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1 - Elysium - the first two weeks

[A fox beastkin woman - red-haired, broad-shouldered, wide-hipped and three-tailed, in her flowing dress of blue and her tunic in magenta and gold - has been limping into the Elysium shops and cheaper restaurants. She’s been getting medicines, ice packs, takeout and tea.

She doesn’t limp, exactly, but she moves with the painful care of the injured. Corsair scuttlebutt has it that there was a recent outlander labor camp rescue: could she be one of the freed slaves? She seems friendly enough in her manner, smiles and bows and apologies, even if her talk is terse in the way of folks who don’t quite know the language...]


2 - The Vault - the second week

[A fox beastkin woman - bright of eye, deep of concentration, driven as if by an airship’s etheric core - is in language classes, magic classes, history classes, watching combat and exercise classes carefully with a thermos of tea as she grinds her injured side against an ice pack. She cheerfully practices reading, writing - conversation:]

I’m still learning the language. Talk with me?

[…who’ll take her up on the offer, or tutor her in history and etheric magic?]

3 - Elysium and The Vault - Late week 2/early week 3

[A fox beastkin woman - fleet of foot, mighty of arm, with an almost palpable aura of inner strength - walks without pain or fear through Elysian streets, practicing martial arts in the park slowed by a factor of 10 to resemble ballroom dance and offering for modest coin to pop stuck joints and massage sore muscles. Would anyone care to watch her practice? Challenge her skills? Take her up on her offer of healing?]

4 - private to Maomao and to Egret

[A fox beastkin woman - familiar to the Elysian champions she’s contacting, if in passing - has relayed a message. She wants to meet with them, briefly, at their convenience. Maomao for a medical follow-up - but both with an idea of how to serve the Corsair quest for freedom…]

Re: 2

Date: 2024-06-26 10:03 pm (UTC)
fish4science: (Shy)
From: [personal profile] fish4science
Oh, it's a forbidden text, censored by the inquisition, and it's in a different language. I'm helping with our translation efforts, so people can understand it. Maybe when you practice more, it will be done.

[ If we're speaking something like old english, this book is in old welsh or something like that. ]

Re: 2

Date: 2024-06-27 06:40 pm (UTC)
fish4science: (Science?)
From: [personal profile] fish4science
Cheat magic? I'm not aware of any kind of magic that is based on cheating...

No, it's banned because there's one chapter where two of the warriors, on the eve of battle share their love and affection for each other in the form of a poem that is the entire chapter. And after that the story calls them 'The Beloved Husbands' a lot.

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