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

[imeanforever]

"Mm?"

[eversomuchfun]

"The people who did it killed everyone I ever loved, that's objections one and two, and then turned me against my will, that's three. At the time I was very upset about the prospect of losing my soul, but then it turned out that mostly what I want to do without the constraint of ethics is wander the continent halfheartedly searching for something to do with my life that will be more interesting than ending it. No luck so far."

[imeanforever]

"Oh. I'm - I'm sorry. ...Following me around and feeding me so I don't wind up envassaled to more people than I have to be probably isn't interesting, is it."

[eversomuchfun]

"Depends."

[imeanforever]

"On?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Principally on how interesting you turn out to be."

[imeanforever]

"Well, I'd be very boring for at least a few weeks if I had all the things I'd need to be boring with, but I don't really have that luxury. I don't know your interests, though."

[eversomuchfun]

"My interests are not especially articulable."

[imeanforever]

"Then I don't know if I'll interest you or not. To begin with I should probably wrap up my hand, because sorcery doesn't work in the mortal world, and then I need a source of food because you don't seem to have one, and then - well, I met a mortal but it was so long ago and we mostly didn't talk about what sorts of lifestyles are available in the mortal world."

[eversomuchfun]

"What are the characteristics of sorcery besides not working in the mortal world?"

[imeanforever]

"Well, I can heal with it, for one thing. Lights. Growing plants."

[eversomuchfun]

"Those are all things local magic is able to accomplish."

[imeanforever]

"Maybe I should learn it, then. ...Maybe the books are systematically wrong for some reason, how would I know, I've never been here before -" She glances around the dim little crypt, then -

- makes a light, dim and flickering.

"...huh."

[eversomuchfun]

"The fact that you have heard of a mortal world but haven't heard of any kind of demon leads me to suspect that the mortal world you have heard of isn't this one."

[imeanforever]

"I didn't have a lot of information to go on, but if they're that big of a facet of most people's lives I suppose it would probably have filtered to me. And I haven't heard of hell dimensions so I suppose there are already more worlds than I was expecting. And this one allows sorcery. Sort of." She frowns at her light. It firms up slightly, then goes out altogether, then reappears wan and small, then brightens suddenly and makes her eep and put it out.

[eversomuchfun]

"There are humans who haven't heard of demons, most of them in fact, but it took a not very well-understood series of historical accidents to get them that way. And if fairies had only had contact with the ignorant then they would be less ignorant, at least of fairies in particular."

[imeanforever]

"Well, I don't know how often humans go to Fairyland and then go home again."

[eversomuchfun]

"But then there's the part where sorcery allegedly doesn't work in the mortal world."

[imeanforever]

"Sometimes fairies go to the mortal world, but I doubt that they're especially public about the details of their personal traits while there without - typically - the benefit of sorcery." She makes more lights. She looks in absolute bewilderment at the pattern of dim and sun-bright they form in the grid she has made. "The harmonics here are drunk."

[eversomuchfun]

Giggle.

[imeanforever]

"These patterns don't make sense. There are some weird tangly ones, but these are... weirder than that. I'm not going to be able to heal myself until I map this whole room. Do you have a smaller room I could map instead?"

[eversomuchfun]

"This is the smallest room in this crypt, unless the coffins upstairs count."

[imeanforever]

"The what?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Approximately person-sized box for storing dead humans in. The actual dead humans are long gone from mine."

[imeanforever]

"Oh. Well, that's probably smaller, but not really practical if I want to ever cast anything else. I'll just map the room."

She makes more grids of lights, muttering in bewilderment at them.