TEST DRIVE MEME

[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!

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[soverenyi]

[ He's already moving, not so much crossing the distance between them as circling her, watching her, looking for any sign she might flee. She's run from him before, after all. Even now, after she'd told him she would come to him, that she would join him, that she would do as he wanted, he's still uncertain of her. He can't trust her no matter how much he wants to. ]

I just arrived. I was dragged quite suddenly from our little conversation, and brought to this…other world.

[ His gaze flicks briefly away from her, and his expression highlights his distaste for all he sees. Is this what a modern world would look like, if left to its own devices? Filled to the brim with machines filtering out coffee, and folding boxes that people type into?

His people, the Grisha, call ordinary humans the Otkazats'ya. It translates as 'the abandoned', because the power of the Grisha does not belong to them. Their lives are bereft of it, of ever knowing anything like it. This entire world is abandoned, as far as he's concerned - trapped between human technology, and the weak, almost playful magic of these faeries. To think, that is what passes for power here. Pathetic. ]

But have no fear. I will return us, Alina, to the place we both belong. Is the tracker here? Or any of your other…friends, shall we call them, for lack of a better word.

[sankta]

[ So that answered her next thought. What did he last remember. He didn't know that she betrayed him again. But was it really a betrayal? She had promised to go to him, and she had fulfilled that promise. She had never promised he would survive the encounter. If her plan even worked. She wondered if she could still test it here.

She'd rather not take the risk. She didn't know how anything here might affect anything at home. Not fully. It was easier just to play along with him while she could. ]

No. I'm alone.

Or I was. Still am, maybe.

You're not in the Seelie Court are you? I didn't know you were here until just now. [ And the closer they got, the easier it was to feel him. Which meant if they were in the same court she would have sensed him a long time ago. ]

We're enemies still. [ She watched him carefully as he circled her. ]

[soverenyi]

[ At this, he visibly rolls his eyes. ]

Enemies. [ He says the word like it's distasteful to him. ] When will you learn, Alina? I am not, nor have I ever been, your enemy. You and I belong together. You know that. You feel it as much as I do. Like calls to like, and you have always called to me.

[ He knows it's true. He knows that it's true for all Grisha, to an extent. He's a living amplifier. His touch makes their powers stronger, which feeds their strength and their focus.

But with Alina, it's more true than most. Their powers are two sides of one coin; he, the summoner of darkness, and she, the bringer of light. They are bound by her collar, and bound too by the scar his nichevo'ya had left on her shoulder. He's always been able to find a way to deepen their bond.

His mistake had been in thinking all that ever did was bind her to him. He'd only realised after the fact that it also bound him to her. That had been unexpected, and worrisome. ]

The Unseelie Court is where they brought me. That makes so little difference. The only Court I care about is the one we left behind. This world is nothing to me.

It's already lost.