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aefenglom2020-09-15 05:07 pm
faithlikeaseed) wrote in aefenglom2020-09-15 05:07 pm
a totally normal and innocuous wanted ad
Name: Myr Shivana | un: mshivana
Date: 9/15
Format: Voice
Evening, Mirrorbound. My name's Myr Shivana, for those who don't know my voice.
I've need of someone with experience mediating disputes--a village elder, a judge, even a senior ench--senior academic, if you've had particularly bad students. [There's a note of faint amusement in his voice, there.]
You'd be helping settle a matter that's caused no end of pain and distress to those involved. The reasons behind it are sensitive in nature, so discretion's a must.
I can compensate your time--with cunes or honey or service, whatever's preferred.
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Also--unrelated to the other issue, if there's any Witches or Fae who specialize in illusions invoking taste instead of sight, I'd like to talk to you. Or cooks specializing in food for folk who can't taste much, I s'pose could work too. [He sounds cheerier about this one, at least.]
Date: 9/15
Format: Voice
Evening, Mirrorbound. My name's Myr Shivana, for those who don't know my voice.
I've need of someone with experience mediating disputes--a village elder, a judge, even a senior ench--senior academic, if you've had particularly bad students. [There's a note of faint amusement in his voice, there.]
You'd be helping settle a matter that's caused no end of pain and distress to those involved. The reasons behind it are sensitive in nature, so discretion's a must.
I can compensate your time--with cunes or honey or service, whatever's preferred.
[...]
Also--unrelated to the other issue, if there's any Witches or Fae who specialize in illusions invoking taste instead of sight, I'd like to talk to you. Or cooks specializing in food for folk who can't taste much, I s'pose could work too. [He sounds cheerier about this one, at least.]
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[They can have hope about this. It will get better.]
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...Come to think, d'you know what a pineapple is?
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[He usually adds sugar.]
I appreciate most fruits, and things that they feature in.
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He's heard some strange things lately about pineapples.]
Right. At least the seasons here mean we'll have some all year round, [and thank the Maker for that.] And honey. Not quite enough to live on, but--
[Huff. All right. He's perseverating, at this point, he knows it.] --we will find something.
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[Usually in milder amounts than he can taste well, at this time.]
At this point, you've put more thought and effort into all of this than I have. There is the alternative of just learning to live with it; my life isn't so joyless that food is all I have to care about or look forward to.
[It just was, once. In recent memory, for a stretch of over a decade.]
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That's true. I'd prefer a middle way, at least, where you get something out of eating--so it's not just another obstacle in maintaining yourself. Your body is the conduit for your magic; with how brilliant you are as it is, I can't help but wonder...
[What L would be like, well-fed and rested for once.]
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Would it make the world seem both kinder and more honest, to eliminate the reasons for the pity and disgust that even those who care for him must feel on some level?]
I'm older than I ever thought I'd be. I suppose that youth makes one resilient to poor nutrition for a long time, but...
[Not indefinitely.]
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[He's silent a moment--and then, in one of those bouts of utter earnestness he's good at,] I want you around for a long time, amatus. Living your life like you're burning it won't give us that.
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If I want that, too... at least a longer fuse would be manageable. If there's some damage I can't recover from, I expect that there's some that I can.
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It would need time, and patience with what couldn't be mended. But Myr has his hopes, at least, and they are emboldened by the feeling they have turned a corner.]