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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:07 pm
 Time was passing, slowly but surely. There was no reason to worry yet - it simply had not been long enough yet - but he figured he might as well be prepared, should they actually did need to go.
Echo could shapeshift, as could Ankou if he managed to get a hold on the Spirit Guide. Saljin and Tempest could blend in well enough. Which left... Well, him, who could do neither. Sure, he could shift to dragon shape, but a talking, horse-sized dragon would catch more attention that he particularly cared for. It would be impossible to cloak himself completely without looking suspicious - and just as impossible to keep extra limbs from notice. Even pressed against his body, the wings took up too much space - and to keep them in such a position for a long time ?
This was not happening.
He had an idea, through - but weither or not it actually worked, well... There was only one way to find out, which was why he stepped inside Whisteria's store. He was hoping his sister-in-law might have the time to help him figure this out - or that she was in a good enough mood, and hopefully not sick, on that matter. He remembered that Illisia's morning sickness had kicked in pretty early.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:35 pm
Whisteria was seated behind the counter tying up bundles of herbs to hang them up to dry. She looked up upon hearing the chimes on the door. "Xun!" The druidess looked rather tired, but still happy to see him. "I wasn't expecting you, did something happen?" If something had, hopefully it was not bad. She tyed up the bundle of Kingsblood that was in her hand and set it down on the counter. "I'll go grab a stool for you."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:59 pm
Whisteria looked tired... But then, he had no reason to truly think anything was wrong, unless she decided to tell him. He remembered being tired as well... Through it was perhaps ironic that he had such a clear experience of what a pregnancy was like.
Or, well, would be. Once he no longer looked like a girl. "No need." He said with a smile. "I will go get one myself." He knew where everything was by now, really.
"No, nothing happened." Not yet, at least. "How have you been ?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:25 pm
She nodded. There was a stool in the back room, tucked away against the wall that he could grab. "Alright until she decided I was not allowed to sleep really. What I ate last night must not have agreed with her." It had been Aska's turn to cook the evening before and he had decided to try making something new for them. However it seemed their daughter preferred her mother's usual diet.
"Aska was such a sweetheart, he got out of bed and curled up on the couch with me for a while. He went work exhausted this morning."
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:16 pm
"Well, Elik was picky too." He was not sure exactly what could be better in this case - barely sleeping or barely being able to keep any food down.
When it came down to it, both really sucked. It was good that Aska was so understanding - but then, he had expected nothing less of the man.
"Hopefully she will settle soon, or else I am going to have to ask her to behave, hn ?" He teased, leaning back against the wall, wings pressed against himself in hopes that they would not end up knocking anything off their designed places.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:41 pm
"Hopefully she does." Adjusting diet was one thing, but not sleeping enough would get old fast. Meditation helped but it was not a true substitute for sleep for long periods of time. She had learned that much the hard way during her time in the military- fraying nerves, rapidly shortening temper...and with her hormones being unpredictable it would be even less fun for anyone who had to deal with her.
"I am curious- is there a particular reason for this visit or were you just bored enough to spend time with your sleep deprived pregnant sister in law?" Whisteria could tease too. She grinned.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:04 pm
"I need a reason to want to hang out with my sleep deprived, pregnant sister in law ?" He said, candidly, then laughed. "Through I will admit there is something I was hoping you might be able to help me with."
He leaned forward again, mindful of his tail as he moved. "It is about the possible trip I told you and Aska about. It is too early to worry yet, but I figured I might as well be prepared... Because, well." He paused. "Everyone else can either shift their shapes or would blend in easily enough. I, on the other hand, am not too good at either." The Dragon King let out a low chuckle. "Both a big talking dragon or a big purple elf with dragon bits would catch more attention than I wish for."
He figured Whisteria could see where he was going with this.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:33 pm
"Probably." Particularly if the residents of that world had never seen a dragon before.
"Hn....would a Potion of Illusion still work now that you are a god?" She pulled her alchemy tome out from a shelf beneath the counter and set on the top with a thud. It obviously would not have the exact answer they needed, but if it worked on other "higher" beings there was a chance it might work on Xun as well.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:47 pm
"I have no idea..." Really, his current situation was a strange one - it was rather hit or miss if certain things affected him anymore. He certainly needed less sleep, for example... Through he had learned the hard way that he could still be physically wounded, while Ankou had more or less eaten a sand storm in the face and only came out of it with a few marks that had faded within hours, and misty cuts that had closed immediately.
"Which is why I was hoping we could test it first. So if it ends up that the potion does not work on me anymore, then I still have time to think up other options before I have to leave."
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:10 pm
"Well, at worst it will do nothing." The druidess flipped through the tome until she found the page that she was looking for. "No help in here I'm afraid...not entirely surprising though, I never found much of a use for the potion beyond silliness." Using it to pull pranks on others was always fun!
"I had to make up a batch for Keeva a few weeks ago. It should still be fine since it was sealed." That had been before they went to Eshurian. The paladin had asked her for some so she did not run the risk of frightening any of the locals in case they thought she was one of the demons. "Could try Night Elf for now, won't change all that much, but your wings and tail disappearing would be noticeable at least."
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:23 pm
"That's what I figured." Xun Jiang nodded. Either it would work or it would not, right ?
"Hm, that's true. That could be a good test for now." And if it worked, he could seek out what ingredients he could for her in the meanwhile.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:50 pm
She slid off her stool and headed into the back room, returning a few moments later with a small rack of vials full of clear liquid. "You remember how this works, I assume?" She asked, setting the vials on the counter and carefully plucking out a few strands of her own hair to test the potion with. If it worked as it should, he would turn into a night elf- as to his actual appearance...well anything could happen there. The druidess wondered absently if he would change into a woman or a man since his physical gender did not match what he truly was.
After a vial was uncorked, a hair dropped in and dissolved the potion which turned it a night purple-blue she offered it to Xun. "Bottoms up?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:09 pm
"Right. I also remember it tastes so extremely wonderful." Sarcasm, of course. Rare were the potions and remedies that were made to taste good, after all - as it was the effect that was important.
Nonetheless, he accepted the completed potion from Whisteria. "You know, if I end up looking like your twin, then we might have a problem." He teased, but doubted that it would be the case. Xun Jiang had never seen two individuals end up looking identical, after all.
But, yes. Bottoms up, through he could not help but make a face. "Yeah. That tasted about as good as I remembered it." At first, nothing happened...
But then, eventually, something did.
It was not what either of them were expecting.
...."Uh." He blinked - once, twice - staring down at too pale hand, one eyebrow raising, through the lack of length made it lack the effect it usually had. "...Well, that kind of worked ?"
Oh, he was male, yes, but he was very much not a night elf.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:48 pm
A long light blue eyebrow quirked. Uh..... was right.
"Did I mix something wrong?" Or was it his being a god throwing a kink in things? Keeva never mentioned anything about any oddities with the potion. Regardless she went to go double check the ingredients list in her book.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:57 pm
"...Why it is that I cannot be male and tall at the same time ?" He was not complaining, not really - he was trying to send some humor in the situation. He did not feel bad, not really - just the strangeness of being so short, and so pale. "I probably threw it off. Gods do have the ability to become pretty much anything once they are stronger, so maybe the potion is just playing russian roulette. Which means this is far from the worse case scenario."
It could have been a forsaken. He was never willingly turning into a forsaken again. Ugh.
Suddenly though, the Dragon King made a face as something occured to him. "...Glyph is going to laugh me right into next week." Which, if he remembered correctly, was about right when this would wear off. ...Probably. "I used to tease him for being so short."
Ti Lung was quite certain he was going to have a nice helping of karma.
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