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[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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[powerful]

The founding of... what, exactly?

[wildgift]

Valdemar.

[powerful]

And we're back to Valdemar. What's it like?

[wildgift]

I don't really have anything to compare it to. I like it there, but I'm not sure what else to tell you.

[powerful]

I mean, the landscape... the people. Maybe compare it to here?

[wildgift]

Truth be told,I haven't seen much of it. I was either too busy trying to survive the night or in Haven. They kept me there for my Journeyman rather than sending me out like they typically do. But I suppose it's much like this place, only without the fairies.

[powerful]

Survive the night? Yikes. Why the fight for your life?

[wildgift]

[This is where he gets a little frosty, even if it's entirely his fault for bringing it up.]

Because I was on the street for the first half of my life. Go to bed too hungry and your liable to just never wake up.

[powerful]

( oh. man that ice, bro, she can feel it through the locket. )

... Oh. I'm sorry.

[wildgift]

[He just shrugs.]

It wasn't your fault. I shouldn't have brought it up.

[powerful]

No, I just -- it was rude of me to push it, you know? That must've been rough.

[wildgift]

In point of fact, yes. It was. But I managed to get myself deposited in the Collegium and I haven't been back. I prefer not to think about it.

[powerful]

What's a Collegium?

[wildgift]

One of the...schools, I suppose, at Haven. There are three, actually; Bardic, Healer's, and Herald's. Trainees go there to learn how to be one or another of those things.

[powerful]

Uh-huh. ( weird. three categories only??? ok bro. ) Why only three options?

[wildgift]

Those are the three things the Palace trains because Gifts are involved.

[powerful]

Gifts. ( like... talent. right? that's what he means. totally what he means. ) Like a certain talent or aptitude. Right?

[wildgift]

I suppose, in a way. They're more... magical then anything, but Vanyel would disagree with me. He might know more.

[powerful]

Magical. Like a type of witch?

[wildgift]

No, nothing like that at all.

[powerful]

Huh. This place is weird. All sorts of people, just similar enough to be interesting, just different enough to be frustrating. ( she sighs. ) Speaking of weird place. I think I'm gonna go take a look around. Any locations I should avoid that you know of?

[wildgift]

I've only just arrived, so I don't know much.

[powerful]

Oh. Well... Hey, good luck to you, then? I'm gonna head out. And maybe I'll see you around sometime.

[wildgift]

I imagine we will, Lady. Good luck to you as well.