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RE: One imprisonment for another - Fritz - Jan 24 2016
(Cay is so wise, lmao)
Fritz jumped a little when Cayenne started speaking again, taking him out of his trance. and he turned around to fix his attention on the lemur. Her voice was so soft. She was the opposite of what he had known up to now, the hard walls of the cave, the void company of the spiders. Whilst the flower bloomed from her head, he squinted and he grabbed it lightly, and looked at the flower very closely from all angles, almost as if trying to see the trick. The flower was fragile and small but he nudged it anyway, making it curve a little.
"You are a creator then." He whispered loudly in the middle of her speaking, his voice echoing and probably distrupting the peacefulness. He continued to listen then onwards.
-'that doesn't make it bad. It's just trying to live.'
Those words stuck with him, and he observed as one of the little spiders crawled down from his fur and onto the solid ground. He recognised that did have an overwhelming feeling to crush it, like he had seen Cayenne did, but he understood why she did it. This one was just minding it's own business, and so he did nothing. The lemur had hugged him tighter and he instinctively nestled into her, watching the gorge through her fur.
As he stared wide-eyed around Monoceros, he thought that all this philosophical talk was all so complex. Surely it was simpler than this? He hoped it wouldn't get even more complicated. He didn't like thinking. But he continued to ask these questions so he could listen to Cayenne's meoldic voice - so there'd be a sound.
"I think you're good." He mumbled, "And what about your teacher, are they good?... I think everyone must be good, even if they don't act it, they're just confused."
Fritz touched large Moss Agate gem on his throat, his clawed hand slightly scratching on the surface, paying attention to the abrasive noise it made. So breakable. Like the spiders. How different were they? He side-glanced at Cayenne’s finger, where her gem was positioned, and went to do the same. However, he stopped when he looked at her expression – strong, calm. She looked like she knew stuff he didn’t.
He stopped fidgeting then, and instead watched what he could see of unruly the twister from the position he was in. It's powerful force, almost omnipotent, overwhelmed his thoughts, knowing that there may be things stronger than it.
And for the first time since he had hatched he felt… scared.
@Cayenne
RE: One imprisonment for another - Cayenne - Jan 28 2016
She smiled distantly. "I guess I am." She supposed everyone who could cast magic was a creator, since they made something out of nothing, from their sheer will and understanding. She'd seen some incredible things with magic, just as she'd done some wonderful and powerful and terrifying things. Magic was...creation. "If I am, then you are too." She touched his gem lightly. "You can make things too, if you focus on it."
"My teacher..." She thought back to the fox who scorned her and was completely flippant to her advancements at her young age. "He wasn't bad, I suppose, but neither was he entirely good. He was rude and intimidating and powerful and rather mean at the time...but that's the thing, you never really know what's going on in someone else's life. Something that happened to them could drive them to do some mean things and be rude, and I think he had those he wanted to protect at the time."
Then she thought of Vicktor, and her expression darkened. "And some take advantage of their strength and their ability to create to hurt. They have no excuse."
She shook her head and sighed. "I must be boring you, I'm sorry. All this heavy talk when I'm sure all you want to do is explore and find new things, don't you? Here, we can either help figure out your magic, or we can go exploring, which would you like?"
@Fritz
"My teacher..." She thought back to the fox who scorned her and was completely flippant to her advancements at her young age. "He wasn't bad, I suppose, but neither was he entirely good. He was rude and intimidating and powerful and rather mean at the time...but that's the thing, you never really know what's going on in someone else's life. Something that happened to them could drive them to do some mean things and be rude, and I think he had those he wanted to protect at the time."
Then she thought of Vicktor, and her expression darkened. "And some take advantage of their strength and their ability to create to hurt. They have no excuse."
She shook her head and sighed. "I must be boring you, I'm sorry. All this heavy talk when I'm sure all you want to do is explore and find new things, don't you? Here, we can either help figure out your magic, or we can go exploring, which would you like?"
RE: One imprisonment for another - Fritz - Jan 29 2016
As the larger, older mammal touched the gem on his neck, Fritz felt his tiny heartbeart accelerate. He did not quite like the sensation of the whirring of the gem being agitated. It felt... unnatural? Whilst the lemur continued to speak, Fritz pushed that to the back of his mind and straightened up, his muscles quivering with the desire to be used. He was still majorly inexperienced though, as shown when he leaned a little too far over the edge and caused a few stray stones to plummet into the ravine below. It hit one of the moving shapes in the water. It intriged him, but he didn't wait to see the reaction of the mysterious creature, and tuned back into Cayenne's voice just as she got onto the topic of her mentor. It confused it him that someone would be so intentionally difficult - and he hated being confused.
"W-hy creatures difficult? There none use...pointless. I'd t-tell you...everything. None secrets!"
Speaking of secrets. He momentarily squinted at Cayenne, not attempting to disguise his actions. Was there anything she was hiding from him? ... Of course not! She was the most glorious creature!
At her question, he didn't even think it through when he spoke, but he did remember how sickly his gem made him feel, "Magic too hard. None use. I... no c-creator like you." He had decided that he wasn't going to use the magic he had seen flourish in front of his eyes and seemed to hum in his gem. To him it seemed to cause too much disturbance and he couldn't devote himself to something such as magic. Other things needed to be done.
His tiny claws scraped against the ground, making a unpleasant noise as he continued, "What... t-he strange noise over there? Is it stronger than you?" He glanced over at the whirlwind he could barely see, but he could hear it loud and clear. It was a force that appeared much larger than anything else in the area he had found himself in, except Cayenne. It seemed to be the only thing that spurred life otherthan the lemur.
At that moment, without waiting for a reply, Fritz crouched and then vaulted from where he was sitting, clutching onto a far ledge, his enduring tail curling onto what it could for support. Despite his weak limbs making him feel clubfooted, he was steady. He then peered back at Cayenne, his bright eyes eagerly set upon her, as if encouraging her to take the jump over.
@Cayenne
RE: One imprisonment for another - Cayenne - Feb 08 2016
"Hm..." She replied. "I have my secrets, don't doubt it. Everyone does, as they become older...but if you choose to be the sort to be open and kind...." She smiled at him and rustled the fur on his head. "Then I doubtless would be proud of you." Then she looked away towards the edge, watching those little pebbles he kicked off fall. "Magic is hard, I agree, but its really worthwhile. You can help other gems out with it, you can save lives with it if you want to." She said this wistfully, remembering Cure and Gigatsuhali's bright, vivid eyes asking her to teach them how to heal. "You can be really powerful and wonderful in so many different ways with magic."
She was going to reply to answer his question about the ever present twister in the room, then was interrupted with the child got up and started to move around. She frowned and watched him -
"Ah!!" And then she cried out and scrambled to the edge when he moved and leapt to another shelf, her heart in her throat. "What are you doing?" She got up and jumped in one perfect, smooth motion, landing next to him and picking him up and hugging him tight. "D-don't do that!"
She sighed and let him go a little, looking at him. "You're setting my heart on the fritz with all of this moving around."
@Fritz
She was going to reply to answer his question about the ever present twister in the room, then was interrupted with the child got up and started to move around. She frowned and watched him -
"Ah!!" And then she cried out and scrambled to the edge when he moved and leapt to another shelf, her heart in her throat. "What are you doing?" She got up and jumped in one perfect, smooth motion, landing next to him and picking him up and hugging him tight. "D-don't do that!"
She sighed and let him go a little, looking at him. "You're setting my heart on the fritz with all of this moving around."
RE: One imprisonment for another - Fritz - Feb 08 2016
"You're very good at catching!" Fritz squeaked humourously, relatively unfazed at the rate at which he was in the air at one point, then in Cayenne's grip the next.
Despite whether he wanted to or not though, Cayenne's words whirred in his head as he got held close once again. He also pondered on that fact that he was quite getting used to this warmth and security from the lemur, and dared not to think about when it would go. She did end up letting him go, much to his dismay and he quietened in the coldness that returned to him.
Nethertheless, he was still dying to inquire more. Knowledge was power right?
"But... what if we b-become too dependant on it? W-what if it runs out?"
As he said this, he didn't look directly at Cayenne, but around Monoceros and at all of the glass orbs that provided light to the cavern. Could they be broken? He looked back at Cayenne, squinting, but warmly.
Is she powerful? Could this sweet angelic creature break it?
@Cayenne
RE: One imprisonment for another - Cayenne - Feb 08 2016
She took in his worried little look and glanced at the lights, like he did, then back to him. "Then that's why you cultivate knowledge along with power. When power fails, knowledge is our only safety net. If it comes to it, why, I can save lives with my hands and my herbs. But magic helps me do what my hands and my plants can't do. It's like...getting used to a second, invisible pair of hands. If they disappeared, well, you'd already have a pair, wouldn't you?" She waggled her fingers at him, even touching his nose.
"Should you use your invisible, powerful hands instead of your normal ones? No." She said, smiling. "That's doubtlessly unnecessary. Is it hard to be good at using all four? Yes. But think of all the good you can do with four hands."
"With magic you can set a fire to make yourself warm in an instant. Summon water out of thin air. Run faster. Throw your voice. Make lights. Create life out of a seed in a heartbeat. Supposedly impossible things that make a life easier, but...we can do them with our hands. It just takes more skill and more time. We can build a fire, go and fetch water, and grow a plant with nourishment and attention, so on and so on. Magic is a tool to use, not something to be afraid of."
@Fritz
RE: One imprisonment for another - Fritz - Feb 08 2016
He nodded airily as he enjoyed listening to her gentle voice, and when she had finished he decided to speak loudly, an uncouth contrast to Cayenne's well explained argument, "Ya' but s-surely there are limits though... "
As a habit, he started pulling at the fur on his tail, and scratched uncharmingly at the back of his ear before he continued to speak.
"Ah feel like the cave is limitless. Like the cavern goes on f-forever. If it does have a limit, what's ya' favourite place? W-will ya' show me it?" He pleaded pitifully. There was a faint urgency as somewhere in his memory he recalled her being on her way to see someone, and he was a pretty obedient enough creature to accept her rejection. A marmoset could hope, however.
He aspired to see something cooler, for lack of a better word. Sure, it was difficult to imagine anything else than the place where he had found himself, but Cayenne's prior description of the caves helped him along a little. He ran on sights and smells rather than thoughts, as it made him get agitated. Problems were caused by overthinking, right?
@Cayenne
RE: One imprisonment for another - Cayenne - Feb 09 2016
"Of course there are limits," She said easily, thoroughly enjoying being with the little gem. There was no pressure at all, and she was at both at ease with the clever back and forth and earnest questions, and gently exasperated with how youthful and curious he was, questioning every conceptual answer she had to give, and then some. He wanted to see and do it all and she just wanted to hug him and just keep him safe. "Everything has limits, even magic."
"As for the cave," She smiled at him. "Even I haven't seen all of it. But I can show you some of my favorite places, of course I can. I think you'll like it, too. It's about as different as this place as a spider is from a flower.
You can climb onto my back, and I'll climb down, and we can go and see my birth place. Would you like that?"
@Fritz
RE: One imprisonment for another - Fritz - Feb 10 2016
Everything has limits, even magic. Fritz thought it over, his body fidgety with youthful excitement, resulting in him clawing at the ground slightly, but erraticly. 'Limits can be tested though' He listened to the twister's roar in the background and peered at it from the distance he was at, feeling a light breeze if even it was so far away,. 'Even something as powerful as that... has limits?' It surprised him, to say the least.
He shook a little in the coldness of said breeze and his fluffy coat fluffed up, making him look extremely poofy. He liked the fact that not all of that cave had been seen. That means that it possibly may not have limits! He liked the idea of something being limitless, but he didn't really desire much at this age, he just wanted to live his life the way he wanted to.
He stared at Cayenne, admirably, maybe for just a little too long but he did not know that staring was not polite, Y-yeah, i'm totally up for that! As if i'm g-gonna let ya' leave me yet!" He grinned blissfully and hugged her tightly before quickly before hastily withdrawing, his new sevility for Cayenne making him more cautious. Consequently, he obediently waited for Cayenne, eyes glistening with fondness.
@Cayenne
(ooc: I'm thinking of leaving for a few months soon so I can do well on my exams, would it be okay if Fritz had an accident and went into a sort of coma, and perhaps Cayenne looked after him with plant magic so he didn't die of malnutrition until he woke up again? There'd probs just one thread about it, it's just so that the absense will be IC and plus it can make for some interesting angst for Cay? Your call :o)
RE: One imprisonment for another - Cayenne - Feb 11 2016
(( Exams are important! c: Yeah, sure! It would literally be the worst thing possible for Cayenne for her to find a babe she would've eventually called a son almost die??? I'm all for it! Make my bitter coffee girl even more bitter! 8D I imagine it would be in a new, really quick thread for the accident since Fritz met with someone after Cayenne met him. ))
She laughed and rustled the fluffy patch of fur on top of his head and said, "Nor I, you. You'd get into trouble as soon as I looked away!" She matched the look of fondness in his eyes with her own, and picked him up with ease and placed him on her back. "Hold on tight, okay?"
They both made it down safely as Cayenne was as carefully as she possibly could be with such precious cargo on her back, and when the little gem jumped down from her back, she leaned down and impulsively kissed him on the forehead, grinning as she pulled back. "Now, let's go on an adventure, shall we?"
Together they would leave for Eridanus, her home, and she would show him everything of splendor and wonder and be everything she should've had when she was his age. She would make this perfect, for him, wanting to believe with all her heart that this would be good for her. Agathism had to work, for now.
[exit Cayenne]
@Fritz