TEST DRIVE #6

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

Comments

[bythewaves]

Mmhmm. [ careless, as if he doesn't care, and this, more than anything, must speak of how deep it hurts it, to bury all of it behind this playful, unhurting mask ]

How did I put it again?

That the Silmarils, in whatever shape or form they are brought to and resides still in this world, that they be kept safe and inviolate from all that would claim them, saving only my father. That this would be so forever, that none may again lay hand to them saving by my father's leave.

[ He slants a look at Feanor ]

Of course, Will maintained the magic, and he is gone now, and, I suppose, any chance of retrieving the Silmaril with him.

[lightcatcher]

[Will is gone. Well, one good piece of news among all these horrible ones. That is something.]

Did you lose your heart again ere he left, or after?

[bythewaves]

It was Will's magic. [ He shrugs, still with that careless, easy mask ] He thought it might help. It did, a bit. While my heart was gone.

[ He looks away ] The second time was an accident, but Will confirmed that he felt the magic act.

[lightcatcher]

The threat of it happening once more is banned, then?

[Perhaps. If it is rooted in Will's mind... yet if it is rooted in Maglor's, the threat is still present. And while in another he might not think of it this readily, Miriel and her seed have always had a mindset which turned their will into their doom, one way or the other, in small or larger ways.

Yet Will's "magic" seemed less bound to the will than one would expect, and perhaps his presence or absence makes no difference at all, in the end.]

[bythewaves]

[ A pause, the unconcerned mask dropping for something more real as Maglor considers ]

I... do not know. Will's power drove the magic, but the second time I had said no word to him, and yet it acted in any case. I have... been very careful with my words since.

[ As he's almost certain what his trigger phrase is ]

[lightcatcher]

[His expression darkens.]

So it is words on your parts which trigger the curse?

[That's not surprising at all, really, no matter how much he would wish to say otherwise.]

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor nods, once ]

Yes, atarinya. I am almost certain it was so the second time as well.

[lightcatcher]

So it will only be upon your own wish that you will be cursed again.

[A sharp glance.] You do not wish for it, do you?

[bythewaves]

[ There is a suspiciously long pause at that, and then Maglor lifts his eyes to meet his father's ]

Not at present, atto. I... cannot say if I will not wish it again if... [ He does not finish, but likely, Feanor can guess. If they take from me my brother, if they take from me my mother, if they take from me my joy, what reason have I? ]

[lightcatcher]

And if you lose your heart for the absence of your brother and mother, and they return after, what will they do?

[bythewaves]

[ a shrug ] The second time nearly killed me. The third, I think, will. So they will not have to worry, as I will be beyond their care.

(frozen comment)

[lightcatcher]

None of us will cease caring about you.

[His voice is harsh, with an edge to it that is barely ever directed at his sons. This is one of the few things where he is absolutely sure that himself, Nerdanel and Maitimo will be on the same page, no matter how much any of them have changed (even though he realizes that for a while, while darkness clouded his mind, the others might have doubted his own inclusion in this).]

(frozen comment)

[bythewaves]

[ Startlement, Maglor blinking up at his father at that as if woken from some dark dream. And then he looks away ]

I know. But atto if they go I do not know if I will have the strength to continue.

(frozen comment)

[lightcatcher]

Are there no others than them whom you care about in this world?

[For he knows well that his son has always taken to taking care of others and being by their side when the times were troubled, more so even than to his music, if that is possible. (Both are easier to transport than a forge, so there are upsides to it).]

(frozen comment)

[bythewaves]

[ Another pause although shorter, this time ]

There are, but I have made provision for their care if required already, and most have little need of me.

(frozen comment)

[lightcatcher]

And those who do have need of you? Will you abandon them?

[He's walking a thin line of hypocrisy here, but, to be fair, there is a difference between trying to beat up and enemy in blind rage and giving your heart away out of depression. ...whatever judgement that difference deserves.]

(frozen comment)

[bythewaves]

I... [ Maglor falters ] I... I have... made sure he will not suffer from it.

(frozen comment)

[lightcatcher]

Have you asked him if he truly will not?

(frozen comment)

[bythewaves]

I... [ He drops his head and fidgets ] No. I have not.