Snippet #2162619

OOC: I do not expect any of you to read past the beginning, but you can if you want.

Adamah never was all that good at keeping track of time, but the girls' seemed to be a little anxious to get back to their rooms before it was dark. "You both are welcome to... visit me here... whenever you would like. But right now... I need to finish... making my home. Even for me... it will take most of the... night." He stood up, and at the same time, his chair sunk back into the ground along with the tables. "I hope to see you... both... very soon." Then without waiting for a reply, he started his work.

He would first need to change the ground from grass and dirt, into the preferred cold granite, or marble. He set the border of his soon to be house in his head, and willed a foot tall ledge to move across the ground removing all organic life from the, and leaving only dirt. Next, He had to focus and feel the stones deep underground, and carefully bring as many as he could up, without destroying the foundation and causing the ground itself to cave in. He did this by pushing the dirt on top of the boulders he was pulling up, down to replace the space they were taking. Even so, the ground would be lowered a few inches, but he was ok with that. It would be nearly even by the time he was done. Once all of the rocks, and boulders he wanted were surface level, he proceeded to grind them into dust, leaving an enormous pile of grey and black sand in the center. Then, spreading it all out until it covered the ground like a sandbox, he concentrated on forcing the sand to condense until it was solid. but this was not enough. right now it was still soft, and would break too easily. he took another breath, and closed his eyes again, forcing the density of the slab of stone to raise, making it's size considerably smaller. Once he was finished, it was over half as small as the sand was when it was spread out across the ground. but it was the exact size he wanted it to be, covering the ground in a perfect circle, in the center of the clearing. One of the reasons he chose this spot in particular, was the cliff. The clearing was around 100 meters across, and was surrounded on three sides by a cliff that rose up between 50 and 200 meters depending on where you measured. His floor positioned perfectly, took up almost exactly one quarter of the area. But he was not finished. Next, he had to smooth out the floor until is was as glassy as marble. He dis this my shifting around the top 1/100 inch layer around over and over and over, until it was perfectly even. This way was much more difficult than removing the stone entirely, but he hated to waste what he had already made, and he believed that it was smoother.

Next, he had to establish the border. This was accomplished by pulling seven crags from the cliff side, and placing them around the circle evenly. Once each was positioned exactly how he wanted it, he had to reform their shape. He hated doing this, because earth was so stubborn and always fought against it no matter who was telling it to change. But it was not impossible, and he had plenty of practice with this skill in particular. He always overcompensated his training, so that whereas he excelled in areas others of his kind found difficult to accomplish, he was -at best- mediocre in the basics of Earthcraft. He pictured the shape he wanted in his head, and gently placed his hands on the first pillar. The trick was to treat it like clay, you had to guide it as you told it what you wanted. Stone was willing to break, and bond, but bending it took patience. after nearly a half hour, he finally got it to be a perfect circle. as smooth as the floor ha made. He followed suit with the other six, each one faster than the last. Then he moved on to the next stage. He now had to inscribe the proper runes into them in the exact right places. There were several reasons for this, one of which was to give the surrounding stone will of it's own. Now, it would read his intent and follow suit, rather than having to be commanded for every little thing. it would also be able to act without his guidance. something that was very useful when he was gone, and someone tried to sneak into his home. The power extended out around the entire clearing, and just to be on the safe side, up the cliff sides.he would have to go and set border runes to stabilize the spell later, but it would be fine for now. all that the border runes did, was to keep the border constant, rather than always changing. By now it was well past midnight, and his work had exhausted him, but he wanted to do more. If either of those angels wanted to learn ancient magics, than there were a few more additions he had to make. But he decided that that could wait until tomorrow evening as well. he needed to sleep now to be ready for his first real day of school. He snapped his fingers, and a perfect rectangle of stone rose from the floor. it was just long enough for his body, and floated three feet off of the ground. Then, he slept.