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]

"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."

[imeanforever]

"Like what?"

[eversomuchfun]

"There's a legendary artifact that makes a vampire impossible to kill while they are wearing it. As the first example I can think of."

[imeanforever]

"Why would someone make that and then permit it to fall into obscurity instead of wearing it?"

[eversomuchfun]

"The answer to that is also lost in obscurity, but as a plausible theory, consider that it is not reputed to stop anyone from stealing it or to remove the need for sleep. So presumably it was passed around from vampire to vampire until someone who didn't like vampires got their hands on it and threw it down a deep dark hole."

[imeanforever]

"Ah, I see."

[eversomuchfun]

"But if I dug it up I'd expect to keep it a while."

[imeanforever]

"Does it only make you immortal to the degree a fairy is or does it also protect you from the things that normally would kill you outright?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Not specified."

[imeanforever]

"Well, I'll probably want backup mortals anyway but that would be helpful."

[eversomuchfun]

Shrug. "I'll happily find and wear the Gem of Amara for convenience's sake while the conquest of Fairyland is ongoing, and if I decide to set myself on fire afterward I'll give you advance notice."

[imeanforever]

"Thank you."

[eversomuchfun]

"It's no trouble."

He picks up the book on vampires and starts flipping through it in search of relevant legends.

[imeanforever]

"It sounds like a lot of people would want it, so if it's missing it must be hard to find; how long do you think it'll take you?"

[eversomuchfun]

"It doesn't have to be hard to find, it just has to be out of reach of anyone who's actually tried. If it's in or near Sunnydale and there's a clue to be found, I'll have it by next week. If it's found its way to some other localized attractor of supernatural phenomena, it might take me a month. If someone actually managed to hide it in a hard-to-access location or erase all meaningful clues to its whereabouts, it could be longer. And if someone managed to destroy it I'll have to go with the fallback plan of figuring out how to reinvent it from scratch, which could really take a while."

[imeanforever]

"Attractor of supernatural phenomena?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Things related to magic and demons and so forth that could happen near Sunnydale as opposed to in some other location usually do. There are more places like that, but the Sunnydale Hellmouth is the most obvious one on this continent."

[imeanforever]

"How does that work?"

[eversomuchfun]

"I haven't heard a compelling explanation."

[imeanforever]

"Well, why do you live here?"

[eversomuchfun]

"I was curious about the Hellmouth."