balancetheblood | Lucky's Heart

[ ...well, Karen will admit, you're good at asking questions that require her to think about how much she can say. ]

A sword is given to a liege lord in order to show fealty. A liege lord has a sword of his own.

[:3]

So this is a sword of a liege lord?

It is the sword of a warrior.

I see.

[Considering this, carrying the sword as he moves to look at those shudders. Can he open those more?]

[ You can. They're a bit stiff, and covered in dust and cobwebs, but they can be opened, if you'd like to put in the effort. ]

[I will TOTALLY put in the effort. I got knives, I can use it as a makeshift crowbar if I gotta.]

[ You may need to use them on a couple of the shutters, but eventually you get them all open, bringing a significant amount of light into the room.

The room suddenly fills with the smell of oleanders, as the light from outside the frosted glass finally reveals the vicious-looking thorny vines with oleander blossoms that were hiding in the shadows of the room, creeping along the edges of the walls and starting to reach towards the center of the room. ]

[WELP.]

What kind of flowers are these? I'm not familiar with them. [But he is looking for the source of them.]

[ They seem to be growing out of small cracks in the walls ]

They are Oleander blossoms. They're poisonous to eat.

Thanks.

[Well, let's cut one at a crack and see what happens.]

[ a section of the vines surrounding the hall withers, shrivelling and turning to dust once cut off from its roots ]

[Well, that's effective.]

Never good to have poison.

Right?

[ Karen considers this ]

The woman with Simon, on the banks of the pond, was named Oleander.

[That is good to know. For reasons that may or may not be in the future, WHO KNOWS, but still.]

[But yeah, he's gonna go around and start cutting at the root now. '-']

[ They wither as you do, and the more that clear away, the less oppressive the room seems. It's still somber, in a way, but not unpleasantly so.

And as you cut them away, the scent of oleander blossoms is replaced by a growing scent of leather and cinnamon. ]

[Well, those are definitely better scents. Also more questions for why Oleander affects her leadership, but let's just get rid of...]

[Yeah, fuck it, THEY'RE ALL GONNA GO.]

[ Oh, Rider. Assuming any one room represents just any one thing. ]

[ But by the time they're all gone, the smell of oleanders is completely gone, and under the scent of leather and cinnamon you can just barely pick out the scent of cut grass and copper welling up. ]

[WELL, okay, I have leadership issues, but still. Whatever she had going for her wasn't good. '-']

[Man, wish I knew who was all these scents.]

[I'll also see about getting rid of those cobwebs and dust. handkerchief GO.]

[ It looks and feels much more like a place of pride, rather than a place that should be locked away and forgotten. ]

[GOOD. Be proud of yourself, Lucky.]

[Let's see what's behind the wooden privacy screen?]

[ Going behind the screen reveals that there is a floor-length mirror, a simple wooden mannequin, and a little table with a shallow bowl full of handfuls of dried leaves, moss, and bark. ]

....

[This looks like magic stuff.]

[I have no idea what, but this screams something Gothi would do, so magic.]

[Leeeeeet's pick up the bowl first?]

Edited 2015-02-26 06:38 (UTC)

[ There's no immediate clue as to what you're supposed to do, though there's a strong feeling of magic.

Magic that you somehow know that you can use, whether or not you have magic of your own. ]

[Well, I have that magic from unicorn, so that's something. Okay. Okay, first, touching the mannequin as I ponder this.]

She needs to be dressed properly.

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