12-12-2018, 07:30 AM
Neutrality and benevolence are often bedmates, but to assume them entwined is beyond foolish. Were she older, she might know this, might think to display caution and gratitude in the face of the fey.
Altruism is, after all, an entirely mortal concept.
The ice magic slips from her grasp, pooling at her feet in sheet of moonshine and stardark that reflects the woman she will someday be rather than the girl she is. It slips forward in the space of a breath, climbing the many legs of a white-eyed creature who had not been present a heartbeat before.
It might have been a horse at one point, but now it bulges with magics. Small, large, everything between. The magic seeps from its wild eyes in endless tears and from each pore on its black-black skin. Gathered magics, borrowed magics, stolen magics. Magics that have not been earned, magics that have been soured by their wielders in unintended usage.
Magics they have been given, but have not deserved.
The fey takes them back, and in their place plants the awareness they should have always had. There are limits to everything: even the fairies' benevolence.
<i>You rolled a 5 and will not be granted a trait. Briella has lost her temporary ice healing.</i>
Altruism is, after all, an entirely mortal concept.
The ice magic slips from her grasp, pooling at her feet in sheet of moonshine and stardark that reflects the woman she will someday be rather than the girl she is. It slips forward in the space of a breath, climbing the many legs of a white-eyed creature who had not been present a heartbeat before.
It might have been a horse at one point, but now it bulges with magics. Small, large, everything between. The magic seeps from its wild eyes in endless tears and from each pore on its black-black skin. Gathered magics, borrowed magics, stolen magics. Magics that have not been earned, magics that have been soured by their wielders in unintended usage.
Magics they have been given, but have not deserved.
The fey takes them back, and in their place plants the awareness they should have always had. There are limits to everything: even the fairies' benevolence.
<i>You rolled a 5 and will not be granted a trait. Briella has lost her temporary ice healing.</i>