[The room at the inn is adequate. She had to move the bed to make room for her summoning circle. Oh well. The position of the stars are acceptable conditions. For the most part she is following the ritual she has researched to the letter. Candles are laid out, not yet lit. The chalk markings on the floor are right as they should be. A drink of water from the old temple well and--
What? The energy changes and she holds both palms open. The curtains stir. Is that a portal? No. No it isn't. The air opens and deposits a man.]
Who are you? What is this?
[Both of her hands are still raised, her violet eyes are sharp. At least she's dressed still. Though her night gown is not appropriate for visual consumption. Rather run of the mill by modern tastes. A cotton shift that covers her knees and a velvet robe hanging open and partially off of her shoulders.]
[ He's honestly getting tired of being pulled around here. Jerked around like a dog on a bloody chain. He doesn't even know how it's gotten around his neck. Going back to his world doesn't seem to be in the cards for him just yet. Best just make do with what he's got.
John glances around quickly (maybe a little longer than he should on the outfit and all or what little there is) and recognizes the beginning of a summoning circle. It's not finished though. He can tell a few of the markings but others ---well, they feel old. Powerful. ]
I'm John. I'm guessing I'm not exactly who you were expecting when you jumped into all this. I'll make it easy and show myself out if you'll just point me to the door.
[Both of her delicate hands make a swirling motion and knock John back, back against the wall. It's akin to two arms pinning him there at the shoulders, just strong enough to press, not crush. Yennefer steps closer, her brow furrowed and hands still up.]
John.
[Her tone is dripping with doubt.]
Stay a moment. You are here after all. No messages? No apology even?
[The door is at least seven feet behind Yennefer. She hasn't crossed her circle. A glance down to see if this altercation had disrupted her markings.]
[ Can he not just get a break? No? It's all just a big cosmic punch line, isn't it? He grunts as he's knocked back into the wall and pinned there. He could fight back and the instinct to do it automatically is there but he'd rather know just what he's dealing with here first.
It doesn't stop the flash of defiance in his eyes. ]
I normally like to get to know someone before we jump to hard and fast, love.
[ His jaw tics in agitation as he strains against the magic holding him. Testing it. He could break it. It'll undo the work she put out already for whoever she's looking to converse with but he may not have a choice. ]
Maybe the clothes didn't give it away, sweetheart. I'm not from around here.
[As if his appearance wasn't offensive enough. Love and sweetheart? Her own jaw clenches. John gets a leveled gaze.]
Yes. Your garb is ugly.
[The corner of her mouth curls upward.]
Did you come of your own volition or did someone send you?
[While the hold is firm it does not injure or do more than that. Yennefer debates on tossing him into the well she drank from. No, best not. It would change the energy of the little room. Not to mention waste her own.]
I don't cow down for anybody and I'm not about to start for an old bitty like you. Magic's done you good but I know old power when I feel it.
[ Hissed out and sharp as it leaves his tongue. He scoffs. ]
Says the woman wearing only her dressing gown? I'll take advice from you if the wind doesn't come and blow the little you've got away with a light breeze.
[ John debates answering her questions. He's certain he can protect himself despite her hold on him. Talking will buy more time to figure out a plan. An incantation to use. It's been some time since he's just fought magically against another mage. ]
I was only trying to get away from something a lot worse than you. Ending up here wasn't part of any plan I had.
[ An incantation finally springs to mind and his voice drops low, uttering it out as his eyes roll to the back of his head and emanate an orange glow to break the hold she has on him so he can stand on his own two feet again. ]
[Her lips purse. Well aimed barbs. Though he will have to try harder than that to harm her. It's the endearment that's most repulsive. Yennefer feels the push back before it happens. And it's not Elder Speech. Gods know what he's saying. Gibberish? It gets a reaction.]
You're sloppy.
[Especially if his transportation was of his own design. She doesn't do more than adjust the velvet robe a bit and step back.]
And destroying my work was? Sounds like crafted sabotage to me.
[Just because he is with his back to a literally wall does not mean he's defenseless or that they are friends.]
[ If he was trying to harm her this would be a very different spell. He's not. He doesn't like violence if he can help it. He shakes out his limbs a bit once he's on his feet again but doesn't move to leave yet.
Call him curious and maybe a little masochistic but he likes to know why she suddenly had a reaction like she did. Also, where he is. ]
Not the first time I've heard that but I was in a bad way.
[ John watches her change how her robe sits. No shame on this one then. He'll watch her face and hands instead. ]
I don't even know you. The only time I'd destroy someone's work is if they were trying to hurt me or other people. And this attempt at a fertility spell isn't calling for any throats opened from what I can tell, so yes. Accident.
[ He scrutinizes a few of the symbols. Some he hasn't seen but they feel similar to others he's found put into play. ]
I'm assuming you were going for fertility. But that rune there is one I know is a call across time and space. So if anyone should be asking how I got here it's me with your little prayer circle.
[Yennefer is not the most friendly as it is with strangers. And having someone, some sort of mage pop in on her while she's working is not going to win him favor. Nor does it sit well with a great deal of her colleagues dying at the battle of Sodden. She lived. Why did she live? They all had their causes and her conviction was merely to come to Tissaia's side. The circle is closing. No, they were not all her friends. That's not the point. It's clear now she is of a dying breed. Nilfgaard is a war machine at a forced stop. For how long?]
A war hero too then.
[Sarcasm dripping in her tone. With her arms crossed the robe stays mostly closed.]
Don't be stupid. I opened the circle and it's energies. I didn't start anything. Yet.
[Though chaos has it's own design. Yenefer has been a lightning rod as well as a wand. Her eyes dart down to double check her writing.]
It's a call for power. Not specific summoning. And plainly you are no babe. John.
[ Trust him, he's noticed. Cagey at best, he reckons. If he'd had a choice in the popping in there, in particular, he wouldn't have done it. As for living where others die---well, he's old hand at that sort of thing. He leaves a wake of chaos and disaster in his wake. He walks away cause he's the only one willing to make the hard choices.
The only one willing to throw the whole rulebook away and actually do something about it. ]
I'm no hero.
[ He hopes that the creature didn't follow him through. The last thing he needs is it turning up during all this. His credibility is low with this one to start. ]
Power, yes but that one can also be a call through time or worlds like my dimension-hopping. [ He points to one that glows when he gets close. Funny, none of the others did that. ]
So you're trying to undo something? A curse? [ You are no babe. He sees the eyes and it makes a little more sense. At least part Elvish. He hasn't run into their kind in years. There was an older woman who swore John had something in him of the old blood and he'd laughed it off.
If anyone would've known it'd be his mum and she's long-dead. ] What'd you do? Trade your ability to make life for the rest of you?
[Walking away would have been preferred. No, she didn't. She stubbornly planted herself. It was to be her last stand. No rhyme, no reason, no Geralt. Fighting to the death so that fanatics would not have a hand in the dealings of The Continent was a good enough cause. And now Yennefer of Vengerberg lives. Surely that is for a reason? Destiny was not done with her. There were still parts to be played.]
Stop doing that.
[She assumes he is the one making the rune activate. That's what gets her at the very edge of the circle.]
Next are you to tell me that blades of grass are green? That water is wet? It is the way of things.
[Violet eyes are steely. He says he's not from around here. And these observations are too on the nose.]
[ Such is magic. It always has a cost. Most people can't give enough to manage it. Most people are too scared and busy pissing themselves to do anything about bad things. Evil can't just be wished away. You've got to fight it. ]
I'm not doing anything, sweetheart! It started glowing when I got near so check your own out of control magic.
[ There's an inhuman roar and John's eyes widen. ]
Bollocks, it followed me through. [ He hisses it out in frustration. ] You need to let me leave or something much worse than my annoying you is going to show up!
Change the bind runes and finish the circle. Do a protective one and stay inside it.
[She's about to tell him to watch that mouth of his again. The roar sounds and she straightens. The robe and a semblance of modesty is not so important anymore. Self preservation.]
It? What is it?
[There isn't exactly any time to do much. The air tears and ripples.]
A circle? A circle by means of protection? I'm not a novice.
[To John and her eyes are fixed on the many armed creature clawing from the space. Sighing she stamps her bare foot over the carefully drawn runes, smearing them as she goes counter clockwise. Both of her palms are raised and her hands spare like a live wire. It's too late to stop the beast from clamoring through. It's trapped now, the way John is though it hasn't done more than bristle and posture.]
[ Fat lot of good it'd do her if she did. He doesn't even do that for people he likes and she doesn't even come close to that. He shakes his head. ]
A demon. Clawed it's way out of the pits and decided it wanted a piece of me.
[ The stench of sulfur comes first. Then the heat. Claws appear as if they might tear through the very air around them as it comes through. Constantine.]
All right then fine. Do whatever you need to in order to keep it away from you.
[ More claws and appendages appear as it finally comes forth from thin air. An inhuman screech follows. Foolish mortal you thought you could escape me by running to this plane? I'll drag you screaming to the First of the Fallen by your entrails. ]
Charming, mate. [ To Yennefer. ] This here is Locenox. Lower ranking but eager to please his masters. Thinks bringing my sorry hide in now will earn him some favor.
You want a piece you're gonna have to work for it.
[And not to mention it has a very poor taste for a quarry.]
I thought a kikimora was loathsome.
[Her means of protection is an Elder Speech spell and an orb that resembles glass domes over her, the remains of the circle and a portion of the wall that John had been pressed to.
There is a strange sensation as her Chaos shapes. She has not touched John with her hands, though it's like a static jolt prickles over her head. It bends and wants to pull him in too. No other reaction. No pain. This was not what she had wanted. Fuck all. This is not at all how her magic behaves, not with actual incantations, not when she has done this a thousand times for safety.
Now is not the time to think it over. ]
Locenox. Yennefer of Vengerberg. You are not welcome. Fuck off.
[ He'll at least agree with that. He tried telling it this wouldn't go well but chatting wasn't on the docket. ]
Kikimora. [ If they both live through this she may yet have his attention. He's heard of those things. But they all died out eons ago.
John steps away from her protective orb. His eyes glow and his hands suddenly spark with flame. It billows over his palms, engulfing them. He feels the power from Yennefer and it tugs at him like nothing he's ever felt. He has to shake himself out of the thought to go back towards it.
More important things to handle, as it were. My quarrel is not with you, woman. I've come for the mage.]
It's like the lady said. Sod off. You can either go on your own or I'll help you out.
[Eons? Gods no. And Hell is a universal concept. There is not a single God with a single son and it is so much more complicated in these parts to be sure.]
John! Blast it, what on earth are you doing?
[Flames are all well and good, the room around them is made of clay, straw and wood. None of this bodes well. In fact the creature, their guest Locenox, is making the floorboards creak. Yennefer is not going to be welcomed back here again. It's not a premonition.
[ Don't go getting soft on him now, sweetheart. He was never going to stay inside that bubble like a lamb for the slaughter. If he's to die by this demon's hand then he'll face it head-on and fight until he can't. ]
Dealing with the problem.
[ The air heats around them. The clay absorbs it and he can feel sweat prickling on his skin. This spell is one of his go-to ones to utilize in a pinch. He's never really attempted to alter it. It takes little time for him to start in on another incantation and the orange dims to blue. It isn't quite ice but the fire itself is blue and cold.
John's breath fogs out and he grins as Locenox reels. A gesture and more flame licks towards the demon and at his fur. ]
Not a fan of that are you? Probably not your best move following after me.
[Be it from the demon or from John. Who is to say he is not a demon too? Many a monster has the face of a man.]
You die and they'll think I've killed you.
[Plain and simple. Point the finger at the nearest magical thing. And if not Yennefer than she invited Locenox. Look, she is not endeared to the mouthy, badly dressed stranger. Letting him die does not feel right either. Why did her protective spell encase him too? Why did he come at all?]
What are you waiting for, brave champion?
[Trying to retaliate to the icy flames licking the air, he crouches. The floorboards groan again. Yen curses and does her best to mend the pieces or this is going to be downstairs. In the bar.]
[ Her comment earns a laugh but he gives over and starts the incantation to open a portal to send it away. ]
If I die I'll have worse to answer to than you or anyone else around these parts.
[ Lucifer would be none too happy with his ending up in Hell while he wasn't around for it. Another few moments and gestures while the whirling portal spins to life. Locenox screeches as he's lifted off the floor. At least it might spare the bar underneath.
It doesn't stop his swiping and flailing as he goes into the portal. John isn't struggling near as much as he usually might with this spell. By now he might've lost his hold on it but now it feels even stronger. It's like being new at magic all over again. ]
[Is he always so insufferable? She truly wants to know. Only there is other elements at hand. The flailing has torn a hole in the wall. Bits of the ceiling is falling and it comes apart like brittle glass over Yennefer's shield and the wake of John's portal.]
Finally.
[A hold on her protective barrier and the floor. It is not going to be as it was.]
Do you know where you're putting it? Not some... temple or farm?
[ The usual exhaustion that might've come over him isn't the same here either. He feels it but it isn't so profound. Sort of a minor annoyance rather than something that might've brought him to his knees before. Little like swatting a fly. ]
Oh it's fine. I don't mind doing the hard work so long as I have a good audience to do the work for.
[ Smarmy and biting. He shakes his head and laughs a moment. That'd be terrible. He shouldn't laugh. ]
Don't worry your head over it. I sent it back to Hell where it came from. It won't be coming back out of there any time soon.
Don't think you'll get your deposit back here though. Sorry.
[Exhaustion after that? That's nothing. Or at least for most days it would be. Yennefer's shield thins and bursts like a bubble. She now makes to try and straighten her robe this time bothering with the belt and fixing her hair.]
A showmen too? The wonders never cease.
[She sighs and looks down at the ruined circle her face falls only for a moment before she turns her attention to John again.]
How did it follow you if that was not where you were? Don't you guard your steps?
[Hold that thought. They both can hear clamoring, no it isn't an invading demon but people from the bar level trampling up stairs. She waves a hand to keep the door barred.]
[ The magic is different here. It feels different. Stronger but easier to hold. To wield. Like he's closer to the source of it. ]
Shame I don't plan on sticking around long enough to share a few more.
[ Now that the bastard demon is gone, he needs to get back to where he comes from. Casting the spell to dimension hop here isn't a good idea though. He doesn't need any errant travelers like her or the lot from the bar coming through.
He's had enough of a day as it is. ]
I do. I have plenty of protection but he drew me out a different way. He was threatening innocents. I had to get out of their quickly and I didn't have time to stop and ask for directions on my way through planes.
[ Through the snippy tone he catches the brief way her face falls. He hadn't meant to muck up her work. Maybe she can regather somewhere else. ]
Don't suppose you've got another way out of here, do you?
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What? The energy changes and she holds both palms open. The curtains stir. Is that a portal? No. No it isn't. The air opens and deposits a man.]
Who are you? What is this?
[Both of her hands are still raised, her violet eyes are sharp. At least she's dressed still. Though her night gown is not appropriate for visual consumption. Rather run of the mill by modern tastes. A cotton shift that covers her knees and a velvet robe hanging open and partially off of her shoulders.]
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John glances around quickly (maybe a little longer than he should on the outfit and all or what little there is) and recognizes the beginning of a summoning circle. It's not finished though. He can tell a few of the markings but others ---well, they feel old. Powerful. ]
I'm John. I'm guessing I'm not exactly who you were expecting when you jumped into all this. I'll make it easy and show myself out if you'll just point me to the door.
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John.
[Her tone is dripping with doubt.]
Stay a moment. You are here after all. No messages? No apology even?
[The door is at least seven feet behind Yennefer. She hasn't crossed her circle. A glance down to see if this altercation had disrupted her markings.]
People just don't show up without a portal.
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It doesn't stop the flash of defiance in his eyes. ]
I normally like to get to know someone before we jump to hard and fast, love.
[ His jaw tics in agitation as he strains against the magic holding him. Testing it. He could break it. It'll undo the work she put out already for whoever she's looking to converse with but he may not have a choice. ]
Maybe the clothes didn't give it away, sweetheart. I'm not from around here.
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[As if his appearance wasn't offensive enough. Love and sweetheart? Her own jaw clenches. John gets a leveled gaze.]
Yes. Your garb is ugly.
[The corner of her mouth curls upward.]
Did you come of your own volition or did someone send you?
[While the hold is firm it does not injure or do more than that. Yennefer debates on tossing him into the well she drank from. No, best not. It would change the energy of the little room. Not to mention waste her own.]
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[ Hissed out and sharp as it leaves his tongue. He scoffs. ]
Says the woman wearing only her dressing gown? I'll take advice from you if the wind doesn't come and blow the little you've got away with a light breeze.
[ John debates answering her questions. He's certain he can protect himself despite her hold on him. Talking will buy more time to figure out a plan. An incantation to use. It's been some time since he's just fought magically against another mage. ]
I was only trying to get away from something a lot worse than you. Ending up here wasn't part of any plan I had.
[ An incantation finally springs to mind and his voice drops low, uttering it out as his eyes roll to the back of his head and emanate an orange glow to break the hold she has on him so he can stand on his own two feet again. ]
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You're sloppy.
[Especially if his transportation was of his own design. She doesn't do more than adjust the velvet robe a bit and step back.]
And destroying my work was? Sounds like crafted sabotage to me.
[Just because he is with his back to a literally wall does not mean he's defenseless or that they are friends.]
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Call him curious and maybe a little masochistic but he likes to know why she suddenly had a reaction like she did. Also, where he is. ]
Not the first time I've heard that but I was in a bad way.
[ John watches her change how her robe sits. No shame on this one then. He'll watch her face and hands instead. ]
I don't even know you. The only time I'd destroy someone's work is if they were trying to hurt me or other people. And this attempt at a fertility spell isn't calling for any throats opened from what I can tell, so yes. Accident.
[ He scrutinizes a few of the symbols. Some he hasn't seen but they feel similar to others he's found put into play. ]
I'm assuming you were going for fertility. But that rune there is one I know is a call across time and space. So if anyone should be asking how I got here it's me with your little prayer circle.
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A war hero too then.
[Sarcasm dripping in her tone. With her arms crossed the robe stays mostly closed.]
Don't be stupid. I opened the circle and it's energies. I didn't start anything. Yet.
[Though chaos has it's own design. Yenefer has been a lightning rod as well as a wand. Her eyes dart down to double check her writing.]
It's a call for power. Not specific summoning. And plainly you are no babe. John.
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The only one willing to throw the whole rulebook away and actually do something about it. ]
I'm no hero.
[ He hopes that the creature didn't follow him through. The last thing he needs is it turning up during all this. His credibility is low with this one to start. ]
Power, yes but that one can also be a call through time or worlds like my dimension-hopping. [ He points to one that glows when he gets close. Funny, none of the others did that. ]
So you're trying to undo something? A curse? [ You are no babe. He sees the eyes and it makes a little more sense. At least part Elvish. He hasn't run into their kind in years. There was an older woman who swore John had something in him of the old blood and he'd laughed it off.
If anyone would've known it'd be his mum and she's long-dead. ] What'd you do? Trade your ability to make life for the rest of you?
You're not full elf.
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Stop doing that.
[She assumes he is the one making the rune activate. That's what gets her at the very edge of the circle.]
Next are you to tell me that blades of grass are green? That water is wet? It is the way of things.
[Violet eyes are steely. He says he's not from around here. And these observations are too on the nose.]
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I'm not doing anything, sweetheart! It started glowing when I got near so check your own out of control magic.
[ There's an inhuman roar and John's eyes widen. ]
Bollocks, it followed me through. [ He hisses it out in frustration. ] You need to let me leave or something much worse than my annoying you is going to show up!
Change the bind runes and finish the circle. Do a protective one and stay inside it.
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It? What is it?
[There isn't exactly any time to do much. The air tears and ripples.]
A circle? A circle by means of protection? I'm not a novice.
[To John and her eyes are fixed on the many armed creature clawing from the space. Sighing she stamps her bare foot over the carefully drawn runes, smearing them as she goes counter clockwise. Both of her palms are raised and her hands spare like a live wire. It's too late to stop the beast from clamoring through. It's trapped now, the way John is though it hasn't done more than bristle and posture.]
No introductions here, John?
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A demon. Clawed it's way out of the pits and decided it wanted a piece of me.
[ The stench of sulfur comes first. Then the heat. Claws appear as if they might tear through the very air around them as it comes through. Constantine.]
All right then fine. Do whatever you need to in order to keep it away from you.
[ More claws and appendages appear as it finally comes forth from thin air. An inhuman screech follows. Foolish mortal you thought you could escape me by running to this plane? I'll drag you screaming to the First of the Fallen by your entrails. ]
Charming, mate. [ To Yennefer. ] This here is Locenox. Lower ranking but eager to please his masters. Thinks bringing my sorry hide in now will earn him some favor.
You want a piece you're gonna have to work for it.
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[And not to mention it has a very poor taste for a quarry.]
I thought a kikimora was loathsome.
[Her means of protection is an Elder Speech spell and an orb that resembles glass domes over her, the remains of the circle and a portion of the wall that John had been pressed to.
There is a strange sensation as her Chaos shapes. She has not touched John with her hands, though it's like a static jolt prickles over her head. It bends and wants to pull him in too. No other reaction. No pain. This was not what she had wanted. Fuck all. This is not at all how her magic behaves, not with actual incantations, not when she has done this a thousand times for safety.
Now is not the time to think it over. ]
Locenox. Yennefer of Vengerberg. You are not welcome. Fuck off.
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[ He'll at least agree with that. He tried telling it this wouldn't go well but chatting wasn't on the docket. ]
Kikimora. [ If they both live through this she may yet have his attention. He's heard of those things. But they all died out eons ago.
John steps away from her protective orb. His eyes glow and his hands suddenly spark with flame. It billows over his palms, engulfing them. He feels the power from Yennefer and it tugs at him like nothing he's ever felt. He has to shake himself out of the thought to go back towards it.
More important things to handle, as it were. My quarrel is not with you, woman. I've come for the mage.]
It's like the lady said. Sod off. You can either go on your own or I'll help you out.
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John! Blast it, what on earth are you doing?
[Flames are all well and good, the room around them is made of clay, straw and wood. None of this bodes well. In fact the creature, their guest Locenox, is making the floorboards creak. Yennefer is not going to be welcomed back here again. It's not a premonition.
Her irritation charges the Chaos.]
He's a beast of flame, can't you conjure ice?
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Dealing with the problem.
[ The air heats around them. The clay absorbs it and he can feel sweat prickling on his skin. This spell is one of his go-to ones to utilize in a pinch. He's never really attempted to alter it. It takes little time for him to start in on another incantation and the orange dims to blue. It isn't quite ice but the fire itself is blue and cold.
John's breath fogs out and he grins as Locenox reels. A gesture and more flame licks towards the demon and at his fur. ]
Not a fan of that are you? Probably not your best move following after me.
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[Be it from the demon or from John. Who is to say he is not a demon too? Many a monster has the face of a man.]
You die and they'll think I've killed you.
[Plain and simple. Point the finger at the nearest magical thing. And if not Yennefer than she invited Locenox. Look, she is not endeared to the mouthy, badly dressed stranger. Letting him die does not feel right either. Why did her protective spell encase him too? Why did he come at all?]
What are you waiting for, brave champion?
[Trying to retaliate to the icy flames licking the air, he crouches. The floorboards groan again. Yen curses and does her best to mend the pieces or this is going to be downstairs. In the bar.]
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If I die I'll have worse to answer to than you or anyone else around these parts.
[ Lucifer would be none too happy with his ending up in Hell while he wasn't around for it. Another few moments and gestures while the whirling portal spins to life. Locenox screeches as he's lifted off the floor. At least it might spare the bar underneath.
It doesn't stop his swiping and flailing as he goes into the portal. John isn't struggling near as much as he usually might with this spell. By now he might've lost his hold on it but now it feels even stronger. It's like being new at magic all over again. ]
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Finally.
[A hold on her protective barrier and the floor. It is not going to be as it was.]
Do you know where you're putting it? Not some... temple or farm?
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Oh it's fine. I don't mind doing the hard work so long as I have a good audience to do the work for.
[ Smarmy and biting. He shakes his head and laughs a moment. That'd be terrible. He shouldn't laugh. ]
Don't worry your head over it. I sent it back to Hell where it came from. It won't be coming back out of there any time soon.
Don't think you'll get your deposit back here though. Sorry.
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A showmen too? The wonders never cease.
[She sighs and looks down at the ruined circle her face falls only for a moment before she turns her attention to John again.]
How did it follow you if that was not where you were? Don't you guard your steps?
[Hold that thought. They both can hear clamoring, no it isn't an invading demon but people from the bar level trampling up stairs. She waves a hand to keep the door barred.]
Gods.
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Shame I don't plan on sticking around long enough to share a few more.
[ Now that the bastard demon is gone, he needs to get back to where he comes from. Casting the spell to dimension hop here isn't a good idea though. He doesn't need any errant travelers like her or the lot from the bar coming through.
He's had enough of a day as it is. ]
I do. I have plenty of protection but he drew me out a different way. He was threatening innocents. I had to get out of their quickly and I didn't have time to stop and ask for directions on my way through planes.
[ Through the snippy tone he catches the brief way her face falls. He hadn't meant to muck up her work. Maybe she can regather somewhere else. ]
Don't suppose you've got another way out of here, do you?
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Truly a shame indeed.
[For all the bristling between them, they are speaking the same language of agitation.]
Out of this inn? Yes. Always. I don't know about your portals. I can trust my portals. Best we not stay here much longer.
[Her objects begin to gather themselves. Candles, garments, the chest of potions and creams from the small table.]
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wrap this one?
sounds good <3