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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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.