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]

"You might actually be able to - enough attention to other factors can let you completely ignore harmonics, and it's not bad enough to shred established lights - but yeah."

[eversomuchfun]

Shrug. "And now you know. And I suppose you'll need a second test subject if Castle goes for another try."

[kingsidecastle]

"It's possible I could fix your problem somehow, but I wouldn't want to try it immediately," says Castle. "It's always possible that the effect will settle down if we give it some time, and if that does happen it'll be easier all round than trying to cast more spells to fix what the first one broke."

[imeanforever]

"How long until we know if that's going to happen or not?"

[kingsidecastle]

"I'd give it a week before I started trying alternatives."

[imeanforever]

Nod. "I wonder if you're going to disturb all the harmonics in your place until I can't use my map anymore. Oh well."

[eversomuchfun]

"Seems very likely, since I sleep there."

[imeanforever]

"Oh well. I'll map the roof."

[eversomuchfun]

"My nonsense mostly doesn't go that high."

[imeanforever]

"Mostly?"

[eversomuchfun]

"If my bizarre harmonic aura has a particularly energetic moment while I'm passing through the ground level of the crypt, you might have to amend your map of the roof."

[imeanforever]

"Then maybe I'll just map part of the graveyard you don't tend to pass through."

[eversomuchfun]

"A sound plan."

[imeanforever]

Promise watches her lights flicker, then clears them away. "Well, you'd certainly throw off any sorcerers you got near if it came to that."

[eversomuchfun]

He laughs.

[imeanforever]

"But I don't think you can defeat the entire queenscourt in one fell swoop with nothing but an aura of inconvenience."

[eversomuchfun]

"Alas."

[imeanforever]

"Since I should not cast any spells today and should also not be given my very own aura of inconvenience, is there anything else productive to do today? I wonder if those protective spells you mentioned will give me some kind of aura."

[kingsidecastle]

"Royal and this house both have plenty of protective spells cast on them, and neither seems to do what Tea's harmonic-sight spell has been doing," says Castle.

[imeanforever]

"That's true... although I didn't try to map Royal's immediate environs."

[eversomuchfun]

"If she was producing this much nonsense, I think you would have noticed something, but if her effect is more sedate or covers a smaller area it could have passed you by."

[imeanforever]

"Yeah. Are the ones on the house very similar to the ones on Royal?"

[kingsidecastle]

"They're all protections, but the casting and intended effects are somewhat different," says Castle.

[imeanforever]

"So maybe I should surround Royal with tiny lights before putting on anything I can't take off."

[kingsidecastle]

"Reasonable. She's busy right now, but I can ask her to meet with you later if you want."