mingle post? mingle post. MINGLE POST!!

[carreau]

Who: you
Broadcast: if you want
Action: also if you want
When: right. goddamn. now.

[ It's a mingle post. IN SPACE.

Just comment and tag around. ]

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[rebella]

Magic. I... see.

( she's just as happy leaving that topic for the moment, though he doesn't look... fairy like, and not in the way that Mandy doesn't look fairy like. conundrum. )

Why crows?

[carreau]

[ Just your average former-cultist dark mage, miss. ]

I don't know! But I'm good at getting along with most animals~ Crows seem to like me best.

[rebella]

( there are average ones of those??? nonetheless, Ella finds the present topic a lot more comfortable than the old one. she smiles, relaxing a degree, thinking about fond (and painful) memories of the royal gardens and zoo. )

Animals are supposed to be a good judge of character. I haven't spent time with many crows... there were a collection of parrots and other exotic birds from the world over that I used to love visiting in the gardens belonging to the royal family.

[carreau]

[ Eh.......maybe......... ]

Wow~ That must have been nice. Are you royalty, then?

[rebella]

( she laughs, though there's a pang in her heart that says i could have been, followed as quickly with the harsh gratification of the fact she isn't. and i could have cursed everyone to a terrible fate, but i wouldn't, and it's far better this way. )

No, I'm not royalty. The zoo was open to all visitors to the kingdom of Frell free of charge.

[carreau]

Your king was kind, huh? Sounds like an easy life~

[rebella]

The kingdom's been at peace.

( She says, though there's no comment on the easiness of life there. )

The threats from the ogres have been handled for the most part, and negotiations with neighboring kingdoms have held. There's nothing Frell has that anyone wants to take by force right now.

[carreau]

[ He takes it as a comment on that-- but that's because his country is at war, and when they aren't, they're trying to start more. ]

There's always something to take...ahaha, I wouldn't want to be a king!

[rebella]

For the leading, or for the exhaustion attached to it?

( or for being terrible sometimes that's kind of what it seems like some kingdoms and kings can be, thankfully you are not a king, Henry, no king issues to be had here )

You don't think some things might be better offered in trade or in alliances than fought for at swordpoint?

[carreau]

The king never gets to do anything fun~ They have their armies fight before they do, so I'm glad to just be a normal soldier.

[ Yeah, she probably had the wrong idea about him. ]

[rebella]

( Henry... )

As in you enjoy being part of the... army that fights before the king?

( Perhaps he's just... very loyal to his kingdom? )

[carreau]

Mm! War is fun.

[ Totally earnest, almost childish. ]

[rebella]

( She stares at him. )

You're joking, right?

( Sure he sounded earnest, but people can sound all sorts of almost serious when kidding around. )

[carreau]

Not at all!

[rebella]

... What is it you did before you were here, again?

( CAPTAIN YOU ARE... FREAKING HER OUT )

[carreau]

I was in the Plegian army~

[ He's totally chill......not that it....would help..... ]

[rebella]

Yes, that's where you were, but... what role did you serve in the Plegian army?

( Foot soldier? No, look at Henry, there's no way. Which is rude to think, but she's still thinking it when she thinks back to the knights she's met. They're all more... physically imposing? )

[carreau]

[ Yeah, he's definitely not a fighter-type.

Great defense stat, though. ]

Hmm...I'm a dark mage...

[rebella]

I have no idea what a dark mage is.

( And you're kind of pale so it's probably not that, but uh, dark... magic... is not... likely good... )

[carreau]

Really~? Wow, I thought everyone knew!

[ He really is, for someone who comes from a desert. Like, what's up with that. ]

[rebella]

( Literally no one knows. Henry, do you know why you are this way. Do you burn like lobsters boil. Mysteries of the universe! )

There's nothing like that - title where I'm from. What is it you do? What do dark mages do in the army?

( right back to thinking about what he'd mentioned in passing about curses )

[carreau]

[ Henry doesn't know much about most things...dealing with people........ :') ]

Well~ we use magic to kill our enemies!

[ I mean, it's military, so. ]

[rebella]

( Henry... )

Doesn't - doesn't magic that large have big consequences?!

[carreau]

Normal magic kills enemies too, though...but you don't use it by yourself, you have to use tomes.

I guess I did it myself once~ I don't remember it very well...

[rebella]

Any magic, I didn't think any of it could be -

( Stop, slow down, don't trip into that mess, Ella. She straightens, placing her hands on the fronts of her thighs to gather her thoughts and slow down. )

So you perform magic to kill people. That's... very militant of you. Can you do anything else with your magic?