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]

"Thank you for your help, Royal. Do you want to stick around?"

[summa_iniuria]

"Not sure. I'm definitely interested in offering all reasonable assistance to the conquest of the Queenscourt, but it seems like you haven't quite even reached the planning stages yet."

[imeanforever]

"Not quite, no. But a more comprehensive idea of what mortal magic we can get our hands on would be good once we do."

[summa_iniuria]

"I can arrange for us to get our hands on a lot of mortal magic, potentially," she says. "Besides just what Castle can manage, which is already a lot. I think I'm going to start looking into unusually effective, flexible, useful, and recent magic systems - see what I can add to the toolbox, and see if I can catch any inventors like Castle who might be inclined to help out."

[imeanforever]

"Thanks."

[summa_iniuria]

"Happy to help."

[imeanforever]

"And with that all in a position not to require my immediate attention for right now, since my Valley Continent gate is settled I'm going to go plant my tree and get some proper food."

[summa_iniuria]

"Sounds like a plan," says Royal. "I'll see you later."

[imeanforever]

"Bye. Thanks again."

And Promise picks up her tree branch and goes through her Valley Continent gate and finds a good place for her tree and plants it and grows it and finds some food and fills up and then comes back to Tea's crypt.

[eversomuchfun]

Tea and Arcane are playing verbal chess.

[imeanforever]

"Did you already know chess somehow or did Tea explain it to you just now?"

[eversomuchfun]

"The latter."

[imeanforever]

Promise snorts. "Are you done thinking or do you need a while longer?"

[infinitely_stranger]

"I have had sufficient time. I accept the proposed arrangement."

[imeanforever]

"Would you like Tea to leave when you give your name?"

[infinitely_stranger]

"That may depend on how likely Tea is to eavesdrop."

[eversomuchfun]

[imeanforever]

"Would you like to be permitted to follow me a few hundred meters into the air before you give your name?"

[infinitely_stranger]

Snort. "Sure."

[imeanforever]

"Proposed wording: 'you may, taking no extraneous action, follow Promise where she leads of her own uncommanded will'."

[infinitely_stranger]

"Functional," diagnoses Arcane.

[eversomuchfun]

Tea transmits the order.

[imeanforever]

And Promise shows Arcane out of the crypt and flies up.

[infinitely_stranger]

Up go fairies.

[imeanforever]

Promise goes up a little higher than she expects Tea to be able to hear, and puts her ear near Arcane's face.