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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


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    [PQ - in progress] Easily the best I ever had - any fairy
    #1
    I just want to let you know: my mind refuses to let you go
    I want to hypnotize you so you will remember me
    These treks to the Mountain had become some sort of rhythm - meditation if you will. It’s purely his mind already being set on the, in his eyes, relatively small change - the idea of not having to work hours, days, for someone to start trusting him. The idea of picking and choosing his form, even if there was a limit between two forms.

    The cold of the Mountain doesn’t hurt him, so it’s merely the walk upwards (and the prospect of going down again later) that is some sort of strain for the draft-baroque-like horse. But he’s used to it by now. He made his home in Hyaline out of necessity; a decency keeping him from going back to the Isle who’s leadership he had passed on, so as not to undermine his heir - and the need for a cold enough climate as well.

    What would it be like to pose as a more normal horse, and not be so dependent on surroundings?

    It’s a question unanswered so far, as the fae did not speak to him nor explicitly told him no. That’s why he keeps returning, he thinks. Or maybe it is about his mind being set already.

    ”Fairy,” he says because he knows that if any of them listens, it’s probably only one, so why call them, acting as if they all have any interest in him? He knows that they don’t, and doesn’t feel like they should. I’ve returned to ask you the same question as before. I’d like to choose - I feel like a half-baked… well, I don’t really know what the finished product would be, honestly.”

    He shrugs off the last remark - perhaps he should not care about the future, just live today. But at present it feels like tiptoeing some sort of thin line, which us why he came - and keeps coming. Will keep coming, if he won’t get an answer this time, just like the last two.

    Looking around the mountain’s rocks, he wonders if anything will happen - or if they are trying to mock him with their silence, keep challenging him to say more. Offer more.

    But he thinks it’s better to wait until they ask of something in return, than to go rambling to fairies who may not be in the mood to listen.

    He softly chuckles to himself - perhaps he did learn something over the years, after all.

    When your fears are cast aside, will you remember me?
    Leilan
    no. 7 | ice forged in fire


    It’s me again - third time's the charm?(?)

    I’d like to quest for frost dragon shifting! Dragon mimicry upgrade to dragon shifting, and that mutated with dragonice to a frosty version (so he’d be exchanging both traits for one 4-space).

    Use of dragon mimicry (the teeth and scales are sort of, physical attributes so we mostly find his vision actively doing things - or him trying not to show his teeth all the time because he knows he’s scary looking for kids?)
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24830&pid=95450#pid95450 (dragon vision)
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24446&pid=94837#pid94837 (teeth and scales)
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24358&pid=93288#pid93288 (dragon vision and description of how he uses his teeth in everyday life; description of scales as well)
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24518&pid=94718#pid94718 (dragon vision)
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24518&pid=94839#pid94839 (dragon vision)

    Other posts in the last 90 days
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24643&pid=95023#pid95023 (also sees farther into the distance here due to dragon vision)
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24814&pid=95451#pid95451
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24313&pid=93505#pid93505
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24358&pid=94237#pid94237

    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24921&pid=96017#pid96017

    I have posted a few more in the last 90 days, removed one from July 18th

    so now the oldest post linked in here is of July 23rd and I think that is exactly 90 days ago? Anyway, to be sure here is another that is more recent than that one; the rest is August

    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25034&pid=96435#pid96435 with use of dragon teeth/dragonvision, dragonice, as well I guess.
    Two things I know I can make: pretty kids, and people mad.
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    #2
    The last time they had been face-to-face, she’d pushed it off a cliff. Even this many years later, she still stands by that decision as quite deserved. Since then, they’ve ignored him several times, though of course they are never unaware of him. He’s not really someone she’d usually go out of her way to help, not being a child anymore, but the other Fae seem to have decided that since she dealt with him the first time she should do so again.  And persistence, eventually, must be rewarded.

    He makes his plea – again – and she walks forward out of nothingness to something, blue eyes unfathomable and crusted in ice and snow. The wings are such an affectation, something she sports for the aesthetic of the thing rather than any practical use (who needs wings when you can simply be or not be at whim?). He has an icy appearance now as well, so perhaps it is fitting that she is the fae that responds to him again. “You want to choose," she mocks him, “but you don’t know what the finished product would be.”

    A beat of quiet, she tilts her head and stares. “Maybe some time for reflection would help you ‘know’. Go find the coldest place in Beqanna, and stay there for a year helping anyone else who wanders there. After that, prove to me that you aren’t just in it for yourself. Use your current powers to help others in the location of your choice. Then we’ll talk.” As quickly as she appeared, she’s gone, leaving him to find his own way.

    ooc;
    -Leilan must go live in the coldest place in BQ for a BQ year (at least two RL months) and you must have two threads of Leilan helping people survive there
    -You must also have two other threads of Leilan using his current powers to help someone, proving his heart isn’t as frozen as it seems
    -Return with a total of four threads with at least two Leilan responses each, not before a BQ year has passed
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    #3
    Qq @[devin]
    I read the OOC part as that 2 of the threads must be in the chosen frozen place AND about surviving there and must make use of his current traits (this includes all traits) and 2 can be elsewhere as long as he helps someone in some way?

    Is that correct or must all 4 be in the place he will live in for the next year. And do all threads have to have him actively using a trait to count or is that 2 vs 2?

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    #4
    2 need to be helping people in the frozen place, but don’t have to be using his trait. 2 just have to be helping people.
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    #5
    Thank you! Will do Smile

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    #6
    We got older and I should have known
    that I’d feel colder when I walk alone
    When he comes back to the Mountain, he is a different man. Truth is, he is more himself than he was last time, or the time before, and even the first time - even when he had still had hope for Breckin to return to him.

    And even when they were together in the lands where he had grown up, a place where magic did not exist, he might not have been fully himself.

    He had been most himself when he was on Icicle Isle - then, and now. Was it the place then, that established this? No, even he understands that this cannot be the case. It’s the willingness to tie himself to others; family and friends, letting them melt their way into his heart. Allowing them in, even if it scares him to do so.

    And still he does so ever carefully. He picks and chooses based on an intuition he never really was able to put into words. He still gets hurt every now or then, though. And when he does, he happens to act foolish and stupid one way or the other.

    To balance, a little act of kindness goes a long way. And balance is what Beqanna needs, he thinks. War and unrest may happen, but there must also be a safe place for those who do not wish to pick a side. When there is a sickness, there must be a safe place to counter it. When there’s too much magic, there must be a lull from it.

    It’s not too hard to figure out and yet it’s taken him fifteen years or so.

    He climbs towards the snowline and no further. If she’ll come, she’ll come to this thin line. Balance is what he needs - to be a horse and a dragon in one, always seems to lead others to presume the latter. They see a predator before they see a person. That’s why he came; having noticed the difference in the place beyond in how he was regarded. Impressive maybe, but not inevitably dangerous. Ice and warmth in one.

    Beryl comes to mind. Will they be afraid of me? The answer for her is both. She can enjoy her life as a horse for strangers, after all.

    He’s pretty sure he has proven that the ice he bears hasn’t actually changed his heart into ice.

    But it’s not for him to decide what he grows into, or not. It’s still a fairy’s choice.

    Is it good enough?
    Leilan
    no. 7 | ice forged in fire

    @[Ice Fairy]



    OOC

    Hi, as always, Leilan overdoes things/I dropped him into a million threads so heh. I had a lot of fun with all the threads I forced him into! Thanks for giving lots of muse and I hope some more to come with the change ^^.

    So here’s a bunch of threads. I read it as a deadline at first lol, but you said ‘not before’ so I figured I’d wait till today.

    Icicle Isle:

    1.
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25383
    Immediate help with survival of Beryl, adopted her later and helped her find food here: http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25594, though I’m not sure if this counts as more than one helping action. Beryl repeatedly returns in his threads seeing as he decided to fully adopt her.

    2.
    https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25683
    Helped Firen survive, as plotted for frozen heart by Lav

    3.
    https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25372
    Helping Jesla by building her a less-cold home (as in, shelter from the icy winds and snowdrifts. Like an igloo). Two posts in but I’m certain we’ll be able to continue this soon

    4.
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25350
    Helping Brielle shelter against the cold as well as helping her answer questions abt family. I’m 3 posts in, unfortunately I haven’t had more replies so far but maybe when she gets back we can continue this.

    Not on Icicle Isle:
    1.
    http://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25358
    Helping Lilliana by telling her about Elaina and subsequently dealing with that information/helping her find her way, in a way

    2.
    https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25604
    Helping Oceane feel a little better (at least we hope so!)

    3.
    https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25216
    Attempts to prevent Divest from doing something foolish by scaring her, the effectiveness of this remains a question to be answered

    4.
    He also did Anatomy and Craft’s quests, which involved some helping, but I don’t think that counts. He attempted to help Anatomy prior here: https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25422&page=2 but that’s a group thread coming to a slowdown/standstill and so I don’t know if that counts. I did make two posts exactly in there.

    I haven’t decided if he should stay on Icicle Isle or leave it, since Hyaline (and Pangea) is no longer what it was when he left. I wouldn’t mind if you want to prompt him in some direction if you have the muse for it, or just leave it open. I think he’ll keep trying to bring some sort of balance at any rate.
    Two things I know I can make: pretty kids, and people mad.
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    #7
    When he returns, she keeps him waiting, there on the edge of where the mountain becomes icy and impassible. Keeps him waiting, as if she is evaluating his performance. Which is ridiculous – the ageless fae had been watching him since she sent him away; watching as he goes about his life, and seems to put actual thought and effort into the task she had set him. It’s a welcome change from the arrogance of his youth; if this had been the face he’d presented the first time he came to the mountain, perhaps she would not have pushed him off a cliff.

    So polite he doesn’t come snarling and demanding into their space, waiting instead at that nearly invisible demarcation between the Mountain that is simply a landscape of Beqanna and the Mountain that is the physical part of their realm. Polite enough that she doesn’t keep him waiting forever, and even walks up to him with a faint smile, as if they are old friends, not a creature of immense power and a supplicant who has finally realized that he might get farther with introspection and an honest effort.

    Light eyes trail from one end of him to another, as if her presence wasn’t already an indicator of his success. If he had failed, she simply would have left him to wait until he grew discouraged and went home. She settles, sighs, and a wind blows across both of them that is momentarily, unbelievably cold. He is sure to notice the changes – though it might take a moment since they it is a subtle mutation of traits he already had. “You found something on Icicle Isle.” she says, with a tilt of her head. “Perhaps that was a sign.”

    She won’t offer anything else – no glimpse into future or past events. Simply the gift he had asked for, worked for in good faith, and her observation. To do with as he will.


    (sorry, I'm the worst. But his quest was successful and you can submit an update for ice dragon shifting in exchange for his dragon mimicry & dragonice :3 ) @[Leilan]
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