January Catch-All

[tempredmental]

🧙 WHO: Keith, OTA
⚔️️ WHAT: TDM Prompts, Quest Board, Events
🕒 WHEN: Throughout January
🗺️ WHERE: Many places! Will note in prompt.
⚠️ WARNINGS: Potentially things like violence against monsters, bullying from fairies, checking bodies for signs of life, and whatnot. I'll update as needed.

Links to Prompts:

• Winter Solstice - Arrival (Tree), Dance, Inn, Elphame Traders (food)
• Don't Say Neigh - Blessing
• Gravestone Faced - Fight, Search
• Yelling Yetis
• Frosty Forest Glamp - Igloo, Ingredient Search
• They Grow Up So Fast - Egg Baby, Baby Bear, Release Time (own release in Camelot, will assist with releases in Elphame, open to multiple co-parents)

Comments

Definitely not!

[tempredmental]

[Keith looked up at the sound of a familiar voice, and then smiled a little.]

Yeah... You got a blessing, too?

[He shifted over so she had room to join him near the fire. It was kind of cold, after all.]

[custodire]

[ The smile she gives is polite, if gentle. Hayate is the first to choose to come over, sitting a little way away from Keith. ]

I think so, but it's not anything I've had practice with.

[ She's still new and hesitant with magic to begin with, she doesn't know the full scale of it. A slight incline of her head, matched with a short nod, as she took the offered space without preamble. ]

Magic still feels like something beyond the scope of my understanding.

[tempredmental]

Do you know what kind of magic you have?

[Keith put his hand out to Hayate in greeting. Kosmo wasn't far, but he was doing wolf things. Keith knew he'd stay out of trouble and teleport back if something happened.]

[custodire]

[ Hayate immediately trotted the few steps over, happily pressing his head to hand. The woman kept her eyes on the fire as she thought about it — information in Elphame can be dangerous, after all — before nodding. ]

Green magic was easy to discover when the snow came in. [ The whole empathy to plants thing. ] Light magic took some more time.

[ A beat before inquiring. ] How about you, do you know both of yours?

[tempredmental]

[Keith nodded as well as he moved his hand around to give the pup a good petting.]

I actually arrived in Avalon before we had secondary magic. It was weird waking up and suddenly being able to talk to animals.

[Yeah, he knew they had to be careful, but magic types were pretty generic in his mind. A lot of people had similar combos.]

So, if there's anything you want to know from your friend here, I can probably ask for you.

[custodire]

[ She chuckled, a light-hearted sound. ]

I couldn't imagine. Well, perhaps I could. [ She thinks minutely of feeling sleepy being close to a plant that had slumbered for the winter. It's a strange sensation, you never think of plants having their own thoughts until it's presented to you.

She glanced at Hayate who turned his head towards her. A happy thump of his tail and a wry smile. ]

While I'm sure being able to talk would make things easier sometimes, I think we manage to get along well now.

Some relationships don't need to be changed — what do you think?

[tempredmental]

[He shrugged slightly.]

It's definitely interesting being able to talk to -- my wolf. [He had to stop himself from referring to Kosmo by name.] We always had kind of a deep connection, but this definitely a new level.

[And, yeah... Keith chuckled, too.]

But, I can see that I guess. If you're happy with what you have, why change it? [Keith didn't really have a lot of relationships in his life that hadn't changed in some way, though. Everything changed at some point.]

[custodire]

[ She nods, thinking about it. Riza can't imagine the kind of conversations she and Hayate might have. Right now, they understood each other well with a seeming language barrier. ]

I'm sure it's proven useful as well. Animals see and hear more than humans do.

[ Something she knew for a fact when it came to hommunculi. She smiles wryly: ] So long as I don't wake up tomorrow and find myself able to speak to animals as well.

[ Light teasing. ]

[tempredmental]

[Keith chuckled slightly.] Well, that is kind of how it happened. Birds woke me up that morning with their overly amorous flirting.

[He shook his head.]

I didn't think birds talked like that.

[custodire]

No? Have you not listen to their songs in the early morning before, then?

[ Her response is light, mild: ] No one sings so lightly and energetically that early without meaning behind hit.

[tempredmental]

Well, no... but I never knew what that meaning was. [Keith shrugged.] Animals make noises all the time. [Keith just... wasn't a bird guy.]