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?

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[earthsend]

[By now, Enma has managed to secure himself something more appropriate to wear around a drafty castle, looking more like a native than someone from his world. It doesn't make him too happy but he'll have to put up with it until he can get his hands on something more comfortable]

People like that wouldn't bother talking to people on here.

[By that, he means the royals. He slumps, feeling a pang of sympathy when she mentions family. He can understand those worries, somewhat]

I don't think...they would have your sister and not say anything. They don't have my family so...

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[powerful]

So I'm learning. ( everybody here hates the people in charge, it seems. more or less, anyway. this is good for cassie's rebellious teenage anger. )

If they wouldn't say anything about other information, why would they just be forthcoming about our families? What makes you think that's somehow outside of the range of information they'd withhold? Clearly they don't actually care about what we have to say or how we feel.

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[earthsend]

[So much rebellious teenage anger. You really don't win points by kidnapping people. Enma shifts uncomfortably]

Dunno. But...telling us they had our families seems like a way to have leverage over us, doesn't it? A way to encourage us to fight.

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[powerful]

( nope. no points. zero of the points. perhaps negative of the points, actually. )

I'm pretty sure that I'd be happier with them using my family as an incentive. I'd be a lot less likely to ( SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE ) resist if I knew my sister was safe.

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[earthsend]

[That...seems terrible to Enma. Super terrible]

You'd rather your sister here? Even though they're making people fight?

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[powerful]

Diana can handle herself. We're better as a team, but she's strong. And she wouldn't fight if she didn't think it was safe.

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[earthsend]

Oh.

[Not like what he was thinking then]

Guess it is easier in teams...

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[powerful]

We amplify each other when we work together. So it might be better for us both.