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[reachforthesky]

*if you are Tiger's Eye, Iolite, Kanji, or Viola, Lark left a candle for you to get in touch with her sometimes! feel free to use this post at any time for that.*

((as with Kite's, feel free to tag here even if she didn't give you a candle -- she asked Tiger's Eye and Viola at least to share them with other team people/knights! please just let them know OOC ♥))

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[reachforthesky]

Sometimes there's puzzles and things too! And sometimes it's just silly things . . . there's a lot of different ways to do it.

[playfreebird]

I see.

[pauses for a moment, not long but palpable, then lifts his wrist to the candle to see if Lark can see the bracelet]

[reachforthesky]

*there's an indrawn breath*

Oh! You did it...

[playfreebird]

I did. I had the option to stay here, and took it. I suspect it's the best choice for Iolite...

[reachforthesky]

You want to look after them, right?

[playfreebird]

Hm. ...Obsidian was pleased.

[reachforthesky]

Of course . . . I don't think he would have wanted you to go.

I'll still see you when we can visit there again, right?

[playfreebird]

Of course.

I would hope so... at least.

[reachforthesky]

*a tiny huff!*

There's no reason not to . . . oh, I hope it's soon!

[playfreebird]

[his expression softens and he shakes his head a little]

There's no reason not to, no. ...Maleficent said recently that once we've recovered ourselves, we're no longer accessible to the darkness. But thinking that way is still new to me.

[reachforthesky]

. . . she said that? We're not?

[playfreebird]

...Something changed recently. She was able to speak of things she hadn't been before. We still don't know everything, but it expanded a good deal, and confirmed some things that were already suspected.

Apparently that's one of the reasons you—or we, hypothetically—can leave and fight the Darkness on our own.

[reachforthesky]

*shuffles her paws*

I always thought it was just because we couldn't do any good with the games anymore . . . that if we weren't playing them for anything then it wasn't doing anything for the world.

[playfreebird]

[a pause...]

No. The change is more fundamental than that.

[reachforthesky]

Fun...funda...what?

[playfreebird]

...Basic. If what she said is true, then we were all brought here originally because we were accessible to the darkness, even in our own worlds. Initially we have to be "tethered" either as a team or individually as knights, with the nature of the person and the tether differing between the two.

But when we finish rebuilding ourselves, the darkness no longer retains it's foothold; it isn't a threat in the same way it is to heroes or knights.

[reachforthesky]

*her eyes go very round.*

Even before we came here . . .!

[playfreebird]

[inclines his head slightly]

[reachforthesky]

That's scary to find out. . .

[playfreebird]

...It is, in its way. But it makes a certain degree of sense.

[reachforthesky]

. . .

Do you think . . . the Darkness can be in people sometimes?

[playfreebird]

It... seems possible.

[reachforthesky]

*headbobs a little, wings flickering*

Then . . . then yes, it makes sense.

[playfreebird]

Have you seen anything that makes you think of that?

[reachforthesky]

*she's silent a moment.*

I was thinking . . . of how the darkness could have been reaching out at home.

There was a man I knew once. His name was Carving Knife. He made me think my Jon was dead, and said that if I didn't do what he wanted, he would make sure everyone remembered him badly. So I think, I think maybe there was some dark in him.