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eachdraidh2014-08-05 05:58 am
extramural) wrote in eachdraidh2014-08-05 05:58 am
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001 | video | open to both courts
[ The locket is floating.
It’s the only explanation for the view that the item gives – a young man, out on the walls of one of the castles, the moon curved behind him. His arms are crossed in front of him, not touching the device as it records. Black eyes (all black, like the depths of the sea) regard it for a moment and then one hand moves, gestures at the locket. ]
Well, well.
[ His head tilts, and while his lips don’t turn up, one may get the feeling that he’s smirking. ]
I must say, this is an interesting turn of events. One that even I did not see coming.
[ His voice is almost monotonous, but there is something like music in it – like whale song. ]
To be pulled away to the Drabwurld, asked to take part in this war. I wonder if they truly know what they are doing. [ His hand returns, head moving back so that he can look straight at the camera. ]
I hear there was a battle. One should expect such things, in war. I suppose I should ask about it. [ He doesn’t. Instead- ]
Tell me, Shardholders, something... interesting.
It’s the only explanation for the view that the item gives – a young man, out on the walls of one of the castles, the moon curved behind him. His arms are crossed in front of him, not touching the device as it records. Black eyes (all black, like the depths of the sea) regard it for a moment and then one hand moves, gestures at the locket. ]
Well, well.
[ His head tilts, and while his lips don’t turn up, one may get the feeling that he’s smirking. ]
I must say, this is an interesting turn of events. One that even I did not see coming.
[ His voice is almost monotonous, but there is something like music in it – like whale song. ]
To be pulled away to the Drabwurld, asked to take part in this war. I wonder if they truly know what they are doing. [ His hand returns, head moving back so that he can look straight at the camera. ]
I hear there was a battle. One should expect such things, in war. I suppose I should ask about it. [ He doesn’t. Instead- ]
Tell me, Shardholders, something... interesting.
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[ She pauses, tilting her head. ]
That kind of interesting?
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[ The story itself isn't quite there, but- ]
The 'magical world'. Is it separate from another world?
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[ She hums, thinking. Technically, she supposed not, but... ]
Non-magical people don't know about it, if that's what you mean. It's sort of a secret society? Just -- literally, rather than some kind of elusive club.
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[ Or a flood of soap. Or any other sort of natural disaster of soap. ]
And I take it you have magic, as you know of this society.
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[ ... It probably was a bit of a silly thing to start with, honestly. ]
I do. My parents don't, though, but I was born with it and went to school to learn about it.
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[ Well, he might try to make a blizzard out of soap whenever he gets to the Station now. ]
And your parents did not know that magic existed, then? How did they feel, when they learned their daughter possessed such a force?
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They were proud, actually. Having a witch in the family was a little difficult for them to get used to at first but they were proud of me, and so excited to learn as much as they could.
[ ... before she made them forget they had a daughter. ]
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[ He sounds- almost wistful, but that could be wishful thinking. ]
There are certainly no formal schools.
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[ She shakes her head, lips pursed. ]
Once upon a time witches and wizards were burned at the stake in my world, that's why we're sort-of in hiding -- that and to protect muggles from wayward magic. The schools are there to help us learn and be educated, something any world with magic should have, really.
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[ He seems a bit mournful. ]
There are many magic users, then?
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[ She nods, looking a little perkier. ]
Thousands, all across the world.
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Magic. The abilities range. Sometimes it is no more than a carved charm, sometimes a single ability. Sometimes more.
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[ Yeah, it's not nice. ]
I do.
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[ She sniffs, crossing her arms. ]
Do they learn to control it? Do you help them?
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Others... [ He frowns. ] I do not give my gifts lightly. But there are charms and runes that have been Void-touched, with magic that both is and is not my own. Sometimes people find them. Sometimes they're driven mad by them.
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[ She nods her head, curious now. What kind of magic could he offer that she would be unfamiliar with? ]
People go insane from touching your magic? Can't you return the magic to - um, the Void?
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[ :3 ]
Some. The Void is beginning, end -- all things and no things. It is chaos, and such things can have undesirable effects.
But I do not interfere -- the choice of what they do with magic, whether it is a power or a charm, is theirs.
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Which is why we have to teach our children to understand the world differently - better. So that they don't judge people for things that they can't control.
[ Still, all this talk of a Void and magic - it's interesting. ]
So you give them magic, kind of like the king and queen here, to see what they do with it? What choices they make?
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[ But he understands what you're saying, Hermione. ]
Yes.
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[ She shifts, pursing her lips. ]
And what if they displease you? Can you just take it back?
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How fucking appalling, did you think you could just slip that in and have no one notice?
[WITH GREAT APPRECIATION. Weirdo vampire likes your soap-based pun, whether intentional or not.]
video. | im giggling at you
[ Oh. OH. ]
No, I didn't even realise I'd said it!
video. | /face in hands
No, no, no one likes an unconscious savant: just take the credit.
video. | what a cute