first spell ☥ video ☥ open to both courts.

[powerful]

( The fresh-faced teenager that appears to the network should -- repeat, should -- be full of life and exuberance. She's a very pretty face, with sunshine-blonde hair and bright blue eyes, and her expression is dripping with irritation, frustration, rage; it's tinged with fear, too. But there's also something darker, lurking beneath the surface, flickering behind those eyes. )

I don’t appreciate being black-bagged. ( She scowls into the locket. ) In fact, I don’t appreciate any of this. The kidnapping, the dragging me here, the fact that I can’t seem to leave despite my best efforts... The way every single thing in my family’s book is conveniently just slightly out of the range of reasonable difficulty with only one person... You brought me here alone on purpose, didn't you? What is this? What are you planning?

( Then, in that darker tone, as her face takes on an almost shadowed expression, she murmurs. ) Do you have my sister?

Comments

[Video]

[wildgift]

I don't think anyone appreciates it. At least, it seems, we're being taken care of well enough.

[Video]

[powerful]

What about kidnapping is anything near being taken care of? Because they give us beds? Prisoners of war get beds. Maximum security prisons have beds. There's no actual caring here.

[Video]

[wildgift]

Fair enough, though they're infinitely better than other places you could be sleeping.

[Video]

[powerful]

I've been buried alive before. I think I could handle it. ( sorry she's so unpleasant right now. she's really a nice girl most of the time. )

[Video]

[wildgift]

...should I bother to ask?

[Video]

[powerful]

You can ask all you want. My sister's grandmother tried to kill me.

[Video]

[wildgift]

Why?

[Video]

[powerful]

Not really sure it's in my best interest to say, actually. We'll just say she's crazy and leave it at that. ( TRYING TO PURGE CASSIE OF HER DARK MAGIC YEAHHHH )

[Video]

[wildgift]

I suppose I can understand that. Hellsteeth. [And he thought his life was bad.]

[Video]

[powerful]

... ( she makes a face. ) ... Hellsteeth?

[Video]

[wildgift]

[Sigh.] Never mind.

[Video]

[powerful]

Nope. Not neverminding. You said hellsteeth. Which sounds a lot like something that isn't fun, so. You know. ( she gestures with one hand. ) Explain.

[Video]

[wildgift]

It's an oath. That's it. I suppose it probably isn't fun, but I wouldn't know, I've never seen literal hellsteeth.

[Video]

[powerful]

What kind of oath is one that involves the teeth of hell? ( for reals what is this dude )

... I'm Cassie. By the way.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I didn't come up with it.

Well-met. I'm Stefen.

[Video]

[powerful]

If you ever meet the person who did, you should tell them they need to work on their approachability or something.

Yeah, well-met, or something. This place sucks. But the people don't seem too bad so far. The normal ones, anyway. The fairies can bite me.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I'll make certain I do.

I'm sorry, this place does what?

[Video]

[powerful]

It... Sucks? Is the opposite of fun?

[Video]

[wildgift]

I've never heard it put quite that way before.

[Video]

[powerful]

And where, exactly, are you from that you haven't heard like... Every single teenager you've ever met use that phrase?

[Video]

[wildgift]

Valdemar. Haven, I suppose, if you'd like to be even more specific.

[Video]

[powerful]

( her nose wrinkles. ) What's a Valdemar?

[Video]

[wildgift]

[If he hadn't had to learn what Valdemar was a decade ago when he'd been picked up, he would be a lot more condescending.]

A country. And a man too, I suppose, but he's long dead.

[Video]

[powerful]

Uh-huh. ( weird. ) I'm from Chance Harbor.

[Video]

[wildgift]

I've never heard of any place with that name.