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Zelgadis Greywords: forever a stone ([personal profile] livesarock) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2011-01-06 12:07 am

oh no notto this shitto again

WHO: Next on SOAPNET is the Terra and Zelgadis show...
WHERE: MAC
WHEN: Tonight is fine
WARNINGS: this shitto again
SUMMARY: nobody in this log can communicate in a sane and rational way that can alleviate confusion
FORMAT: screaming



Sometimes people remembered dreams, plain as that. Sometimes people remembered dreams...vividly...sometimes. Seers and such, sure. And maybe the occasional post-traumatic stress-induced nightmare. Logical. The mind sometimes did that, be it as an omen or just as an after-effect of...

What the hell effect of what and why?!

If Lina bothered to ask him what was eating him one more time, Zelgadis was liable to throw himself off the building. Instead, he'd stormed out in his not-unusual, over-dramatic huff for whenever something wasn't to his liking and he couldn't fix it. Straight to the roof. To throw himself off if need be, sure, but mostly just to get a clear head without any further prodding. Because it was just a stupid dream. Weird dreams weren't new around the City, after all, so...

So he had to try and rationalize that if it had been one of those weird dreams, either she was busy hiding out of sheer revulsion or she'd already gotten around to chucking herself off the roof. Possible. Morbid, but possible.

"Grrughh." He dug the heels of his palms into his eyes, slowly dragging his hands down the sides of his face. Sleep wasn't easy anymore. Nothing was easy anymore. What the hell was up with that? It was as if the universe realized he'd gotten the one thing he'd longed for after so many years and decided that rather than let him live and be happy, he'd have to suffer sevenfold over matters entirely unrelated. It was one thing after the other, getting more and more...just...just...!
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-07 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
She hadn't been expecting him to continue, so with the sudden continuation and subject change, she was taken a little off guard. That was... pretty long ago, and completely out of nowhere. Right?

She didn't say anything, but she nodded in response. Yes, she remembered.
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-07 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
A moment's pause, and a head shake. She remembered the before well enough, mundane as it was, and she remembered the after, confusing and inexplicable as that was, but everything in between may as well have never existed for her ability to remember it. Yet another chunk of her life lost; one night wasn't the same as an entire childhood and adolescence, no, but that didn't ease her frustration.

"Did you?"
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-07 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Terra hadn't realized how tensed up she'd gotten until he spoke, but her back and shoulders sagged visibly. She supposed she should have expected it—it'd been months now, and he probably would have mentioned before if he did remember—but it was disappointment nonetheless.

"Oh..." But that was strange that he'd mention it now, wasn't it? Unless this was just him trying to change the subject away from... whatever the hell it was he was acting up about before. "... Why?"
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-07 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That was unexpected, and she tensed up immediately, stepping forward. "Why not? What do you remember?"

Sure, even if he thought he was wrong, what if he really did remember? If she'd done something horrible, painful though the revelation might be, she had to know. Her whole demeanor was a great deal more anxious now, curious and worried and a mix of twenty other feelings Terra couldn't name.
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-07 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Inconsequential or not didn't matter to her. There was eagerness, true, but it wasn't the sort of excitement someone showed expecting good news. From the shape of her eyes and the angle of her mouth to bend of her shoulders, she somehow looked as though anticipating some calamity. Of course, if Zelgadis wouldn't look at her, he wouldn't notice these things, but her tone of voice was sharp on the edges, almost sad.

"Zelgadis, please."
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-08 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
It didn't explain everything — hell, it didn't explain anything at all, really!

Terra bit her lip, eyebrows furrowing. "Do you know... what I used?" There was only thing she could think of, and if it was that—
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-08 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
If anything, it just made her brow wrinkle more in thought; Terra crossed her arms over her chest, looking downward. That... really didn't make sense. She'd even explained it when they were down south. "Warp," was the quick correction, punctuated with a shake of her head, "But... maybe you really don't remember. I wouldn't have... been able to do that. Not without..."

With lower lip pinched in her teeth, the frown was harder to see, but it was clear she was giving this a great deal of thought.
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-08 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
But it was clear she wasn't listening; now it was Terra turning away in thought, beginning a slow pace; her hands glowed off and on with a build and release of power, despite no spells being cast. She mouthed words thoughts to herself, quiet if spoken at all.
diesarock: (wished on the lidded blue flames)

[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-08 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Thinking," she replied instantly, and for a long moment left her answer as simply that. Warp wasn't a spell she had to use terribly often, so she wasn't as familiar with the breadth of its uses and limits as, say, Cure or Fire. She could use it to escape this or that building or basement (that hotel excluded), and get out of fights. She remembered she'd been able to use it in the HIVE to move back and forth from that city and its outer limits, but that was mostly because that entire city was so incredibly dangerous; it only worked so well for adrenaline. If that were true, then it was possible she used it to escape the City with Zelgadis in tow, months ago... but could she have gone as far as all that?

For each glow of her hands for an uncast spell, she'd tried working herself into a greater sense of danger. It was a crude test, but it seemed like the power got stronger the harder her heart raced. "maybe... that's why I was so sick?" she murmured. If she'd pushed past her reasonable limits because of... whatever reason, then maybe... Terra let the magic dissipate for good that time, shaking her head. "Maybe it is possible..."
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-08 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, able to sense the magic Zelgadis wielded even when it lay dormant within him, Terra didn't have to be looking his way to feel his movement in the space around her. It was similar to the feeling of someone moving a torch heavy with fire and the scent of lilac; a person didn't have to see a flower to know its scent, or hear a fire to feel its presence.

She spoke up. "No... It makes sense." Finally Terra turned, dropping her hands to her sides. "What you remember... it makes sense."
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-09 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"It makes more sense... than you making up something like that. Doesn't it?" she asked, curious. It was getting colder as the night drew on, and Terra folded her hands over her arms, fingers curling against warm fabric. "You wouldn't have known... that my magic could do that."
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-09 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Terra nodded, and moved to follow—she was, after all, nowhere near satisfied with this conversation just yet. The way he'd mentioned it before...

Her hand caught on the door frame, not quite reentering the building. "How does it work for them?"
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[personal profile] diesarock 2011-01-09 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Terra was unaware as to just how or why this conversation was so rough on Zelgadis; following a few steps behind, she had to keep a hand on the railing just to be safe, too busy mulling things over than paying attention to where she walked.

"Would they have been able to go so far instantly?"

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