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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 12:48 pm

Her magic still wasn't back at full capacity, and Zia was start to fear that it was due to some internal damage that wasn't going to heal, or maybe just heal slowly. It was a dull pain in her chest, where she knew her starseed rested, but thankfully all of the other various pains from her weird mirrorspace encounter seemed to be mostly healed.

Her palms were still wrapped and she was afraid that the burns from the crystal may leave scars. She walked with a stiff gait, but no longer a noticeable limp. Regardless, she knew seeking shards alone with her already weak magic weakened further was not smart, and she had made an effort to find at least one companion that could be trusted to be leaned on. Scylla's rescue made it obvious she needed that even before she was weakened.

Tonight's lucky winner to be burdened by her request for aid was Hvergelmir. Zia wasn't looking for any battles tonight, just someone who could hold up better than she could just in case, and someone who could be trusted not to run off with anything collected. She might not have put in the amount of time to fairly assess that of Hver, but she might have still been suffering from preconceived notions that rooted deep into the back of her mind and sneakily guided her judgement.

She waited at the designated spot in civilian form, bundled up and holding a cardboard drink holder with two hot drink to-go cups nestled into it. Zia was not above trying to bribe favor.

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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:14 pm

Zia could scarcely have been more easily rewarded for her efforts. Hvergelmir was, after all, not only predisposed to like Zia, she was also exceptionally easy to track down. Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays -- same park, same bench, same time.

It was a pleasant surprise for Hvergelmir to arrive at the park to find her usual bench already tenanted by someone awaiting her, though. Lately, she'd had almost no visitors -- just Kairatos, coming to catch up. She was still worried things had gone farther south than she'd realized, and no one from the Negaverse might ever come to her bench or listen to her again -- but this wasn't that. She had company, and it was someone she knew. Zia!

And with coffee.

"Zia, hi," she said cheerily, enjoying the warmth of her new knight's cloak. "How's everything going? Kairatos said you had a lot going on, I wasn't sure if things were okay."

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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:37 am

"Hi!" Zia did her best to sound chipper, and held out the cardboard drink holder as if trying to lure the knight closer.

"Yeah... a lot..." She mumbled and purposely tried to trail off. She had made several attempts to summarize the constant turns for the worse that had been coming in quick succession since finding the mirror-- an accomplishment that in and of itself needed a lot of context to properly convey the importance of the discovery-- and none had really gone well.

Xanthus had been a butt and constantly insisted on burn cream and bandages over the weird energy burn marks mirrorspace had left on her palms, which she wore in spite of protests it wasn't that kind of burn anyway. It at least served as a nice insulator between her hand and the coffee cup and visual shorthand for 's**t happened'.

"I got into a little bit of trouble," She said, holding her palms up. "My magic capacity is more limited than it used to be, but I'm still looking for something, so I was wondering if you'd be my knightly chaperone for the night. I'm not looking for anything that fights back, it's just kind of a uh... just in case... thing."

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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:50 am

Hvergelmir warmed up quickly, both from the proffered hot beverage and from the conversation. Whatever was going on with Zia, it was uncommon for people to come to Hvergelmir for help with anything like this. The idea that the guardian cat had some sort of faith in her competence was a compliment that made her heart sing just a little bit. No one had ever really believed she was capable of that kind of thing.

"Well, I'll . . . " she shrugged, bringing the drink to her lips. "I'll do my best to help out! Will you explain to me on the way what it is we're looking for?"

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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:48 pm

“Sure!” Zia said as if the request was light and easily accomplished. When they started walking, her tone didn’t change to get any more serious, either. But she did casually push a gem lens against Hvergelmir’s chest with invasive assistance. “It’s not going to go me any good, so hang on to that. It’s powered off your aura and staying powered up since I got hurt is exhausting. It should make some racket or act as radar if it picks up on what we’re looking for.”

She took a few sips of coffee before she started on the backstory to tonight’s adventure.

“I found the true mirror on the moon and then brought it home because obviously stuffing a crazy object of unknown power in the basement was a flawless plan and I ended up getting roped into all these bargains and deals with the lady on the other side who won’t finish the portal and take Zirconia’s starseed home to her real body unless I find pieces of a shattered crystal that belonged to her brother. Also the crystal pieces tend to cause nightmares and madness of various degrees to people who are overexposed to them so it’s probably best to get those right away anyway. Also,” She held up one gauzed laden hand.

“I might have tried to cheat at getting them together and prodded at some kind of freaky interdimentional horror which then attempted to eat me so there is also that. How have you been doing these last few weeks?”

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