daughterofursa: (I know)
Zuko ([personal profile] daughterofursa) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-12-05 10:57 pm
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Day 256 [Open]

Who: Zuko and anyone
Open: Open!
When: Day 256, evening
Where: By the lake
What: A failure to meditate
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

Zuko knows she's always been hard on herself, but she's never really considered it to be too hard. But some of the things people have been saying about her... Well, people in the Bastion have always expressed a more positive view of her than she thinks she deserves, and she always figured it was because they don't know what she's come from, but she's finally starting to wonder. Maybe the flawed perspective is her own.

Which is why she is attempting something else which, like positive thinking, she is not very good at: meditating. Whoever really wants to can find her by the lake, sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed and... definitely scowling more than she ought to be.
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just thinking of common ideas associated with dragons. History and fire are two things, but flight's a big one where I'm from. Death From Above and all that, but they're also really majestic fliers for scaly megaliths. How large are they in your world, if I might ask?"
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-29 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Paarthurnax being how large?", Megaera asked by way of clarification. To her, a large-by-dragon-standards dragon was close to thirty feet tall... While sitting.
twinked_witch: (Veluna what did you just do)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-30 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"... Oh, right. Forgot his name," Megaera admitted.

"That's... Not discomparable to ancient dragons in my world. An interesting similarity, for sure," she observed.

"Hrm. You definitely place a high value on history - a tough thing out here, unfortunately..."
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-30 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Megaera nodded. "Yeah... That's rather an understatement. It does make finding what's new harder, as well," she observed with a chuckle.

"Perhaps teaching some of the traditional games would be appropriate?"
twinked_witch: (Oh hey friendlytimes!)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-30 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like a field game. We could probably figure that out, but I was thinking board and card-based games. I'm willing to bet a fair stock would be easy enough to get, so...
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-31 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps you will be better at Chess, then. It was considered a test of leaders, where I'm from."
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2014-12-31 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps. The other side of it is, how can you expect to get much better without practice?", Megaera observed.
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-01-01 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Patience is wisdom, young one," Megaera observed. "To know when one must wait, or when one must repeat, in order to master something... I'm willing to bet your martial techniques weren't completely innate, in spite of having a bloodline component, after all."
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-01-02 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"You understand, then. Mind, I guess you could burn some shards on a shortcut, here... But that'd be negating the value of the journey."
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-01-02 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Megaera, on the other hand, saw the value of a potential hobby being developed.

"Indeed. A master has failed more times than a novice has even attempted, I think is the phrase?", she considered. "All those sorts of lines, anyways."
twinked_witch: (So where'd that pit come from?)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-01-03 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
"... Trust me, most Wizards are like that too. With terrifying but sometimes hilarious results."
twinked_witch: (That makes no sense.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-01-03 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ever spend a week with your hair a completely different color and resisting any efforts to dye it back to your normal color?

That sort of thing.
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-01-04 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I could, but I don't. Not intentionally, at least. Though before we had the hair shop, I was using a spell to clean it. Prestidigitation, the most basic tool of any Wizard's cookbook - you cast it, and you can do petty magical things for a few hours. Nothing that goes much past the 'party trick' category, but it's enough to work in place of some of the more high-tech conveniences developed here. Except with a limit of three casts per day..."

Megaera chuckled. "Well, I could probably figure out how to create a magic item for the effects that I could carry around, but there'd near-definitely be a Shard cost involved."

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