Don't Be Afraid To Be Who You Are - Auradon Side

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The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down

Just over a week after the Isle visit people would find themselves drawn outside. The reason might vary, it was a lovely day and the air had the sweet scent of spring. It was the first truly warm day, and perhaps that was it. But for whatever reason everyone, or nearly everyone, found themselves outside and then drifted peacefully off to sleep.

As they slept a gentle rain came down upon them, soft enough to wake only those in a cursed sleep. The water not only broke dark spells and curses on the people the rain touched but for some people it brought a very different sort of transformation.

A number of the Missrecalled might find themselves awakening older than they had been when they fell asleep. Some of them might awaken with all their older self's memories, or maybe those would come with time, or maybe the memories would need more help to return. But when everyone awoke with a light dew on their faces and clothes, some people would be in for quite the surprise....

Gift In Time Gift In Time Nary A Reason Nary A Rhyme Gift In Time!

After the odd outdoor nap, many might wish to head into their rooms to get changed and freshen up. Or maybe they wouldn't go back to their room for a while, but when they did they would find a gift on their beds waiting for them....

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[kaylinneya]

She nodded and set her plate down long enough to fill a cup. Hope yelled angrily, but she ignored him and she downed it in a gulp and immediately stumbled back, screaming. Her arms could be seen as faintly glowing through her sleeves and the gems and her bracer were flashing almost blindingly bright as she collapsed down in on her self.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth was immediately on alert and worried. This was not something he had seen happen before.

“What’s wrong?!”

He didn’t ask if she was alright. That would be inane.

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia was up and across the room in about no time at all, eyes wide. "What happened?" Which of the two she was asking was anyone's guess.

[kaylinneya]

So of course it was Hope who answered. His voice would just sound like angry squawking to Sephiroth, but to Mallia....

It started with a very formal greeting followed by "She reacts poorly to some kinds of magic an she just drank a whole mess of it. Your creation, I presume?"

Kaylin was too busy biting through her own lip trying to stem the screams as she hugged her arms in tight to herself.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth didn’t understand Hope, but he bent down by Kaylin, trying to see what was wrong and if there was anything he could do.

[queen_butterfly]

"But-- but it's nothing that everyone doesn't already have...?" Bafflement, that's what this was, as she knelt down on Kaylin's other side, addressing the tiny dragon. "Would it help if I tried to pull some away again...?"

[kaylinneya]

"I've never seen her actually eat magic before!" Hope said to her, still sounding like Squawking. Then he dived for Kaylin's wrist, biting onto her bracer.

What Kaylin managed to say through her pain absolutely sounded like swearing in tone. Well either that or she was choking considering how much growling and snarling was in it. "Don't eat that," she managed through the would be swear words. She shoved Hope away and pressed on the gems rapidly in an odd pattern. Despite having no hinge, the bracelet popped open. It's gems went dull as soon as it was no longer on her wrist and she gasped, but already looked a little less worse. "What the actual happiness was in that ocean walled drink!?" she gasped.

[3wingedangel]

“Berries, as I recall,” Sephiroth frowned. “Are you allergic?”

[queen_butterfly]

"Nothing I manifest should have anything to do with one's inability to consume that thing normally," she said, glancing back up at him briefly. Mundane allergies were not a concern here, it seemed. To Kaylin... She tried to say what it was, but whether the local language-magic interpreted it as her saying that it was made of life, spirit, or energy, she wouldn't know -- they were all the same word, in the language she used. "Only those truly dead and gone, or never alive to begin with have none already."

[kaylinneya]

"Magic... allergic to... magic..." she gasped arms and legs hurting like sandpaper was rubbing off all her skin.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth didn't know what to make of Mallia's words or Kaylin's, but this was obviously a matter of the gravest concern.

"Do you need some kind of medicine?" he asked Kaylin. She still seemed bad off, even though not quite as much so as before. He had never heard of medicine for such an ailment, but then he had never heard of such an ailment either.

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia shook her head -- whether it was to Sephiroth or just in general, it was hard to tell. Both, perhaps? "That's not how my magic works. I don't understand... but I can try retrieving the excess?" She put a hand out -- if Kaylin wanted her to, it'd be easy for her to grab it.

[kaylinneya]

"Just... Just give me... a moment..." she gasped. "Hope... is there anything..."

He squawked, it sounded like angry chicken to them both. Kaylin however turned and glared as he flew circles around her head. "I am going to bake you in a soup one day," she threatened. "Fine don't help." But yelling at him seemed to help distract her from the pain some, at least.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth still didn’t understand or know what to do. He felt helpless, and all he could really do was wait a moment as Kaylin had said.

He wished he understood the dragon.

“What is he saying?”

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia shook her head -- if the little one had said anything just then, she didn't understand it. She sat back a bit, folding her hands loosely on her thighs as she shifted to settle a little lower, sitting flat on her legs... she could wait there. "...I just... don't understand. To not already have what there was so much of in that, one need be not only dead, but also gone, or never alive to begin with...." She looked between Kaylin and Hope, and Sephiroth, beyond confused.

[kaylinneya]

"Or I was at my ocean walled limit wearing a stupid shackle that tries to prevent unknown magic from messing with my own stupid ocean walled magic." And then.... "Ocean wall it, which is supposed to be a thrice curst secret. Ocean all it all to happiness!"

If Malia had previously had any question as to if this was Eli....

[3wingedangel]

Finally Sephiroth understood a bit better ... he hoped.

"You're saying other people's magic can interfere with your magic?"

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia shook her head again slowly, still not quite getting it. Even if that were the case... it just didn't fit with how she understood hers to work. "Or betrayed by an overzealous guardian of sorts...?" Another head-shake and she sighed, putting it aside. Did it really matter, at the moment? "I'm sorry, poppet.... I'd never intended to harm anyone with any of this." And a vague little gesture to the banquet table.

[kaylinneya]

"Yeah, my magic reacts ocean walled weird to other magic. No one knows why the happinesses, though," the glowing, and the pain, was slowly starting to fade. "It hurts when I am near most magic, for example."

[3wingedangel]

"It didn't seem to bother you all this afternoon," Sephiroth remarked. "You can be around very magical people without problems as long as they don't use their magic?"

He was certainly powerful.

[queen_butterfly]

And that had the fairy looking between the two again, as well.... "...My presence doesn't bother you...?"

The worry was growing in her expression as she debated backing away.

[kaylinneya]

"I'd never survive if it hurt every time I was near someone who could do magic. It is usually when it is being used that it hurts the worst. It’s part of why I am generally sent out on certain cases, I can tell when magic is being used." Among other things...

[3wingedangel]

"I see." Sephiroth still looked concerned. "There is a great deal of magic-based food here...."

Really, was anything here not magic-based? He was starting to wonder if he would need to locate some normal ingredients and make food for Kaylin with his mother's recipe book.

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia was quiet, biting her lip a little... if Kaylin couldn't eat what she'd conjured....

...But the idea that she wouldn't be able to flew against everything she knew her magic to be. Given that so much was based on that -- on knowing, on believing, on understanding -- she glanced back up to Sephiroth and gave him a subtle shake of her head. No, not now. Maybe don't say that?

She pushed herself up to her feet easily, stepping to the table and barely pausing before picking up the plate Kaylin had dished herself. She turned again, crouching back down to sit there before her, holding the plate in offering. "The glow of the wine and several of the bottles are from the excess they hold," she explained. "If you haven't the capacity to hold it yourself, and that's what's causing such distress, then the rest of this should be fine.

"All of this is rather ordinary for my people's cuisine, poppet... though I admit that not all of it is. Some of these are of others' suggestions. Coffee, for example. I'd never had it, before coming here. And chocolate... that one, I'd only had shortly before coming here."

[kaylinneya]

"I'm not a child," she muttered as a matter of habit. She was maybe in her mid 20s at oldest. Maybe. "Look, I've had magically created food before. I live in a sentient building, for crying out loud, I've eaten in multiple Towers, and Hallione. I'm usually more or less okay with all of that. What I want to know is why the actual happinesses whatever the happiness was in that wine knocked me flat like that. Even Barrani ale doesn't do that to me."