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[teensungod]

[Outside the castle, any passing on-lookers will be treated to an interesting sight this morning. A young boy clad wearing a ridiulous yellow cape is standing outside and staring up at the sky with a frown. He seems to be concentrating hard on something, and when that doesn't work he'll start hopping up and curse every time his feet touch the ground.

Kid Apollo can't fly, and he's not very happy about that.]


[ooc: Loss start! Open to anyone!]

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/hugs him

[teensungod]

[He furrows his brow at the change of topic but shrugs it away.]

Kid Apollo.

he needs it man, he needs it.

[peacockherald]

_{[Yfandes let out a loud snort and Vanyel sighed.]}

Yes, I owe it to you later...

Apollo... ah, I see. Well, I am Vanyel Ashkevron.

<sub>[What had happened? Was this a trick of the Castle?]

[ooc: In another comm I'm in, we got a Stefan. I want to try and recruit them for Para or find myself a Tylendel still ;; ]</sub>

his life is so sad

[teensungod]

Kid Apollo. [Don't shorten his name, Van. You're still a stranger. :|]



[ooc: aww Stefan. <3 I need to re-read the book, but I haven't forgotten! I was just thinking about this the other day actually.]

it is orz he's a giant angst muffin

[peacockherald]

Ah, my apologies, Kid Apollo. You need sunlight to fly, don't you?

<sub>[That was what Apollo had said before, so maybe it rang true for this one. But... could Apollo fly? When he thought about it, he had never seen the older man fly.]

[ooc: if you know anyone else you loves the books and wants to play a Tylendendel, EMPOWER THEM ;; ]</sub>

angst muffins need love too

[teensungod]

[He looks at Van for a long moment. That's not something he expects strangers to know about him.]

I need sunlight to charge my powers.

they do, they do

[peacockherald]

Perhaps if you allowed more surface area to soak up sun?

[teensungod]

[He considers this for a moment before slowly nodding his consent.]

What do you have in mind?

[peacockherald]

Well, I would say remove your shirt at the most. But you need it to hit your skin, right?

[teensungod]

[His eyes widen and a bit of blush creeps up his neck. Luckily it's mostly hidden by his hood.]

No! Not really. I can absorb the light fine with my clothes on.

[peacockherald]

Ah, well then...

I am not sure what to tell you. Perhaps your loss is that you cannot fly?

[teensungod]

[Blink.]

Loss?

[peacockherald]

Yes, the thing the Castle takes from you as payment for staying here.

<sub>[Odd reverse, is it not? Having to explain it to his friend.]

[ooc: peacock!]</sub>

[teensungod]

So the castle is a thief and a kidnapper? Sounds like it should be dropped into the Matter Decomposer.

[peacockherald]

Matter... Decomposer...?

[teensungod]

Yes. [He doesn't go on.]

[peacockherald]

It sounds... unpleasant. And as much as I would enjoy the Castle not being here, we do need it as our home to live in.

[teensungod]

Why do you need it? Isn't there a town you can go to?

[peacockherald]

There is, but they like you to spend money there. I do not exactly have a job I can use to earn it there, since I spend much of my time researching here.

[teensungod]

Researching?

[peacockherald]

I have been trying to find ways home for us as well as working on magical defenses.

[teensungod]

Have you made any progress?

[peacockherald]

On the latter, yes. On the former? No, not nearly as much as I would like - which is to say, hardly any. I have ruled out ways NOT to get home.

[teensungod]

And those were?

[peacockherald]

Gating, for one. That turned out very badly for me.

[teensungod]

What's 'gating'?