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The Citadel of Sorcery
SINIB:
Sakura
The purple-haired woman glanced around as they walked up the stairs, taking note of Christina's dispiritedness more than anything. Everything seemed very mundane and open here, with no proper safeguards for secrets, no bloodthirsty murderpus politics...
It was giving her the heebie jeebies, honestly. She felt constantly on edge, and her magus senses were constantly tingling. She was waiting for the moment somebody would try to curse her today with bad luck out of jealousy for her position. She was waiting to have to countercurse them into oblivion.
Yet, nothing came, and Sakura stared at this plain wooden door, enchanted with countless magics. She slowly reached out, turned the knob and opened the door.
She let out a sigh of relief as she walked in. She was half expecting for it to be a trap, where they'd try to put her in a jar or something.
YOLF:
Edelgard
Edelgard didn't have any complaints about the walk. It was easier on her sight than the meeting in that folded space had been, though none of the small magics and spells scattered abouts escaped her.
It was paradoxical. In a place like this, astral corruption ought to make her more at home than any magician, for such was the curse of the Forsaken in this time, but they had also been gifted with prescient, sorcery-seeing sight, and though few knew this, it was as possible to overload as the rest of their senses. It was no more than the taxonomy of their eyeballs they were talking about, after all.
But there was little corruption here, despite her expectations, and Edelgard had been for long enough in untouched lands, too far from nexuses of the mystic arts, and her tolerance had somehow grown... dull.
So, the Forsaken was too concerned with these grumble-provoking thoughts and her watching of Sakura to notice how the woman accompanying them was so much more downcast after her blunt words. As they reached the one door, literally shining with its secrets to her, the warrior gripped her spear closely, and stood ready to grab Sakura.
Fortunately, it was just a formality. She tried to relax, her own sigh hidden under her companion's. She turned to the redhead with a question. "All mage quarters guarded like this?"
Aiden:
Christina
What she walked into was a room that was, in fact, worthy of someone of her status. It had a bed of the appropriate size for nobility such as herself, well designed cabinets and armoires, mirrors and gentle lighting that seemed to derive from the ambient mana drawn into the tower from somewhere outside. Sakura could find no fault in any of its appointments, although it had a fondness for dark blues and purples. That was not the surprising part of it all.
It was all the unknown enchantments hanging on everything. Christina nodded slowly as she took the place in. "Wow, she's giving you a treat. All this magic to reverse engineer right off the bat? Then again, I guess you are her apprentice now."
She turned to Edelgard. "Only the Spatial Studies people. The rest of us find other ways."
SINIB:
--- Quote from: Aiden on August 23, 2019, 04:28:00 AM ---Christina
What she walked into was a room that was, in fact, worthy of someone of her status. It had a bed of the appropriate size for nobility such as herself, well designed cabinets and armoires, mirrors and gentle lighting that seemed to derive from the ambient mana drawn into the tower from somewhere outside. Sakura could find no fault in any of its appointments, although it had a fondness for dark blues and purples. That was not the surprising part of it all.
It was all the unknown enchantments hanging on everything. Christina nodded slowly as she took the place in. "Wow, she's giving you a treat. All this magic to reverse engineer right off the bat? Then again, I guess you are her apprentice now."
She turned to Edelgard. "Only the Spatial Studies people. The rest of us find other ways."
--- End quote ---
Sakura Edelfeldt
Sakura whistled out in appreciation. It was quite a bit more than adequate for her own personal tastes, but she certainly had a persona to maintain for the sake of her family. "Hmm, it's quite-acceptable, in terms of lodgings. I'll have to consider selling my penthouse condo..." She muttered to herself, scratching her chin. A shadow burst out of her feet, and she attempted to teleport a couple feet by sinking into her shadow.
Aiden:
Lapis Spire
It was soon that Sakura realized the subtleties of the magic she had so casually dismissed before - she could not use her shadow to travel within this room, because it was already a form of alternate space to begin with! It was not in phase with the rest of the building - or the rest of the normal space in which it exists. At the very least it would require Sakura to reformulate how she approached this particular form of magic if she was going to conveniently enter or leave the room.
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