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abrightboy

What? No! He never said anything about that! And if he has to learn control, he doesn’t have any! Why would you agree to pretty definitely be harmed? What did he say he would do for you with his ‘full powers’?

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stressingwitchface

He did not know about this plan until the moment I told his warden. It took some time to convince both of them.

He offered to do the same.

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abrightboy

If he didn’t promise you anything and I haven’t agreed to let you have a reciprocal deal, why did you agree to it?

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stressingwitchface

It was my proposal. He must master control of his magic and this was the best way to ensure it. Even infants know better in my world.

But if you're truly worried about me, then I request my own magic to protect myself from inevitable fall-out.

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abrightboy

Oh, now we're getting there. To the thing that you want that you'd risk this for. You're not doing it for Strange, offering him trust because he's your friend. I'm supposed to give you all of your magic back right now in my concern for you because he's a lunatic that's about to become a bomb that largely detonates at you. I will give you credit: that was very devious. Much more twisty and turny than it had to be.

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stressingwitchface

Thank you.

From:

abrightboy

[He considers her for a long moment.]

You didn't plan that, did you? You want to help him.

From:

stressingwitchface

[just gonna be tight-lipped about it all while she wrestles privately with her feelings]

Are you going to give your consent to this deal or no? Warden Persson awaits your response.

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abrightboy

How can I give my consent when we're not done talking about it?

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stressingwitchface

What else is there to discuss? My motives have no bearing on your decision-making, we have talked about that.

I have done the work of setting up Strange to have his powers returned to him with his warden's agreement. All that is required of you is a rubber stamp.

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abrightboy

Your motives have a lot of bearing on my decision-making. Do you want to know what I was going to talk about when I called you?

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stressingwitchface

What?

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abrightboy

I thought it might be time for you to have your beast magic powers back, now that you have Princess here. I was going to ask you to tell me what they entailed. And I was going to offer the healing powers you were asking for, since they're short handed in the infirmary and you expressed interest in helping there. But I'd want you to take some lessons on human anatomy first.

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stressingwitchface

Oh.

[ugh. Still, having to learn about humans (gross) is a fair price to pay for being able to use her healing powers. How difficult could it be, honestly? They're all one species]

We don't really need to know human anatomy to heal one, you know.

Beast-keeping magic is again, very limited on the ship. We use it to communicate with animals; talk to them, summon them in times of need. The best of us can transform our bodies to have longer teeth, horns, claws, night vision, wings, things of that sort - borrowing traits from the beasts we keep. Princess, for example, would not have looked the way she does had I been some other kind of demon.

[they've both got hand traits; Kikimora's magic literally helped Princess hatch into the hand dragon she is today]

I suppose I could command the animals on the ship - Taylor's bugs, the chickens and goats in the greenhouse, the pets the people here have, any spiders in the walls... And make them stronger by association. I know this fantastic spell about creating fire bees she might be interested in..

Theoretically I could make you and your wolf pack far deadlier, if only temporarily.

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abrightboy

I don't really use the deadliness I have when I'm a wolf. ...Would you be able to talk to me when I'm a wolf? I mean, as in understand me; I understand you just fine.

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stressingwitchface

Potentially. I don’t know of spells like that but there were a lot of locked books and spells when Belos took over…

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abrightboy

Well, I wanted to offer those to you before Strange ever rolled up to harass me. If you have those returned, are you still missing anything you feel you need?” Malcolm asks.

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stressingwitchface

He harassed you on my request. The fault lies with me.

I would like illusion magic as well. For practicing.

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abrightboy

I don’t need to assign ‘fault’. It was a description of the behaviour, not an accusation.

Illusion magic sounds highly risky. I’m offering you two covens back. Maybe we start there and see how it goes before we discuss it.

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stressingwitchface

Fine.

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abrightboy

And I don’t agree to any of this… backfiring on your friends stuff. If he messes up, it should backfire on himself. If he needs incentive to learn control. And I don’t require yours to backfire at all. You know how to control it. If you choose to control it at harming someone, you understand the consequences.

Edited Date: 13 Jan 2024 12:26 (UTC)

From:

stressingwitchface

You refuse to give back my magic to me and then you refuse me the autonomy of my own choices?

I want this. I worked hard to make him and Persson agree to it.

From:

abrightboy

If he can have it without harming you, you don’t want that?

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stressingwitchface

He cannot have it without harming me. That is the nature of our deal with his warden.

It will teach him better control than if his magic backfired on himself: we can endure all kinds of pain ourselves, but the agony of harming a friend or ally will make us hesitate far more often.

Through this, he will graduate.