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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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[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.

[playfreebird]

...I see.

Yes, I think that's possible after all.

[reachforthesky]

I don't know if that's why, but I feel better now.

Umm...if you think there's a way we can help using this, would you mind calling and telling me?

[playfreebird]

Of course not. ...I don't know yet what it might mean, but I will keep you informed.

[reachforthesky]

Thank you. I'll try to ask about coming back, too, when we pass back through the forest . . .

*makes an odd motion, like she's nuzzling the air with her head, as close as she can get to the flame without scorching herself*

[playfreebird]

[aww aww]

...I don't know how close we are to the forest now. We've moved again.

[reachforthesky]

That was fast!

[playfreebird]

Did Tiger's Eye not tell you about Wonderland?

[reachforthesky]

I haven't called them in a little while. I will later.

[playfreebird]

I'm sure they'll be glad to hear from you.