forum "Wait, you... you're... magic?" "Darling, what do you think?" (Fantasy o/o Closed)

Started February 01, 2022 by @emilyevewrites group

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At that, Saul straightened and looked around, half-expecting to see his brother.

"How is that possible?" Farah asked, coughing briefly.

"Aura transfer is unusual magic, Farah. It leaves all parties involved feeling drained. But it is also life-saving. And it transfers things. I doubt we will ever know the true extent of anything I can do." Shade says.

Then she looks to Saul. "He isn't out in the oen, he's deep in the cave networks."

"What are we waiting for?" Saul asked impatiently. "We have to find him."

"I could have told you that," Farah murmured. Slowly, she began to get her energy back.

Shade sighs. "It isn't that simple. This is a situation where one wrong move could kill not just us, but the rest of this world too. I'm not taking unnecessary risks. We need to rest, as I said earlier before I was attacked."

From somewhere beyond the rocks, the trio heard a sudden, high-pitched giggling.

Saul drew his weapon, but Farah was quick to stop him. "No. I know that laugh anywhere."

A flash of bright light came from behind the rocks, and out walked what looked to be a ten year old girl in a white dress. Farah smiled and hurried to her. The two embraced in a long hug. "Migina," Farah murmured.

Shade, now enhanced with a little bit of Farah's aura, sees the spirit as she is.

"Ah, hello! I've heard about you from our lovely friend here." she says.

"Oh gods, you're not hurt at all, are you?" Farah asked, kneeling down so she could look Migina in the eye and smooth her dark hair under her hand.

"Nope!" the spirit replied with a grin. She looked at Shade and Saul with a happy grin and waved. "Hi!"

Shade shakes her head, examining the aurae's aura.

"No, she isn't hurt. Maybe a little ruffled, but wind spirits usually are." she states.

She adds, "And hello to you, too!"

Migina kissed Farah on the cheek gently and skipped over to Shade. "You can see auras?" The spirit tilted her head, intrigued by the possibility. "You're not fae."

"Yes, I can. I always always always have been able to." Shade says.

"You noticed," she adds drily.

Migina flushed a bit. "Yes. Spirits can tell who is fae or not upon first sight." She looked at Saul and tilted her head. "You aren't a fae either."

Shade laughs as Migina flushes a little. "I know. I'm friends with a lot lot lot of spirits."

"Again, you noticed," she says, just as drily as the first time.

"So… would you happen to know what the hell I actually am, Migina? Wind spirits generally know know know a lot about a lot." she asks.

"Uhhh…" Migina's eyes widened, and she looked to Farah for help.

"Migina is a reborn spirit," Farah explained, kneeling beside Migina. "She's still trying to get her bearings and doesn't know a lot about a lot quite yet."

Shade laughs. "Oh, okay! Fair enough. Maybe… since I have some of your aura now, Farah, maybe I could see what other wind spirits are nearby nearby nearby."

She barely has to focus before the auras of literally everything around her are revealed. She staggers slightly, then recovers. She laughs. "Hello hello hello, wind spirits!"

She lassoes the oldest one and asks it the same question she'd asked Migina. Who am I?

The answer she recieves makes her blink in confusion, and shake her head. No… that can't… what… how?

Farah tilted her head to the side, confused, until another spirit materialized into her human form. Instantly, she and Migina dropped to their knees.

The older, beautiful spirit smiled at them. "Rise, fae and spirit." Her voice was silky and effortlessly smooth. Farah and Migina rose to their feet again.

"Win," Farah greeted. "We haven't seen you in so long. It's an honour."

The spirit – Win – nodded her thanks. "Farah Dowling, the pleasure is truly mine. I've heard great things about you, and I know you're a very powerful fae." Farah blushed at the praise as Win turned her attention to Shade. "What I told you is true," she said calmly.

Shade laughs. "Winter?"

She pauses, thinking, head tilted to the side, eyes closed. "So I am- I-"

She has trouble getting the words out. "I am not human?"

Win lifted her chin in the air and shook her head. "No, Shade. You're not."

Farah's eyes widened. "Then… Then what are you?"

Shade looks at Farah strangely. "Nothing. At least, not anything known to the oldest wind spirit on this world. She's contacted her cosmic wind counterparts, and none of them know either. I am simply… me."

Win nodded. "You're something special, Shade Theta. Not fae, not human."

Farah studied Shade carefully.

Shade shakes her head. "I never never never…"

Her voice trails off. "I never knew."

Farah approached Shade and bent down to hug her. "I think you're amazing," she whispered. "Even though we don't quite know what kind of a being you are."

Shade accepts the hug, wrapping Farah tightly in her arms.

"Thank you." she murmurs, her lips right against Farah's ear.

Farah shivered a moment at Shade's lips touched her ear when she spoke. Still, she hugged the girl tightly.

"Come, young one," Win murmured to Migina. "Let's leave them be for now." With a bright flash, the spirits vanished.

"Okay… can someone tell me what the hell just happened?" Saul asked incredulously.

Shade sighs and turns her head slightly towards Saul.

"It's… nothing." she says.

"Having spirit materialize and tell you you're not human is nothing to you?" Saul's eyebrows arched.

Farah chuckled softly in Shade's ear.