Alpha hated being retired. He had gone from performing in front of thousands of fans to doing paper work in the ministry. Omega had gotten the better end of this, he thought. At least infirmary work seemed vaguely exciting; the only vaguely exciting thing that happened to him while he was doing paperwork was when he would fall asleep and have an interesting dream and then wake back up to the bills he was filling out.

That was, until the new ghouls arrived. The fire ghoul didn't really understand how to use their abilities, it seemed, and while Alpha would have normally complained at the prospect of tutoring some stupid young ghoul, it got him out of his paperwork. So, having been enlisted by the ministry to assist, he was now meeting the ghoul each week in one of the ritual rooms in the basement (Imperator had told him to be somewhere not flammable while helping).

"Right." He sighed as he sat down on the stone floor, you being seated across from him. He summoned a small flame to his hand, letting it dance over his fingers. "What you're struggling from, I think, is not knowing how to control your element. You can't regulate it. You don't control it; t controls you. Fire is different than other elements like water and earth and air. You don't gain full control of it. You have to tame it like a wild animal, soothe it enough for it to do what you want."

He closed his hand into a fist, snuffing out the flame, and leaned forward. His red eyes met yours, a fire dancing behind them. "Okay. You have to open yourself up to the fire first. Lay yourself out. Be vulnerable. Close your eyes. I want you to focus on the fire you feel inside you. The heat and burning. Don't stop if you feel it starting to consume you. You have to lay yourself bare for the flame. I'll help you from there."