Third ❀ Bloom Text; backdated to the 20th | Open to Both Courts w/ Filters

[showmeyourwreath]

Good day, everyone.

It seems Reynard The Fox is a Hot Topic of the week, and I know that he is being discussed in greater depth elsewhere, thank goodness. [Seriously, this stuff is very nice to know.] That said, I may have a bit of new information for those who weren't aware.

He was behind the destruction of the Drabkeeper's Castle. By himself, it seems. I don't know why, but if you've seen what's happened to it, you know that that's no joke. It's been completely levelled.

[So, that might give a greater appreciation of what he might be capable of to those that didn't know, before.

There's more to it than that, but she doesn't know how much of a target she's made herself out to be and doesn't want to implicate or involve anyone else. Still, someone should know all of it.]

[SEELIE LOCKED, but with additional private filters to Waver Velvet and the Outsider]

Secondly, I would caution anyone with any kind of Sight [there is a careful emphasis of the word that she's certain won't be missed by those who know what to look for.] in taking extra precautions in using it, if you have both the means to and the control.

Please, be careful. That's all.

[Locked to Lancelot and John Grimm]

There's something you may want to know, if you don't know it already.

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[showmeyourwreath]

As the saying goes, one who ceases to be a student has never been a student. What about you, though? Are you learning anything new, here?

[Flora giggles softly behind a hand. He's really charming sometimes, she wonder if he realises it.] Whatever helps you get through it, but that's what we're there for, too.

[Getting through things, that is--it's what friends do.]

[extramural]

Many things. Forms of magic, different creatures, stories of other worlds...

[ It's all very exciting. c: And no, he has no idea. ]

'We' meaning- my friends. [ It's not a question, but it sounds a bit like one; a child full of wonder trying to confirm something without letting on that he doesn't actually understand. ]

[showmeyourwreath]

The circumstances under which we're here still leave something to be desired, but the world is pretty great for all that. Here, let's trade: what have you been up to lately, or what have you learned?

[much interesting very learning.]

That's right. [She has a younger sister and is good with children, and so recognises the tone, but graciously doesn't comment on it. Nobody likes to be made to feel a fool.]

[extramural]

I learned a little of nymphs.

[ so excite ]

I have yet to meet one, however.

[showmeyourwreath]

Oh, I've met several! On my quest. I went into the mountains.

[extramural]

What do you think of them?

[ Unseelie!Lancelot seems to think he'd like them -- as does the Outsider, based on what the man has told him. ]

[showmeyourwreath]

They're wonderful. I actually got attacked on my way to the mountains and couldn't use the magic I needed so they lent me theirs instead and I became a sylph.

[So much excite at this. Maybe almost dying and scaling a mountain was so worth it.]

[extramural]

Attacked?

[ HOLD ON GO BACK AND EXPLAIN THAT FLORA... ]

[showmeyourwreath]

[AUGH FINE!!]

Yeah, on my way there. I got this magic-sealing gunk spat at me. I ended up having to scale a mountain by hand.

[extramural]

'Magic-sealing gunk'.

[ um. ]

And how did that happen?

[showmeyourwreath]

I was fighting a couple of them and one got me from behind.

[This is what happens when you don't have five other fairies watching your back.]

I had to get a little creative after that, but I also hightailed it. I didn't want to run into anything else.

[extramural]

Fighting a couple of... what?

[ f l o r a you know how he likes details :( ]

And as a result, you were able to become a sylph.

[showmeyourwreath]

Really big wormlike creatures, but not like the Lambton ones, thankfully. I don't think you were here for those, though.

[That, she did not want to revisit. Even if she made mad bank.]

Yeah! I mean I could have died and I had to climb a mountain, but it was still very worth it, actually. Talk about your silver linings.

[extramural]

I was not, no.

[ cha-ching ]

I am sure others have died before you on those very slopes.

[ You know, because that's reassuring. ]

[showmeyourwreath]

Hmm, they were very fun, let me tell you.

[She says this a little playfully by the end, because she's certain he'd love to hear her do just that.

But she's not being immediately forthcoming.]

That's very reassuring. To be honest, I was more worried about those worms. I was aware that I could fall, but I grew up in a high place. I'm not afraid of heights at all, even without my wings.

[Her idea of a fun time is skipping across handle-less swinging bridges that are hundreds of feet high.]

[extramural]

[ flora u tease ]

It is a shortcoming of most humans, I think, that they do not look up as often as they might.

[showmeyourwreath]

[Girl's gotta have hobbies.]

Hmmm, I'm not sure it's their fault. I'm not sure how many of them grew up in trees as tall as buildings.

[extramural]

Very few, I imagine. But there are tall buildings.