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.

---

with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[eversomuchfun]

"Can I help? It sounds like fun."

[imeanforever]

"Why not. There's no reason to expect I'll be able to get the Queen's name and I only might be able to feed her myself."

[eversomuchfun]

"Whereas I can apply barrelsful of tea to anyone I like?"

[imeanforever]

"More or less."

[eversomuchfun]

"You can also amass local minions fairly trivially," he adds. "Very few people guard their birth names closely in this day and age. Up to you whether you have moral qualms about conscripting a demon army, I suppose."

[imeanforever]

"I'd want to make sure I was equipped to treat them decently even if I supplied myself exclusively from the ranks of the soulless and morally deficient, which currently I'm short on resources to do."

[eversomuchfun]

"Fair."

[imeanforever]

"Bit of bootstrapping to do."

[eversomuchfun]

"In what sense?"

[imeanforever]

"Well, right now I have - myself, and your help. And I am planning to conquer Fairyland, which I will need more than that to do."

[eversomuchfun]

"Mm. I think I have a different view of what it means to have my help."

[imeanforever]

"Oh?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Or a different view of the concept of bootstrapping. I just don't feel that it applies to a situation where so many of the strongest options for gathering more resources are so trivial to accomplish."

[imeanforever]

"If you like. Still, I will not rule Fairyland this week."

[eversomuchfun]

"True. Probably. Might depend how urgently you want to rule Fairyland."

[imeanforever]

"Not very. It's important, but it's been important for a long time."

[eversomuchfun]

"Then you might as well wait. I'm in no hurry, certainly."

[imeanforever]

"Well, I'd rather it get done before some sort of accident inevitably befalls you as the years pile up and you succumb to your slightly reduced mortality, but it's worth taking the time to get right."

[eversomuchfun]

"It's not going to be an accident."

[imeanforever]

"No?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Murder or suicide, I'm not sure which. But it would take a hell of an accident."

[imeanforever]

"One would happen eventually if nobody including yourself got you, but I'll take your word for it on the relative risks."

[eversomuchfun]

"'Eventually if nobody including myself got me' is precisely the thing that isn't going to happen, yes."

[imeanforever]

"...I will make sure to have backup mortals securing my control of the Queen, I guess."

[eversomuchfun]

"There's some distant chance that something will manage to catch my attention in a permanent enough fashion, but then I'm also pretty likely to seek out better forms of immortality."