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Post by paperbending on Aug 23, 2016 11:22:11 GMT -5
Cullain sat crosslegged underneath one of the many knotted, gnarled trees that sat just at the border of Tila's property and the forest beyond. His gaze was fixed upon the pages of an old, tattered tome from the Mansion Library. The old, dogeared pages smelled of decades long past, and of an ink that more than likely had been the blood of something living, though Cullain wasn't sure what. Reaching for his flask beside him, Cullain took a swig, grimacing at the taste. No one said drinks vital to your health would taste this terrible.
After drinking, he looked again at the advanced symbols and sigils. This was getting more and more frustrating the more he read--or rather, tried and failed to read. Learing how to read all over again in another language, especially an archaic, magical one, was grueling and exhausting--and those were two things that Cullain hated feeling like.
Wait, is 'grueled' even a state of being?
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Post by Ryder Jackson on Aug 23, 2016 15:43:44 GMT -5
Ryder had been in the forest all day, studying her surroundings and the creatures inside the forest. As she walked along, she picked up on an all too familiar presence. She stopped and looked in its direction. Ryder contemplated her actions, keeping in mind Cullain wasn't too fond of her.
After a few moments, she had an idea. She looked around and found a nearby tree suitable for climbing. She brushed her hair away from her right eye and made her ascent. Once she was hidden in the leaves, she started making her way closer and closer to Cullain- branch by branch.
Soon enough, she found herself standing on a branch just above Cullain. She silently sat on the branch, a little closer to rhe farther edge. The back of her knees touched the branch, keeping herself steady as she studied his book.
She let herself fall back, her body dropping into upside down position- much like a bat hanging from a cave. Her head stopped inches in front of Cullain and her pink hair splashed into his lap. Curiously and quickly, she asked "What's that?"
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Post by paperbending on Aug 23, 2016 17:46:31 GMT -5
To say that Cullain was "startled" would have been an understatement. The unexpected pink blur in his face followed by the--of course--persistently perky voice made him nearly jump into the branches of the tree himself.
How was it that some people managed to irritate him so easily? He hadn't even done anything to deserve it this time, that he could recall. Normally, sneak attacks like this only came when Ryder wanted revenge for him being snarky to her. Did it work? Almost always, unfortunately. Did that mean he would stop being snarky? Maybe when Hell became a resort.
After collecting himself--and ignoring Ryder's infuriating giggle at making him jump--Cullain looked Ryder in the eye and said, "Ugh, it's only you. What do you want?"
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Post by Ryder Jackson on Aug 23, 2016 18:13:24 GMT -5
Ryder kept the amused smile on her face. She brushed her hair out of his lap and looked down at the book, pointing a manicured finger toward it. "What's that?"
She tilted her head and read the sigils, still hanging upside down. She brushed her opposite hand against her navy skirt, which was staying perfectly straight and seeming to defy gravity. Her body gently swayed with each motion she made
Ryder's shockingly bright eyes scanned thr sigils. "What are these sigils saying? I haven't seen them before."
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Post by paperbending on Aug 24, 2016 9:39:48 GMT -5
Yanking the book from Ryder's reaching grasp, Cullain replied, "Nothing--nothing that matters to you anyways." Shaking his head, he turned away from Ryder, hoping that she would get the idea and leave him alone. He certainly wasn't going to puzzle out anything with her literally hanging over his shoulder.
He sat there for about a minute before he realized she hadn't moved. One thing about Ryder he knew for sure: she was persistent. More than likely, she wasn't going anywhere until she got a satisfactory answer. Troublesome imp. Sighing, he said to her, "You just don't get tired of annoying me, do you? And isn't that uncomfortable by now? Hasn't all the blood rushed to your head?"
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Post by Ryder Jackson on Aug 24, 2016 9:58:42 GMT -5
"I could hang out like this all day if I wanted to." She put her hands behind her head. "Oh, and, Cullain? If you're trying to decipher those, you might have to go to Tapi."
Ryder decided she was bored of hanging upside down and let go of the branch. She slowly and gracefully floated down onto her knees, magic assisting her. Once she was settled next to Cullain, she fixed her hair. "I've studied a lot of sigils before, but I've never come across some this old."
Ryder looked over and studied the sigils, trying to read its energies. Maybe she could get an idea of how old they were from tracing their energies.
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Post by paperbending on Aug 24, 2016 11:06:34 GMT -5
Cullain watched as Ryder descended from the tree, slowing her fall with magic. "Hmph. Showoff."
Showoff or no, she had a point. These glyphs and sigils were beyond anything he'd had to work with before, and he wasn't trained enough to understand them. If he didn't take the passage to someone who could better understand it, he might be here all day before he had a breakthrough.
Throwing up his hands in surrender, Cullain said, "It's not even worth this much damn frustration. I've been trying to figure this out all morning! It's supposed to--"
He cut off, stopping himself before he started up again, "...supposed to help with protection, you know, out in the field."
Cullain shrugged as he answered her statement, "I doubt you would have, this book's really old--and I mean REALLY old. I almost missed it in the library. From what I can tell, it talks about a lot of different types of magic items and how to make them. This is supposed to be a summoning circle, I...I think? I only understand like one word out of ten."
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Post by Ryder Jackson on Aug 24, 2016 11:16:09 GMT -5
Ryder shook her head, her hair waving as she did so. "Wait wait wait. Backtrack. You're trying to get something with enhanced protection?" She blinked a few times before letting out a short laugh. "You could have come to me, Cullain. I know all sorts of protective spells, charms.. you name it!"
She gently took the book from his hands and closed it. The turned the book over and over in her hands, running the pads of her fingers over the spine before setting it down next to his flask. "What is it you're trying to get?"
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