The Tidebreaker tilted his head in acknowledgment of her praise, though his magic was not yet as diverse as it could be. Someday, perhaps, he would create ice and soothe the superheated steam of volcanic vents, but for now he could manipulate water's liquid form with the ease of long practice. A quality that Hotaru could only guess at, as she explained, and he nodded again before swimming back a little ways into deeper surf.
'Yes," he agreed to her instruction, wasting no further words as he began to pull the surrounding water upwards in a great, broad wave that curved into a circular pillar. He rode atop it at first, then slipped down inside the column of ocean among a handful of very confused fish. The pillar rose twenty feet in the air before leveling off, though it extended invisibly beneath the water as well in an area where the currents suddenly ceased. One fish swam right out of the side of the column in a panic and fell ten feet to the ocean below, dazed for long moments before wriggling frantically away as Hadama followed calmly in its wake and poked his head out into the air to hear what was needed next.
'Yes," he agreed to her instruction, wasting no further words as he began to pull the surrounding water upwards in a great, broad wave that curved into a circular pillar. He rode atop it at first, then slipped down inside the column of ocean among a handful of very confused fish. The pillar rose twenty feet in the air before leveling off, though it extended invisibly beneath the water as well in an area where the currents suddenly ceased. One fish swam right out of the side of the column in a panic and fell ten feet to the ocean below, dazed for long moments before wriggling frantically away as Hadama followed calmly in its wake and poked his head out into the air to hear what was needed next.
