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For his part Harry closed his eyes, feeling the wind on his skin, remembering where the target was, imagining the effect he wanted to create. Then he opened his hand and thrust it out quickly towards the target opening his eyes as he did. From his hand came a sharp shrieking sort of sound as they air around it suddenly sped up to incredible speed, Lancing forward to crash into the target with devastating force.
"Interesting," Saa said dryly as the target collapsed cut straight through in several sections. "Very dangerous too. I believe that should join the other spells you shouldn't share with anyone you don't trust Harry."
On the other hand, it is one that Masters like myself could replicate now that we know it was possible. Frowning lightly, Saa let the Force behind the wind still whipping around them in the room died down, before gesturing with her hand as Harry had. The target was now destroyed, exploding outwards. "Not as concentrated as yours was but still quite devastating."
Aayla quickly learned how to use air magic like that as well, and the two of them gleefully continued on, using air to deflect physical assaults, creating a miniature storm in the room to gather up dust which had been spread around it just for that purpose. Aayla also learned the Incendio spell as well as several other small-scale spells. The Masters were a little leery about a few of them, but Harry insisted that she learned them, and after extracting a promise from her not to use them except entire cases of emergency, Aayla was allowed to learn a few more attack spells. Harry's version, not the original ones. The original ones were too specific, Harry preferred to create his own, which was what Lily had been hoping for all along.
But if the learning of attack spells was going reasonably well, the experiments with runes certainly got off on the wrong track immediately.
Hearing the door open Lily looked up from where she was leaning over Harry's shoulder, reading text along with him as part of their ongoing education in this universe, while nearby the other children were hard at work on their own homework. It was a quiet industrious classroom, despite not actually be a classroom at the moment, rather the free time central living area for the children.
In the doorway Master Fay smiled as all the children looked up at her waving or smiling intern, before gesturing Lily to follow her. Lily patted Harry on the head just once, and he looked up smiling before going back to his work as she turned away. Outside in the corridor, fay waited for her before gesturing down the hallway. "I have a granite slab like the one you instructed us to get, as well as several other materials. Do you think we can start working on seeing if runes actually work here now?"
"Certainly," Lily replied with a smile, moving to follow the other woman to an adjacent room. It had been devoted to workstations for the creating lightsabers according to a few of the others Jedi, but with only a single clan rather the four that could have fit on the training vessel, and with none of the initiates being of an age for their lightsaber training to even begin, it had been repurposed.
Lily's ghostly form settled into a chair opposite Fay across from the granite slab, and Lily began to instruct Fay in a precautionary tale she had been told as a student. How you could never connect to runes together until you were certain what they would do was what you wanted, how never to use multiple languages in a single system, and to always be careful when experimenting. "More spell researchers and runesmiths die because of a simple lack of precaution than any other reason."
"Understood." Fay said crisply. "Show me what to do."
"This first test will be of a simple glow array." Lily instructed. "It should turn the entire granite piece into a large lightbulb."
With that they began to work on carving out a few simple runes into the stone. Of course this wasn't the first time Fay had worked on runes, Lily had been instructing her on them for weeks now with the use of a sandbox. Because of this her hand was steady as she worked, and only twice did Lily have to correct her when she was going to make a line of the rune wrong in some small fashion.
Fay did everything right under Lily's watchful gaze, though it took a while, and by the time she was finished, Harry had finished his lessons, joining them with Master Saa along with a few other interested students. Even Toramund and Shaak Ti, the first two of the new teachers to be cleared for learning about the runes, which was a level below knowing about all of Harry's abilities, were there.
"What's this supposed to do Mistress Lily?" asked Knight Ti, gesturing to the runic array on the slab of Granite as Fay finished the last rune, carefully carving a small curve at the end of the last line.
"It's supposed to make the granite glow like a light, but is supposed to run on the Force itself rather than electricity." Lily reiterated, before pointing at each part of the array in turn.
There were some smiles at that idea, while Saa and the other Jedi leaned forward intently. This would be a major game changer, if they in fact could learn to harness the power of the Force, it would be an incredible boon to the Order as a whole in many ways.
Even so Saa narrowed her eyes. Runes had always struck her as highly suspect, making her remember some tales about certain Sith Lords and their abilities to carve the Force into objects, thus strengthening them tremendously. She and Yoda had talked about it before the Grand Master had been forced to return to Coruscant, and despite that worry had decided to let Lily and Fay continue their experiments. The Light Construct, which Harry and Lily called the Patronum Defender, still blazed in her mind that these two represented a force for Light rather than the Dark, even more so now given Saa's own recreation of a similar technique.
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