Shade´s birthday

[Gambit]

Gambit noticed how she was looking at her hand and guessed it probably had something to do with her powers. He stepped aside and sat down on the grass.

[Shade]

Shade glanced at him with a little smile, then concentrated again. She sat down on the grass, crossing her legs. How was that again, she thought. She had this idea that she could reach some finer tunings of her powers if she was able to slow down the process of invisibility. Normally, she would not snap back into the visible world or snap out of it, but rather fade more or less quickly, but there had to be some other approach to it.

Start with something small, she thought to herself, a finger maybe. She opened her hand wide, letting her index finger vanish. It looked as always so that couldn´t be right. She let it appear again, focussing on slowing it down more than on the vanishing process as such. When she felt her powers start to tug on her energy the way they did when she extended her powers for too long she guessed she was doing the right thing. She couldn´t describe exactly how she was doing it, it was more like getting a new feeling, one that was completely unfamilar and unknown to her, but it worked to a small extent. Her index finger vanished, but not completely, leaving an irregular image of a finger bone with sinews and tiny finger muscles behind. Shade blinked, her smile widening into an enthusiastic grin. She tried to intensify it but it wouldn´t work. This was new, her powers would have to train on it, she would have to adjust to it, but it worked for about two or three seconds until her finger vanished completely, fading out of side.

[Gambit]

"Dat is so cool," Gambit said, staring at her finger.

[Shade]

Shade let her finger reappear and beamed at him. "I´ll look so weird on Halloween if I keep training that." she grinned.

[Gambit]

"You'll be de winner of de costume contest," Gambit laughed. "Is it difficult?" he asked.

[Shade]

Shade beamed, then turned a little more serious. "Yeah." she said. "It´s difficult to stay focussed, it´s like... trying to do many things at once without knowing how to exactly coordinate every single one. And it´s somewhat draining so... similar to the power extension thing."

[Gambit]

"Bon," Gambit nodded. "But ya did it... ever tried it before?"

[Shade]

Shade nodded. "The day we stole the boat." she said. "I was standing in the water and tried it but it didn´t work then. So... maybe it´s really like sugar boosting my powers like... you know some people claiming sugar boosts concetration abilities." She shrugged.

[Gambit]

"I see," Remy nodded. He turned onto his stomach and, ripping a blade of grass, held it between his teeth, staring at Shade the entire time.

[Shade]

Shade leant back on her hands and smirked a little. "Someone´s watching me all the time." she stated.

[Gambit]

"Tell me who it is," Gambit said, "so I could join 'em".

[Shade]

Shade smiled, then shifted to lie on her stomach as well, oposit of him. She lifted a hand to tousel Gambit´s still wet hair. "Never seen him." she said with fake seriousness. "Some neckid guy with red eyes."

[Gambit]

"How d'ya know he's nekkid an' wit' red eyes, den?" Gambit squinted suspiciously.

[Shade]

Shade laughed. "Never seen him before" she corrected. "leave out one word and you get a loophole." She rolled onto her back, half dramatically clasping a back of a hand against her forehead. "Have mercy with me. My head´s not where most of my blood is right now."

[Gambit]

"Moi? Mercy?" Gambit wagged his brows, looking at her as if he was keeping some secret from her and was extremely happy about it.