blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

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with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[thisvorlunatic]

"It's not impossible that someone might accidentally eat it, but it seems like an acceptable risk, at least if we mark off a little plot for you with a fence or something so it's obvious that the plants in question belong to someone. That's the sort of thing I could ask my parents to help arrange, if you can't produce a fence on short notice yourself. As for location, I can think of a few spots I could show you."

[imeanforever]

"Once my tree is big enough I can make wood come off it in any shape I want and make a fence. Let's see some places?"

[thisvorlunatic]

Places! They are suitable to house a tree, and for the tree in question to be surrounded by a little plot of land for growing things in. Of the places, the one nearest the lake is also the one with the best affordance for conveniently-fenced extra growing space.

[imeanforever]

Promise plants her branch there.

The harmonics are flat. She can make it grow fast once she's had a good look at the place.

[thisvorlunatic]

Gosh. Tree.

[imeanforever]

Yes. Tree.

She doesn't force it quite big enough to sleep in, right away; she plants some other seeds in an aesthetically pleasing manner, far enough off that they won't be shaded too often once her tree is living-space-sized, and sprouts those.

[thisvorlunatic]

"I should definitely tell the Emperor about you soon if I want to minimize the degree of fuss involved," says Silver.

[imeanforever]

"...Okay."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I'll go call him. I would appreciate if you avoided listening, in case he says any names before I explain."

[imeanforever]

"I'll stay out here and have lunch."

She makes something fruit. She picks and eats a fruit.

[thisvorlunatic]

And Silver goes back inside and presumably communicates with his emperor.

(The first word out of his mouth is 'Sire' and Gregor just freezes. Miles makes heavy use of the phrase 'please humour me' over the following several minutes, but by the end of it Gregor has adjusted to the new paradigm and is omitting all names and namelike terms from everything he says. He requests proof, in a particularly imperial tone of voice, but allows that... Silver... can take his time producing same, under the circumstances. As predicted, he understands Miles's reaction perfectly.)

Some time later, he emerges from the house and checks on Promise.

[imeanforever]

Promise is leaning on her tree, munching berries that fall from its branches straight into her outstretched hand one at a time.

[thisvorlunatic]

...well that's an extremely endearing image.

"I have told the Emperor about you," he reports. "He reacted exactly as expected. Sometime in the next few days I should tell my mother, and she might want to acquire some proof that you can do magic, which she can then convey to him, but there's no rush on that; the Emperor understood my concerns."

[imeanforever]

"I don't mind proving I can do magic. It's certainly not hard to do here."

[thisvorlunatic]

"That's convenient, then. I'll ask Mother to nickname herself and come by."

[imeanforever]

Nod, nod.

[thisvorlunatic]

"The tree seems to be coming along nicely."

[imeanforever]

"I should be able to sleep in it tonight."

[thisvorlunatic]

"That seems good."

[imeanforever]

"It is."

[thisvorlunatic]

Nod.

[imeanforever]

Promise leans her cheek on her tree almost like she is nuzzling it. "I missed it. ...Thank you for not being awful."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Um. You're welcome? I feel slightly weird accepting thanks for not being awful, but I also acknowledge that there are a staggering variety of ways in which I could have been awful if I were a different and more awful person."

[imeanforever]

"Yeah. I mean, also thank you for being nice, but mostly right now I'm feeling the not-awful."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah. Well. You're welcome and I will endeavour to continue in this not-awful vein."