"Oh, okay then. Still, it seemed like a good idea, right?" Rowan mused aloud. "Now I can't help but wonder what would happen if you snapped your fingers and an assailant's arms turned into tentacles. Yeesh, I'd hate to be that guy."
His eyebrows shot up at the sight of Alex kissing Richard. "Huh. They might be married, but you'd think Alex would tone it down a little in front of us new guys," he muttered to those seated.
Katie overheard him, and got up, moving to sit on the arm of the couch next to Rowan. "Oh, don't worry about them and the occasional PDA. You'll get used to them eventually. Though, if you do end up being a little jealous of those two, don't hesitate to walk out of the room or otherwise distract yourself with something. Here, have a flower."
She snapped her fingers and a cut, thornless rose appeared seemingly out of nowhere, produced by an airborne spore. It dropped into Rowan's lap, and he picked it up, amazed by Katie's display of power. "That's incredible... may I ask how you did that?"
"Simple, really. There are millions of tiny spores in the air, as you may know from high-school Bio classes or college. I've learned to pick individual ones out and isolate them, before I grow the rest of the plant and turn it into anything I feel like. Airborne spores are possibly the easiest thing for me to manipulate, because they're so small and so young."