imeanforever: (c ~ headway)
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Promise settles in. Her garden grows. Her tree grows; she stores her map and the rest of the notebook in there, first, and after she's been there for seven days, she can fit inside it herself. (At that early stage it's only an improvement over the outdoors when it's raining, but it's her tree. It'll get bigger.) She slowly broadens her diet as she learns the peculiar local plants and which ones she likes. She coaxes her tree into flower, picks one and ensorcels it, wraps cottony fluff from one of her trees in a giant flower petal of the same kind her bag is made of, and she has a pillow. The other flowers turn into haw berries that taste like home. She practices fairylights and then more complicated spells all around her new turf with her map, then without, until she has it memorized by feel and by the response of the magic when she casts.

When she doesn't need to do magic to her plants every single day to get and keep them producing at a rate sufficient to sustain her, she goes to the library and tells them things about the continent she came from in exchange for a half-century's membership. She brings home books. She makes paper to take notes on.

She doesn't have any near neighbors, but she has distant ones, and she trades foreign seeds and candied dewdrops for glass and books. She drinks her stream and writes her thoughts (a lot of her thoughts are about Arcane). She decompresses. She reads and thinks.

Time goes by. It's dark at night; sometimes she watches the stars.

Date: 2015-04-15 09:21 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (3. cheerful)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
The court is very pretty. Hanging gardens and lovely flowers. Nearly everyone present is a sunshine tepal - there are a few miscellaneous fairies of miscellaneous fairy sizes -

And then there is that one. Six feet tall at least, with fragile rainbow wings whose edges dissolve at the merest brush of her hair and then re-form a moment later. She spots Promise and zips over curiously, leaving a faint rainbow trail of wing-dust.

"Hello! I don't know you! Who're you? Are you new?"

Date: 2015-04-15 09:25 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (4. moment)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
Well, no use holding it against this perfectly nice fairy that she might end up prolonging Secret's captivity forever.

"It's nice to meet you, Promise! I'm called Maria. I guess you want to talk to the Princess, then, huh?"

Date: 2015-04-15 09:28 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (8. closer)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
"Oh - the Princess is a mortal," she says. "Did you not know? I guess it wasn't in the ad. Anyway I can tell the Princess you're here to see her."

Date: 2015-04-15 09:30 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (5. softness)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
"Okay!"

Off she goes in search of the Princess.

Date: 2015-04-15 09:43 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (9. shining)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
The fairy with the odd nickname watches this exchange. She's kind of curious about sorcery, and it seems like this Promise person is better at it than the local sorcerers, or the Princess would be making them do it instead of paying Promise with two whole vassals.

Date: 2015-04-15 09:46 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (1. pleasure)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
(Secret giggles.)

Date: 2015-04-15 09:47 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (2. freedom)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
(Secret giggles again.)

Date: 2015-04-15 09:49 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (5. softness)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
"Oh. I don't know," she says. "I'm the only me I've met."

Date: 2015-04-15 09:50 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (6. whisper)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
"No-o. Should I have?"

Date: 2015-04-15 09:53 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (7. touching)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
So she goes and gets Promise a chair and brings it back and puts it down for her. It is a Maria-sized chair; Promise is not quite Maria-sized but she's certainly closer to that than to a sunshine tepal.

Date: 2015-04-15 09:55 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (5. softness)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
"Maria" is not asleep.

"Hi, Promise."

Date: 2015-04-15 09:58 pm (UTC)
feel_so_free: (9. shining)
From: [personal profile] feel_so_free
"My first master gave me it."

Technically she isn't forbidden to talk about Jeff; she usually doesn't anyway. But usually people don't ask about her nickname.

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