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[Hey guys,] Bella says to Aianon and Ansharil one afternoon, [Sarion free for some catching-up? Been a while.]
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bellfounding
"Big red teddy bear with fangs and claws and horns a spiky tail and batwings, yes," snorts Bella.
tearingup
Ripper decides to demonstrate Aianon's cuteness and cuddliness by hugging him some more.
bellfounding
Bella laughs softly and closes her eyes again and catches Sarion up on how her empressing is going, what with the resurrections and colonization and such.
small_magics
Isibel cannot replenish her coin supply, and has to be exceedingly judicious about using anything that she could find herself in dire need of in an emergency. She is doing her empressing by enchantment, still, and triangles and squares, here and there. She has implemented no significant resurrection project, though she willingly distributes torchability to those who'll take it. She catches Pattern up on how that has been going; a great many elves now boast true immortality, and more humans are taking the offer now, too.
tearingup
"You'd think, if elves live ten times longer, humans would be ten times as excited about immortality," says Ripper.
small_magics
And yet it does not seem so. Isibel believes this may be because elves already valued long life - this is why they gave up their magic for it in the first place.
small_magics
Isibel "tells" the story from the beginning. How she was on an expedition to the island (now home to a growing colony of elves, many of whom now live in her enchanted village) and found unicorn statues, and a demon, and was confused afraid, but did not flee. And how he was harmless, and how he had a beautiful dragon. And how she did run from the beautiful dragon. And how she later learned that she had to go back.
And how she learned meditation, and went to the island again, and fell in love.
And learned elfmagery, and how they found the one who was going to bring the Dark, and how he died.
And how she learned meditation, and went to the island again, and fell in love.
And learned elfmagery, and how they found the one who was going to bring the Dark, and how he died.
tearingup
"You're right," says Ripper, "that was anticlimactic. But it's almost better that way, isn't it?"
small_magics
It is, yes, although it somewhat highlighted the enormity of Isibel's sacrifice - however temporary it later turned out to be. A prolonged, difficult fight would have been distracting.
(She is all right now.)
(She is all right now.)
