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sharp_as_knives ([personal profile] sharp_as_knives) wrote2015-04-11 12:17 pm

Hannibal's house, Saturday

Hannibal was up fairly early, but he wasn't cooking just yet - instead, he'd been indulging in a bit of uploading and photo-quality printing. He might not have a frame for it yet, but he could repurpose an existing one for the moment.

When Jono woke up and made it downstairs, he'd find a picture of them in their outfits from last night prominently displayed in the foyer. Surprise!


[OOC: Open for anyone who spent the night, tripped through a portal, or wants to drop by!]

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-12 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Della looked confused. "Why would I pretend?" she asked. "I'm Blood, see?" She lifted up her Rose Jewel so he could see it. "I wouldn't have a Jewel if I couldn't use it."

And those were definitely three statements with no logical connection if one didn't understand Kaeleer, yes.

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-12 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's a nice jewel." Really nice! ... But what did that have to do with magic? "I can do sleight-of-hand. And some prestidigitation." Said very, very carefully. "Want to see? And, maybe you can show me something. If you want."

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Oooh, sure!" Della said. "What's presti-proscutt-what's that word you said?"

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"It's a fancy way of saying fingers-moving. One of my uncles used to do pretend-magic on stage, and he showed me how." He grinned, and dug a quarter out of his pockets. "Okay, so, this isn't real fancy, but..." He showed her the coin. "Abracadabra!" And slammed the coin down on the table-- then lifted his hand to show it had disappeared.

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Della looked...less than impressed. "Did you vanish it?" she asked, not really seeing what the big deal was. She looked at the

Sorry Alex.

She looked at the vase of flowers on the desk and vanished it with her Craft. "Umm, I don't have to say anything to make it happen. It just does."

And then they were back.
Edited 2015-04-13 03:51 (UTC)

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"...hooooleeeee shiiiit..."

You didn't hear him say that! No, really!

Alex checked under the table, he checked behind Della, then he stared at her. "REAL MAGIC."

Hold on while his world-view realigns!

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, it's called Craft," Della explained. "And I'm not real good at it yet, cause I only just got my Jewel."

Okay, so she'd gotten it a few years ago, but things had been a little...hectic in the interim.

"And it's only a Rose, so I can't do a lot. Not like Nommy, who wears the Opal, I guess." The Nommy at home was far too little for a Jewel.

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay," Alex made a little 'time out' gesture, then said, "Time out. Hang on. A, I got no idea what the jewel has to do with it, B, I don't know what the colors mean, C, that was so cool, D--" He reached out, and made the quarter re-appear behind her ear. "No magic at all, just moving stuff around. How did you do that with-- craft?"

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Della clapped her hand over her ear and grinned at him. "That's so cool!" she said, much more impressed with that. Making this disappear and reappear without Craft was so much more impressive than with Craft.

"So, umm, Jewels are where our powers live, sorta," she said, trying to explain. Lord Mallory's Craft lessons were sometimes hard to follow. "Like, you know how when you run around a lot? It's sorta like that. Your Jewel gives you the energy to run, except not run, but do Craft. And the darker the Jewel, the more energy you have. So I can only run around a little while, cause my Jewel is light. Nommy's is a dark Opal, so he can run around a lot longer. And Karla wears the Ebon-Gray, which is really dark, so she can run around for almost ever."

And below her was Uncle Saetan, Uncle Daemon, and Auntie J and Della didn't think there was a limit on what they could do.

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Ohhh! Like a battery. Power source," Alex qualified that, because listening to Hardison explain stuff kinda helped with the metaphors. A lot. He was so going to ace his SAT's, if he decided to ever take them. "That is *neat*. So everybody has one of those, in Glacia? Hunh."

Alex was kinda thinking of emigrating right now.

"My Uncle Miguel showed me how to do that trick with the coin. And card tricks." He carefully palmed the coin, then turned his hand over so she could see where he'd hidden it between his fingers. "You have to be fast. Or people will catch you. Parker's taught me more. She's the absolute best at it."

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
"All the Blood do," Della said, spotting another coin that she could practice with. "But landens don't. So Warren, Karla's Consort, and Cora, my big sister, they don't. Landens aren't the same as Blood, but Karla and Warren are trying to make it so everyone's treated the same way, even if they can't do Craft."

Her quarter fell. Again. This was harder than it looked.

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. So, how do you know you're Blood?... tip your wrist a little, like this, and squeeze your knuckles a little more," Alex demonstrated, thinking about that. "I bet that's cool, though, getting to do magic all the time. Is it hard?"

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Della frowned, adjusted her wrist, tried again.

"You're born that way. Blood parents have Blood kids, landen parents have landen kids. Usually mixed landen and Blood parents have half-Blood kids, too weak to wear a Jewel, but Kayla and Nommy wear dark Jewels, too. Maybe it's cause Warren's not from Kaeleer, things work different."

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh," Alex said, a little disappointed. So much for becoming Barry Plodder. "I don't think there's real magic where I'm from. Just stuff like this." He grinned. "But it is pretty cool, hunh? Parker's letting me practice escape-tricks too, like getting out of ropes and stuff."

Parker had interesting ideas on safety lessons.

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-15 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Karla's teaching me how to do that, too!" Della said, glad to find one more thing in common with Alex. "But we do it differently than you do, I think."

She concentrated and passed her hand through the table, waggling her fingers at him halfway through.

"It's kinda tricky, but you have to remember to keep what's you separate from what's everything else. Lotsa people learn how to pass one thing through another, like putting that vase through the table, but only people who are friends with Auntie J know how to pass themselves through things."

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-15 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex was laughing. "Do that again!" He ducked his fingers under the table, then looked up to ask, "They can fix it if you get stuck, right? You won't get hurt? Ooo, can you walk through doors?"

THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES.

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-15 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know if you can get stuck," Della said. "Either it works or it doesn't. I'll have to ask Karla."

She would know how it all worked!

"And of course! Doors, walls, the ground, anything. Except a shield that's darker than your Jewel. That stops you pretty good."

COULD THE SECOND GENERATION LEVERAGE TEAM USE A WITCH?

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-16 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
THEY COULD DEFINITELY FIND A SPACE! YES!

"Coooooooooooooooooooool." Alex marveled. "What's the most fun place you've sneaked into?"

'Cause, who wouldn't?

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-16 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Umm..." Della really hadn't done much sneaking since moving to the estate. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of point, since most of the places were open to her anyway. "Probably KaeAskavi's den, back before I went to live with him and his dam. We weren't s'posed to play together, but we were friends."

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-16 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Who's Kay.. KaeAs-kavi?" Alex stood up again, and said, "And why weren't you supposed to play with him?"

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-16 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's my very bestest friend," Della said brightly. "I went to live with him and his dam for a few months before I went to live with Karla. His sire, Kaelas, is old friends with Karla and Warren! But I wasn't supposed to play with him because he's a kindred Arcerian."

That was easily answered! Whew!

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-16 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sooooo... what's an Arcerian?" Alex was feeling a little jealous that she already had a friend who was a boy, but. "Also I don't know what a dam or a sire is."

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-17 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't have Arcerians here?" Della asked, confused. "Maybe you do and you just call them something else?" She paused, trying to think of the best way to describe them. She already said kindred, so she clearly he was just confused by what kind of animal an Arcerian was, right?

"They're white, umm, with green or yellow eyes, but sometimes blue ones. And they're very big. KaeAskavi's still growing, but his shoulders are already at my chest! And Kaelas--oh! Dam means mom and sire means dad--his shoulders are at my ears! Oh and they have stripes, which lets them blend in with their environment better. They're excellent hunters. When they're hunting no one can see them. Kaelas is the Warlord Prince of Arceria and KaeAskavi might be, too, one day."

That explanation probably did not help, Della.

[identity profile] stoleafamily.livejournal.com 2015-04-17 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Stripes?!" Striped people. Who hunted. "Whoa. I'm ... pretty sure we don't have those." Wait. "His shoulders are at your ears? But they're big?... Okay I think I need you to draw one 'cause I am totally confused." Alex laughed at himself. "A prince, hunh."

Darnit.

[identity profile] glacial-kidlets.livejournal.com 2015-04-17 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Della frowned. She clearly wasn't explaining it right. Maybe she needed help from someone who wasn't Kaeleeran?

"I'm going to ask Miss Dinah for help," she said. Because Miss Dinah understood both Kaeleer and Earth!

*Excuse me? Miss Dinah?* There was a polite tapping on Dinah's brain. *Could you help me explain Arcerians to Alex? I don't think I'm doing it right.*

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