Attention

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Bell and Ardee sat across from each other in the garden. They both sat with their legs crossed but Ardee rested her elbows on her legs and had her hands on her chin.

Bell was holding up his right hand which held a ball of light. Bell changed its shape from a ball to a small horse.

Ardee's eyes held nothing but excitement and wanderlust watching Bell. For those that knew Ardee, they knew how much she changed after the Dark Ages.

Yet Bell somehow seemed to bring back part of the old her. The one that Bell never knew but her friends did.

"Woah you have two magics! Do you have any more?" Ardee asked. Her face lit up like a Christmas tree.

Bell softly smiled and his eyes softened. "Well, I have quite a few. But I need to keep those a secret so people won't expect them."

"Can I see another one? Pretty please!" Ardee begged. Her eyes reminded Bell of a puppy's.

He felt like he had no defenses against someone like Ardee. She seemed so innocent despite what happened to her. Instead of filling with sadness and rage, she was still kind.

Of course, sadness was a part of her. Yet every time Bell had talked to her she seemed more shy than anything. It was like another version of Haruhime.

"Alright, I'll show you one more. But only one more ok. I need to keep some tricks up my sleeve." Bell acquiesced.

Ardee nodded, Bell's words seeming to go in one ear and out the other. She just wanted to see the cool magic as Bell handled it in a way she had never seen before.

Not even her sister could manipulate light magic to this degree. She could only turn it into a spear of a whip. But Bell was turning it into all types of things.

Bell already knew the other magic he was going to show Ardee. It wasn't going to be fire or lighting because they were in the middle of a garden and Bell didn't want to accidentally start a fire.

So he settled with using ice since it was just frozen water. Also because he could make sculptures out of it as well.

Taking a good look at Ardee and focusing Bell formed an ice cube on his hand before changing its shape and structure to make a miniature version of Ardee.

"Woah is that me!?" Ardee asked. Bell reached out and let her take the sculpture as she examined it. "Ooh, it's cold."

Bell just chuckled. "Well it's ice, of course, it would be cold."

Ardee pouted slightly. "Oh, I know that! But wow I can't believe you made a tiny sculpture of me. Sucks it's gonna melt though, I wanted to keep it."

Bell thought about using earth magic to make her a new one. But Astraea would probably get pretty pissed if he tore up her garden like that.

"Do you want a mini sculpture of yourself?" Bell asked, his eyebrow quirked.

Ardee shook her head. "No, it's because you made it. So it's like a little gift from a new friend." She cheerily replied.

Bell nodded along at Ardee's reasoning. But then part of him felt bad. Would she still want to be friends with him after she found everything out?

"Well, I'll see what I can do for ya," Bell responded. Would she want an earthier figurine? Or maybe he could carve one for her. But he'd have to know how to carve first.

"Oh, you don't have to do something like that for me." Ardee tried to protest. Bell simply smiled in response as her eyes told him a different story.

She wanted a mini figurine of herself from Bell.

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