A Peculiar Reaction ~ by SaralynArati

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9 years ago

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"If she had been prudent, Thea would never have tangled with him at all, and certainly she should not have risked leaving me alone with him, to give him time to further twist my thinking and confuse me into believing that his bidding was my, or rather the hulder's, true will." Amen smiles at his own rather convoluted sentence. "You'll see what I mean. But I'm getting ahead of myself." "You were about to put on the ring, I think," Smoke Cat says helpfully, as her own husband is a lore keeper.

9 years ago

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Her cousins and foster sisters wait almost breathlessly for the shaman to complete her thought. "Unless she knew who was in the diamond, knew them personally and was actively afraid of them, to the extent of not wanting them to realize that she was involved in this expedition at all." "You are all very wise and intuitive. Ifrit is lucky in her friends, I think," the blue lad comments. "Indeed, it was someone who she dared not wish free, and yet was afraid of the reprisals if she refused."

9 years ago

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"So, the hulder female might have been honest about fearing to be overcome by the jewel... at least in a way," ventures Wolf Calling. "It might somehow lower her resistance..." "To the being already inside the gem," finishes Springing Doe. "It would be the imprisoned djinn that she would be wary of, then." Both Amen and Smoke Cat Watching nod approvingly. "However," the human woman adds, "I can't comprehend her avoiding the mere presence of the fey if Amen was wearing the ring, unless..."

9 years ago

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"For one thing, your gem is now keyed to voluntary bondage, and that creates some very different results. Also, most of the time that Ifrit wore the blue jewel, as I understand it, the matrix of the stone was empty. You were only inside it for a short while, is that correct, ma'am?" explains the adolescent djinn. "Yes, that's true... " says Song, and Smoke Cat looks speculative. The shaman is the only one of them who has experienced negative consequences from being confined within the gem.

9 years ago