04-20-2021, 11:27 AM
Leilan
The ice dragon, now magician, honestly has far less control than Aela assumes - and spent far less time being bored than, say, Straia has. Or Eight, for that matter, as the man is his great-great something. 'Home' had therefore been more of a joke than anything else, knowing that he has never seen her, but that if Lilli is her mother and Bane her father, then at least she should have lived here for a while.
She sort of confirms the latter, though the memory magic that he seeps most of his information from, displays another face - two, actually. One of a mare he barely knows, who has nursed her; and one that he does, her icy blue eyes having that very familiar stare right into his soul. Oh, but Heartfire sure will see his amused face later, he thinks. She only has to reach out.
Right now, though, his niece isn't around to make a sharp comment on his rudeness, so he can get away with it for a bit.
"Deal," he tells the young mare because he has avoided boredom all his life, at every cost. Not that he is extremely bored now; and as a new player to the game of magic he would probably find it interesting to test more of his mind-managing abilities. But she seems to be made of the same kind of wood. She doesn't want to be bored, and adding a game of chance to the conversation would certainly keep it interesting. "One thing though. You have to go first and lead; I built that." It would be so easy to cheat, but really, in that case he could just leech off her memory-trait some more and find all the answers he needs. Besides, he still could, technically, make it a living maze.
But for now, such antics aren't needed. @[Aela] hasn't asked personal questions yet, and even if she does, he doubts that there are enough dead ends for her to truly get every answer that she wants.
As they move in the direction of the maze, he figures she'll have to come back a few times for that.
She sort of confirms the latter, though the memory magic that he seeps most of his information from, displays another face - two, actually. One of a mare he barely knows, who has nursed her; and one that he does, her icy blue eyes having that very familiar stare right into his soul. Oh, but Heartfire sure will see his amused face later, he thinks. She only has to reach out.
Right now, though, his niece isn't around to make a sharp comment on his rudeness, so he can get away with it for a bit.
"Deal," he tells the young mare because he has avoided boredom all his life, at every cost. Not that he is extremely bored now; and as a new player to the game of magic he would probably find it interesting to test more of his mind-managing abilities. But she seems to be made of the same kind of wood. She doesn't want to be bored, and adding a game of chance to the conversation would certainly keep it interesting. "One thing though. You have to go first and lead; I built that." It would be so easy to cheat, but really, in that case he could just leech off her memory-trait some more and find all the answers he needs. Besides, he still could, technically, make it a living maze.
But for now, such antics aren't needed. @[Aela] hasn't asked personal questions yet, and even if she does, he doubts that there are enough dead ends for her to truly get every answer that she wants.
As they move in the direction of the maze, he figures she'll have to come back a few times for that.
I see this life like a swinging vine
swing my heart across the line
swing my heart across the line
Two things I know I can make: pretty kids, and people mad.
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