MORE THAN CAPABLE | Riven

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"Where do you think they're keeping it again?" She asked him.

"Uh, there's only so many buildings outside the Barrier they can secure a creature like that," he unravelled, gently pulling his arm away. "There's the barn and the mill."

"Oh, the barn would be my bet," Ter predicted as she explained to the rest. "My dad fortified the beams because he was chaining the wounded horse when I was little."

Stella gave a fake smile, "so we just have to sneak in there and get my ring," she declared.

Aisha cranked her eyebrows and gave an unjustified face, "strange how causally you're tossing about the word 'we'."

"Yeah," Musa agreed. "Sounds more like a 'you' kinda deal."

"Except I didn't lose it," Stella replied, expanding the word I.

"When do we go?" Bloom asked, not looking up but staring at the map. Everyone looked at her as she glanced up.

"Gonna be blunt, sorry," Aisha stated. "Bloom, you have zero control over your magic. That is if you manage to channel it. Bad idea."

"I lost the ring. I'm gonna get it back," she argued somewhat calmly.

"Guys, maybe we should take a second" Sky started trying to calm them down before the light fairy interrupted again.

"I think everyone is making a bigger deal of this than it needs to be," Stella put out. "The Burned One's locked up right?" She asked Terra.

"Oh, and subdued," Terra informed, meaning that it was restrained. "I'm pretty sure my dad is distilling this oil that'll subdue it. It's. it's called Zanbaq. I can probably make some more."

"Thank you, Terra, for being helpful," Stella said then turning her head to Bloom. "And thank you, Bloom, for taking responsibility."
Then she turned towards the rest of the group, "and thank you everyone else, for..."

Luella gave an annoyed eye roll this time, "nothing." Lue stated giving Stella an irritated smile. Stella peered her eyes at her before letting her gaze go and rolling her map back up.

"Let me know when you wanna do it," Bloom addressed the fairy standing up before she walked away past the crowded cafeteria.

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It was now later that day, and Luella headed throughout the path to the Stone Circle. She walked through the lush, green grass and the dried mud coming closer to her destination as the sun seeped down.

Luella wanted to try out her power again, she wanted to see if having no crowd around her was what made a difference and if she just gutted up or if she got past the dreading fear. But, before she could get any closer, she saw two figures already near the vessel. Lue took a few steps back, to make sure they didn't see her.

She quickly realised that it was Bloom and Stella. The light fairy was whispering something to Bloom's ear as she managed to make out her looking raged.

Then, Bloom had placed her hands onto the vessel, flames enriching almost immediately. They were larger than she had managed during their lesson earlier on, whatever Stella had said had worked but Lue just hoped it wasn't something bad that would stick to Bloom.