06-03-2015, 06:30 PM
so you wanna play with magic?
Don't they all want power? Doesn't even she, who holds close to the maximum amount of power, want even more? Why else is she doing this, collecting power like others collect baseball cards, assembling a stable (har har) of the best of the best, a spear made of horses and shaped for her exclusive use.
And it's precisely because they crave power that they're so easy to manipulate and mold.
She smiles and it's like a sunrise on her lips. The Queen Illuminate indeed. "Excitement." maybe it's a chuckle, and maybe it isn't. Her eyes narrow, in amusement, in judgment, in a little bit of everything. "And power." she lets the silence hang heavy as the meadow presses in all around them. "I can offer both, and you know it." she smiles, but this one is more like a shadow than a sunrise. She is everything contained in one, the alpha and the omega. It's fun, to play both sides.
She's half tempted to offer this girl what she wants right away. She's so clearly hungry for it, she's so clearly crossed continents for it, so clearly would do anything for it. But at the same time, perhaps she hasn't been hungry enough for long enough. Camrynn is an excellent saleswoman, and she understands the need to create urgency before she seals the deal. She needs to create a sense that power is not a right, it's something to be earned, it's something to be guarded and treasured. "But why should I give power to you?" her voice is almost gentle, not at all unkind. There is a warmth in it; the Queen Illuminate is of the sunlight again. "You're not the only one to want it. How would you use it? What would you do?"
Again, she knows everything. She knows the havoc the girl could make, the things she'd do, the way it would warp her and change her and leave her the same. She knows how the girl could fit into her developing plans, the way she could become pawn, rook, castle on the chessboard and sweep across to help with the eventual checkmate. Chess, chess, always chess.
She is silent then, watching the girl, waiting to see what she will say. There will be plenty of time to introduce the caveats, the unwavering obedience, the total secrecy, but somehow she suspects that these will not be so much drawbacks as an addition to the excitement. After all, what's more thrilling than a little bit of cloak and dagger? Secrets are fantastically fun, and nothing is more fantastically fun than a truly fantastic secret.
And oh, the secrets they'll keep, her happy little band of miscreants. They'll be agents of change like none ever seen in Beqanna, a secret society, a shadow band striking with surgical precision to influence change and create ripples that none could imagine. They'll operate outside kingdoms, outside the law, striking wherever necessary, not wherever is morally right. Oh yes, they'll be a glorious thing – and there will never be a dull moment.
And it's precisely because they crave power that they're so easy to manipulate and mold.
She smiles and it's like a sunrise on her lips. The Queen Illuminate indeed. "Excitement." maybe it's a chuckle, and maybe it isn't. Her eyes narrow, in amusement, in judgment, in a little bit of everything. "And power." she lets the silence hang heavy as the meadow presses in all around them. "I can offer both, and you know it." she smiles, but this one is more like a shadow than a sunrise. She is everything contained in one, the alpha and the omega. It's fun, to play both sides.
She's half tempted to offer this girl what she wants right away. She's so clearly hungry for it, she's so clearly crossed continents for it, so clearly would do anything for it. But at the same time, perhaps she hasn't been hungry enough for long enough. Camrynn is an excellent saleswoman, and she understands the need to create urgency before she seals the deal. She needs to create a sense that power is not a right, it's something to be earned, it's something to be guarded and treasured. "But why should I give power to you?" her voice is almost gentle, not at all unkind. There is a warmth in it; the Queen Illuminate is of the sunlight again. "You're not the only one to want it. How would you use it? What would you do?"
Again, she knows everything. She knows the havoc the girl could make, the things she'd do, the way it would warp her and change her and leave her the same. She knows how the girl could fit into her developing plans, the way she could become pawn, rook, castle on the chessboard and sweep across to help with the eventual checkmate. Chess, chess, always chess.
She is silent then, watching the girl, waiting to see what she will say. There will be plenty of time to introduce the caveats, the unwavering obedience, the total secrecy, but somehow she suspects that these will not be so much drawbacks as an addition to the excitement. After all, what's more thrilling than a little bit of cloak and dagger? Secrets are fantastically fun, and nothing is more fantastically fun than a truly fantastic secret.
And oh, the secrets they'll keep, her happy little band of miscreants. They'll be agents of change like none ever seen in Beqanna, a secret society, a shadow band striking with surgical precision to influence change and create ripples that none could imagine. They'll operate outside kingdoms, outside the law, striking wherever necessary, not wherever is morally right. Oh yes, they'll be a glorious thing – and there will never be a dull moment.
CAMRYNN
co-queen of the deserts, magical, mother of badassery