Jail Break [ Action ]

[peacockherald]

 [ He had to get out of here! He couldn't stay in this crazy Castle, people needed him back home! He was sure that his people could manage for a bit, but that dark presence he had been feeling... what if it came? What would they do? He shuddered at the thought and he knew he had only one choice. He had to try and leave this place. 

He had mulled over how to do it for the past several days, realizing that there was no external source of magic for him to draw on, no nodes. He would have to do it with the magic he currently have stored, and he had to hope that would be enough. He debated on what construct to use as well, and finally decided that the front door of the Castle would be best. It was the most frequently used, big, and solid. He hoped that would help what he planned.

He went down when he thought there might be the least traffic, staring at those doors from the outside, trying to hold back his fears. Gates were not fun for him, but he felt Yfandes' reassuring presence in the back of his mind and behind him physically. Closing his eyes, he began to set the spell, feeling it work into the wood of the doors, the metal. It would transform, get them a way home...

Pain! Uncontrollable, insurmountable, devastating pain. It lanced through every nerve in his body, made him feel like he was going to come apart at any moment. He would rather explode than endure this.

The magic he had built up disappeared and he dropped to the ground, writhing, screaming as the pain consumed him, magic backlashing into him, squeezing him with a needle on every part of his skin. Beside him Yfandes was braying, he knew trying to do her best to take some of his magic, but it was no use, their connection frazzled by the pain. 

So he writhed and screamed, and prayed for a black out. ]

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[lord_wizard]

[Even if the magic hadn't drawn him - at it was sufficiently alien but too powerful to ignore - the sound of screaming certainly would have. He wasn't completely callous as to turn his back, even if he'd barely been sleeping since he got here. His attempts at searching for escape had been a bit more academic, if just as unfruitful.

He exits the stairs and approaches the man on the ground, but the sight of the frantic horse a few feet away makes him keep his distance, not wanting to get trampled. Was the horse somehow to blame for this?]

[peacockherald]

_{[ The white mare turned, sensing someone else, going stock still as she sized up this new person. There was intelligence in those blue eyes, more than a normal horse would or should have.}

Vanyel screamed again on the ground and the mare seemed to make up her mind, prancing in place and jerking her head from Felix towards Vanyel and making a sharp whinnying sound. ]

[lord_wizard]

[Strange, the look in the beasts eyes. Something more than animal. And its behavior like that of a loyal dog more than any horse he'd known - which admittedly, was not many.

Felix made up his mind at all. Quickly, he rushed to the man's side and crouched next to him, a hand reaching out to lightly touch him on the arm]

What's happened here? What can I do?

[peacockherald]

_{[ The mare looked at him and then back at the Castle and seemed to raise a brow. She snorted and went around to the other side, nudging Vanyel, but he seemed to have gone limp and thankfully blacked out. She snorted again and jerked her head at the Castle.}

Really, humans, sometimes they were so dense. ]

[lord_wizard]

[Felix does not appreciate judged by a horse, and that's certainly what he's feeling is judged, which is strange all on it's own. The hint is not at all helpful, though, if that's what it is. He frowns, though, and stands]

I was not asking you. [He paused, tugging anxiously at his cravat]

A dispersal. It's all I have.

[He patted his pockets and came out with a spare bit of chalk that he'd found in his room, then made a shooing gesture at the horse]

[peacockherald]

_{[ She snorted, moving to let him in closer, but she did not move away either. Clearly Felix did not intimidate her, or at least he did not worry her. Even if he did, she would never had let him approach Vanyel. She snorted and nudged at Vanyel's cheek with her nose, letting out a more worried sound now.}

On the ground, Vanyel groaned again, sweating from the pain, his body tense and jerking as the magic continued to course through him. ]

[lord_wizard]

[He glared at her, but let it go until he could make the groundwork. He knelt again, and traced a circle around Vanyel's body, marking symbols at intervals with a practiced hand. He really had no idea if this was going to work where unfamiliar magic was concerned but a spell was a spell. If only he didn't have to perform it alone.

Finally, the circle complete, Felix stood again and, with a stern expression, placed a hand on the mare's chest and shoved.]

Now get back, if you have any love for your master...

[peacockherald]

_{[ She leaned into his hand and gave him a sharp look, as if to say he was lucky he was keeping said hand, but did step back some. Not much, but some. Enough to give Felix room, but certainly close enough to knock him away if he tried anything. The mare was not stupid. Even so, she shifted her hooves back and forth in a slightly worried manner, tail swishing back and forth. ]}

[lord_wizard]

[He could honestly care less what the damned horse thought of him, strangely intelligent or not. He couldn't have her disrupting the circle.

Brushing chalk dust away from his hands, Felix extended his arms and began to chant, his voice a soft drone, as the lines of the circle he had traced began to glow. Dispersals were among the most complicated of spells and often required more than one person, but he'd done it before.

A short time later, his own fingers began to spark with light, and a few final shouted syllabels later it winked out in brilliant display and a puff of wind from nowhere that scattered the circle into nothingness.

It was done.

All he could do was wait and see if it had helped.]

[peacockherald]

_{[ Vanyel was no longer writhing, at least, though he was still out cold. He was pale and shivering, his skin sweating cold and he moaned from time to time. He was out of immediate danger, but not the woods. Yfandes knew he would be laid up for a few days working out the rest of the backlash and the magic sickness, but he would not die from it now.}

The mare let out a deep set sigh of relief and came back, bending her head to nuzzle Vanyel's cheek, clearly still worried, but less so than before. ]

[lord_wizard]

[Felix watched for a moment, unsure if the spell had succeeded. But soon it became apparent that, at least to him, the other man wasn't about to die immediately, he stepped away]

Well, I...suppose I should see if I can find a doctor...

[He hesitated for a moment, watching the mare with a mounting sense of curiosity, and then started to walk away to do just as he had said.]