Lessons (invite)

[Lucifer]

Lucifer was in his den in his favorite red chair.  A roaring fire in the fireplace and more books than most people would read in a life time filling his shelf.  Tomes from every world that was and would be.  All of the greats and classics from Lord of the Rings, to the Metaphysical Truths of the 7th dimension.  First edition obviously.  It was a quiet life, his agents ran his affairs in this world which allowed him and his children to live in peace far away from the troubles that befell this world, and would continue to befall this world.  Though it was no shack like in the last world that had been consumed he had certain habits he stuck too.  Namely staying in a remote location, away from where trouble was likely to spill over and give him... unwanted attention. 

"Are you ready for today's lesson?" 

The curl of his lips was as always knowing, asking questions he knew the answer too.  But the answers were never for him.  A constant in all times with these creatures.  Consumed by their predictability and base instincts and half baked moral quandaries.  He was always charmed by them, huddling in the darkness clinging to whatever light they find.  Basing their whole world views on small fragments of what was their and true as they stumbled blindly from moment to moment.  He'd given them knowledge once, paid his pound of flesh and for it he was reviled by most.  Feared by the ignorant, and distrusted by the foolish.  

But he was nothing if not a giver.  So once again, like so many times before he would give them a chance to prove their worth.  To be their true selves.  The future he saw was not one of subjection or salvation.  All important things in existence began the same as this lesson.

With a question and a choice. 

[Ashe]

"Yes please!" An excited smile bloomed across Ashe's face at the question, nodding as she joined her adoptive father in her usual spot. There was never a time she wasn't, a world and more of knowledge in this one room alone. Away from the rest of the world and the mayhem that was breaking out in it, the white-haired girl was content and eager to learn.

And as was tradition, she would also have questions before the end.

[Lucifer]

Lucifer would hold up two fingers. One from each hand pressed together before pulling them apart. A line of black green flame hovering in the air in the space between his fingers. Green to match Ashe's eyes.

"What is it that you see?"

[Ashe]

She watched as he held up his fingers, smiling a little more at the green flame that grew in the distance between them.

"A line of fire." It felt like an easy question, but she knew he didn't ask things without reason, so she waited to see what that reason was!

[Lucifer]

"Do you see anything else? Any other details that spring to mind?"

[Ashe]

She paused a moment, trying to figure out what else there might be. "It's not the color of normal fire. It's not growing?"

[Lucifer]

"Correct on both counts. Why do you think it is a different color. And why do you believe it's not growing like the fire in the fireplace?"

[Ashe]

"Because it's not normal fire, so it can be controlled." She paused, thinking. "I'd think someone made this if I saw it."

[Lucifer]

"That would be a wise deduction. Do you know why it's green though?"

[Ashe]

She pursed her lips and shook her head, still determined to find an answer.

"Is it what it's burning?" It was just a line in the air.

[Lucifer]

He chuckled before leaning forward to boop her nose with one of his fingers. Though the flame would not follow it this time.

"Because it matches your eyes."

[Ashe]

She blinked and giggled as she got booped! Her focus had been on the fire at first.

"Because you want it to."

[Lucifer]

"Yes, because I want it too."

He'd wave his hand and the fire would twist and shift to form a cube of green flame.

"What about now?"

[Ashe]

"It's a cube!" She nods, excited to see the change with the gesture.

[Lucifer]

"Yes it is, and what is special about a cube?"