It's uh... Like a ritual. You need something to help you focus your magic, get it? So you pick something—everyone says it needs to be significant to you, but that's bullshit. My last one was a tattoo.
[She shows him her left arm, where her tattoo was. There's nothing but a big scar now.]
The one I'm using now is just a cheap necklace. Anyway, it's like you're... Like you're tethering whatever it is to yourself. Attuning it to your magic, right? If you don't have your focus while you're casting more powerful spells it's harder to control them and they're way less predictable.
[Huh. That all makes sense, and he supposes he can see why it might be difficult to make a focus without the help of someone who can guide you through it. He definitely wouldn't have the first idea of how to start, even with what she's said.
And okay, the scar is too obvious not to ask about, especially since she showed it to them and therefore it's probably not an exceptionally sensitive topic. Hopefully.]
[ Wash knows the answer to that already: faeries are assholes. But it's not his story so he stays quiet to let Kyna speak, wondering instead what he could use if she taught him magic. ]
Uh... long story short, we got kidnapped by a bunch of faeries and they figured out my tattoo was my focus so they cut it off. Too bad we kicked their asses anyway.
[Targeting them specifically or not, involving kids in whatever they were doing--surely nothing good, considering the story about Kyna's tattoo and that her group was dealing with faeries in the first place--is just... Ugh.
He glances from Washington to Kyna, waiting to see if there's more to the story.]
[ If there is, Wash doesn't know it. He just hums at the clarification -- he remembered the bit about children specifically because even after a lifetime of war, hurting kids is inexcusable to him. ]
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Date: 2017-12-31 04:40 am (UTC)[ Right, Lance?
He's curious about how to make a focus, too -- maybe she'll wind up teaching him, too, eventually. ]
no one saw anything
Date: 2017-12-31 04:45 am (UTC)[She shows him her left arm, where her tattoo was. There's nothing but a big scar now.]
The one I'm using now is just a cheap necklace. Anyway, it's like you're... Like you're tethering whatever it is to yourself. Attuning it to your magic, right? If you don't have your focus while you're casting more powerful spells it's harder to control them and they're way less predictable.
nothing at all
Date: 2017-12-31 04:53 am (UTC)And okay, the scar is too obvious not to ask about, especially since she showed it to them and therefore it's probably not an exceptionally sensitive topic. Hopefully.]
What happened to your tattoo?
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Date: 2017-12-31 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-31 07:15 pm (UTC)[So yes, faeries are assholes.]
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Date: 2017-12-31 08:00 pm (UTC)Wow. Faeries sound... Not great.
[Or, yeah, like assholes.]
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Date: 2017-12-31 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-31 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-31 09:44 pm (UTC)He glances from Washington to Kyna, waiting to see if there's more to the story.]
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Date: 2017-12-31 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-31 11:35 pm (UTC)Why are you guys both looking at me like that?
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Date: 2017-12-31 11:39 pm (UTC)[He offers the answer with only a brief hesitation, taking the opportunity to make an overdramatic statement completely flatly.]
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Date: 2017-12-31 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-31 11:45 pm (UTC)It wasn't exactly heroism. I mean, we got a bunch of people out, but we still screwed up.
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Date: 2018-01-01 12:50 am (UTC)[And doesn't negate whatever good was done, unless it was a... Really big screwup.]