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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Shade giggles. "No shit shit shit, Farah. My point is: what the hell?"

Farah rolled her eyes. "Your odd mind and its workings aren't exactly the first thing on my mind right now, darling."

Shade sighs. Fair enough, dear.

"Hey, while we're here, we could find a cavern and hone whatever skills I have, and try to discover what other things I can do." she says, the tunnel echoing her voice back, once, twice, five times.

"I don't like that idea," Farah countered. "We don't know what's back here. I'd like to practice somewhere safer."

"Where are we going to find safe? Nowhere in this world. Not for people people people like us. And besides, it's solid diamond and titanium down here. I can feel it." Shade argues.

"Yes, but there are safer places than this. It would be pitch black without my magic," Farah shot back. "And again, I say, we have no idea what's down here."

"My brother is down here," Saul retorted.

Shade takes a moment. "It's only Theo, Farah. No one else is here, alive or dead."

(No, you're good! I was just confused for a second lmao.)

"How do you know his name?" Saul rounded on Shade.

Farah stepped between them. "Let's not start anything rash," she said calmly, meeting Saul's fierce eyes with her cool brown ones.

(Fair enough! I'd been trying to think of a name and finally came up with one.)

Shade looks equally confused. "I-"

She pauses. "I don't know, Saul. I really, truly don't."

I've got this. I think. she says to Farah.

Farah didn't move, eyeing Saul carefully. Are you sure?

Yeah. I'm sure. Shade says.

"Saul, I literally don't even know you," she murmurs. "Or your brother. But there's knowledge-" she taps her head "-in here that I'm not sure why I have. It is most likely related to the mystery of whatever the hell I am."

As Shade spoke, Farah took a small step out of the way, making sure to keep the light magic strong.

Saul took a deep breath. "I just want to find my brother. Can you tell if something is wrong with him? His… aura?"

Shade sighs and nods. "Yes, I can. I could before, in the forest. I doubt doubt doubt anything much has changed. The mass of energy was obviously old, so…"

She takes a deep breath, and lets it out. As she does so, the world is turned into incohate smoke as she witnesses what would be the most destructive event the planet has ever seen. She's tossed backwards like a doll, and the walls dissolve before she even hits them. Oh, shit… is all she thinks to Farah before she passes out.

Farah lunged and managed to catch Shade before she made violent contact with the cave's stony floor. "Shade!" She cradled the girl in her lap and shook her gently. "Shade?!"

A second after Farah lunges after Shade, everything literally explodes. The walls, the floor, the roof. Shade wakes with a cry.

"WE NEED TO GO. NOW." she says forcefully, leaping to her feet and lifting Farah and Saul as easy as she would lift a kitten. She starts sprinting, and as she does do, she slips between worlds. She doesn't falter, going to nother world where they'd all be safe.

Farah gasped as they changed to another world. "What the hell was that, Shade?" she demanded.

Tears streak Shade's face as she lets go of the faerie and the human. She shakes her head, incapable of speech.

Farah gently grabbed Shade's shoulders. "Shade?" she asked in a much gentler tone.

I- I can't. Not now. I lost my forest. My life. I nearly lost you. Saul lost Theo. And I'm some sort of interdimensional being. No, I'm not fine. But I still have to be, if only for you. Shade says. She goes to a tree and scales it in the blink of an eye, wanting to be left alone for now.

My darling, Farah replied while keeping her physical body on the ground. You don't have to pretend to be fine on my account. I promise you won't ever loose me, and no matter what kind of being you are… I'll still love you, Shade.

I- Shade starts, and then she breaks down entirely, sobbing silently.

Farah gently rested her hand on the bark of the tree. It took Brucie only a few seconds to appear and materialize.

"What's going on?" the spirit whispered.

"I'm not quite sure. It's a mix of things. Could you talk to her for me?"

Brucie nodded. "Of course." She transformed into her aura and glided up to where Shade was before transforming again. "Hey, pumpkin," she greeted softly, holding out her arms for a hug.

Shade falls into Brucie's arms, her breaths coming in heaving gasps as she crys. She hlds onto Brucie as though she were her lifeline. Eventually, Shade manages to calm down, then falls asleep against Brucie.