Dreamshaper Felix in Quintessence
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"On Isabella's bed where I left it, most likely," Cat tells him, sounding unconcerned.

His emotions still don't seem to be working properly. It would be getting annoying, except that would be an emotional reaction. 

"I doubt any of the servants would move it." 

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"Please, retrieve it right away. It... it can be dangerous."

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Oh, good, something to do

"Of course." He stands up and heads for the stairs.

"Would you like to come with me?" 

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Nod. "If it's no trouble." He follows.

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Through the hallway and up the stairs and along the corridor to Raven's room. 

The door is open. They didn't leave it open.

 

 

The crystal isn't where he left it. He searches the bed, and the floor around it. Nothing. 

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Felix actually needs to lean on the wall a bit. "Okay, any chance a servant did move it?"

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"Unlikely," Cat judges. "They know not to meddle with mysterious objects left lying around in this house."

He runs through a mental list of the people with access to this room, and stops when he reaches...

"...Eliza. That would be my best guess."

He starts to send her a tap over the pack bond, but then remembers it's not working right. They'll have to find her the long way instead. At this hour, she's likely to be in her room, down the hall; he heads that way. 

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"Eliza?"

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"My father's ward," he explains distractedly as they walk.

"I don't actually know what her legal status is, now..." 

Eliza's room is the furthest away from Raven's. He isn't sure why Eliza would have been going anywhere near Raven's room; it isn't on the way to anywhere. There is a vague awareness that he would usually be able to figure it out, with how well he knows her. 

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Eliza is, conveniently, in her room. Unlike the way she left Raven's, the door is closed; Cat knocks and waits for permission before entering.

"Good morning," she greets Cat lazily, not bothering to get up when he walks in. "Ooo, who's your friend?" 

Her silk nightgown has ridden up to expose most of her legs. She is making no effort to cover herself up, with a strange man in her bedroom.

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Felix is from a future Earth and the twin of someone that does not like clothes. He is completely desensitized towards too much leg skin.

"I'm Felix Dalkaila." He says looking around the room for the dreamshard.

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"Aww, not even a blink?" She sits up and holds out a hand for him to shake, grinning. "Elizabeth Ryan. It's a pleasure."

She's eyeing his wings with obvious interest. 

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"Eliza," Cat interrupts.

"We're looking for an item that belongs to Felix, but was left in this house by mistake earlier," he explains. 

"Have you seen a piece of gray quartz lying around, maybe in Raven's room?" They don't use the nicknames in front of outsiders; he's communicating to her that he trusts Felix. 

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"And why would I be in Raven's room?" she deflects. 

โ€ƒโ€ƒ"Eliza." 

"Alright, keep yer hair on. Yes, I've seen it." 

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"Where is it?" Felix asks like it's all one word or all one syllable.

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Her grin turns mischievous. 

"What's it worth to you?" she asks slyly, rubbing the finger and thumb of one hand together in the - apparently multiversal - symbol for money. 

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"Eliza. It belonged to his brother." 

Perfectly true, but it'll give her the impression that said brother is dead, rather than currently inaccessible for other reasons, and that the main value of the item is sentimental.

"Just give it back, please." With an undertone of stop making me look bad in front of a guest. Who needs telepathy anyway? 

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"Please, it's a serious matter."

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Eliza bursts out laughing. "Oh, Lord, your faces!" 

Going over to a drawer, she pulls out the dreamshard and holds it out to Felix, dangling it in two fingers. 

"Here you are, then. Try not to lose it next time," she adds with a wink. 

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Felix snatches the dreamshard (not violently, but very quickly) and then holds it much in the same way someone might hold a grenade. He stares at it and ignores Eliza's attempt at humor.

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"Thank you," Cat tells her on Felix's behalf.

He herds Felix out of the room and back downstairs to where they left Raven.

"What will you do with it now?" he asks on the way. 

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Felix keeps an iron-like grip on the thing the entire time. "I don't know yet. Figure out a way so it doesn't escape again, if that is something the local magic can do."

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"Well, I'm afraid I won't be of any help to you in that area," Cat says.

"I'm not a mage. I do know several, if you would find introductions useful." 

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Polite smile. "Yes, I would be very grateful. ...I should spend the next while helping you figure out your dreamshaping abilities and how your Earth works - I'm from an eerily similar planet, but we have pocket dimensions and is 2017."

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Well. That's...something.

They should probably limit how much they say where the servants could hear; he waits until they're back in the parlour before speaking again. 

"We found the dreamshard. Eliza had it," he tells Raven. "Felix says he comes from another Earth where the year is 2017 and...everyone has pocket dimensions like ours?"

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