s arms around itself. ”Then you start feeling the depression take a hold of you,” he said almost in a whisper, letting the feelings rush through him to fuel the little water man to cry even more. ”It feels like you’ll be in this state forever, sadness fogging your every move,” Leviticus said, even shedding a small tear as he felt the emotions run through his body in this moment. ”You feel like you are in a black hole, constantly surrounded by darkness, viewing the world through an obscure lense that just makes everything seem darker,” he said before he moved the fire man over to the water man. It sat down, wrapping it’s arm around the water man and they slowly started changing back to earth. ”Then the acceptance comes,” he said, looking at Mariella with a serious look in his eyes. ”You don’t feel magically better, but you start to feel alright with what has happened,” he said moving his eyes back to the small earth golems, frozen in place, embracing each other and sitting still.

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