Trisana Chandler (
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badfic_manor2013-01-23 11:23 pm
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[Video]
...So, I'm back here, am I? [Tris smiles faintly into the Blackberry- she looks older than the last time she was on video, and, perhaps more shockingly, she looks thin, even gaunt. Her hair's loose, too, not braided.] It's been a few years for me.
Are Saguru and Spade still here, by any chance?
Are Saguru and Spade still here, by any chance?
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Not too much time has passed since your last visit. Apparently the Author is very fond of having you around.
[Aside from Saguru, Tris is the only person Teru recalls to have been here two years ago already, after all]
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Well... I don't think that's the terrible fate I thought it once was.
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[Video]
How've you been?
[Video]
You know how the great scholar "they" says that things tend to get worse before they get better?
[Video]
Part of the story of those few years?
[At least she does seem better; relieved, if worried about what she's been through.]
[Video]
[In Person]
Still here, for whatever it's worth - I thought I saw you from across the room.
[her side of the room had been there - she hadn't, and it had been enough to have him a little worried.]
[In person]
[In person]
Have things gotten better? [He's no stranger to hard years, himself.]
[in person]
[in person]
One of the ones responsible for things? [Bad intentioned, good intentioned, he could see how that could go many bad ways.]
[in person]
And, of course, I thought there was nothing wrong with that, seeing as I'd never seen a mind-healer in my life. Unfortunately, it wasn't until I had... a fairly severe breakdown that everyone realized how poorly things went. [She looks distant for a minute.] A mage's control centers on their emotional control... Well, that, and external controls can be placed, but they are-- quite literally taking part of that mage's soul and co-opting their will as much as anything. That was the alternative Niklaren implied I could take if I didn't accept my medallion.
I was scared to show that I felt like I was losing a grip on my control, terrified that would be my fate- I had a cousin killed because he allowed someone to take control of him that way. ...As you can see, I lost a great deal of weight, among other things. I was eating scarcely enough to keep alive... Well, Sandry, one of my foster-sisters, noticed something was very wrong... and decided to get to the bottom of it.
As reigning duchess of the Duchy of Emelan, she carries a fair bit of clout, and her ties to Winding Circle temple are nothing to sneeze at. Should Niklaren set so much as a toe in Emelan, she will know, and... the results will not be pretty.
[in person]
It's good that she interfered. Some people should never be allowed near children.
[And some of it reminds him of .... well, himself, and others.]
All that time pushing control and trying to force things to be okay... [He shook his head.] It never works.
[In person]
...Which is sort of ridiculous when you're tied to people at the soul.