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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Farah's heart began to race again. Damn it… She snatched Shade's wrist and pulled her hand away. "How dare you touch me."

Shade laughs. "Very half-hearted attempt, Farah. Almost would have believed it."

She performs a simple maneuver, twisting her arm to force Farah to let go.

Farah's eyes narrowed on Shade for a moment before she looked ahead again.

"Did I miss something?" Saul asked from behind them. "I feel as though I've missed something important…"

Shade watches the faerie, knowing full well that Farah knows she's watching her.

"No, you haven't. Not yet, at least. We need to make camp for the night, however." she says.

"Let me handle that," Farah remarked.

Saul sighed. "Of course. The all-powerful fairy to the rescue."

Shade glances at Saul and sighs. "Stop teasing her."

She walks over to Farah and helps set everything up on the ground. Saul probably wouldn't be used to sleeping in trees, after all.

Farah discreetly flicked her wrist, and Saul choked on his next breath and began to cough heavily. The same wind rushed by Farah's ear and made an almost chirping sound that only the fae could understand. Farah laughed. She replied in a runic-sounding tongue, and the wind replied with its chirps. "Migina!" Farah's eyes widened. "I don't like him either, but that's rude!"

Shade, while incapable of understanding any of what was being said, listened anyways.

"Who's Migina?" she inquires curiously, watching the phantom wind's aura as it blew about.

The wind rustled through the trees, and leaves showered down on them. "Migina!" Farah scolded. The chirps vaguely resembled laughter before the spirit left. Farah shook her head, brushing leaves from her dirty blonde hair. "Migina is the wind spirit. She's young. Come to think of it, I haven't seen her in a while. It's nice to know she's alright." A fond smile came over Farah's features as she spoke.

Shade shakes her head and laughs. "Of course. Only the Fae would have wind spirits as friends."

She walks into a nearby clearing and calls her peregrine. It comes quickly, and Shade scratches it beneath the beak and feeds it some of the rabbit entrails.

"Migina is a darling," Farah murmured. "But I think you'll like Brucie or Eden better."

Shade laughs.

"I have my own spirit of the wind. See?" she gestures to the peregrine perched above her.

"But I'd like to meet your other aurae friends." she adds.

Farah smiled up at the peregrine. "Sen would love your peregrine friend. But let's see if I can find Brucie…" Farah's eyes glowed again, and she reached out and touched the bark of the closest tree. She grinned and used her magic to grow flowers around Shade and Saul's ankles.

Another spirit appeared, this one nearly somersaulting through the air.

Farah laughed. "There she is!" Suddenly, the spirit released a blinding light so Saul and Shade had to look away, but Farah watched as Brucie took her humanoid form.

"Farah!"

"Really?" Shade wondered, a smile playing at the edges of her mouth.

She merely squinted at the spirit as the spirit manifested herself. She grins once the light fades.

"Well, I'll be damned! I know you!" she exclaims, chuckling.

Brucie's jaw dropped. "Shade?!"

"Wait," Farah blinked quickly. "You two know each other?"

Brucie giggled. "Of course! I don't just hang out with fairies!"

Shade laughs and wraps Brucie in a tight hug. "So this is where you ran off to! I was worried, you know."

She turns to Farah, releasing Brucie. "Yeah, me and Brucie Brucie Brucie go way back."

"I'm so sorry, pumpkin," Brucie chirped. "I wanted to say goodbye, but the fae needed me. I hear you're still doing the three-in-a-row thing." The spirit winked before also looking at Farah. "Don't worry, she never knew I was a spirit until now." Her auburn curls bounced around her face.

"It's fine fine fine. Seriously, Brucie." Shade grins.

"Oh, yes yes yes! Three three three." she laughs, starting to do cartwheels.

"Oh, there are ways to tell, you know. Plus, your aura wasn't human." Shade responds, still doing cartwheels.

"Yes, but at least I never confirmed it for you, now did I?" Brucie retaliated, striding over to Farah.

"You spirits and your secrets." Farah rolled her eyes, but she smiled anyway.

Shade laughs a little. "Fair fair fair nough."

She'd slipped back into her old pattern of speech without much thought, almost forgetting about Saul. Then… a rustling in the bushes, off to the right. A dark figure exploded out of the greenery, taking Shade down like she was nothing. She froze as soon as she felt the stinging kiss of electrum.

(Oh, okay good. Cause you mentioned her forgetting about Saul, so I thought that's who you meant. Makes sense, I was just making sure so I can have Saul react)

Saul reeled back and drew his blade.

Brucie was quick to duck behind Farah and shift into her spirit form. She chittered into Farah's ear in the same runic language Farah had used to converse with Migina. Farah nodded, her eyes glowing, and she used a combination of wind magic to blow the assailant off Shade and earth magic to use vines and tie them to a tree. Once that was done, Brucie rematerialized, leaning against a tree heavily from the effort of her shifts, and Farah rushed to Shade's side. "Oh gods, are you hurt?" she asked, searching Shade's face worriedly.

(Yeah, sorry for the confusion!)

Shade, stunned, laid on the ground, gasping for breath as she came to terms with her almost all too literal close shave she'd just had.

She looks up into Farah's face, pupils dilated and looking nearly… feline. "Of course I'm not bloody okay! I just had an electrum blade pressed to my throat!"

She looks paler than usual as well, even the barest touch of the electrum nearly killing her. She takes deep breaths, trying to calm herself.

"Yes, I'm hurt…" she murmurs.

Farah licked her lips and smoothed Shade's hair soothingly. "It's alright, you're going to be alright…" She collected Shade in her arms and carried her closer to Brucie. "Help her, please," she begged the spirit.

"Farah… you know the rules," Brucie said painfully.

"Yes, I know!" Farah cried. "I don't care, you have to help her!"