Yet Another Trial ~ by SaralynArati

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10 years ago

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Everyone expects Jade Black Rose, Hill Queen of the North, to make a grand entrance, and she does not disappoint. The double door to the barn fly open and storm clouds swirl the ranks of her airborne cabal behind her. Master Sun Son calmly requests that she either close the doors or abate the wind. Her witchly cabal may spectate if they wish, but their interference in even the tiniest way is strictly forbidden. Only those named in the challenge may participate; otherwise the bout is voided.

10 years ago

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The "fae" barn is duly reached and inspected. Kanu stables the horses inside in the safety zone of his team, so that he can guard them and watch the match at the same time. Moon Shadow has been leading Summer Wind in guided meditation, a new technique for the girl, but one which will hopefully open reserves of strength and patience to her. As stakes/prizes, Silver Fox and Blue Turtle Dreaming are both seated at the side of the combat square, immobilized by Sun Son's spell, but otherwise fine.

10 years ago

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Also, presumably by now Parakeet will have told the Queen that Summer Wind attends the Arcane Academy, and "Butterfly" already knew enough steppe shamanic magic to seem to be plausibly a native. Still, these charms and incantations cannot help but be alien to the Queen, and as such are probably Summer Wind's best arsenal. Mix in some of the "white" and "grey" magic she learned in the more obscure tomes she read while masquerading, and that appears to offer the best combination of enchantments.

10 years ago

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For a non-kiss, it is very satisfactory. Summer Wind finds herself wondering if she wishes for more true kisses, or at the very least more distractions. However, it also has the desired effect, in that it shocks the girl into slowing down a tiny bit, pausing to reflect, consolidate what she knows into a coherent whole, and possibly even concoct a strategy for this duel on which so much depends. Using Jade Black Rose's own library against her seems foolish, but she can't have read every book.

10 years ago

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Before she works herself into exhaustion however, Kanu intervenes. "My mother is witch-woman in my tribe, so I know much of dancing and a lot about magic, lady-girl. And I tell you now that so much worry and frenetic energy will sap you and make you sick. So I have come to distract you," he says. "Let us be clear. This is not a kiss. You are too young. You are not ready. Perhaps I am not ready, either. Certainly now is not the time. So this is not a kiss. It is merely a distraction."

10 years ago