sugar berry
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Near a stream that pours off a high cliff and then snakes away is a garden, carefully tended, and a house, built of wood and stone and transmuted pearl. Fairies weed the plants. One is fixing the roof. A berrybush, hair atangle with spidery branches, is painting gold stripes onto her purple arms.
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Date: 2015-04-13 05:40 pm (UTC)He sees the house.
He descends for a closer look. His wings billow - dozens or hundreds of gossamer veils speckled with tiny motes of light, each individually so thin as to be near-invisibly translucent, each a slightly different shade of midnight. Where enough of them overlap, the effect is like a dark sky full of stars. It's very visually impressive.
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Date: 2015-04-13 05:48 pm (UTC)There is suddenly less noise than there should be coming from a patch of rustling grass. Something there has activated a silencing spell.
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Date: 2015-04-13 05:52 pm (UTC)"Take no new action," calls the berrybush. "Land."
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Date: 2015-04-13 05:55 pm (UTC)He lands, gracefully. His wings drift behind him, light enough to float on the merest breeze, their stars twinkling. For some reason, he is smiling a very small ironic smile.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:05 pm (UTC)"Sierulyperinon," he murmurs.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:07 pm (UTC)"Follow me," she says, and she takes off and flies.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:09 pm (UTC)Eventually they reach their destination.
"I got one!" the berrybush calls.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:10 pm (UTC)He is smiling that smile again, or some close cousin thereof.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:29 pm (UTC)The door opens, revealing a four-foot-tall fairy with metallic lace for wings. "Hello, Sugar."
"Hello, Verve! I got one! May I take him to Thorn?"
"I'll do it, Sugar. Tell me his name and go back."
"Yes Verve." Sugar whispers Arcane's name to Verve, Verve says, "Stay put" to Arcane, and then Sugar turns and flies away.
"What has Sugar told you to do so far? Tell me," Verve says to Arcane.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:38 pm (UTC)"'Take no new action.' 'Land.' 'Too quiet for the others to hear, whisper your name in my ear.' 'Tell me your nickname.' 'Follow me.'"
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:45 pm (UTC)"Master, this is Sierulyperinon," Verve says. "Sugar got him. He's obnoxious."
"Oh? What has he done that's so obnoxious?" asks Thorn.
"I asked him the caution question and he just said 'yes'. Smirking."
"And when you asked him what exactly the content of his yes was, Verve?"
"I - didn't."
"You didn't."
"No master."
"Go and tell Sunstroke that you've earned thirty minutes."
"Yes master," squeaks Verve, and she slinks away.
Thorn regards Arcane. "Tell me your nickname and what Verve would have liked to know before she brought you here."
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-13 06:56 pm (UTC)"Tell me," says Thorn, "the best way to ensure no attention from the Queen or her court after this incident."
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Date: 2015-04-13 07:05 pm (UTC)"If you rescind all orders from me and let me go, with some appropriate compensation, then I will not mention this incident unnecessarily at the Queenscourt and if it should come up I will advise her that you were very cooperative and need not be punished, nor is your court remarkable in any way that would make it worth capturing for her purposes. A vassal would qualify as appropriate compensation. One with some sorcerous skill, partcularly."