Focus

[Ellie Mors]

Laid out across the floor were several pieces of jewelry that alone looked like not much more than small trinkets, simple pieces of a puzzle at this point. Together they would be put to use as something quite a bit more useful than a necklace or pendant. "Alright..I think I have everything.." Lily muttered to herself under her breath, getting down to the ground on her hands and knees. She was in her mother's old study, a room that both she and Rose frequented often now - though in recent days her sister had been a decidedly more regular visitor than she was - sitting on her feet beside a small basin filled with a deep red liquid, an alchemist's basin. Though she was still relatively inexperienced with the use of alchemy on any scale, Lily was becoming more and more familiar with the use of the force to alter small trinkets and clothing, such as that which she wore present.

Of course she wasn't like Rose, whom spent most of her time training with a lightsaber or studying some nonsense Sith lore requested by her teacher, Vrag, in that Lily didn't generally spend her time - or at least not all of it - studying what she was best at. She'd 'study' in the same sense that she would practice her cooking - by doing it. It was why she was so abysmal in comparison to her sister at the things she wasn't so good at, especially saber dueling, but she found solace in being able to at least perform in this field while her sister never quite caught on to the intricacies of alchemy. Today she wasn't here to just make a new piece of leather for her tailors to make shoes out of, though. The jewelry that lay strewn across the ground was to be assembled and altered through alchemy and then touched upon with a tiny bit of magic. She didn't expect, or plan, for this to be anything ground breaking, simply a tool to help her with tasks like this in the future.

 

[Ellie Mors]

A furrowed brow started an over-complicated thought process on how she would do this. It wasn't exactly every day that she did things like this, nor was it a common routine, so even a week's time of neglect would throw her through a loop. "Piece them together first.. or do the ritual...?" She mumbled, lifting the chain that would be threaded through the top of the amulet between her thumb and forefinger. "I suppose I could do the ritual first, then go step by step with assembly.. Shouldn't hurt." She continued, aware that doing either had no impact on the other besides suiting to pull more time away from the process later on the longer she did nothing. Quietly she shuffled around to face the small basin filled nearly to the brim with red liquid and ran the tip of her right index finger around the rim of the bowl, a spark of electricity as bright and white as day light springing from her touch into the liquid. A clear, reddish, mist rolled off the surface of the fluid as the electricity pulsed through it and she withdrew her hand from the edge of the bowl to hold both of her hands over the top of it with her head bent, eyes closed, in deep concentration. "Jen' chwűq, slona staenas, nurigi sis su tu'iea zidinys tnika!" Lily chanted, her words in the so-called balc tongue, which was in reality old Sith.

As the words left her lips a shower of embers, small sparks of fire, fluttered down from her open palms that were held over the basin and dissipated the mist, if only temporarily. Immediately upon making contact with the liquid within, the small sparks brought the contents to a simmering boil, the mist-like steam billowing out from the basin with renewed vigor. But it appeared she wasn't done with her ritual just yet, and with a burst of what she could only describe as a large portion of effort and stamina on her part a small bolt of what could be considered force lightning erupted from the tips of her fingers and leaped into the the alchemical liquid which illuminated both it and the surrounding room with a bright light. While the ritual was practically finished, she would now have the time consuming issue of assembling an amulet herself, which was certainly not something she would like to spend her mornings doing.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Now that the basin was prepared and ready to be used for alchemy next would be the physical creation of the amulet that she would be imbuing with the force. This, much like the assembly of a lightsaber, was the most time-consuming and boring part of the task - though sadly necessary. For posterity's sake, the parts of the amulet, a pendant really, would be the six cut focus crystals, a viridian crystal, a gold flame-shaped bale that would double as the actual pendant and the linchpin between the chain and the rest of the amulet, and a silver cord that was essentially a threaded silver chain mesh woven so small and close together that they appeared like a long thread rather than what she felt would have otherwise looked like a crude metal band. "It is probably best if I thread the cord first." The teenager said aloud, nodding as if in confirmation of her own vocalized thoughts, as she lifted the chain with her right hand and the bale with her left.

"Now where is the end of this.. ah, there it is!" Now that she was actually doing something with her hands that didn't explicitly require her to speak she focused heavily on the task at hand, which in this case happened to be like threading the end of a needle. After a short moment of unclasping the chain, Lily began the tedious process of trying to get one end of the cord through the little hoop at the tip of the bale - something people who have shaky hands should never have to do. Sure enough, not even half a moment later, she was still trying to get the cord to even touch the inner portion of the hoop with every push. Each time she tried to ease the end in it would slip right out of the way, frustrating the red head to no end. After a while of fumbling with the two pieces, even dropping the bale a few times at some point, she eventually succeeded in finally threading the karking chain. Now if only the rest would be so easy.