driftfleet | oo1; accidental video/action

Who: Alistair and YOU?!
Broadcast: Fleetwide; mostly accidental.
Action: On the Marsiva!
When: Now? Now. Sure, now.

Teagan? Teagan! [ The man on the camera is young, handsome, and looking a bit put out to be where he is. This isn't his castle! What is this place? He's also sort of looking away from the screen, not fully aware he's broadcasting. He mostly thinks he's talking to himself. ]

Okay, hah hah, very funny, you've had your joke, now where are you? And where am I? I'm sure I've got a very important meeting with someone who will be very angry when I don't show up - not that I care much if I'm making the Orlesians angry, it's sort of funny when their faces get all red and they start trying not to swear, but still...

Have I been kidnapped? Has someone kidnapped me? I'm pretty sure kidnapping the king is treason. I can have your head for that. [ He doesn't sound so much angry as... vaguely confused and disoriented. ] Off with your head. Whenever I figure out who you are, I suppose.

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Well yes, there are regular ones for cleaning too. You wouldn't want to ride a cleaning broom or sweep with a flying or racing broom.

[No joke, was he laughing at her? She smiled but a bit uncertainly.]

I just - you could choose anything to fly on, right? Who was it who looked at a broom and thought, now there's what we should use.

Yes, sure. But brooms are sort of traditional I expect. And they are loads better now then they were originally. With all the cushion charms and weight distribution spells and even convenient storage ability on some. It's hardly the only way to go of course, you can apparate, or use a port key

That seems like a very strange tradition to me. [ As though Thedas doesn't have some downright weird ones. ]

We have some fun and interesting ones too though. [She hoped that it hadn't soured him on magic or herself.] I'd be happy to show you some, sometime. If you liked.

Like... what?

Oh I don't know, umm..maybe a creating a little flock of birds? Or portable, safe fire. How about turning porcupines into hair brushes? Well there's standard stuff too like levitation or glamour, I can change peoples looks or my own.

The fire seems useful, but... why the rest of it?

Well sometimes for decoration, sometimes for defense or attack. Some magic is unnecessary but a lot of wizards have never lived without it so they use it for everything. It can be a bit silly.

I'll say so. Magic sounds very different where you're from.

It can be deadly serious to be sure, but not all of it is. Some, well like this [She raised her wand and held out her hand but didn't look away from the screen.] Accio spoon.

[Had she taken her time she would have come up with something suitably more impressive to us the charm on, but none the less a small spoon raced through the air and landed in her raised hand.] Basic summoning charm.

[ That gets a bark of laughter from Alistair - not just at the spoon-summoning, but also at the - is that a wand? ]

That's, uh - a wand, is it?

[She has lost any cool points she might have been gaining, ugh nice work Evans. Now he'll think you're an idiot.]

Er, yes. It picked me when I started school. It's a very good one, swishy.

[ To be fair, "cool" is about the last thing Alistair cares about. "Willing to laugh at yourself" is much higher on the list. ]

It's just... so little.

There's an old saying, it's not the size of the wand it's how you use it. Or something like that. [She chuckled a bit, at least he wasn't being mean or making spiteful fun of her.]

You'd be surprised what a talented witch can do with a wand, even a small one.

I guess, it's just weird to see. All the mages I know use staves.

Really? [Now you had her interest!] How do they use them, exactly?

Um, well, you know. Grab them with both hands and magic comes out?

I assumed that much, but I suppose most magic works relatively the same. Well, umm let's see you, um, you seem very young to be a king.

You do know how it works, right? I mean, there's no age restrictions on being king.

Well yes you rise to the throne via ascension of the birth line on mother's or father's side depending on the lineage of the monarchy. [It was basic history for her, and being the royal family's recent exposure in her world there had been so many recent discussions of it she felt decently educated.]

But normally in order to reach that position a number of others had to pass and that means you are generally older. At least in my world that seems the trend.

People must be a lot longer-lived in your world.

I think, generally these days they live out their lives on the throne. It was a different story a century ago.

I mean, if you're lucky, I suppose. My - Father, he was pretty lucky. My half-brother, not so much.

I'm so sorry for your loss, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. I didn't intend to pry.

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