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Entry tags:
- altered carbon: takeshi kovacs,
- cotar: rhysand,
- fear street: ziggy berman,
- grishaverse: alina starkov,
- grishaverse: the darkling,
- mass effect: kaidan alenko,
- mcu: bucky barnes,
- mcu: sam wilson,
- naruto: itachi uchiha,
- old kingdom: sabriel,
- persona 3 fes: shinjiro aragaki,
- star trek aos: james t. kirk,
- star trek aos: leonard mccoy,
- star wars: finn,
- stranger things: eleven,
- transformers: drift
text / un: starkov
the good news first: rhys and i found the princess of kilnan in the castle and woke her. she's with us right now. the castle was designed to protect her against her mother's soldiers trying to force her back home, which is why it's been so tricky. it's meant to alert remi — her uncle, and the wizard we came looking for — to any unwanted guests, which would be us.
the reason he hasn't come to greet us is that he's asleep. aureliah — the princess — should be able to talk her uncle down before he throws us all out into the mud. he's trapped behind an entrance sam's group found, but aureliah should be able to unseal its magic.
i think more of us should be there when it's opened, just in case something goes wrong with the orb.
the bad news: the orb's name is phyllie. remi made a deal with her and fed his own arcane energy to her in exchange for curing a curse that was placed on aureliah and her mother, but something went wrong during remi's bargain and that energy was transferred from the orb to aureliah instead. that's the reason she has her uncle's magic, and why her mother is so eager to use her daughter as a weapon against kilnan's neighboring countries.
the queen thinks kilnan will be better protected if she can force her daughter to learn war magic. it sounds like remi has been searching through dimensions to find the "right world" (for him and aureliah to hide? we don't know what he meant) but the orb has been draining him of his energy.
from what aureliah said, he feeds "phyllie" monthly. the princess and i think that's the price he's chosen to pay for keeping the curse at bay.
the worst news: i don't know what will happen if we break the bargain remi has made, but i'm sure it can't possibly be anything good. aureliah's life force was given to her by the orb, and the wizard who cast the curse in the first place was killed in the war. so that's a dead end, but maybe someone has a better solution we can offer remi once he's awake.
[ as per this npc thread! feel free to threadjack and hop around threads here to your hearts' content. ♥ ]
the reason he hasn't come to greet us is that he's asleep. aureliah — the princess — should be able to talk her uncle down before he throws us all out into the mud. he's trapped behind an entrance sam's group found, but aureliah should be able to unseal its magic.
i think more of us should be there when it's opened, just in case something goes wrong with the orb.
the bad news: the orb's name is phyllie. remi made a deal with her and fed his own arcane energy to her in exchange for curing a curse that was placed on aureliah and her mother, but something went wrong during remi's bargain and that energy was transferred from the orb to aureliah instead. that's the reason she has her uncle's magic, and why her mother is so eager to use her daughter as a weapon against kilnan's neighboring countries.
the queen thinks kilnan will be better protected if she can force her daughter to learn war magic. it sounds like remi has been searching through dimensions to find the "right world" (for him and aureliah to hide? we don't know what he meant) but the orb has been draining him of his energy.
from what aureliah said, he feeds "phyllie" monthly. the princess and i think that's the price he's chosen to pay for keeping the curse at bay.
the worst news: i don't know what will happen if we break the bargain remi has made, but i'm sure it can't possibly be anything good. aureliah's life force was given to her by the orb, and the wizard who cast the curse in the first place was killed in the war. so that's a dead end, but maybe someone has a better solution we can offer remi once he's awake.
[ as per this npc thread! feel free to threadjack and hop around threads here to your hearts' content. ♥ ]
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[ little. small. tiny. immediately, her nose crinkles in indignation, just as she draws her shoulders more upright — the equivalent of a petite bird attempting to fluff its feathers up to look larger, more intimidating. ]
I'm not that small. [ yes, you are. a huffed out breath, and then: ] Do they call it a spark because you're a giant walking fireplace?
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[ He had hoped that a bit of levity would smooth things over as he loathed to upset people. At least that thread of the conversation dropped when Alina asked him a question. ]
Are you thinking of a coal-powered engine? Nothing like it but- ah, in-person would be better, but if we are planning to work together, it would be better if I just showed you.
[ Ordinarily, Drift would have hated to do this, but the connection should be secure, and the spark energy was his idea in the first place. He takes a half-step back, and the panels of his chest his before beginning to slide apart gently. The blue glow of his eyes dim as a brilliant light blazes where a living heart would be nestled. The light pulses, shimmering like ice over clear blue water catching in fractals under the glow of a midday sun.
With a gasp the aperture of his chest closes again. ]
Never get used to that.