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

[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.

[infinitely_stranger]

"Sierulyperinon."

[imeanforever]

Promise takes a deep breath. And says, "I rescind all your orders."

[infinitely_stranger]

"Thank you," says Arcane.

[imeanforever]

"You're welcome."

Down go fairies.

[infinitely_stranger]

"What a harmonically fascinating place," he comments.

[imeanforever]

"I wonder if Castle can just copy your harmonic sense. Tea was the test subject for a spell that was intended to do that - and did, but also made the harmonics near him even wackier."

[infinitely_stranger]

"A potentially interesting and valuable experiment."

[imeanforever]

"Castle's magic is themed around that game Tea had you playing, only with the actual pieces involved."

[infinitely_stranger]

"Interesting. I look forward to learning about mortal magic."

[imeanforever]

"Moooost of it is a mess."

[infinitely_stranger]

"In what way?"

[imeanforever]

"Well, the chess magic is something Castle invented. Because you can just do that. If you're willing to risk many horrible side effects, but from the looks of things thousands of people who have incompatible aesthetics and philosophies and hobbies and languages and so on have all done it without much regard for prior art."

[infinitely_stranger]

"I am going to be either immensely fascinated or immensely frustrated," he predicts. "Likely both."

[imeanforever]

"One of the possible side effects is becoming addicted to the magic. Castle is going to try to find someone who is already addicted to teach to make fairylights to see if this condition affects one's dispositions towards sorcery too, else I don't dare actually try any."

[infinitely_stranger]

"Yes, that would no doubt be very inconvenient. But is it a side effect only of practicing, or is learning the theory also dangerous?"

[imeanforever]

"Just practicing. I have read a lot of books."

[infinitely_stranger]

"I would also like to read those books."

[imeanforever]

"Then you should join us the next time we go to the library with the relevant contents. There's another library but it doesn't have anything about magic in it, just stuff about mortals. Also interesting; not so practical."

[infinitely_stranger]

"The information about magic may not turn out to be especially practical either if the risk of addiction is too high for either of us to use it."

[imeanforever]

"But Castle is already a practitioner, and can find more. Dividing the theory work can't hurt if we can get sufficiently up to speed."

[infinitely_stranger]

"Perhaps. I don't know enough about the system or systems to know how well that would work."

[imeanforever]

"Well, I'm not sure either, but it's more likely to be useful than learning about various excuses mortals have come up with to kill each other or the nature of popular mortal religions."