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 Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:00 pm
Leona had more than calmed down after the Morgue incident, but it didn’t mean that she was really ready to become buddy buddy with Knights…
Ekstrom was one thing, but…she was pretty much a friend at this point, and that was fine…but when Leona felt the aura of a Page, and then when she saw the green hair and stupid shorts of that Page, she thought really hard, for all of ten seconds, and then did what her heart told her to do, holding her hands out and calling her magic.
“Shifting Cold!”
If they were going to talk, it was going to be on Leona’s terms…and her terms meant that the Knight was caught in her magic.
“Have you be up to space? To you Wonder? Tell me about it.”
It wasn’t…quite a command, but it was something far stronger than a request, that was for sure.a-disgruntled-dragon Leona says her attack and holds her hands out towards an opponent, and a blast of cold air comes from her hands. When the attack hits an opponent, they feel very cold, and the ground beneath them shakes and may crack slightly, throwing them off balance. The cold lasts for thirty seconds, and the shaking for twenty. She can hit two opponents, at a range of ten feet. The attack can be used twice.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:43 pm
"Are you al-w-ways like this?" said Crisium, shivering against her magic and staring at the Dark Mirror senshi with one green eyebrow raised almost to his hairline. This was not exactly how he'd wanted to do, well, anything this evening, but he hadn't exactly had the chance when she'd come around the corner and just straight up blasted him in the back with her magic.
"B-but y-yes, I've been to sp-space and m-my wonder. Wh-why do y-you care?" He shivered again and rubbed his hands up and down his arms, trying to stop the chill. What kind of bad luck did he have that this senshi just kept using him to take out her frustrations.
Stars above, did she just need someone to talk to?
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:46 pm
“With you? Yes absolutely. You got a super bad attitude the last time we met, and put a bad taste in my mouth for all Knights. But, luckily for you I met a reasonable one. And she took me to her Wonder. Tell me of yours. Honestly. The last time we spoke, I had wanted to ask you about it anyway but you got all hurt feelings because I laughed at your outfit.”
She was talking fast, and Leona knew she could keep him contained with her magic…for a short while at least.
“I wanted to see what it was like. Have you tell me things. And I had wanted to gush over my Realm too. But. Alas. We became mortal enemies.”
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:27 pm
He stared at her, and blinked several times. "Y-you did insult my sh-shorts... and I t-told you I w-wasn't in a great mood at the time," replied Crisium, still shivering slightly. He could sort of tell the magic was wearing off, in that he felt a little warmer as the minutes passed.
"I mean... sure? I can tell you I guess?" This chick was... weird. Very weird. If they could sort of do it without the whole... being attacked thing it might go better? Or at least he wouldn't feel like he was being bleeding interrogated.
"Can we talk in a way that I don't feel like I'm being interrogated though?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:39 pm
“If you promise not to throw things at me and genuinely make an a** of yourself, sure.”
Leona hesitated and shrugged. “Sorry. For insulting your shorts. I had been teasing, and I guess it didn’t come off as it. I was in a really good mood and had been hoping to just…chat a little bit. I’m sorry that you were in a bad mood…and I hope things have gotten a bit better for you.”
There. That was…sportsmanly. And maybe…they could have a civil conversation after all?
Maybe?
“Is it cold up there? Do you have a morgue too?”
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:58 pm
Crisium shook himself slightly as the chill faded finally from his limbs and he adjusted his glasses. He glanced off to the side for a moment, then gave a nod. "Sorry for taking my bad mood out on you... My mother had set me up with yet another suitor and they prattled on for two hours about stock prices before I managed to slip out of the house," he apologized in kind and rubbed the back of his neck. He'd managed to avoid any other encounters lately by simply burying himself in his studies for so long, he couldn't make any sort time.
At least, that's what he told his mother.
"Mmm, it's kinda cold, in that the Moon doesn't exactly have a sky like Earth does? So it's just stars and space in the sky, ya know? But it's a big overlook of fountains and meditation spots and a really large lecture hall. Used to be a place of learning and debate." He tapped a finger against the side of his nose in thought.
He supposed he should keep the whole 'oh this didn't used to be wonder until about two years ago' thing to himself, though telling her about the wonder in general seemed fine.
"You said you have some sort of... Realm? Do you not have like... a homeworld or something?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:05 pm
“Huh.” He mentioned the Moon…and Ekstrom had mentioned Mercury…had she been on Mercury? That hadn’t just been funny fancy talk?
…Weird.
“Oh uh, yeah, I have a Realm, it’s like this blank space that I can make however I want. I use these…” She reached into subspace and pulled out a white crystal that she had found rather recently. “These crystals. They’re like. Kind of magical? Well. Really magical, see?”
And she lowered her hand from the crystal and it remained right where her hand had been, and then just to spice things up a bit, she blew on it and it began to move away from here, as though it were a balloon that had run out of enough helium to fly, and instead simply floated.
“Anyway, we break them and things happen. I’d be happy to show you…if you wanted to come and see? But…I would like to see your Wonder at some point as well…so it’s a trade, not a complete kindness?”
She hesitated. “Unless you’re going to take me to a morgue I don’t want that…also…just tell your mom you’re gay? That worked for me.”
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:16 pm
Crisium snorted, glasses jumping down his nose slightly with the motion. "Oh, she knows. Well, that I'm pansexual, I guess, but it simply 'widens the suitor pool' considerably as she says. This one just happened to be one of those boring 'I've been raised on Wall Street types' and I couldn't stand their nasally voice." he chuckled, adjusting his glasses again. His head tilted at the crystal and he pursed his lips in thought.
"Is that... how Chaos works? You get a crystal thing and it gives you some sort of blame realm you can design?" asked the Page, rather curious about it. He knew she felt different than other senshi - the aura of Chaos as sort of hard to ignore - but he had no idea how any of it sort of worked.
He wasn't too sure about actually taking her to the Mare Crisium, at least yet. She was still sort of the enemy. Sort of?
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:19 pm
“Well damn. At least she’s accepting, I suppose…but. Gross all the same. Tell her…” Leona hesitated and poked the crystal so it came back towards her, and then began to gently toss it between her hands, thinking.
“Tell her you want to be a hippie. Like, it sounds like you’re well off, so tell her you want to go move to…the redwood forest and live in a tree and throw rocks at the rich people and then cook them in the oven and eat them. Oh! Or! Get someone pregnant! And make sure they don’t want to marry you, I’m sure that would get her off your back? Just like. Upset her…in some way. Or just say you got someone pregnant, I don’t know. And uh. That’s how it works for us. We have our Realms in Mirrorspace. So like, it’s inside the mirror.”
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:27 pm
"By the Moon, I'm not suicidal!" Besides, she'd never forgive him for pulling the same stunt his father did. No no no, he wouldn't do that to her, even if he was very tired of her trying to marry him off. "She means well, just from a.... very particular family and family history, is all."
Crisium tilted his head to the other side. "Mirrorscape? You literally like... live in a mirror" Granted, the fact that he could breath on Moon of all places in the vacuum of space sort of made his confusion and surprise about there being a whole dimension inside a mirror a moot point, but that was neither here nor there.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:30 pm
By the Moon. Leona couldn’t help but give a little laugh at that, but then shook her head slowly. “No, We don’t live there. I’m not sure that we can live there. We can stay for a bit, but it’ll politely tell us to leave…by kicking us out when it’s tired of us…but that’s where we have our spaces. Right now…mine’s just…well it’s mostly blank but I have a small heated pool, not quite a hot spring, but it feels nice to soak your feet. And I have some rocks to sit on…I’m trying to figure out how to make it snow? Because I’ve had the idea to make the pool a hot spring and that contrast…honestly…It sounds really neat. Like something you’d find in Japan or somewhere.”
Still, she didn’t know how to make it snow…but…she could figure it out. Hopefully.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:35 pm
His eyes widened with recognition and excitement. "Oh! Like an onsen! The bathhouses! I like that you get sort of create your own space. I was given mine, and I don't think I can turn it into something else to be honest. I like the gardens and fountains though; it's very calming and peaceful."
Now he wanted a hot bath. Not just because her magic chilled him to the bone, but because it just felt really nice right about now.
"I'm Crisium, by the way," he said after a moment. She was nice when she wasn't teasing him or flinging magic at him. Maybe not all of Chaos was like... kill you on sight? Or at least as bad as the Code had made them out to be.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:45 pm
"It's nice to meet you. Properly this time. I'm Leona...if you ever want to come and see my Realm...the offer is open, just...send me one of those fancy magical letters and I'll meet you somewhere."
That way...it was on his shoulders if he wanted to plan a meeting. She wished she had some magical way to communicate but...she didn't. So.
"See you later, Crisium." And with a small wave, and a much more genuine smile, Leona slipped into the nearby mirror and vanished.
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