Magic is a weapon and, like any weapon, one must familiarize oneself with it before being able to properly use it.

The water nymph is still **** and so you decide to put dealing with her aside as you instead focus on this newfound ability to conjure magical water from the aether. As you have never had the talent to use magic before now and your experience with it has been reserved to simply seeing it being performed from a distance, the fact that you seem to suddenly possess any sort of mystical ability is fascinating to you. It is also frightening as you came by this power in a way that made you feel out of control of your very self, but you've never been one to give in to fear. Instead, you work to overcome it and you know the way to do that is familiarize yourself with this unknown ability.

You look down at your bare left hand, seeing that single line now etched into the back of your hand once more and focusing on it. Once again, it glows a soft blue and the "collar" around the naiad's neck glows a faint red in response to your focusing your will. This time, as you try to better understand this power, you can feel the energy flowing into you gradually. It is like a gentle flowing stream that runs into you and slowly traverses the paths of your very spirit. It is a warm sensation, that energy filling you slowly, and you breathe in deep as the sensation is almost relaxing in its way. You feel that power slowly pouring into you and coming to center in your left hand, the soft blue glow now brighter as it grows to surround your bare hand.

You can feel that energy as raw potential, etherial and tenebrous as it exists without form or function. You can feel by some instinct, however, that the form the energy will take is already decided by virtue of its origins. It is the naiad's power you are using and, as such, the pull of the element of water is strong. The energy will be used to create water...but is that all it can do, you wonder?

You ponder this for a moment and, after a long while of thinking, you nod to yourself and focus on the energy within your hand. You focus your senses upon it, forming an image in your mind as you try ad mold and shape the energy as you will. You see the glowing blue energy surround your hand more closely, becoming like a second skin of pure energy as you lift your arm straight up with your hand held straight and flat as though you were about to bring the edge of your hand down upon somebody in front of you. And, indeed, that is not far off from the truth.

For, as you gather the energy in your hand, you focus it on the edge of it and you feel more than see the glowing blue mystical energy becoming brighter and more intense. You exert your will then and, in that moment, energy shifts from potential into being as magical energy starts to become the water it was meant to be. As you do this, however, you bring your arm down in an arc in front of you as though it were a sword you were cutting the air with. You bring your arm down with a grunt of exertion and, as you do, that magical energy flies forward in an arc, moving with preternatural speed towards a nearby boulder as it changes from pure energy into pure water stretched into a razor thin arc.

The crescent of magical water strikes the stone with surprising speed and ****, acting like blade of water as it slices into the solid stone and leaves behind a deep furrow nearly halfway through the boulder. That alone is impressive enough, given that you did it with water, but you have an inkling that, if you were to master this power more, you might be able to produce more impressive results. That would be good as you know, when you meet with the ones who had betrayed you, you will need a way to defend yourself against them. You will need to fight against the betrayers and this magical ability you have now may be exactly the way to do it.

Though you do not know how viable it will be in a real fight as you cannot form such blades of water quickly and, as your body feels a bit heavy and sluggish for a moment after having launched that magical attack, the cost of using magic may end up leaving you **** in a true fight. Still, such a thing is better than having no weapon at all against the traitors who had left you to die and who had sentenced your beloved sister to a fate worse than ****. Yes, you would need a weapon to fight against they who had once been your allies and, right now, you had one.

What you didn't have, however, was any idea where said traitors were nor any inkling of how to find them...nor any idea of how to find your way out of these caverns. You would need to figure that out before anything else, now wouldn't you? So you ponder on that for a time, trying to figure out what your next move should be.