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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Jun 15, 2023 2:02:00 GMT -5
"Normal? Buggered if I know - I haven't known normal in years. Kid age? Twelve, thirteen maybe?" She answers easily. Then her mind reels back to a previous statement the kid mumbled. "Wait, what do you mean by magic? I very much don't know any magic, haven't had the time to learn. I hope to change that, though." C'Leena looks thoroughly confused by the statement.
The hell did Keyke see that makes her believe that C'Leena has access to magic? It's good news, without a doubt, but she didn't cast anything. At least not anything she was aware of. She guesses her prosthetics are magic - perhaps thats proof enough that she has access, right? If she didn't have access, she wouldn't be able to do squat cause metal without motors and electronics generally can't move by itself, let alone connect to a nervous system.
How do her prosthetics function, anyway? Theres weird symbols along her arms that lightly glow, and she doesn't have nearly enough familiarity with fantasy or magic to begin to explain what's going on. That mildly irks her since she has never been one to particularly like not knowing things. It's around about now that C'Leena realizes that she got very distracted and refocuses on Keyke. Dammit, ADHD addled brain. Days without meds isn't fun.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Jun 15, 2023 14:03:00 GMT -5
The straight up lack of ability to define normal could only make me laugh. Not to mention the phrasing of their words to imply such thing were even more out of reach. But when they mentioned the age of tween and teen starting years, my smile became permanent. I could instantly know what could make them ask a truly inquisitive question, if they weren't so focused on my mumble of magic.
I clap my hands and look at them before I start my basic rambling over magic, "Well I can teach you! Lets see you now know about the gods, lets see, oh yeah!" I snap my fingers, "Everyone has a life energy within themselves, but this energy only manipulates areas around us, or, for the few to focus on this kind, can collect this magical energy in the elements and steel it into their body. Thus allowing their physical abilities to multiply into a state of abnormality." I could tell I already lost her by the glazed look in her eyes. Never the less I continue, "There are some people who also specialize in runes and equipment, where the magic from around us is embedded into the gear. One great example would be your gear in your arms. The shift between the skin shading and your metal base is a form of magic."
At this point, I could see her focus shifting back from her thoughts, so I include a little detail I hope she would catch, "In which case, I spent nearly five years studying magic, self taught, so I could be of some help, even with time restraints. I'm not a child after all." I rock back and forth anticipating what was to come.
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Jun 15, 2023 18:52:40 GMT -5
The second C'Leena zoned back in, she realized that Keyke had been talking this entire time. "Ah, shit. Sorry, focus has been a nightmare for a wh-wait what?" Now she's been thrown for a loop. Five years of self taught magic makes.. a little sense? Keyke then saying she isn't a kid is the primary reason she's thrown off kilter again.
"Okay, then if you're not a kid, how old are you?" She asks easily enough. Perhaps she'll finally get that irritating feeling out of her head with this question answered? This kid-not-kid seems much older mentally than who she's worked with in the past. There's usually an air of childish attitude and wonder that Keyke doesn't really have. Maybe to someone who hasn't worked with kids would figure that theres nothing wrong but to C'Leena? It's not.. right. Almost uncanny.
For now, she remains squatted down. Best thing about prosthetics is that you don't get joint pain from being in an uncomfortable position for an extended period. That has always been nice. But she swears to god, if this child says something ridiculous for her age, she'll forevermore reference magic as 'Magic Bullshit'.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Jun 15, 2023 19:26:31 GMT -5
At the question, something seemed to just click into place. The lock that separates my from the doll was open and the magic between us flowed fully and more powerful than before. My rocking stopped and my stance was still for a moment. the cheery smile I usually have on turned to a sadistic and calculative smirk. I close my eyes, hiding the shift they hold, as my voice switches back once more to the deepened form, my true voice. My laugh was no giggle either, but a slow chuckle, all while I pull my right hand up and touch my lips as I speak. "I'm 20 years old."
I pause for a moment before opening my clear golden eyes and grabbing my doll and pulling it toward me from the stump on which it laid. The neat and clean black and white doll has some spots of red... no blooded coloring pooling inside of it. Mainly along the arms and around the face, but some spots could be seen at the feet as well. I hug the doll in front of me, similar to how she first saw me holding it. I make direct eye contact with her as I ask, "Would you like me to show you?"
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Jun 15, 2023 19:39:04 GMT -5
"God fucking damn it." She mumbles before standing up. She knew it. She knew that Keyke would say something like that. She sighs, mildly annoyed at the fact that Keyke has decided to lead her along a string of lies. "Yeah alright, go ahead." She says, gesturing for Keyke to do whatever it is she needs to do.
Truthfully, crap like this is the last thing C'Leena needs. She just got thrown into this world after years of hell, she doesn't know what she's doing or how to even live in a society like this, all she wants right now is to find a way home and Keyke seems to enjoy toying around with C'Leena like this.
Suffice to say, she's not particularly pleased right now. She's stood, thumb hooked in a belt loop and her opposite forearm resting on the hilt of her sheathed blade. The knot is still tied around the hilt so it cannot be drawn, nor does she have any intent to draw it. She is discomforted by the doll seemingly bleeding, as well.
"Fucken' magic bullshit." she mutters under her breath, watching Keyke with curious, yet annoyed eyes.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Jun 15, 2023 20:55:42 GMT -5
I give a light chuckle before spinning one round, "As you wish!" I land in a bow as the doll practically explodes of the bright blood, spiraling in a vortex around where I stand. 1 I could feel the growth and welcomes from the revelation of my true self. I stand back up, raising already past the 6 feet tall C'Leena at a fast pace. My body quickly no linger needs to spread out or up, rather the blood has lessened and my colors start to show once more as the clothes form. What appears at the end is me in my full adult form. 8 feet tall, slightly unruly white hair and a sharp jawline to enhance the facial expression of amusement that spread along my face. While my body doesn't look built of muscle, it holds a domineering and full slenderness that only enhance the curves. My outfit was one I could easily envision from her old world. Black sleeves to bring out the blood red dress that reached my entire height, all while having clits for my legs and my bodice holding a usual cut down my cleavage, exposing much skin. It looked that the only hing helping hold the dress up was the sleeves and the clasp around the neck.
I rest my right elbow in my left hand as I tilt my head down to face C'Leena. My voice not holding even a hit at the high pitch it was before, now it had a smooth but clear sound that could often be described as deep enough to vibrate another. "What do you think?"
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Jun 17, 2023 17:37:19 GMT -5
To say that this is what she expected was both accurate and inaccurate. She expected something wild because of magic bullshit, but she didn't expect an 8 foot tall woman pulled straight out of the hidden depths of her homes internet. C'Leena's eyebrows were very much raised as she watched the transformation unfold infront of her.
"...I am unsure on what exactly to think, to be honest. This both does and doesn't surprise me. I expected something strange but.. Not this." She responds, stroking her chin as she does so. How does one usually react to somebody suddenly growing an additional 4 feet within seconds? Right now with her, it's just silent acceptance. This is the world she finds herself in. Where children aggressively change into 8ft tall women that high schoolers dream of. She's almost worried she'll catch a case just by being here.
"So uhm.. Why with that whole.. child thing? That just seems inconvenient." She says, and it does, at least to her. Having to act like a child when you are much older? That almost sounds like some trauma-coping mechanism or something from the other weird side of the internet that you don't want to find yourself in. Still, she's no psychologist - she attaches fake limbs to people, for god sake.
Perhaps her reaction is underwhelming. With everything that has happened recently, though? She's become desensitized to crap like this at least for now. C'Leena idly wonders if her friend from before knows about this. He'd have to, right? That would just be wrong and almost weird if he didn't. Hell, it's weird even if he did. Damn, Keyke is just weird. Magic is such bullshit.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Jun 19, 2023 21:23:06 GMT -5
The stunned moments of silence, the need to figure out what to say, that's all that was needed to get a light chuckle out of me. Now then, the inquisitive nature of C'Leena has been recognized but not all has been explained. All was right till the moment she mentioned inconvenient. I belched at the idea that being a child would be inconvenient compared to things adults had to deal with. "Inconvenient, as if." I waved my hand as if shooing something away, "What's inconvenient is my natural height and weight, I could never be able to sit on a stump like this." I wave to the stump I had used like a stage before, "I am too tall to sit nicely on such tiny things! Or even fit in most of the places around the areas I've been to." I place my fingers on my forehead while my other hand, which had been on my hip this entire time, grabs my elbow to emphasize my thoughts of annoyance. I shake my head as I speak, "Yeah, being my child self gives me way more convenience for such simple activities." With a sigh I lower the hand on my forehead to pock my cheek and lean my head on my fist hand, "Not to mention look at me!" I wave to all of me, "Kind of hard to run the underworld discreetly when you look this good and noticeable, don't you think?" I give another light chuckle, "Being a kid gives me so many opportunities to have so many people underestimate me! I mean, did it look like I had the brains to play chess with a simple discussion, and still keep information know a secret for later opportunities?" My smile drops, allowing a more natural contemplation face to appear as I looked down. "Such information is something I have never found for you, my dear, so please do tell." I lean against the tree behind me, raising my right foot to push into the wood. I tilt my had up and sideways, looking down at C'Leena, "Who are you really? From my intelegence of you, it's as if you magically teleported to this world." A dark glare formed in my eyes, "Such magic would require hundreds of high end mages to even attempt. You know almost nothing of the world, so please enlighten me of what you do know."
Off in the distance, Nit had caught the sent of blood, he came rushing forward only to she Keyke in her true state. In an instant he blushes so hard at the sight before him, letting his nose bleed when Keyke gave the hard glare downwards. The redirection of lots of blood to some bodily functions leaves him to drop to the ground from little blood going to his brain.
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Jun 20, 2023 8:17:04 GMT -5
C'Leena listened, confused and borderline lost. Running the underworld? What? At first she was making sense but that went downhill fast.
Her attention locked onto how Keyke phrased 'her intelligence' on C'Leena. So she does know more than she's fucking letting on. Very quickly, she goes from confused to damn near pissed off. "How do you know that? Nah nah, I'm gonna ask some questions first, mkay? The hell is this 'intelligence' you have on me?"
Now, C'Leena is not the type of person to appreciate it when people play games with her like Keyke has been. While C'Leena isn't furious, she's not exactly happy. Her attention is promptly arrested by Nit falling on the ground, and the Doctor in her immediately goes into action. She walks over to Nit, sitting him up, hanging his head back and pinching his nose. "Keyke, you're going to explain what you know about me, and you'll be doing that now. I don't give a single flying fuck who you are, how tall you are or whatever the fuck. I'm not too fond of people knowing more about me than I tell them."
"Start talking. Actually, first, tell me if your mate here bleeds a lot, first. Does he get common nose bleeds, and does his cuts clot in an expected amount of time or do they continue bleeding for extended periods? Answer that, then explain what you know of me."
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Jun 20, 2023 13:24:53 GMT -5
This girl, I shake my head and push off the tree, making my way to the trees where Nit lays, the unnatural grace in movements for my child form making perfect home to my adult self in every movement. I summon a little handkerchief and start to gentle press down where the blood was. I glance over to her as I begin my answer "He usually doesn't, but after seeing me in my actual size, he-" I was cut off by the light mumbling coming from Nit, "I thank all that are above for letting me see such a sight. I am blessed, I received this magnificent gift, oh I thank thee." While this happened, silence of most other noise was soft, allowing even C'Leena who was not next to him to hear it. I released a light snort as I finish cleaning up the blood. I neatly stand up and glance over to C'Leena, "He'll be fine, it seems."
I walk away from back to the little clearing he lays just off the edge of. I turn to the predicament at hand. Raising my hands to my now to be normal face hold, I wave off her irritation, "Intel, being an info-broker requires one to analyze, diversify, find patterns, and create educated guesses for how one fact can create so much to a person. This is my job around here," I give a light teasing smile, "So, for example, lets assume you would come from around these parts, a sense of direction and knowledge of landmarks even in this garden is a must know for all, yet you said you were lost. This debunks the previous made statement. So I would need to go down the list. Frost Gale, not possible for their technology, as they mainly focus on the sea and magic, and with your lack of knowledge, this idea is pushed to the side. The Ashlands, immediately removed due to you not realizing me, a mastermind of the underworld, nor do you have the noticeable pale skin that is unmatched from there."
I breath, lifting my finger up swiping it left every time I throw away an idea of were she could be from. Her memories gave me images to work with, but sometimes puzzles are meant to be explained in detail from more than 'just oh, I know because of magic I used without permission.' "Zeinav Dessert, to much heat and that also needs an ability to know direction instantly, plus," I look at her outfit up and down, "Your clothes do not signify any in habitation of a sand infested place." I flick my whist, swiping to the next idea. "You are neither a resident of the plains nor one of the tribes folk, I would know, I watch them closely. Next would be the Marsh flats, the most likely option if any, but your manner of reaction, the confusion and still moments of when we were talking, show that you have not experienced the trails of those depths." I swipe left, "Moonglade, magic oriented once more, automatic no but the lack of formality and the hyper cautious watch of words just enforce this." I swipe left, "The final place you could be is from Sol City, and you neither look like you are from the slums, given you limbs, nor do you hold a title, as every title is widely proclaimed there." I swipe left, "This leave no where to be from in the grand scheme of things. I have picked you apart as we have spoken, you have told me much, even if it wasn't from your own voice. This is leaving you to have appeared from another land, a whole different world in other words, or you were recently made like an experiment." I swipe right, and release a light chuckle, "This is all about you after all, not once would I lie about a client, bad for business in the long run."
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Jul 21, 2023 23:06:59 GMT -5
Somehow, Keyke's answer managed to irritate her even more. As she kneels and continues cleaning up Nit, she is fighting every urge to break something, and it's very bad that Nit's head is currently in her hands. With her back toward Keyke, she finishes cleaning up the kid and sits him up against a nearby tree.
"Uhuh, right. My question wasn't 'how do you know where I came from', I'm not really keeping that close to my chest here. And it was indeed just one guy who dragged me here. Fucking prick, but I digress." She stands up and turns toward Keyke, not at all hindered by the height difference. "I asked 'What do you know about me'."
C'Leena has found herself far more emotionally unstable since coming here - even more so than she can get sometimes. Be that a mix of a new place, plus the lack of ADHD meds or something completely different, she has no idea. This anger isn't normal for her in the slightest, and a very small part of her is apologetic, but not enough for her to stop being pissed off. Even before this, she absolutely hated it when people analyzed her, even more so when she had shit she would really prefer others not knowing.
"And I do have a title, although it's not what you're looking for, I assume. Doctor. You're free to use it." Was she being a bit of a prick? Yeah, absolutely. Does she feel it's deserved? Still yes. Over the years, she's mastered the art of saying something that sounds like a normal offer but is in fact a demand.
Yeah no, she's not happy.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Aug 15, 2023 16:39:58 GMT -5
I let a basic chuckle release from me as she inquires more. I decided I could press a little here but respect her wishes. "Well, doctor, I must say your medical practices are very personal to you. It's neither healing nor is it earth-based like plants or rituals." I momentarily let my tongue peek out of my mouth to show my joking. "Anyway, your question, What do I know about you, correct? Let's see,"
I look her up and down before pointing to the side, "I don't have concrete evidence for everything, but I can tell you facts about you based on the interactions you have." I point to where she arrived from, "I'm good friends with Baron Glubb; we often chat with tea and observe the world together." I lower my finger to rest my hands, "I can tell that you are twenty-five years old; you care the most for those that are your family or close enough to think of them like this; you are a hard worker for things you deem under what you need to care for. All while simultaneously being able to completely stand away from things that don't involve you. You don't try to be a hero, you allow it to be a position you passively take on." I tilt my head, "Do you wish for me to go on?"
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Aug 27, 2023 18:15:34 GMT -5
C'Leena has never been good with her temper. It's a characteristic she's inherited from her father who was famously explosive in every way possible. That isn't at all helped by being in a new land, with new people and magic and an extreme lack of Adderall.
Taking a deep breath, she listens to Keyke analyze her, trying her best to not lash out, pinching her eyebrows all the while.
"..Mkay." She says tersely. "Reckon I brought that on myself. Okay look, I'm sorry for getting snarky at you, but I spent the last fuck-knows how long in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, in lands I don't recognize, with far more nature than I've ever seen in my life. There is magic, and a fucking talking frog - The Baron you mentioned - and truthfully, I'm so far out of my depth I might as well be in the Mariana Trench."
She looks back to Nit who is still bleeding from the nose. How the hell that even happened, she has no idea. It almost felt like something out of a story or something.
"Like, my fucking arms and legs aren't the same damn prosthetics they were before. They look fine, but they're covered in some fuckin' magic bullshit that makes it look like skin." C'Leena takes a deep breath before walking to a rock and sitting down, needing just a moment of reprieve from everything.
"I-I don't know what is happening, why this is happening or what to even do now. Do I just.. accept this as my life now? Tadaa, you're in magical fucking fantasy land, go fucking.. kill a dragon or something. Fuck."
C'Leena is - in all honesty, terrified. She's always been against major change, and there has been so much change recently that it's all overwhelmed her, and this isn't helping at all. Some magical woman who is unnaturally tall was a child not even five minutes ago, her friend of whatever managed to completely blow out a damn vein in his nose, and Keyke most definitely knows more about her than she's letting on.
As she spoke, C'Leena became more and more shaky as she gestured wildly, her unmedicated brain unable to make heads or tails of whatever is going on, and every single thought running through her mind at a thousand miles a minute. She needs support, and frankly she has no idea where the hell to even start for that.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Sept 19, 2023 15:23:17 GMT -5
I look at C'leena, her emotions clearly forcing a form of anxiety and not giving her much outage at the possibilities. I sigh, looking over at Nit on the ground before looking back at her. I step forward slowly, allowing her to see movements of what was happening. My form dissolved, the red mixing to form black, shrinking me once more to my child form. I hold my hand up as the tint became my mini me once more. I stand a bit to the side of her as I spoke, "I can't imagine the turn of how the change was for you. I've lived with magic all my life. The chaos and order." I sigh as I look to the world around me, "This plain of existence requires a shift, something or someone to ground you."
I hold my hand up, lifting the leaves in the area, fluttering them around as I shift my hand. "My soul itches to learn more, to gather more magic. Become strong enough to survive." I drop the huge wall of leaves that had begone to gather, turning my head back to C'leena. "I made that pillar, formed who I am today. Nit, "I point to the guy on the ground, "Wishes to grow to follow me, to help me. He does have a... intense reaction to seeing my adult self, but that's just who he is at this point. It's way I didn't worry to much about him."
I glance around to the peaceful around disrupted by our drama. "If I may ask, was your sister what stabilized you in your previous world? Helped push you to be better than you were?"
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Post by C'Leena Thomas on Sept 19, 2023 15:46:47 GMT -5
C'Leena took in a shaky breath as Keyke approached, changing back into that child form of hers. Does she even want to know why she does that? She hasn't the faintest idea. The magic usage boggles her mind, years of schooling and common sense telling her that this isn't possible in the slightest.
She watches curiously as the leaves in the area flutter about, joining together in a sheet of various shades before falling back down with a satisfying flutter of leaves rubbing against one another. C'Leena listens to Keyke as best she can, piecing together what was previously said as her attention was solely focused on the leaves.
"..Where do I even start? This is far more than learning computer engineering and getting a fucking doctorate - this is breaking every rule of physics there is. Am I even able to do that?" She asks, completely bewildered at the complexity and the inevitable days and sleepless nights of research. She is momentarily distracted by Nit who seems to still be trying to recover. The bleeding has stopped, thankfully, but still. "He normally bleeds out of his nose when you do that?"
There is a pause that C'Leena took as a chance to breathe for a moment, letting her mind calm down a few notches. It's then that Keyke mentions her sister. C'Leena freezes for a moment before her features soften ever so slightly.
"..It was her memory. She passed away five years ago, and I only got any of my major achievements after her death." She says in an uncharacteristically soft voice. "I wanted to do her proud."
"Rose was an incredibly supportive sister when she was around. She tried to help me with some of my medical schooling but she didn't understand a lick of what was being assigned, so she opted to just be moral support instead."
What she doesn't mention - and perhaps doesn't realize is that the grief was the primary fuel for her motivation. It was far from the healthiest coping mechanism as she dove right into her work and even got into exercise which she kept a routine around religiously. Even now that routine is ongoing and she is in incredible shape. Something she does take pride in, but the reasonings are definitely bittersweet.
"Why do you ask?" She asks, looking toward the "child". Keyke is an interesting person - one she can't quite figure out.
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