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[boutant]

[ While the small stack of books in front of her have certainly come from Caer Scima's library, Ariadne is in her room within the castle, seated on her bed. Asleep with its nose sticking out from her back, head resting on an open book, is a bandersnatch cub -- rather like a cat, it appears to have decided to 'help' her research. ]

If you could protect something -- say, a building -- from anything, what would you protect it from? I've thought of fire, high winds, earthquakes, mosquitoes, falling trees, and hail so far.

[ In the background, the door to her room appears to open slightly; with the wind, perhaps. ]

I'm an architecture student, back home, and there are a lot of possibilities here.

[ She looks like she's about to say more, but just then a glowing red imp leaps onto her head, screeching and yanking at her hair. The bandersnatch cub jerks awake and Ariadne screams, the locket flipped over so that all that's shown for a moment are the sheets on her bed. It's turned up again a moment later, falling onto the floor and on its side this time, followed by a loud thwack.

The imp falls to the ground, dazed; in the next moment, a thick, leather-bound book with a pawprint on its spine slams into it a second time before the bandersnatch cub races forward and grabs onto the imp's legs, shaking its little head and growling in a way that would be adorable if it weren't trying to maim something. ]

Oh, don't- [ before the locket is closed by the hand reaching for it, there's the sight of broken skin and blood -- sharp little imp teeth had found their mark. ]

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[devotedqueen]

[She laughs]

I'm not sure it would be counted as healing magic in that case.

[a pause]

Though, if you would like someone to guide you through the healing process while you fix your hand, I would be happy to help.

[boutant]

That- I'd appreciate that.

[ She's not sure why it makes her so nervous in comparison to the concealment magic; perhaps because it had been Elrond who had taught her, and she doesn't want to disappoint. ]

[devotedqueen]

Then lets begin. Do you use anything as your medium for healing?

[boutant]

Um. No?

[ Not that she knows of, anyway.

A+ magicking. ]

[devotedqueen]

The process should be similar with or without.

[She'll just dig up one of her staffs to demonstrate]

[boutant]

Someone told me that a wand may- uh, help.

[ But she doesn't have one, and this is fairy magic, not magic from any of the number of worlds whose people have ended up here. ]

But actually getting one is apparently difficult.

[devotedqueen]

Wands?

[Elincia has never seen anyone use one herself either]

Perhaps there is someone around who knows how to make one.

[boutant]

Maybe.

If not, I'm not too bothered -- means I have less to carry around.

[devotedqueen]

It is better to travel without too many things weighing you down.

[She kind of wonders if this woman has met Ike yet. They would get along on that point]

[boutant]

[ Not yet, but there's time. ]

Right. And I wouldn't want to lose it.

[devotedqueen]

It would be difficult to lose something as important as a wand.

[Says Elincia, several days before the Kow decides to run off with her staffs]

[boutant]

The bandersnatch might think it's a chewtoy.

[ oops ]

[devotedqueen]

Do you think it will manage to chew through it?

[oops indeed]

[boutant]

His teeth aren't that sharp yet, but someday? Definitely.

[devotedqueen]

That is certainly worrying then.

[boutant]

I'll figure something out.