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[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.

---

with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[eversomuchfun]

"I'd be surprised if there wasn't some way to tell if you have a soul, but I don't know it offhand and I'm not sure where I'd start looking. At a guess I suspect you're safe, at least from that particular hazard; the commonest way to detach a soul is turning someone into a vampire and that only works on humans and part-humans."

[imeanforever]

"Has it been tried on fairies?"

[eversomuchfun]

"I expect you'd have trouble with the middle bits even if for some insane reason you qualified as human for the purpose."

[imeanforever]

"Middle bits?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Dying. Drink some vampire blood, become drained of all one's own blood, die, wait: this is how one becomes a vampire."

[imeanforever]

"Oh. Yeah, I can't do that part."

[eversomuchfun]

"And if you're not human enough to eat you're definitely not human enough to turn."

[imeanforever]

"I'm not sure how that part follows, but if you say so."

[eversomuchfun]

"I don't know everything about being a vampire but I do know that."

[imeanforever]

"Are there less common ways to detach souls that I should maybe be on the lookout for?"

[eversomuchfun]

"I'm sure it's possible to do it. I can't think of a reason why someone would try that in particular on you as opposed to some more straightforward magical attack if they were interested in attacking you in the first place."

[imeanforever]

"If they found out how immortal I am," she suggests.

[eversomuchfun]

"Unquenchable flames. Petrification. Turning you into a rat. Turning you into an unquenchably burning stone rat. Locking you in a box and dropping you in the ocean, that wouldn't even require magic. Summoning an appropriate variety of demon or spirit to possess your body. No one's going to look at you and think you're especially likely to have a soul they might want to rip out, unless they miss the wings somehow."

[imeanforever]

"Ah. ...I have no idea what unquenchable flames would do to me. I've never actually been burned down to nothing before and don't know what would happen except that if killing a fairy were that easy we wouldn't consider ourselves immortal."

[eversomuchfun]

"If you ended up on fire for the rest of eternity this would probably still be very inconvenient even, perhaps especially, if it didn't kill you."

[imeanforever]

"Well, maybe I could figure out how to make the uncursing potion even if I was on fire at the time."

[eversomuchfun]

"But probably not if you were also a stone rat."

[imeanforever]

"That would admittedly present more of an obstacle."

[eversomuchfun]

He snickers and goes back to searching for scrying-related texts.

[imeanforever]

She puts down vampires book and picks up mirrors book.

[pythbox]

Mirrors book actually has an entire section on scrying-related mirrors, but it has nothing on how to make them, so it's not very practically useful.

There sure are a lot of types of magic mirror. Mirrors that show you what you ask for or what you need to see; mirrors that you can walk into and explore; mirrors that you can walk through and end up in another location entirely; mirrors that contain bound demons who do various things like warp nearby reality, send messages on command, or scream foul obscenities at anyone they see.

[imeanforever]

What an interesting array of mirrors. Does it say how to make any of the non-scrying kinds?

[eversomuchfun]

The demon-bound ones presumably involve binding a demon, but it doesn't actually say how to do that, and it doesn't go into even that much detail on how the rest were made.

Sherlock comes back when she has it open to a description of a mirror that shows your heart's desire. "Wouldn't that be fun," he comments. "But vampires don't have reflections, so I'm not at all sure if I could play."

[imeanforever]

"What a strange property."

[eversomuchfun]

Shrug. "It's supposed to be related to the soul thing but I think that's a fable."