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Adarin - realizes he's one of the most shut in members of the household. It makes sense, really. He's their shield, if bandits or other nasty people show up it is up to him to keep them safe, like it is up to Jony to make the garden and Kesaven expands the house and keeps it in repair. Besides, where would he even go? All of his favorite people are right here. He'd be lonely if he went on the trips to the market.
So when there is a yelp from downstairs that sounds like it's from Tima, he's in the house and not outside chopping firewood, or at the market. He is upstairs, and he hears it, and he sprints downstairs and prepares to shield and -
And then he is eaten by a giant snake with a mirror for a face.
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in_tatters
kindestgarden
"Yes, that could have potentially satisfied the other sorceress - Kithabel would have been livid but -" They approach the top of the stairs, the tunnel under the river. "But awake. Only apparently the other sorceress was angrier than that."
in_tatters
"... No, I mean - I don't understand what you mean by drain her momentum."
kindestgarden
"Prevent her from doing any magic, so she's not a sorceress anymore." Through the tunnel. "My poor girl, it was the only thing she ever wanted."
in_tatters
"I'm sorry. I hope she wakes up and recovers." Adarin frowns. "How can you be prevented from doing magic? I - don't understand. I'm a - mage, raveler, I don't lose it because I've slept a while."
kindestgarden
"She can't do magic while she's asleep. You're some kind of specialist?"
in_tatters
"... I think we are working from completely different concepts here. When I was younger I got a choice of different magics I could pick. I lost one because I waited too long to pick between them - weather, if you're curious - and ended up picking shielding. So, I can protect people from getting hurt. Right now, I'm protecting myself, because I'm in a strange place and I'm kind of nervous about it. I won't - lose my magic if I don't do it."
kindestgarden
"That's. That isn't how magic works," says the woman, as they enter the palace proper.
kindestgarden
"You decide what you want, more or less consciously - and you want it hard enough, and it happens," shrugs the woman, heading for the ex-sorceress's bedroom. "I can dust, or mince an onion - but Kithabel could - she was a real sorceress, if only just, she'd learned to fly."
kindestgarden
"Well, yes." She lets herself into the bedroom. She goes and sits on the bed beside the sleeping girl, brushes her hair from her face. "But most of us don't work at it enough to do much with it."
in_tatters
"And if you don't use it for a while you lose the ability to and need to - start over? Lose it forever?"
kindestgarden
"Start over. She will, I'm sure of it, if she -"
She trails off.
She trails off.
in_tatters
"I'm sorry, I can stop asking about this if you'd like? I just - magic doesn't work anything like that. Where I came from."
kindestgarden
"I really don't know how to explain you," apologizes the woman. "Or explain normal things to you. I'm only here to visit my daughter."
kindestgarden
"Oh. I don't think so. She's not dead, but her sorceress friend said that, well, it would take a fairly traditional breaking..."
kindestgarden
"When sheer momentum force isn't enough - and Dianira tried - sometimes curses can be broken by people who are in love with the victims, but." Mother kisses daughter's forehead. "It requires quite a bit of specificity, and she's not - out meeting people, at the moment, and wasn't seeing anyone before."
kindestgarden
"Sometimes, anyway. Dianira thinks it should here - the other sorceress wasn't powerful enough to beat Dianira in a fight. But, well. Kithabel's asleep."
in_tatters
"Okay," says Adarin. "Could Dianira, given enough time, go with the sheer momentum force thing? Eventually?"
kindestgarden
"Maybe. In a few hundred years."
She pets her daughter's hair again.
She pets her daughter's hair again.