Set
" There's a black bird perched outside my window, I hear him calling. I hear him sing. He burns me with his eyes of gold to embers. He sees all my sins. He reads my soul. "
Set does not have to be immediately present (though, he is really not that far off) to feel Yael.
Home advantage.
He laughs out loud – likely startling the children – when light creatures rise to battle his shadow ones. Unperturbed by Yael’s copycat use of the creatures of the forest fuel her magic, he simply cuts them off at the source. The living creatures that fuel her creations fall dead by the hundreds; those who did not flee at the first sign of dragonfire are now broken, useless pawns. “Tsk, tsk, Yael, look at all the innocent death you’ve caused.” She’ll hear him, his voice dripping with gleeful mockery.
He does not have to approach the Desert magician to stop her from meddling with his other spells. She has done exactly what he had hoped an enemy would come along and do – tamper with them. He can feel her groping for them, searching and then grasping; hot, live wires that are no doubt difficult for the younger magician to keep hold. The curve of his mouth draws ever higher the closer she gets … It is when she touches them with her magic - tampers - with them, that the trap he set is sprung. Though Yael has once again shamelessly copied his efforts, the damage is already done. In touching the threads anchored within Ianto and Draconis’ life-forces, she would have drained Ianto and Draconis’ strength; mid-battle. They would have been fine, perhaps a bit more fatigued than they would have had he not tied the spells to them, had Yael let them be.
Wrinkling his nose, sweat beading behind his ear, he funnels strength into a shield around Rhonan to protect him from any magical advances – keeping him safe until Set can deal with the spell Yael has misplaced – and sinks threads into the earth to replenish his energy (how perfect that the forest has been rebuilt magically) before returning the main part of his focus to the matter(s) before him.
SET
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