Honestly? About twice. I'd never been out in the snow until I got here.
[Anyway, hm, this is handy - aha - information to have. He could have guessed there'd be a trick besides just waiting for magic to build up painfully like with lockjoint, but - well, going through that once might be the one thing that's stopped him from casually bloodletting himself for various purposes. Hence his hands, which he does hold up vaguely, again.]
Viktor doesn't like it when I'm reckless about blood. Even the wards— that's what this was— are pushing it. [and he listens to Viktor, or else he'd go bleed out some stones right the hell now. Later. Maybe.] And— never mind, I do know what chakra is. We call it thalergy; thanergy is the opposite, for energies surrounding death.
[He purses his lips and glances down at his own hands, brain practically audibly whirring like oh! it was the other one the whole time!!— but later.]
I'm less practiced with thalergy. Chakra. That's— helpful to know. You're a paleblood, then?
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[Anyway, hm, this is handy - aha - information to have. He could have guessed there'd be a trick besides just waiting for magic to build up painfully like with lockjoint, but - well, going through that once might be the one thing that's stopped him from casually bloodletting himself for various purposes. Hence his hands, which he does hold up vaguely, again.]
Viktor doesn't like it when I'm reckless about blood. Even the wards— that's what this was— are pushing it. [and he listens to Viktor, or else he'd go bleed out some stones right the hell now. Later. Maybe.] And— never mind, I do know what chakra is. We call it thalergy; thanergy is the opposite, for energies surrounding death.
[He purses his lips and glances down at his own hands, brain practically audibly whirring like oh! it was the other one the whole time!!— but later.]
I'm less practiced with thalergy. Chakra. That's— helpful to know. You're a paleblood, then?