Office Hours - We Could Be
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shieldof[Faith's door remains closed, the brass "PRIVATE" plaque silent and unyielding. Trying to force the door yields no results, but- she said you could contact her here, so just go ahead and knock. Worst case scenario, you're no worse off than before, right?]
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Date: 2025-09-23 12:11 am (UTC)[She doesn't seem terribly concerned by this fact, at least.]
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Date: 2025-09-23 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-23 12:17 am (UTC)[she's not sure why this merits a laugh, but she'll take it.]
You weren't injured, were you?
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Date: 2025-09-23 12:48 am (UTC)Well? Get started.
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Date: 2025-09-23 01:28 am (UTC)...Oh yeah?
I didn't know you were practically raised here. By yourself? [ A pause: ] Didn't even have the chance to meet other people? Get friends?
Just curious. Being an Apostle sounds like you don't get much of a chance to get out much. Duty's important to the god and all, but vacations are important too.
[ The Tsarita is known to be a cold goddess, it is true. It's the first he even thought to make comparisons, but even with his unwavering loyalty to her, he can't fathom being sequestered from others from such a young age for quite awhile. ]
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Date: 2025-09-23 01:56 am (UTC)cw implied child drowning
Date: 2025-09-23 01:59 am (UTC)He's black. He's ten. He has a dog named Vincent. We were on the same damn plane crash. He might be soaked in ocean water and speaking in tongues, is this helping?
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Date: 2025-09-23 02:12 am (UTC)I wouldn't say no but don't put yourself out over it. I'm sure you have much more pressing things to study than whipping something up for me. [He takes a seat across from her desk, briefly looking around the room. The materials everywhere, the wall full of books, the sense of controlled chaos- it all stirs a sense of nostalgia he hasn't felt in a long time.] Being bad with memories...it's something I've dealt with for a long time. I'm used to it.
Truth be told, I'm a little surprised you weren't aware. [But then again neither if Caine.]
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Date: 2025-09-23 05:57 am (UTC)[Did she understand it?]
[Anyway-]
But, you said you wished to talk?
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Date: 2025-09-23 06:12 am (UTC)Re: cw implied child drowning
Date: 2025-09-23 12:21 pm (UTC)[She's taking careful notes, then pauses.]
...is the ocean water RELATED to the tongues-?
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Date: 2025-09-23 12:24 pm (UTC)[She seems to be taking him at his word, despite evidence to the contrary.]
Restorative magic is rather beyond my purview regardless, I'm afraid.
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Date: 2025-09-23 01:33 pm (UTC)Tha magic part, not tha restory-tive part.
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Date: 2025-09-23 02:24 pm (UTC)[She perks up a little at that line of inquiry.]
I've studied arcane manipulation of the weave of magic as long as I can remember.
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Date: 2025-09-23 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-09-23 02:29 pm (UTC)No other mortals?
What about immortals, then?
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:23 pm (UTC)[She hesitates for a moment.]
...it may be best not to speak of- it.
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:26 pm (UTC)[Sorry Capo, she is going on AT LENGTH about the fundamentals of spellcasting and manipulating the paths of energy that make up everything.]
[She cares about it a real normal amount, looks like.]
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:28 pm (UTC)...Why not?
[ Childe's curious, so naturally, he's gotta ask. ]
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:39 pm (UTC)Got it.]
...Miz Faith, I ain't got no idea what ya talkin' about.
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:39 pm (UTC)[She rises, walking the circumference of the office, speaking quietly under her breath. A small trail of light forms under her feet- as she closes the path, a thin bubble briefly springs up around the room before vanishing. But even in its apparent absence, the air suddenly seems slightly muffled or pressed in.]
Just- an extra measure of precaution.
[Faith sits back down at the desk, back straight and hands folded.]
I don't speak of this creature lightly, Sir Childe. It has been long since it appeared here, and hopefully it will remain so. ...but there has been the clown.
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:46 pm (UTC)The sudden subsequent changes has him straighten himself, looking around, and then back at her. ]
I didn't think it'd be this bad.
Since you went to the trouble, I'm gonna guess that it's dangerous beyond even what most can imagine. Maybe the type to lurk in the dimensions and slip in wherever as it pleases?
May as well tell me more - or whatever you can - while you've got the protection up. Though I'm not sure how a clown's related, either.
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:49 pm (UTC)[She shivers a little.]
I call it the clown because it dresses brightly and posseses a painted visage. Often accompanied by the sounds of horns that would likely be most merry in other circumstances.
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Date: 2025-09-23 04:55 pm (UTC)What else is frightening to you about it?
[ Idly, Childe thinks of the Jester of the Fatui Harbingers. Doubtless it's something else and not the one he's thinking of; cringe the title may be in some ways, but he probably doesn't look so garish as a literal clown monster/whatever it is, would. ]
The horns that come along, or just the fact it can come and go as it wants?