deepest_magic | the golden age

When the party has died down, Isabella, for one, is well and truly exhausted. She explores the palace until she finds a room with a bed in it, and into this bed she flops, still in her clothes and holding her staff and carrying the cordial in her pocket. She sleeps late, because the party kept her up so late and she hadn't really slept the night before; but around noon, she stirs, and gets up, and goes looking for James and wherever her backpack may have got to. The backpack she finds in the great hall where the principal mass of the party was; some enterprising creature took both bags from the battlefield at Beruna up to the castle for them, and she only wishes she knew who it was. She takes her bag to her room and carries James's with her and continues looking for her friend.

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jackfrostbite

"Could it not? How would you do it, then?"

From:

deepest_magic

"I'd look it up first, I have books, but it involves magnets, I remember that."

From:

jackfrostbite

"And here we come to the reason why I want to irrevocably enrage the King of Narnia."

From:

deepest_magic

"You think James will look up electricity and try killing you with it?"

From:

jackfrostbite

"Not in particular. But I think you have both demonstrated that you are clever people, and you have resources I do not. And of the two of you, the king would have put up a much harder fight on being kidnapped."

From:

deepest_magic

"Why didn't you come with those creatures who attacked Cair Paravel if you wanted us to kill you?"

From:

jackfrostbite

"When those creatures attacked Cair Paravel I was still trying very hard to kill myself and expected to have a far better chance to do it on my own than the defenders of the castle would in battle. And I'd hardly expect you to kill me after capturing me, especially not if it proved very difficult."

From:

deepest_magic

"Is not being the Witch's assassin any longer so unbearable?"

From:

jackfrostbite

"Would you enjoy being feared and loathed by every good creature in the world?"

Edited Date: 2015-10-20 12:27 am (UTC)

From:

deepest_magic

"You were already that. What changed?"

From:

jackfrostbite

He doesn't answer immediately.

From:

deepest_magic

Well, Isabella has no other pressing engagements.

From:

jackfrostbite

Winter carries her through the mysterious dark tunnels for several minutes.

Finally he says, "I was... happy, under her rule. At least, you could call it happiness. I don't know a better word. But it was not a happiness I chose. And I find that now it is gone, I cannot choose to reclaim it."

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deepest_magic

"And you don't want to - swim across the ocean looking for nations we haven't even contacted yet to see if you can get a job as a refrigerator, because..."