video; unseelie locked.

[thebreakingwave]

Hello, for those of you I haven't yet met, I'm Harry.

[The video footage is of a young man with messy black hair, one bottle-green eye, and half his face silvered over with old scarring. On the damaged side, he has a red amber prosthetic in place of an eye. In the background, there's a crow that periodically peers over his shoulder.]

The queen has tasked me to talk to every one of the Unseelie and ask for a memory of solidarity, overcoming great odds, or defeating a foe. With these, she can use it to create a better, stronger defence for a rebuilt Caer Scima.

It's going to take time to do this — at the very least, a few months — so there's no hurry to meet and I've the ability to get to pretty much anywhere in the Drabwurld quickly.

[He looks down at a bit of paper that's just out of sight; seems like someone made notes before talking.]

Sharing a memory is done through magic, it doesn't hurt, I won't look at anything you don't want me to see and I'll swear to that.

How's that?

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[powerful]

Um -- just... Magic? I guess? I try to avoid my dark magic, if I can, but it's kind of in my blood. I've been working on control, and on being able to suss out what's instinctual dark magic and what the light magic really feels like. It's all pure energy, and in my world, it comes from inside a person. There are spells and potions and incantations - things like that, for more heavy duty stuff, but we don't use wands or anything. Like -- okay, I can light a candle just by telling it to light, or unlock a door just by telling it to unlock. Stuff like that.

[thebreakingwave]

I don't really know what our magic is made of. it just works, usually. We use wands for most things, but if you're good at it, and practice, there are certain spells you can learn to do wandless.

[ Harry looks down at something off-screen and after a moment nods as if he's decided something. ]

I'm starting to rough out a route of when and where I need to be to find all the shardbearers. If it's convenient for you, I'll be at the Station during the early part of March?

[powerful]

( she thinks it's almost funny, the idea of waving a wand around. no amount of necessity could get her to point a stic--except there was that one time eben controlled her body and she literally waved a branch around. so maybe some spells... but because of the properties of the tree, she thinks. not because of a need for direction. )

I'll head back that direction at some point, but I'm not sure when. Push comes to shove, we can work together at a distance and try to find some way for me to share with my own magic. But I can always hail a puca.

[thebreakingwave]

[ Sure, it's ridiculous, but it works. ]

Brilliant. Thanks so much.

[ He pauses, fidgets a little, and then speaks again. ]

And after, if you'd like, I'd love to have the chance to chat about magic in general? I'm going to be going north, to stay with the elves and learn how they use it, but I'd love to hear whatever you'd care to share. My partner, Linn, she's a fine sorcerer, too.