[Unaware of just how narrowly he'd dodged a far more tenuous line of questioning here--if only for now--Jade nods in confirmation, as he closes the cat-themed book at length and offers it back Rita's way. (Further ribbing on that front has ended up on the wayside, but rest assured he'll be getting back to properly making fun of that particular theming at some point later...!)
For the moment, though...considering the mild weight that sits on the topic even when it's being addressed at this sort of angle, Jade doesn't actually take the opportunity to preen overly-much at Rita's remark of surprise at his feat of analysis where that particular arte was concerned. Nothing to be terribly proud of, honestly, considering how it was of utterly no help at that particular time--but at the very least it has some application in this particular talk now, if nothing else.]
Indeed it is--the components of a Thunder Blade as I know it consist only of third fonons. ...Or, the element of wind, as you would say. [But here, a note of something somewhere between curiosity and approval enters his tone, as he considers Rita and her ice cream across the table. After all, being well aware of how she was operating under very trying circumstances at the time, and taking half a guess that on a more typical basis this sort of thing would actually be well within her ability--] A compound-element arte is a very impressive feat. Even I have none that utilize dual elements at once, in quite such a way...the closest equivalent would be a conversion from one element to another mid-casting, which can occasionally be achieved if an especially strong field of a given type of fonon is present to build upon.
Yet even despite such a difference, we each have at least one arte sharing the same name. ...Now I can't help but wonder if we might be potentially sharing other artes, somehow--and how those might be different in themselves. There's some very interesting implications if it turns out we have multiple parallels on this front, don't you think?
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For the moment, though...considering the mild weight that sits on the topic even when it's being addressed at this sort of angle, Jade doesn't actually take the opportunity to preen overly-much at Rita's remark of surprise at his feat of analysis where that particular arte was concerned. Nothing to be terribly proud of, honestly, considering how it was of utterly no help at that particular time--but at the very least it has some application in this particular talk now, if nothing else.]
Indeed it is--the components of a Thunder Blade as I know it consist only of third fonons. ...Or, the element of wind, as you would say. [But here, a note of something somewhere between curiosity and approval enters his tone, as he considers Rita and her ice cream across the table. After all, being well aware of how she was operating under very trying circumstances at the time, and taking half a guess that on a more typical basis this sort of thing would actually be well within her ability--] A compound-element arte is a very impressive feat. Even I have none that utilize dual elements at once, in quite such a way...the closest equivalent would be a conversion from one element to another mid-casting, which can occasionally be achieved if an especially strong field of a given type of fonon is present to build upon.
Yet even despite such a difference, we each have at least one arte sharing the same name. ...Now I can't help but wonder if we might be potentially sharing other artes, somehow--and how those might be different in themselves. There's some very interesting implications if it turns out we have multiple parallels on this front, don't you think?