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]

"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."

[imeanforever]

"Sure. How much later?"

[kingsidecastle]

"Does tomorrow evening at the school library sound like a reasonable time and place to you?"

[imeanforever]

"Sure."

[kingsidecastle]

"I'll arrange it. Anything else for now?"

[imeanforever]

"Nothing particularly comes to mind. I guess we can just go to the library again."

[eversomuchfun]

Tea shrugs agreeably.

[imeanforever]

So Promise stands well away from the hallucinating harmonics in one of the more regularized parts of the house, turns invisible, and goes with Tea to the library to read things.

[eversomuchfun]

Tea reads fiction. And is available to help explain assorted mortal phenomena.

[imeanforever]

That is good of him.

And then food and then Promise spends the night in her tree.

[eversomuchfun]

In the morning when she returns, Tea is sitting on the floor, calmly drinking tea.