[ there's a reason the way he describes justice is always a little bit like describing a bad, toxic boyfriend. it was a friendship, and he has a tendency to build those up into pedestals from which whoever he has put on there cannot climb down from. ]
[ no, yeah, no, she gets it. did not fully experience it herself, but has seen it first hand. ]
Yeah. He and the others have been friends for longer than I've known all of them, but he's always been a little different. [ a pause. ] A magician, really. Because of his ties to Cabeswater, he's able to do things now the rest of us can't. See things we can't either.
Not quite the same caliber as you. He was learning to communicate with it via scrying. Or the tarot cards. Cabeswater couldn't always speak like you and I can, so he had to get a bit creative. He would be able to see and feel everything the trees saw and felt.
[ a pause. ]
... it also meant that if Cabeswater was hurting, so was he. [ so again, not great. this is a comparison. ] It changed him. For better and for worse, but he was still Adam.
[ which listen i was going to give you this mem anyway, but the mirrorsdo a great job suddenly displaying that point.
also general visual of the kids (adam in red, ronan with the crew cut, gansey on the ground.) ]
this digs in like a knife - because it feels achingly familiar, if a little to the left. being puppeted in your own body, forced to hurt the things and people you care about, all while watching through your own eyes. ]
[ she's frowning because she didn't exactly want the visual to support her point, but it's fine. ]
... in the form that we knew it, it was a forest. Right on the ley line, so it was magic. It would respond to us, and it was a friend, I guess you could say. [ glancing back at the mirrors. ]
Ley lines are sacred, and they're powerful, and tainting a ley line can bring consequences. One of those consequences found its way to Cabeswater and began to taint it.
... we took care of it. [ which is not, like, really a happy thing, but it was necessary. ] We had to kill the demon ourselves, but there was only one way to do it.
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Adam is a friend of yours, I take it?
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Yeah. He and the others have been friends for longer than I've known all of them, but he's always been a little different. [ a pause. ] A magician, really. Because of his ties to Cabeswater, he's able to do things now the rest of us can't. See things we can't either.
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A mage?
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Not quite the same caliber as you. He was learning to communicate with it via scrying. Or the tarot cards. Cabeswater couldn't always speak like you and I can, so he had to get a bit creative. He would be able to see and feel everything the trees saw and felt.
[ a pause. ]
... it also meant that if Cabeswater was hurting, so was he. [ so again, not great. this is a comparison. ] It changed him. For better and for worse, but he was still Adam.
[ which listen i was going to give you this mem anyway, but the mirrors do a great job suddenly displaying that point.
also general visual of the kids (adam in red, ronan with the crew cut, gansey on the ground.) ]
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this digs in like a knife - because it feels achingly familiar, if a little to the left. being puppeted in your own body, forced to hurt the things and people you care about, all while watching through your own eyes. ]
What is this Cabeswater exactly?
[ a place? ]
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... in the form that we knew it, it was a forest. Right on the ley line, so it was magic. It would respond to us, and it was a friend, I guess you could say. [ glancing back at the mirrors. ]
Ley lines are sacred, and they're powerful, and tainting a ley line can bring consequences. One of those consequences found its way to Cabeswater and began to taint it.
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What are you going to do about it?
[ if she's able to do anything at all. considering she's here. ]
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... we took care of it. [ which is not, like, really a happy thing, but it was necessary. ] We had to kill the demon ourselves, but there was only one way to do it.