[ that's fine, Soundwave. Sakura has experience with that sort of personality, and to far more insidious degrees. she is not too easy to offend, especially if a negative demeanor is his worst character flaw. ]

In my world, only mages with specific affinities for the elements could control them. If you're new to magic, then shaping the water at all is something.

[ it does occur to her that the location might be causing distractions, but not realizing how keen Soundwave's hearing is, she wouldn't automatically realize that the noises were the problem. ]

I'm... a mage, you could say. [ and water was even kind of sort of her element, though that was a whole complicated can of worms Sakura preferred not to get into here. ] But an untrained one. I can try to help, but here, I'm not sure what I can do yet.