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It is a fairly typical rainy August afternoon. Edie is lounging in civvies with a good book, and Emily is snacking on some leftover birthday cake while transformed and working on a metal sculpture.
"I don't know why you're bothering," Edie says of the copper-and-verdigris design. "I mean, the rest of it is going to go green too eventually, right?"
"Maybe, maybe not," Emily says stubbornly. "I could coat it with clear paint or something to prevent oxidation."
"Fair enough," Edie says, and returns to perusing her book.
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whatamithinking
So when he backhands her again she presumably doesn't end up writhing in pain again!
iamnotpolaris
And while he is distracted by hitting her sister, Emily can try to Mass Driver him again!
That...does not comprehensively work either. But it sure as hell distracts him.
who-are-dreams
And—
The wall near him ripples from a hard silent impact, and his left eye violently implodes for no discernible reason, and a heartbeat later the reason is revealed to be a long black dagger, previously invisible but now very obviously stuck all the way through his head.
The wall near him ripples from a hard silent impact, and his left eye violently implodes for no discernible reason, and a heartbeat later the reason is revealed to be a long black dagger, previously invisible but now very obviously stuck all the way through his head.
who-are-dreams
A pause.
Then a short girl appears, rising from a crouch on the floor in front of the cloaked man's body.
"Hello," she says. "What do you know about this situation?"
Then a short girl appears, rising from a crouch on the floor in front of the cloaked man's body.
"Hello," she says. "What do you know about this situation?"
whatamithinking
"A short while ago, a friend of ours came frantically knocking on my door. She said she had escaped from a villain who had a few hundred people kidnapped for some reason, and gave us directions to his hideout. We came here and snuck in, which was working great until the alarms went off. Which...I am guessing was not actually us."
who-are-dreams
She shakes her head.
"My distraction at work. Now that he's taken care of," a slight nod at the body, "things are much less urgent, but his victims still need rescuing, among other things. Are you the rescuing sort?"
"My distraction at work. Now that he's taken care of," a slight nod at the body, "things are much less urgent, but his victims still need rescuing, among other things. Are you the rescuing sort?"
who-are-dreams
"Oh good. Then you can rescue the captives and I can dismantle his sacrificial apparatus."
iamnotpolaris
"That was originally going to be my job, but you're welcome to it."
whatamithinking
"We have a map to the prisoners, so that should be relatively easy. ...Unless they moved the prisoners after the breakout, I guess."
who-are-dreams
"And I want the prisoners out before I start trying to collapse the maze, and it doesn't seem like you have a good way to take down these walls one at a time without potentially harming whatever's on the other side."
whatamithinking
"Yeah. Okay, weird question, how good are you at learning codes?"
whatamithinking
"The Si Vales Valeo is a healing spell that lets the caster know any damage that happens to the target's body. So we have a code--we put the spell on and then bite our hands in coded ways in order to communicate. Unless you want to take one of us with you we couldn't give you information that way but a one-way line of communication is better than none." She bites her left ring finger at the second knuckle to demonstrate.
who-are-dreams
"Clever. But depending how it works exactly, you might not like to cast it on me just now."
iamnotpolaris
"...Feedback and 'also feeling the pain' are different or I'd've been screaming when she hit the wall."
who-are-dreams
"How different? Well, you can if you like, anyway. But if screaming is a risk, you're risking it."
whatamithinking
"It's not." She pokes her forehead and says, "Si Vales Valeo." A silver dot appears on her forehead. She blinks. "...Do you want me to fix that?"
who-are-dreams
Shrug. "If it's bothering you. I'm used to it."
who-are-dreams
"Just before I stabbed him. I will be fascinated to discuss the particulars of your spell after we're done here. What should I know about your code?"