<Alexander> "..This the drake?"
<Colors> <Sasha> She returns to the parlor to relax after spending many hours with the blacksmith. She is covered in dirt and soot and burn scars.
<Fihlah> "Drake? Like Dragon, maybe?"
<Nataleah_Bernhard> "He's an Ishaelan Mountain Wyvern from southern Mirislyr, apparently..."
* Alexander raises an idle hand in greeting, still pretty busted up from last night, bruised, battered, and with a bound wing.
<Godwyn> Godwyn is still in the parlor, typing up whatever nonsense story he was working on.
<Edolie_Blythe> "...And you actually got him to respond to 'No Name' in Taijuni..." She sighs...stupid sister, even charming damned wyverns off the cliffs.
<Alexander> "I believe it was from an egg..."
<Nataleah_Bernhard> "Yep!" she answers both at once before slipping out the door with Daelidan.
* Fihlah considered for a bit, "Name is name", he nodded, "Name not always mean what it means, but means someone"
<Colors> <Sasha> "Greetings Alexander, I beg pardon for my appearance, I've been learning the smithing trade and working all day, I've not had time to clean up." She says in a bow.
<Alexander> "Sure...and there's no need to bow.."
<Colors> "It is just how I was raised Alex." She says. "I had a question for you though, if you will hear me out." She asked hopefully.
<Alexander> "Go on?" He said passivly
* Alexander was giving her the benefit of the doubt..somehow
<Colors> "I was wondering if you could test me, and make sure that my magic was in control, I cannot afford your classes, nor can I afford to quit working to attend them. So I was wondering if you'd be willing to test me pass or fail, and if I fail, I will give up magic altogether until I can take your classes. I realize I let you down, and I don't deserve a second
<Colors> chance with you let alone you even listening to me now, I ask in humility knowing full well that I am unsure of myself, as are others. Will you vet me?" She asked courteously.
<Godwyn> He looks confusedly, or at least what passes as confusedly for a masked man, at Sasha and the unnamed stranger who was too rude to say hello earlier.
<Alexander> "You fail" He said flatly "If you do not have confidence in your magic. You fail automatically. You don't listen, you don't learn. The classes were -free-, and you chose not to attend them because I was too hard on you or something like that" He spoke with..disinterest almost, he was honestly quite tired of this shit, repeating himself..and he was in no
<Alexander> small amount of pain anyway "You've used teleportation while panicing. That fails you a second time, if you hadn't failed already on base principals. You actually think magic is about just saying the words, or wiggling your fingers in a special way? No. It's about focus of mind. And you don't have the focus" He paused,and his tone softened, just a little
<Alexander> "You can learn, you just need to learn when people know better than you, and then learn from them"
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<Colors> "I thank you for taking your time in consideration of me. I apologize for interupting you. I shall be on my way." She said heading to a table in the corner to read when she gets there. There is no tabula rasa, there is only consequence, and she had to face that fact. "I think magic has its costs, some...some are still being paid. That is what I think of
<Colors> magic."
<Alexander> "No. Magic is application of cause and effect. Scientific principals control it all. Save that philosophical stuff for witchcraft" Where it does have a nugget of truth to it "The results of the spell are dictating solely by my will, and the energy I put into the spell.Nothing More. Nothing less. You may disagree. You would be wrong"
<Colors> "I only mean it has consequences. Our choices...magic...all of it. Cause and effect as you say." She says agreeing with him.
<Godwyn> Godwyn approaches Sasha and sits by her. He knows nothing except that she at least pretended to be nice to him earlier.
<Alexander> "Every choice has consequences. What matters is how they are dealt with"
<Colors> "I didn't quit because you were hard." She says as she acknowledged Godwyn sitting with a gentle wave.
<Godwyn> "I've worked more on my short story." He wheezes, raising a brow at her discussion with Alex.
<Colors> "Wonderful Godwyn!" She smiles at him.
<Alexander> "So. What excuse is it this time?" He's interested what she comes up with
<Godwyn> He hands her a handful of papers. "It's about a Voraath baker who falls in love with a Dragonoid gypsy."
<Colors> "I didn't agree with your philosophy that your class was more important than injured people. And maybe it isn't the right mindset to have considering the bigger picture, but I just can't accept that. Everyone is important and I want to help them regardless if it makes me late for class." She says respectfully as she can.
<Alexander> "You totally missed my point. I said you would be out of the class if you were late to stop and help someone. I never said you shouldn't stop"
<Xandra> The grandfather clock in the parlor chimes the sixth bell of the evening.
<Colors> "Well it wasn't a mindset that I agreed with, those people came first. Regardless of the class or the war...I mean wasn't the whole point of this class to train magical people for the war so we could protect the innocents? What message am I sending to the innocents when I say 'sorry I can't help you now I need to finish my classes first'" she was passionate
<Colors> about the innocents, she wanted to help them, she wasn't arguing with Alex so much as explaining why she felt as she did. "I know it isn't likely the right mindset for you or your classes, but its how I feel, innocents deserve immediate attention. And this isn't just about the one instance, this was about every future instance where I would have been unable
<Colors> to help due to that simple concept of I would be removed from class." She said remaining professional and respectful as possible.
<Godwyn> Godwyn patted her on the shoulder. "It is good that you do not forget your ideals. I doubt I am as skilled as your acquaintance, but I would still like to try teaching you. Any patient that would divert your attention would understandably divert mine as well, yes?"
* Colors nods at Godwyn the doctor. "Thank you. I appreciate it." She says with a smile.
<Alexander> "You don't get it. If you get an order. You -follow- it. Anytime you go against an order is it a tacit assumption that you think you know better. You don't. Those classes aren't for war. They are to bring magic into peacetime and show people it isn't just for fighting, for you? It was seeing if you could be use to the company. You proved that you couldn't,
<Alexander> that you can't take the simplest bloody orders and follow them. In our line of work? You see an innocent in danger? You are sometimes going to have to leave them, if you have other things to do. I couldn't have you in the field if I thought you were going to go off on your own the second you get a brighter idea, and with that Warhulk you've gotten your hands
<Alexander> on?" How does he know about that? "You would be a massive liability"
<Colors> "Millions of people die just because somebody blindly follows orders. I will not be one of them, and you shouldn't expect that of me. What ever I have on my hands by the way is my concern, I've yet to do anything with any war-hulk  other than fix them. Which I get paid to do." She said simply. "If you think I am a liability take it up with my boss at the
<Colors> shipyard, I've done nothing but fix everything they put before me."
* Alexander grew cold, so very very cold
<Alexander> "Let me tell you a story of someone who didn't follow orders"
<Alexander> "Of someone who thought to take things into their own hands"
<Alexander> "It was ten years ago. The world was at war, against the Xirath. One day, the leader sent a drone into the base of operations, to attack the infirmary. People were carefully dealing with it, guiding the drone away, diffusing the situition. Everything was going fine"
* Alexander took a breath "Then someone thought they knew better, someone thought their way was better. They opened fire on the drone, in violation of orders, because they knew better? A commendable act, according to your stupid code of conduct"
<Alexander> "Because of that, it exploded. Ten people died. More would have of course, but my mother was there, and through her actions, was able to save a dozen more. She could not, however, save herself, and died in the radiance blast"
<Alexander> "That is the result of not follow orders. Of someone who wanted to save the day, but was too stupid to be trusted with any position"
<Godwyn> Godwyn chuckles. "I have never seen someone miss a point so blatantly as you just did to try and make a point of their own." He looks at Alex. "She said she prioritizes saving people, not violating orders. If an order conflicts with the interest of a life, she would disobey. She would not say, disobey, if it was a different subject matter. You cannot compare red and blue then speak about blue as if it is the same as red. That's faulty
<Godwyn> logic not worthy of the 'tactic' mind you claim to have."
<Alexander> "If you ever.-ever- -ever-, come on a mission, and do something like that? You will not be able to run from me. You will not be able to hide from me. And you will die -slow-"
* Fihlah listened in and nodded, "Always listen to boss, or job is not good"
* Alexander gestured, and a small blade of purple energy formed "Did you know that magic can stimulate nerves directly? Without harm to the body? They say that eventually the soul simply expires from enough pain. Believe me. You will find out if that is true or not"
<Colors> "You are such a good solider aren't you Alex? A little pawn hmm? You dare sit there and tell me the cost of not following orders and ignore the atrocities of following them? And even still you threaten me? Let me tell you a story and Godwyn, I hope you listen for I will only tell it once." She says staring at Alex.
* Alexander gestured a hand, blocking all sound coming from around her
<Alexander> "No. You do not talk"
<Alexander> "You listen"
<Colors> "No you listen, because I am not your puppet or your slave!" She said snapping at him, whatever he did, it didn't stop her from talking she fought that much, whether he heard her is another issue entirely. "Once upon a time in a little village, a peaceful village of maybe a mere thousand people. A group of soldiers following orders killed and raped the
<Colors> entire village - but spared only a few select people - because the leading officer ordered it. He said he wanted the village to remember the pain, he wanted to be remembered for this." She said.
<Alexander> "You are so stupid. You stand in front of someone that could kill you with a snap of their fingers, and you try to annoy them further. You are a little child, with delusion of grandeur" Alex was /angry/ now. Congratulations! She'd finally been more annoying that Richard "I heard you'd picked a fight with the Niraethologist. Someone that could pick you up,
<Alexander> and put you through a concrete wall. Learn when to shut up..for example, if Fihlah was annoyed? I'd give him some space, because he could squash me with one hand. If you don't cut this out, you will die"
<Alexander> Sadly, Unless she had some countermeasure to the silence spell, her lips would be moving, but no sound would come out.
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<Alexander> "Hell. You pissed off /Jathadrin/ and he's one of the most levelheaded guys I know"
<Alexander> *Xos
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* Colors would be heard. She had enough starmetal on her person currently to build another C.U.D.D.L.E.S. from scratch. And her hand was currently in her bag rubbing against it when he had first waved his purple energy sword about. She would be heard.
<Godwyn> Godwyn rubbed his head and made a gesture with his free hand to return the sound to the area.
<Colors> "You do not get to silence me Alexander. I am not yours to silence!" She snapped at him, "That is not how civil discussion works, you do not cast on others just because you can and you don't wish to hear them! How dare you abuse your powers and threaten my life and call yourself a teacher. I wish only to help those that can't help themselves and you look
<Colors> down on 'me' in judgement?!" She glares at him. "No. You do not judge me. You have not the right."
* Kiedrian , in the mean time, was in a booth to himself, his head resting on one slim hand as the youth studied. His train of thought distracted by what appears to be an argument between Sasha and Alex?
<Alexander> "I would suggest you leave. Nobody cares about your past Sasha" His voice was cold, utterly detached "You are useless, and annoying. The world is a horrible place. You do not help others. You just feed your own ego" He laughed, cold and humourless. He'd entered the level of angry that only Dredson's seemed to be able to reach "You think being raped makes you
<Alexander> special? No, it's a little blip on the radar of this shit of a world. This stopped being a civil discussion a long time ago. I just talk, because while I am, I can stop myself from finally ridding the world of your pathetic excuse for an existance. A Wizard who keeps starmetal about them. That is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. No Starmetal will
<Alexander> protect you. Leave. If you want to survive this night. Leave -now-"
* Kiedrian blinked...and sorta skoots further into the booth, pulling his books and papers in with him. Concerned a fight might ensue...
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* Godwyn gestured a hand, closely mirroring Alex's own spell of silence.
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<Colors> "You will act not upon me, nor will you threaten me, I am a patron here and I have the right to stay." She said sternly. "IF 'you' do not wish to be around me, then you are welcome to leave me be, I removed myself from your presence, I will not be yours to judge. I dealt with my past and I faced my fears, and not once have I used it as a shield since!" She
<Colors> said angrily.
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* Alexander was calmly spinning his finger. He couldn't affect her, but, with aeromancy, he could affect the air around her, which he was, slowly drawing it away from her "You have twenty second before unconsciousness, then a further fourty until death. Leave"
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<Colors> "I refuse!" She says standing still fighting against it, not using the magic she could, she would not be threatened by him. "And by the way, I can hold my breath longer than twenty seconds, and it takes fifteen minutes until brain death. Just so you know."
* Alexander simply continued to draw the air away, quietly, not answering her.
<Shayde> "Alexander, stop." Richard was still painting, but this was ridiculous! "Stop now."
* Godwyn stood up, now rather irate. He channeled his energy in his next series of gestures to cause a feedback against Alexander to effectively temporarily seal his magic for half an hour.
<Colors> "I will stand before you and die, before I yield."
<Ryl> <Banu> There was a tsssssking sound from the stairs and banu appeared, holding in her arms a box and her vivid eyes flashed over the sight of what was apparently her brother trying to choke someone out in the middle of the room. Eyeing the girl Sasha and her brother "Xander." almost snapped she ignored Richard's intervention and just snapped it, eyeing her brother with a glower. Speaking
<Ryl> in that soft tone but angrily in general
<Ryl> <Banu> Eyes flicked to Godwyn and her expression became darker, though she sidled sideways down the stairs "Why are people using magic in the parlour.. there are PEOPLE in here you could hurt. Stop it." Though it was in a half tone, it was still loud enough to register
<Xandra> The grandfather clock in the parlor chimes the seventh bell of the evening.
<Alexander> Who exactly stopped him, perhaps the intervention by Godwyn, maybe Richard...probably Banu though. The magic ended,though the air around Sasha would still be rather thin "She's just like Blair...Just like that one that got mother killed" He hissed out "I won't have her responsible for another one dying like Mom did"
* Kiedrian was hiding in the booth now,  "Holy craps!" he mutters, shuddering.
<Godwyn> He placed his hand on Sasha's shoulder. "Perhaps we should take a walk outside?" He hissed in a rather raspy wheeze, then leaned in to whisper. "I'll consider teaching you how to bind the magic of fools as an adequate first lesson."
<Shayde> "Alexander does this constantly. He doesn't like to resolve issues." Richard had no clue who Blair was, so his dialogue really meant nothing to Richard. "You need to stop playing god."
<Colors> "And you say I have no control!? You can't even control yourself! Your past haunts you and controls you as much as mine does! And you judge me!?" She could feel herself being pulled away by Godwyn to outside. "HOW DARE YOU!"
<Ryl> <Banu> The glare fixed on Alexander "Then tell it to Jathadrin or someone else. You don't have the right to do that just because she reminds you of s---sssomeone you h.." Twitching shoulders slightly the girl's glare touched Sasha and then Godwyn "This.. ppl.. ace is.. small.. If you ca..n't get along, perhaps you sh.. ould all just ignore each other.." and her eyes flashed to
<Ryl> Richard because shut up Richard.
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* Kiedrian said nothing...it didn't concern him, it did however make the youth very nervous.
* Alexander focused on his Sister's words "...That's what happened last time. People gave Him. Chance after chance. If someone had killed HIM when they had the chance, Mom would still be alive. I don't care if I have the right" He wasn't moving though "I don't have the power yet to just protect everyone I care about...I wasn't strong enough to protect Melia..."