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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
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"Yes." Over about a minute seconds one of the trees acquires a web of vines supporting flowers near head height, varieties of blue mostly, that seem to be depicting an ocean, island, and sky. "See, it looks good."
"Oh. Art."
sturdycoldsteel
"Art. Dead and afraid people do not art, fights- kill? People, and art." This seems to be going better, now.
She nods. He's making sense!
"Dead people and people who are afraid do not make art. Fights kill people and destroy art."
"Dead people and people who are afraid do not make art. Fights kill people and destroy art."
sturdycoldsteel
Nod. "Art is not the only good thing, but I like it." Finally, someone who acts like a civilized being. He'll keep talking for a while, at this rate, wandering between topics like different kinds of art, whatever history she knows though it's probably not much, how he could help the locals (Would anyone want to live in the forest? The interior is much more pleasant, this part was made to look scary.) And so on.
She explains she's a teacher, and while she doesn't know all that much world history, she can explain to him what it's like there, with warlords that rarely last more than a year (Sun had been around for five months, Empower's been there for eight). She explains that other than the fights between warlords, the occasional warlord being replaced, and the general lawlessness, it's not that bad. She doesn't quite say that she doesn't trust him enough to take him up on his offer to live in the terrifying forest, but it might be obvious.
sturdycoldsteel
It's really not that obvious. Not to someone like Tenno.
He - doesn't like this person exactly, not yet, (What's her name, anyway?) but he approves of her. Teaching is a relatively noble profession. If Empower gives her trouble because he ran the guard off, feel free to use his name and the fact that he beat Sun as leverage.
He - doesn't like this person exactly, not yet, (What's her name, anyway?) but he approves of her. Teaching is a relatively noble profession. If Empower gives her trouble because he ran the guard off, feel free to use his name and the fact that he beat Sun as leverage.
(Phila, her name was Phila.)
Empower seems to not be giving her trouble over it, and she's apparently allowed to come and go on her own.
Empower seems to not be giving her trouble over it, and she's apparently allowed to come and go on her own.
sturdycoldsteel
Then Tenno learns the language and occasionally gives food and wooden objects and herbal medicines to the various nearby villages. He tries to investigate local art, but doesn't push it if everyone is still afraid of him.
And he works on getting magic to work properly here. Fate tells him there is a - blockage of sorts. A wall that keeps his world from telling this world what magic ought to do. Now all he has to do is poke a hole in it.
And he works on getting magic to work properly here. Fate tells him there is a - blockage of sorts. A wall that keeps his world from telling this world what magic ought to do. Now all he has to do is poke a hole in it.
People are still fairly afraid of him, but they get less so with time. Empower doesn't seem like he bothers people much, and at one point someone else tries taking power but Empower deals with them.
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