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 Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:58 pm
This remained unheard by Emma, who was now off the ground for an entirely different reason.
She sighed as the door swung open and she was carried over the threshold and up a winding spiral staircase. She closed her eyes and whispered something in a tongue they both knew, the tongue they had both been raise with: Old English.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:42 am
Zach was fast asleep at the desk where Emma had left her the night before. She had spent the entire night reading and had finished one and a half of the tomes Emma had provided. Her breathing was soft and shallow as she snoozed next to an open book.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:46 pm
Emma stifled a yawn as she made her way back to the library to check on Zach. Her wards did not tell her that anybody had left so she assumed she would still be there.
She had barely slept, but for different reasons.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:58 pm
As Emma approached Ivan noted her presence and decided to wake Zach. With pain. A sudden twinge in her arm caused Zach to twitch and knock over a stack of the tomes Emma had provided. The resulting noise startled the phoenix and she jumped, knocking over her chair and making her fall backward onto the floor.
"Ow," Zach rubbed the back of her head gingerly. "What happened..."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:11 pm
"As far as I can tell, nothing. But then, I am not inside your head."
She was back to calm and reserved, her hair winding itself back into its customary bun.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:15 pm
"Oh, hello Emma," Zach stood up and put the chair back on its legs. "You look tired. Sleep at all last night?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:17 pm
"Only an hour or so." she replied truthfully. "Any luck with your efforts?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:23 pm
"Well," Zach began picking up the books she had knocked to the floor and stacking them back on the desk. "So far I've only seen instances where phoenixes regain their body parts through death and rebirth. And nothing on the gender thing yet."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:29 pm
Emma nodded, the inner scholar coming to the front of her sleep-deprived brain. "I cannot help you with death. That is a magic I have sworn not to touch."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:31 pm
"Yeah, and I don't fancy dying again," Zach sighed. "There has to be another way... there just has to..."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:34 pm
Emma closed her eyes, pinching the bridge of her nose. "I do not think that I have the power to-"
She stopped, eyes snapping open.
"I can."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:36 pm
"You can what," Zach asked cautiously, noting the change in tone and expression Emma had just made. "You know another way?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:39 pm
"A variant on a spell that I used to-used a few years ago. With enough power and delicacy it could be done."
Her hand drifted towards her necklace. "Borrowed power..."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:43 pm
"What exactly does the spell do," Zach asked nervously. "And what do you mean by borrowed power? Who would you be borrowing from?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:45 pm
"It would...well, it would rebuild your wings from the ethereal remains."
From the cellular level up.
"My Lord has power to spare."
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