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FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: unrelated to anything

A question of great importance: who is the most interesting person in Riftwatch?

I am composing a list, which I very easily could make alone. But that is not amusing. So, the winner of the list will of course receive a prize. An extra point will be awarded to a Rifter, quite obviously. Points deducted for, hm, [totally at random here,] let us say.... Wardens. I have nothing against them. Once I admired them! Then I had my sixth birthday, and I grew bored with them.

All suggestions will be considered.

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[ The most teenager of sighs. ]

I guess. I mean I feel like he made a real thematic choice here and also chilling in the stable is really awesome when you're a horse, but I guess we can ask if he'd rather be a bear.

Certainly, though now I must ask, how do you lowlanders ask anything of spirits?

Edited 2020-08-13 20:10 (UTC)

You are welcome to ask Enchanter Averesch to consult with the spirit if you are concerned. I am sure he would be quite overjoyed to help.

I would be.

[ He doesn’t sound delighted. But he sort of is. Let him talk to your pony, Ilias, he has some tips he’d like to give it, etc. ]

Is this Enchanter Averesch?

Kostos.

[ Grudgingly. ]

Yes.

Interesting. You do not sound boorish, but you don't sound overjoyed either. [ gossip, very misleading. ] You will help settle this question for us?

[ WHO SAID HE WAS BOORISH.

They're right. ]

Maybe. Are you going to make a production out of it?

Not unless a production will make the horse more talkative.

Bring one of the puff balls to visit!

[ So yes. ]

I have heard he is better consulted by letter than in person. Can one consult a spirit by letter?

[ aleksei knows perfectly well one cannot, but. ]

I mean I can literally turn into a horse and my babe uses horse body language sooooooooo. We got a spirit boy and an extra horse.

[ squint ]

You are joking.

Nah. I can show you.

[With the energy of a younger sibling elbowing their way into the conversation (because that is actually just what this is)--]

I also want to be shown this.

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Sure, as long as you guys don't try to like burn me at the stake or whatever. I'm hanging out by the stables.

Do not worry, we have never burned anyone at a stake.

Cool, definitely wanna keep that trend going.

[Will Aleksei be cool and show up too? Probably. He is pretty cool. But Doki is confirmed cool, so she shows without question, and wanders down the length of the stables petting horse noses with a great deal of familiarity.

To one very pretty horse, she stops and addresses him to his face:] Are you the horse girl?

[ Jenny Lou actually pops up from the stall next to the withered mummified horse. ]

No, sorry. That's me. People get weird when I shift from an animal to a person, so. [ Shrug. ]

Oh, you are little!

[Pleased, she grins, and turns away from the pretty horse.]

And that is the dead horse that everyone is talking about. I do not care much about him. I think it is gross, what lowlanders do with their dead. We are much better about it.

Okay, show show show. I want to see you become a horse.

He's kinda cool though. He's got a fancy name, but I can't ever say it right, it has like ten vowels.

Anyway.

[ She takes a couple steps back so she won't bump into anything or anybody and shifts. It's a smooth transition and looks almost like Gringolet simply stretches out from where Jenny Lou had been a moment ago. He's not as pretty as the other horse, bred for carrying a knight into battle, but he's still a fine war charger, long ears pricked forwards and head bobbing a little in greeting. ]

Oooh.

[Doki, having taken half a step back when the weird stretching started, now takes two steps forward. Her eyes are practically glowing. Maybe she should be more worried--mages can fuck you up, man--but this isn't the kind of magic that is going to kick her ass. Not yet, anyways.]

What is this. Very strange. But useful. You would be very good in fighting, horse girl.

[Wait a second. She tilts her head, peeking under the horse.]

You are a boy horse? Woah.

[ Gringolet gives a soft nicker and then seems to shrink in on himself. Jenny Lou stands there, rolling her shoulders a little and grinning. ]

Yeeaaaaah, it's a weird story. I'm a girl whenever I turn into something else, but Gringolet is like waaaay different.

[She does another appreciative oooh when Jenny Lou shifts back.]

He has a different name than you? But he is you.