8th Card [written]

[legacydeck]

It's always a little irritating to only understand a divination in hindsight, though I suppose that's the nature of the beast. For what it's worth - I would advise against scrying on the castle, if you have the ability. And I think our losses are going to prove near-impossible to retrieve.


[Filtered to Howl]
Your castle, however, appears perfectly safe at the moment.



[Filtered to Felix]

I think we ought to talk.

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[inafadingcrown]

I might have spared you the trouble, had I thought to issue a similar warning.

[legacydeck]

Ah, well - independent verification is never a bad thing.

[Filtered to Clow]

[strangewonders]

Well, that's good to know, at least. I hope it didn't prove too troublesome for you.

[inafadingcrown]

You are well, I hope? The experience was not a pleasant one for me. [That's what happens when you try to delve into the mind of a very powerful magic castle, Galadriel. It pokes back.]

[Filtered to Howl]

[legacydeck]

No, I had surprisingly little problem with that.

[legacydeck]

It was a touch unnerving, but that was all. More a warning than anything else.

[Yeah well, it's magic and There, someone's gotta poke it]

[action thread for Felix]

[legacydeck]

[And, after a good ten hours or so with no reply from Felix, Clow is going to go hunt him down. In his rooms? Nope. Workrooms? Nope. Not making this easy, Felix. But Clow can sense magic, and he knows Felix's signature to track him down]

[Filtered to Clow]

[strangewonders]

So this castle only protests if you go poking after its secrets, then. How kind of it.

[inafadingcrown]

[If only more people understood that logic.]

I am glad to hear it. The warning is alarming enough, to my way of thinking.

[Filtered to Howl]

[legacydeck]

I know - though hopefully it means scrying on all the other worlds is unhindered, not just your's.

[legacydeck]

Indeed - though not harmful, it seems like. Just startling.

so sorry for late

[lord_wizard]

[Felix has done his best distance himself from both the castle and his usual haunts. Missing Ashura drove him to visit the stables to check on his lover's dragonhorse and take a long ride around the borders of the forest. Clow catches him on his way back, as stabling the horse he's borrowed for the day.]

[inafadingcrown]

Forgive me, but might I ask your name? I do not believe we have spoken before.

[Filtered to Clow]

[strangewonders]

With luck. I would hate if it decided to only let you spy on me.

No worries!

[legacydeck]

[And there is really no way to start this that isn't super awkward, so Clow will give him a somewhat hesitant smile]

...Felix?

[legacydeck]

I do not think we have. I'm Clow Reed.

[Filtered to Howl]

[legacydeck]

I think I would too, it'd get rather dull after a while.

[lord_wizard]

[He pauses, as he hanging up the bridle, to glance back at Clow, then goes back to his task. He isn't smiling. In fact, his carriage seems to tighten up at the other mage's presence.]

I see you found me.

[He sounds vaguely lordly and bored, but with a curt, angry edge to it. No, he wasn't going to make this easy at all...]

[Filter to Clow]

[strangewonders]

Yes. Much better to go prodding at other people. I'm sure they'll be far more fascinating.

[Filter to Howl]

[legacydeck]

Ah, so humble.

[legacydeck]

[There's a small sigh. He knew this wasn't going to be easy.]

Against your own preferences, I assume.

[lord_wizard]

How astute. But you're here anyway, so I suppose that means you don't care about that.

[legacydeck]

You have a right to privacy - as does Howl, when he feels like avoiding me - but... I may not be a studied oneiromancer, but I know enough to know when a dream isn't my own.

[lord_wizard]

[Very technically, Felix wasn't one either. He'd fallen into that discipline largely by chance, and the Gardens were almost the only thing he spent time on, but he wasn't going to mention that.]

As listening to everyone else talk these last few days would have told you. What is your point?

[legacydeck]

We both saw something each other that we would not have wished others to see. And unless you wish me to erase your memory of it - which I doubt, even considering what it was - that knowledge can't be undone.