Disclaimer: I do not own Rayearth or any other Clamp works that happen to be used within this. I just dabble in Clamp's world for a while.
II. Worth A Thousand Words
Photographs
His child-like hands glided over the photograph.
He did not completely understand it…It was magic beyond even the Master Mage.
But the magic wasn't important.
Fuu had taken the picture on the girls' last vacation. It showed Umi, her fingers in a V, and him smiling awkwardly (he was told to "watch the birdy…?").
She had written something in her own language on the back. He had looked at it as if it were some sort of incantation.
Umi merely smiled when he had asked about the meaning of the spell.
She had written: "So you won't be lonely."
The Enemy
He had tapped it and it had reacted in a very bizarre manner.
It flashed.
Clef leapt back, clutching his staff tightly. This was what Fuu called "tek-nol-o-gee."
Clef called it "the enemy."
Why in the name of the Pillar had Umi left the tek-nol-o-gee with him?
He tapped it with the end of his staff. It flashed again. Clef retaliated…summoning a lightning bolt.
It smoldered and emitted a horrid smell.
The realization that he had killed Umi's tek-nol-o-gee dawned on him.
Coughing into his small hand, he silently called a ward up around the room.
He would need it.