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9 Black Feathers [action]

[ With the New Feather cycle still going, one might mistake the woman sitting against the fountain this afternoon in the pouring rain for a newcomer. Certainly the white dress she's discarded next to her would indicate such. But Saten's not new, just fresh back from her Mallynapping.

Initially, she doesn't have the energy to make her way even to the clothes shop. So for a good hour or two, she sits naked in the rain next to the fountain. Finally she manages to get to her feet and goes to the clothes shop, where she picks up something appropriately not white. Then she heads to CH7, where she's not quite ready to make her way up seven flights of stairs on foot. Instead she spends the rest of the day sitting against the building, because hey, she's already soaked. Once the sun goes down, she uses the darkness to slip up to her room.

... At least it's not too cold out? ]

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Then what are you? [ She shifts a little, focusing a bit closer on him. She's quite sure that it's not her imagination that there's something inside of him. ]

[ Helios shifts too, though it's more awkwardness due to being stared at than anything else. ] J-Just, um, human. A w-wizard to-to be more specific. I-I can use magic back in my own world.

A "wizard"?

[ /skepticism. Humans explicitly can't use magic back on her world, so this is a strange and suspicious concept. ]

Ah! Yes, that's correct. Only certain, um, p-people in my world can use it. I-I could...show you, if you wanted?

... Let me see.

[ Helios bows his focusing a little on the space around them. The first thing Saten might notice is that the rain isn't hitting either of them anymore. Helios will then make a vague gesture with his hand and pull the water from his clothes, and form it into a small orb. He smiles a little looking back at the other woman. ]

It-it's not much but this is s-some of the things I-I can do with mine.

[ She stares at the orb for a moment, then shifts again. Not towards or away from him, but just a change in her stance.

She doesn't know what to think of it. ]

... Your magic is strange.

[ Saten knows that there are different sorts of magic around Luceti. She's been around here long enough to know that. But it hasn't yet stopped being weird to her. ]

[ He smiles and lets the ball drop to the ground with a splash. ] It is p-probably to a lot of people here. Magic is very much d-different between most worlds. I-I've seen people, um, staffs and wands where mine uses none of those things.

[ He smiles and shrugs. ] Do p-people not use it in your world then?

Humans can't. [ She says it definitively. ] And there's nothing like what you just did for those who can.

Why do you have some darkness to you?

[ Helios hunches. ]

It. It was f-from a spell. [ He rubs his arm absentmindedly and only stops when he realizes he's doing it. ] It-it's nothing serious though. I-I apologize if it's...b-bothering you.

I've never met a human with darkness to them. Not even here. [ She sounds skeptical and distrusting. This is something she is not happy about. The idea that a human has darkness to them goes against one of the fundamentals of her world. One of the fundamentals she likes, thank you very much. ]

I. I-I never asked t-to have it. [ He just clenches a hand at that. No one would ever want this curse. This pain that he has to live with every single day of his life. If he could get rid of it...if he could have changed something he would in a heartbeat. ]

Do you think that should change anything? [ Unless you are objecting to it on the principle of it being darkness, in which case she is going to be even less happy with you. ]

It-it probably wouldn't h-have, no. The only way to have changed anything...would to have been not so eager or-or overly confident.

[ He frowns and looks back at Saten briefly. ] It is my own f-fault for this happening after all.

... [ She's vaguely curious and too proud to outright admit it. ]

What did you do?

It-it was a wrong symbol or-or something like that. I-I tried to summon a demon family for a consultation. [ His voice drops to almost being barely audible. ] It wasn't supposed to go wrong.

[ "Demon". That might explain the darkness. Seems that some things are still the same in other worlds. ]

Then that power came into you instead?

S-Something like that, yes. M-More like a part of the demon itself.

[ He doesn't really want to go into details though, sorry. He winces a little upon mentioning it. Not the happiest of subjects to talk about. ] It...it was unpleasant. And it's left that mark on m-me, that you seem to be able to see. [ Among other marks as well. ]

A part of it? How does that happen?

It was s-stopped before it could attack me. Before it could e-eat my...

[ soul. He was meant to die along with Elise, but well, Ra had put a stop to that. Apep was not expecting the dragon god to interfere. ]

How does that leave you with a part of it?

[ Because it took a part of him. Helios doesn't say anything for a long moment. ] It-it just did.

[ He looks away, clearly uncomfortable as he shifts in his position. It's a few seconds before his green eyes look in Saten's direction. ] It...took a piece of me before it was slain.

... [ That still doesn't answer her question, but Saten is quickly getting the feeling that the answer here is yet another difference between worlds. No matter how much she presses him, she won't get something satisfying out of it. ]

Are demons seen as evil in your world?

[ Helios apologizes, Saten. It's a bit of a sore subject, even after all these years. He blinks at her question and shakes his head. ] I-I suppose it-it depends on the person's perspective on the matter. I. I don't find them inherently evil, I mean, I talk to and t-teach quite a few demons in my own world.

[ He smiles slightly. ] They're not as bad as everyone is made to believe from the stories and novels and things like that. I, ah, am trying to help people r-realize that actually.

You don't resent them?

[ She's suspicious, but also curious. It's certainly a perspective she's not used to a human having. ]

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