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Aestrix ([personal profile] aestrix) wrote in [community profile] glowfic2015-09-07 10:24 am

The endless waste

Once, this planet teemed with life. It doesn't do that, anymore. The ground is dry and cracked and occasionally broken up by charred remains of trees. There are no birds, no bugs, no living plants - nothing but an empty, endless waste.

With one exception.

But the world is so very big, and the exception so very small. If someone showed up away from it, they could be quite forgiven for thinking this world is completely dead.




with Sable (Kappa)

with Aisilian (Link)

with Grendyne (Rockeye)

with Temple (Curiousdiscoverer)
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...That wasn't supposed to happen.

That was supposed to be a fast-transport spell, to get the entire 42nd Witch Wing to the southern edge of Karlsland in one hell of a hurry.

She assumes she's in enemy territory, Neuroi-blasted land, and ascends as quickly as possible.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
She keeps swiveling, scanning for potential threats. "Coastline, dead lands... Am I in Greece?"

She flies higher, hits her top comfortable altitude, and nervously flies in wide circles for a few minutes.

Some of the magic she copies, she manages to keep. She pours mana into her ears, listening for the least dead-sounding direction.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. She is less nervous and more confused, now, but at least she doesn't hear any Neuroi. They're very distinctive.

Northward it is. Since she's pacing herself for endurance, she's not much faster than a very determined bird.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The hearing-spell wears off before she has a chance to observe the difference.

She makes a high pass over the place, then a slightly lower pass. She flares two bright flashes of red mana and waits for the countersign.
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)



There is no countersign.

But a young woman - twenty-something, it looks like, but certainly still young enough to be a witch with magic in her - exits the building and looks up at the source of the flashes of light with a lot of confusion.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing flying above her in steadily descending circles is a frighteningly pale and small-looking teenage girl, riding some sort of... Flying metal thing. And absolutely pouring off essence.

She's still too high to shout to, so she tries more flashes, completely unaware that their meaning is lost. Blue, white, green. 'Lost/separated from squad.' Red, blue, red. 'Where am I?'
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The young woman does not look like she understands any of the flashes. She attempts to motion towards a reasonably tree-less place for the small-looking teenage girl to land.

She probably could actually manage to respond in kind with light, but she suspects the colors have meaning, and she'd hate to communicate the wrong thing.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)


She lands, still scanning the sky and horizon nervously. When the metal thing stops exhibiting any flight-like behavior, the wall of essence coming off her diminishes noticeably. But not even to 'roomful of people' let alone 'normal person' levels.

She shouts something confused-sounding, gesturing at the waste.
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
How incredibly bizarre.

The young woman replies something in another language - it sounds nothing like Greek. She motions in a questioning way towards the teenager.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, this person is maybe not really a Witch. This might not even be Terra.

Mana-light illusions occur - using them tips up her essence output again. They're pretty crude, just patterns of lines in a few colors of light. Arrow at herself, and arrow at one of a group of ten figures on sticks.

The group sees a big, monsterish looking thing and exchanges blasts of energy. The figures can use magic shields, apparently, and the big thing regenerates, until it gets hit too hard and dissolves into white dust instead.

The next illusion is another monster, blasting the ground. She gestures again. Is that what happened?
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The young woman watches the illusions, and then shakes her head. This is not what happened.

She motions to the two of them, then at her mouth, says a few words, and then inside the building. Then she steps towards an entrance and motions for her lost companion to follow.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
She hefts her metal vehicle over one shoulder despite being rather tiny and frail, and follows.
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Inside they go. There is a mysterious circle in the center of the room - specks of something float up from the edges of it, before evaporating into nothing. There's a golden rune at the center of the circle. It looks very magic, but it's not doing anything obvious right now.

The young woman doesn't even glance at it, and just walks right past it into the room beyond.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
She sets down her broom and most of its contents at the first convenient surface, but brings along something hand-sized that she holds like a weapon but doesn't point at anything in particular. She gives the magic thing a suspicious glance and a wide berth.

On closer inspection, she looks... Really tired. Run-down. Not that this affects the absolute torrent of essence still pouring out of her.
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The magic thing does nothing at all to her.

Past it is what looks to be a storage room. The young woman looks over her guest, frowns a bit, and then goes and retrieves a bit of food and drink. If the guest would like it.

Either way, the young woman holds up a finger ('Wait') and searches through the storage room for various items. A doll of some kind, a pouch of something, a dried flower, and a needle and thread. She retrieves a knife from a pocket somewhere, and opens a seam on the doll. Inside goes glowing dust from the pouch and bits of the dried flower - followed by a drop of blood from the young woman as she draws blood with the needle. She does it casually and without hesitation, and only a mild expression of discomfort.

Then she cleans the needle and sews the doll back up, turns to her guest, and mimes plucking a strand of hair from her head, and points to the guest.
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Her guest has consumed the food and drink almost before it arrives.

She watches the magic things with a tired stare and raises an eyebrow at the hair thing, but obediently hands one over.
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The young woman inclines her head, wraps the hair strand around the doll and ties it off so it won't come loose.

Then, with a perfect accent, she says in the guest's native language, "There, now we can talk. Um - hello, are you okay? You look exhausted."
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Big wave of attacks. I've been on no less than seven emergency Neuroi interceptions in the last sixty hours. Of course I'm exhausted. But I keep going. I'm young so my body can take it and I've still got plenty of mana, and if nobody kills the Neuroi hundreds or thousands will die. In fact, I'm almost too exhausted to be scared of all the weird magic you have. You're not a Witch, are you?"
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am not a Witch," she agrees. "The Neuroi are the - monsters you showed in your illusions?"
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yep. It's damn near impossible to kill the flying ones without magic, so we Witches can't just leave it to the regular army."

Her uniform has a nametag: Grendyne Nylund, Witch 3rd class, 42nd Witch Wing.
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[personal profile] light_another_life 2015-11-19 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, you are - obviously from very very far away." That was such an understatement. "Do you know how you got here?"
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[personal profile] characterquarry 2015-11-19 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
She leans on a wall rather than continue to support herself standing up. "Lytee was doing a transit spell. It was supposed to teleport the entire wing from our base in Baltland to South Karlsland. I guess it got messed up. Is... Is this not the planet of Terra?"

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