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[glacio]

If anyone would like to go ice skating, please do feel free to join me in the unused gathering hall on the fifth floor of Caer Glaem. Skates can be provided for those who need them, as well as a quick skating lesson, if you've never had the chance to try before. I'll be here all day.

I hope to see you soon!

Oh, and don't forget to bundle up!



[ ooc: basically Elsa's taken one of the bigger rooms and froze it all over, so it'll probably look a little like this, only wider right yeah. big room. instead of putting up a log I'm just going to say go ahead and use this as an actionspam party post kinda deal, if you want! closed threads are cool ( even if they're not open to Elsa, though you can handwave that she gave them literal ice skates ), open to all that would have access to the Seelie castle. i just thought an ice skating party would be cute, haha. just label if it's a text reply or an action thread in the subject or whatever, yus ]

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[caditquaestio]

If you must do this, search your ice. The fishermen say it won't hold, if it's thin, and healthy men have lost lives to it.

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[glacio]

Oh, this is indoors, not out on the lake. The ice is a few inches thick, and there's only stone underneath. Perfectly safe, as far as whether it's too thin to skate on or not. I can't promise it won't be slippery, however.

[caditquaestio]

[ Wait, wait, wai - ]


...how do they hold ice without a lake or a pool?

[glacio]

Magic?

[ that shouldn't have come out like a question, but it kind of did, like she's still not used to using that word so casually. she clears her throat. ]

I created the ice using magic.

[caditquaestio]

[ And another pause. ]


I don't believe in magic. Is that all right by you?

[glacio]

You don't believe in-

[ she doesn't sound made, just a little shocked ]

I suppose? Though I'm not sure how you've managed to come to terms with a lot of what's going on here if you don't believe in magic.

[caditquaestio]

...well. See here: a simple man looks upon something that defies his reason, and he fears it. And so, in his fear, he must either control or avoid the root of his anguish, else it should become a danger to him and his ways. And if he must do either, he must reassure himself that the inexplicable is within his study and his reach, so he must name and understand it. Only, we have said, this great and mysterious thing is past his reason, so he shrouds it in false understanding and an illusory name: it is "magic." "Miracle." "God."

[ A beat. ]

Yes, some use God in such a way.

[ And another. ]

But that is, we have said, the plain man. The wise man will look upon what defies his reason, and he will not fear his own ignorance. He will approach the inexplicable with humility and wait until such a time that more is known to him, and he might truly, rather than falsely understand it. He will not blame 'magic'. He will not find a 'miracle'. He will not see' God' in this.

[glacio]

So... You don't believe someone can truly be gifted with magic? We just call it magic because we don't understand ourselves, and what we can do?

[caditquaestio]

I have trouble believing in things I can't understand. Yes.

But those are my faults. Call it what pleases you. It's only that I didn't wish to deceive you.

[glacio]

Oh. [ be cool elsa be cool ] Well, I do appreciate your honesty. Even if it did, in a way, sound like you might believe only those who are simple would believe in magic.

[caditquaestio]

Did it? [ You're welcome. ] How unfortunate! I expect I should present my apologies. Do you prefer them now, or later? You should aim to be choosy about such things.

[glacio]

I think now might be best, if you don't mind.

1/3

[caditquaestio]

Most women would shy from the request.

never mind that he has no idea what she looks like!!!!

[caditquaestio]

...well. Well, well, well. Now you've put me in a regrettable and most shameful position. Ah, to stand before a woman of such sharpness that can only be rivalled by her beauty... what shall I do, what shall I do...

[caditquaestio]

All right, fiat: Madam, I beseech you on my knees and with a bared heart, have my earnest, my true, my sincere and most repenting apologies. I live and I die by your lips and your forgiveness, and swear myself wholly and humbly in your service until such a time that you have found my wretched sins atoned for.

[glacio]

[ oh my god ]

You're forgiven!

[ the please just stop saying those things is totally there in her tone. it's half shocked, half baffled ]

[caditquaestio]

Now, now, that's far too soon. My vicious soul won't have learned a thing! We should lend it time and patience to heal itself into virtue. We should wait.

...together.

[glacio]

[ juuuuuuust



this face ]

[caditquaestio]

All well. We need not wait quietly.