As his Master spoke, Dair continued to draw in deep breathes and exhale them slowly. She instructed them to fill themselves with the force, visualize a barrier and push it out. The first two were fairly simple things for Dair, he sedately drew in the force, lletting it flow through the icy pool and fill him with cool power. He ensured that he was as full as he could get without straining, such strain would break the meditative state he had formed.
In the years he had been training on Ossus, Dair had realized that the force manifested to him and through him as ice. With that in mind, Dair visualized a bubble of icy force forming around him. He painted the image in his mind, attempting to make it perfect. When he was satisfied with the visualization, Dair began to push. He pushed the icy bubble out from himself and into the air around him. He placed the edge of his bubble a little less than half way between himself and Kaia, not wanting to impede on her own attempts with it. Visualizing the placement and the entity, he pushed harder and tried to manifest the barrier.
Dair had focused to hard on the ice portion of his barrier, trying to make it to physical, not fluid enough. Something went wrong as Dair formed a three inch wide ring of ice all the way around him, at the exact placement that he had wanted his barrier to be. The ice continued to build until it was roughly three inches high, before Dair realized that he was doing this wrong. He stopped and looked, staring dumbfounded at the ring of ice around him.
On Cyrillia he could have sworn that he had manifested ice in some way, but he didn't really remember. Crashing through that wall had knocked him a bit silly and Dair had put it off as a fluke or just a force push that had taken his seeming ubiquitous ice theme to the next level. This was the first time that he had actually manifested ice without a battle raging around him. He'd have to ask about that, but it wasn't germane to the ability they were practicing.
Finding his center, Dair once again sought to visualize the bubble. He stayed away from trying to make it ice, going with the liquid idea that Corvus had said some do. He spent a few minutes visualizing a mostly transparent bubble of liquid around him that would be impervious to projectiles and gasses. Once he had the idea in his mind, Dair pushed it out, going much more carefully. He kept the idea in his head that this was to be a mutable bubble, and slowly a liquid bubble seemed to grow up out of the ice ring that had been laid down before. It was shot through with various fractal patterns, much like ice would or snow flakes, but it shimmered as if purely liquid.
Now would come the strain of having to maintain it. Dair settled further into his stance and focused on breathing and maintaining the barrier.
[member="Corvus Raaf"] [member="Kaia Vullen"]