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[shroudedsecrets]

Who: Haggar and Katie
Broadcast: No
Action: Planetside
When: Late June/Early July



[ It's been a few days since Katie came back all wrong, and frankly, Haggar has decided to task herself with fixing up this mystery, mostly because... well, it did affect her new favorite guise as Lucinda, and Katie without her magic is also less fun.

So the intrepid witch pays a visit to check up on her "twin sister", suggests that they go exploring the planet and even go shopping after. All very innocent, while she decided how best to attend to her plan. And so, off they go. ]

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[Katie's words draw her attention again, perhaps for the best--there was no reason for her to be confronted or distracted by concepts she barely recalled.

Instead, more importantly, what a fascinating bit of work she's conjured up. Haggar was still trying to understand it; the nature of this magic, so similar to what she knew and yet not, and yet what sorts of new concepts could be gained by watching another at work? Fresh ideas did often spring forth from that sort of inspiration, after all, often through necessity, but sometimes, curiosity.

A little guide light through the mist. How appropriate. So as long as the person she was focusing on wasn't somewhere else as "safe" as this, which would be a truly ironic turn.

Even so, she follows, shadowy thing she is, because, why not? She was not afraid, either way. For the moment though, she's fallen more quiet and observant than talkative.]

[hollystrike]

[Sam would avoid this mist, so she focused it on Sam. Ergo, as long as they keep moving swiftly they'll be fine; the wisp will lead them directly back to familiar docked shuttles and ships.

Katie pauses at the outskirts of safety, though.] Did you have any stories about the boogieman in your own world?

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[Her eyebrows raise slightly. Thanks to their conversations, she's grown slightly more accustomed to the odd phrases that Katie would sometimes weave in, or find sources to poke through to give her a better frame of reference.

Her "planet".]

Perhaps... they did have stories in that vein meant to frighten children, while others strove to prove whether or not such myths or tales had true origins. Most else was bound in secrets.

[hollystrike]

There are a lot of stories like that. Most of them revolve around the theory that the more you think of them as real, the more power you give them to hurt you.

[She glances back at Haggar, speaking mildly.] Just a thought. Entirely unrelated.

[Because you're gonna see some shit for a day or two, probably.]

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Now that is fascinating. I appreciate the warning...

[Because she's kind of a weirdo. But she's a smart weirdo. She's just curious about power and how others make use of it for science, that's all.]

Your Earth must have a lot of those -- stories. Though I imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a planet that did not. With this power... it feels as if it must be another layer of reality that exists over another, for such concepts to take a tangible form...

[Unrelated, but oddly enough, that alien cat that's been flickering about and following them seems to be less of a dream-like creature for the moment, with the way it's stopped to stare at them without vanishing away now that they've stopped moving, though it appears a little different, more sleek and less fuzzy.]

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[She's not surprised. Haggar must be noticing the cat. Were it another form of echo, she'd have delivered her warning earlier, but the cat is harmless enough.

...and it's a cat. She's biased.]

The real world works much the same. If enough people believe you have power, you have power. [Over those that believe. She's not willing to discuss the Dreaming inasmuch. Well, it's very difficult, to begin with.]

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There is much to be said for the power of influence.

[She hasn't known what to make of the cat, really; it certainly was there, as if it had trundled right out of a memory, no less, but she hadn't given it much more thought than that, despite its current proximity.]

With these layers you can see almost anything if you wanted. It feels very much like possibility.

[In the creative, metaphorical sense, much like pure quintessence. No wonder she found Katie so interesting. Even if it meant putting up with those odd Earth movies. Not that space dramas were really any better.]

Does reality always look this way to you?

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Good heavens, no. [Cheerfully.] I'd go utterly bonkers.

[It's a trip, having your feet planted in two different worlds at once. Space itself, though, is much emptier than a permanently occupied landscape would be.]

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Too much to see and feel all at once? I understand.

[After all, becoming attuned to life energy was something of exactly that at times. That similar and yet different feel to all this.

These next few days would be a trip, all right.]

Are you able to channel this power at will, or is it something that you have no control over?

[hollystrike]

It varies from moment to moment. [Even if she could tell the truth, she wouldn't answer that one honestly to someone who hasn't given so much as a name.]

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[Fair enough.

Still, she'll take what she can get, there. Might come in handy someday.]

Perhaps I will make you stronger by believing in it.

[hollystrike]

[She grins widely at that. What an observant space witch you are.]

Perhaps.