blessing 6

[18:37] His is the Mistseer..

...seventeen. Perhaps far too young to be the person in charge fo the Valeborne's army, but who else were it to fall to? The remaining mistseers had gone into hiding in the Vale, gone missing, gone.. away. The responsibility inevitably fell to him.

"Let this be the first victory of the Light, where the Darkness learns that it has no place in this world."

He commands Teraphim, human, and Beastkin alike as they march. He draws back an arrow--

light. diamond. holy. It is his own light standing against the darkness. If only he'd had more time to learn how to truly stand against it...

"Learn your lesson tonight, Theria. Learn what happens when you stand against the light."
(Renly)
[18:58] He wears the Mask of the Duet's face, belonging to a dead supreme.. and it merely enhances every aspect of the battle before them. Things become more grim, and more gory, and he's forced to take it off amidst it all.

Something about it was driving him mad. Yet, he needed the power it held to do his best. The first magi he comes upon is hooded, cloaked..

.. and yet, all too young to be here, if he was correct, judging from her height. His hand comes for the Skyfall Wire, and he shuts his eyes before drawing his hand back to draw an arrow; forged of crystal and holy magic to forge diamonds, nocking it into his bow.

"There is no need for us to be fighting this war … No need for us to spill blood! This battle will bring nothing good for you, nothing good. It should not be our fight--.."

Light bursts out of his form, and he reaches into his pocket to quickly imbibe a potion.

It is one of rejuvenation, of healing, meant to empower his healing beyond the norm. Here, he would be a bastion of healing magic.. A testament to the diamond's power--

.. but what good was a healer with nobody to heal but themselves? It would be one of Renly's most difficult fights regardless.

"..But you won't stand down, will you?"
(Renly)
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[19:01] There is brilliance within this step. An otherworldly beauty that comes with the opulence of ice slowly reaching out towards that of Finley's frame. Like slow, frozen hands.. it crackles and shimmers, glistening as the move underneath foot...Becoming permafrost beneath the heel, glossing over the tops of grasses as if they were freezing over knotted dreams and aspirations.

"..."

There seems to be a slow rhythm within this step, the body bounces from heel to toe, the established beat dancing between the thrum of her heart and the tumultuous storm that rumbles decadently from above. Nevertheless, the shrouded being remains silent-...Her head shaking from left to right as the staff repositions.

Most of the things that he mentions are ignored save for the lastsentence.

"No."

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/725491668018528286/733816095965970493/bitch.mp4
(Carlisle ras Petrakis)
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[19:05] {Lost Dangerous RPB against Carlisle ras Petrakis}
[19:14] "...Mhh.."

There seems to be a sound of frustration that spills past her lips. Weakness gathered within the manner of how she struggles to contend with someone who...Heals. After all, when she sees rends within his form vanishing between her eyes, she realizes that she would have to try a different strategy. Crystal shards lodged within her being would become temporarily iced over....The illusory disguise threatening to break, even if only slightly as audible clicks could be heard with her step..

Inner machinations shift and when he prepares to stand once more...There seems to be a much more aggressive form of the girl that was at hand. Wielded as one would a bat, her staff would repeatedly collide against his being from close quarters- the mana instilled within each strike forcing his wounds to become that much more intense...

"Stupid."

Illusory chains form within a flurry around his being. They latch him down towards the ground...A slow, yet gentle hand beginning to extend towards his form. "...We aren't finished here yet." There seems to be a moment where she savors the situation. A low, child-like giggle rising upon the ivory winds that sweep and below...

It is clear that she intends to draw much more pain from him...But alas, her own hubris would give him the chance to escape.
(Carlisle ras Petrakis)
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[19:23] He was a bastion in this moment, healing himself from the brink of destruction countless times. Time warps back and forth, bringing him back and back into standing a chance against the Petrakis, firing forth arrows composed of diamonds--

-- though, in truth, they were nothing more than holy crystals. If she was truly an occultist, it likely would have meant more for him here...

The Mistseer is young.. and outmatched by the younger mage. Crystals and light only did so much when he was on his own. Had this been with an ally, he would have excelled..

Until a staff was used for a different purpose, something that he didn't expect, a baseball bat, swinging down and striking at him every few seconds which completely and utterly disorients him.

"..--ah, --ah!!! Stop it!" He fumes, trying to find a way out of this, and, finally, managing to escape.

Perhaps they weren't finished yet, but … He most certainly was. The youngest Mistseer retreats, and if she makes her attempt to try and strike back, she finds a statue made of diamond, and he is far, far off.
(Renly)

[19:53] Renly is..

Fleeing. It is embarrassing for the young Mistseer, but he truly could not compete wit the Petrakis in the field.. Even so, he leaps-- tree to tree, trying to find the quickest way out; and yet..

Something catches his eye. Cassius, defeated. Captured. About to be taken--.. About to be stolen, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"..No. Renly, it is just the mask. The mask is fooling you, playing with you.."

He only stops for a moment in his way of leaving, to take off the mask. There was no way that Cassius.. who he loved.. Could be captured, correct?

The sight that he sees when the mask comes off is.. the same. It is less gruesome, and yet.. the same.

"....no..…NO!!"

He wants to step forward. To take action-- to strike, but something pangs at him--the chains of the illusionist, holding him down and preventing him from it.

The Mistseer had two failures on this field on this night. He continues to abscond.. back to safety.
(Renly)

*** there is a bit here and there after in whitetext, essentially Renly coming to tell people what happened with his beloved Cassius.

[20:25] As Amalia tries to calm him .. and Tea chooses to snap back, the Mistseer steps past his aunt for a moment, staring down the Alchemist. She was not even there for the war itself, and it was what he hated most about her attitude.

Even in the heat of battle, when Myllenoris was winning, unimpeded and uncontested, nothing he could have done would have helped Cassius.

"..NO."

He gaze falls to Danica, in an instant. "I would have fought to free Cassius if I wasn't attacked in the midst, I would have traded myself if I could have. I would have died for him!!"

If Dax, too, was a captive, though..

"Tea, you need to-- go home, and tell Basil and Kofe. Your own people are being poached before us. We must do something."
(Renly)
[20:34] Amalia knew what war did to people.

Every time Asta had returned from war, she had been hounded and she had not been herself.

She would not let Renly be the same. She no longer tries to just calm him down, she actively began to pull and guide the young Mistseer inside. "Come inside Renly. Little Tea is just a child. She does not need to do anything except grow." She says towards him.

An arm is slipped around Renly's shoulders eventually, and she whisks her nephew away so that he can calm down in private.
(Amalia Ghede)

[20:44] Something inside of him wants to yell at Little Tea again. To teach them that he couldn't do anything. His own magic had been completely spent, and any ounce of power that they had minutes ago was gone in this moment .. Retreat was the only option, and it tore him up. It made him irritable.

"..She does not have to do anything, but his father needs to know that his son is missing!!! That--.."

Whisked away, into the tower, as he is taken out.

"..I don't want Cassius to die. He's my best friend, he's my only friend, I .."

love was a strong word..

"..I need him back.."
(Renly)
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[20:51] The Teraphim Lady walks Cassius into the Tower, to the her family's private room. "He will not die, Renly. Kofe will get his son back. Kofe is many things, but he does not abandon his family."

"Cassius will be fine." She reassures him, soon guiding him to sit down in the center of the room to relax. "I will get you some tea and some food. You must be hungry after your fight."
(Amalia Ghede)

[20:58] "I know he can't, he won't.."

Cassius was the strongest person he knew. The bravest. Still, his heart ached.

In some way.

Fear. Worry. Everything.

"..If they harm him, at all .. They will never see the darkness again. All they will know is light. They will bathe in light. Be destroyed by it. The last thing they'll see is--

the light."

It is fury, rage … Something that a true Teraphim likely wouldn't feel, or want, in truth.

Perhaps because it completely counteracted the concept of balance, but it was his own personal mantra of balance, apparently.

"..I stood no chance out there. I knew I shouldn't have become the Mistseer."
(Renly)
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[20:58] Amalia thinks Renly lost because he didn't have the mistseer's cloak.
(Amalia Ghede)
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[21:11] Amalia sighs as she comes back to Renly with a cup of tea and a bowl of stir fry. It pained her immortal crystal heart to see the young Teraphim so distraught, but it pained her even more to see their balance be disturbed.

This was no way to live.

The food and drink was set down in front of him, even though he had ignored her earlier suggestion that he eat and drink something. She brought it out for him anyway, because she knew how much exertion a fight put on the body.

He needed this, whether he realized that or not.

"If they know what's the smart choice, they will have not touched him and released him back to Alabastre where the Rhoynish stay." The Teraphim Lady says towards her nephew with a small sigh.

"And you are still young, Renly. You still have some growing to do. There will come a time when you realize that you've outgrown even yourself."
(Amalia Ghede)