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Sabriel ([personal profile] bindsthedead) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu2013-03-24 07:16 pm

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So, I am trapped between Life and Death, and barred from reentering either. [The face on the screen is young- no more than eighteen- and deathly pale, save for a strange sunburn around her left eye. She pauses, draws herself up, and speaks with as much authority as she can muster, though Sabriel is hiding considerable exhaustion.]

If anyone here has some knowledge of necromancy, I wish to speak with them, as well as anyone who can tell me more about this place without insisting "That's the Emperor's business" [And Sabriel can't quite contain her exasperation as she utters that phrase.] , I would be grateful. I don't have much of the local currency, but I have some knowledge of Charter Magic-[And there's a long, hesitant pause before she begins to speak again, in a tone that's halfway between reluctant and reassuring.] And of necromancy- but I do not raise the Dead, I put them to rest. I am willing to trade my services in such for more information, particularly about whatever mechanism is preventing me from walking into Life and Death, and if this land has ever been troubled by the Dead. [And somehow, you can just hear the capital letters in her speech.]
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-03-26 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
What agitates the dead in your world so much that your-- [a brief pause, before an unfamiliar word] --necromancy is needed?
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video. how the heck did i do that, reposted. :(

[personal profile] traitre 2013-03-26 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
How... [he frowns.] Unnatural. Me, I've never known anyone to so desperately fear the thought of passing.

[after all-- there are things about life that'd scare them far more than death, if only they lived long enough to know what they were.]
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-03-27 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[that earns a wry smile. what are the chances she's a mind reader?]

Wise, if grim, words for someone so young.
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-03-28 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
A shame. It's not a feeling that's easily recaptured.

[and with that, maybe introductions are in order.] My name is Qilby -- it's a pleasure. If I understand correctly, you have the ability to travel between dimensions?

[at least that's what 'walking into life and death' sounds like, anyway.]
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-03-29 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
So that you may put its inhabitants to rest. But somewhere along the way you got stuck... Here.

[a pensive silence.] I ask only because I possess a somewhat-similar ability. I haven't tested to see if I'm barred from using it the way you are, but-- the implications are alarming, if I am.
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-03-31 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The first thing, really? [with some genuine-sounding surprise. a whole new world to discover, and the first thing she does is try and leave?]

Well... Whatever's presumably dampening our powers doesn't seem to affect them all -- only the ones that allow us to leave. [although 'escape' may be the proper word, depending on how she feels about all this.] We're brought here, we're treated with exceptional hospitality -- even in the midst of what appears to be a shortage of supplies -- and then we're prevented from straying too far away.

For whatever reason, we're important. Perhaps this barrier is merely to keep us preserved from whatever dangers lay outside. [or from leaving before they can wear out their usefulness-- not that he's going to suggest that out loud.]
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-04-02 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine the reason for our being here will make itself apparent soon enough.

[he certainly doesn't seem too impatient to find out what it is, anyway.] In the meantime, I suppose it's up to us to find ways to occupy our time -- as I understand, we now have quite a lot of it.