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[princess_of_ida]

Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile.



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Guessing on timing

[princess_of_ida]

Finally breathing fresh air. We've surfaced.

timing is whatever we want (this works)

[rezni]

Were you successful?

[princess_of_ida]

As best we can be. It's in pieces. They don't look anything like a heart but Gilia is certain.

[rezni]

[ His relief is such an acute, breathless thing. It is well that he's alone in this moment. ]

And you? Did you emerge from those caves unscathed?

[princess_of_ida]

My heart still beats.

[rezni]

Beyond that?

[princess_of_ida]

Hanging on by a thread at best. It was very bad down there.

We were all connected whether we wanted it or not. I've been in partial transformation since we entered - all of us were from the feedback - and nothing made it completely go away.

[rezni]

Have you been able to shake it off now that you're above ground?
Have the other effects lingered?

[princess_of_ida]

Hard to tell. I don't directly feel everyone like I did but it's not like I can't tell. Partial transformations are still in effect but it's possible fucking might actually make it go away this time.

I'm still void-crazy. My sister would like me to tell you to fuck off and stop getting in the way with our girl. I have told her repeatedly that since she's not actually here and just the Void baiting me, she doesn't get a say and Alina wouldn't like her anyway.

[rezni]

Does it help to speak of it to me, or would it be a discomfort if I were to ask you anything more?

[princess_of_ida]

Everything sucks. Everything is uncomfortable. Ask away.

[rezni]

Is that Babs? Your sister?

[princess_of_ida]

[Maybe this was a mistake.]

Coronabeth is my sister. Twin sister. Babs was my cavalier.

[rezni]

[ a tense that's noted. ]

I'm sorry.

Does the Void speak to you with her voice as well?

[princess_of_ida]

I shouldn't be laughing right now and it's incredibly inappropriate but yet not in a way you won't understand.

"Babs" was a guy. That's just the nickname my sister and I gave him. It's so weird to hear people refer to him by his actual name.

[rezni]

My apologies, but only if he would have been insulted by the error. I'm not sorry to have made you laugh.

[princess_of_ida]

He was always insulted but he was just a dramatic as us. Certainly a matched set. I've known him my entire life. He was a cradle cavalier.

[rezni]

Could you tell me what that means?
Were you raised together, alongside your sister?

[princess_of_ida]

Babs was from a branch family, a prince in his own right. He was selected to be a Cavalier- a necromancer's sworn sword- when he was born. He probably had the blood on his lips before he left the cradle.

When my sister and I were born, he was placed to be our cavalier. When he wasn't training or at lessons, he was by our sides. He wasn't formally assigned to us until we were twelve, he was fourteen, and that's when we took our oaths. One Flesh, One End.

He was an excellent Cavalier and fulfilled his role perfectly.

[rezni]

What does it mean, One Flesh, One End?

[princess_of_ida]

[Nothing she wanted to discuss, but she opened the door. She could reword things to be truth but not all the truth.]

It means our lives are tied together. An adept/cavalier pair are a singular unit. Socially. Martially.

[rezni]

We've nothing like it in Ravka. Tamar and Tolya would die for me, as I would for them, but we've taken no vows.

I'm sorry he was lost to you.

[princess_of_ida]

Thank you. He fulfilled his duty. I still feel his presence to this day.

Grisha don't seem to suffer from the physical frailties adepts do. Necromancy takes a toll on the body. If you ever met my sister, you'd understand as we are identical twins, but few would believe it at first.

[rezni]

Should I wish to meet your sister?
Will she dislike me as much as the Void seems to think she will?

[princess_of_ida]

My sister is gorgeous. She's incredibly charming and knows how to get what she wants. And that's attention.

Give her what she wants and you'd get along just fine. Though I doubt you'd find her intellectually stimulating.