Treyen nodded at Mia's response, though. She was right, if they were going to need a partner in this particular lesson, then they could work together. It seemed perfectly good to him.
And then...the class had started.
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Slipping the deck of Tarot cards into her pocket for safekeeping, Renée looped around her table to stand in front of it as she sent the entire class another smile. “Okay, I think there’re enough of us here to start,” she began, waiting for the little conversations to die down as people started trying to focus. That would hopefully not take long, as she turned and picked up the crystal ball off the table behind her carefully before returning her attention to the class to hold it up so they could all see it better. “What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see this?,” she asked, before grinning a little as she looked at the glass herself. “I’m not going to bother asking if you even know what this is, but if that factors into your thoughts, I don’t mind.” She just had to hope the ideas weren’t too crazy, because she didn’t want to get distracted and drop the crystal ball. She didn’t have half as many of those as she did her Tarot cards, so replacements wouldn’t be as available.
Actually, he wanted to say 'Nolan', because that was the first thing that popped into his head when he entered the classroom and walked inside. But, that would make no sense to many. He
could go with 'Divination', or 'Seers', or something related to that, but that was fairly obvious, and the 'Future', per say, had been mentioned.
He still answered, though, after raising his hand,
"Lightning," that was the second thing he will always remembered whenever a crystal ball could be around. Mainly because that's the first thing he thought he saw when they were presented with crystal gazing their first time around, but he wasn't going to mention that either.
"You know, like those pseudo-energy balls Muggles used to have," where you placed one finger and then all the lightning-type stuff went over to that point? Remember? Yeah, they looked alike.
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SilverTiger Another grin crept onto Renée’s face as Eino of the previous singing offered his response to the discussion, though. That was getting more to the actual point of the lesson, whether he knew it or not. “More accurately, crystal balls are used for crystallomancy,” she pointed out, “ although that in fact is a branch of scrying. I would imagine most serious Diviners wouldn’t use their crystal balls as paperweights, however. Not the ones they specifically use, as that could dim the orb’s power.” At least, that was her opinion. One didn’t usually use their wand for anything other than magical things, most of the time, and that should extend to other magical tools as well.
She turned and set the crystal ball in question back on her table, then returned her attention to the class in order to speak again. “Scrying, as so many of you have touched on,” whether or not they realized it, “is a method of using reflections, images, to gain insight into the past, present and future. of course, the reflections that one sees aren’t really there, but merely visions brought about through focus and reflected in the orb or whatever is used. Not only crystal balls can be used, in fact, for scrying. Does anyone want to suggest something else that could be used?” Eventually they would get to the actual activity she had planned, but touching on scrying was always in her plans. Everything was related when it came to Divination anyhow.
His hand was raised again, as Bishop asked another question,
"Anything that involves a reflective surface, really, whether it's solid or liquid, glass or water." Treyen nodded, and the nod was also directed to Mia, for she had said the water part before him.