Open RP - fun with levitation!

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Bean is beginning to wonder if he will ever figure this place out.

It's a novel feeling.

Currently he's in an empty classroom on the fourth floor, trying to see how many things he can levitate at the same time. So far he has two books, an inkwell and three quills floating in mid-air. Keeping concentration is a little trickier than he'd thought, but he's got to the point where he's eyeing a chair speculatively.

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This time his things falter much more obviously; ink from the inkwell splatters across the floor.

He might be a genetically enhanced super-genius who helped to wipe out an entire civilisation. But he's a genetically enhanced super-genius who's going to be teaching a class to Augustus Caesar.

"... just magic," Bean says. "In my time, we trained in a room without gravity, but it was accomplished by an alien device I never had an opportunity to see. I'd like to try to replicate the effects here."

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Octavian's time at Hogwarts has been full of tantalizing references to alien devices he will never see. These alien devices, moreover, are devices he could not take back to Rome with him and therefore could not use to annihilate his enemies for the good of the Republic.

He does not sigh, quite. His shoulders relax slightly in the physical equivalent of a sigh, probably perceptible to Bean's acute senses, probably not perceptible to others (especially considering that the junior Caesar is wearing a toga over his linen tunic, and the heavy folds rather obscure the movement).

"It seems to me that magic power is like many other powers given to man. Self-discipline can confer skill to a certain extent, yet there must also be an inborn gift if the practitioner is to achieve excellence. Are you strong in magic?"