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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]

[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.

[reachforthesky]

*tailflick*

Do you want me to call you and Obsidian more often too? Sometimes I'm not sure...

[playfreebird]

Obsidian is always glad to hear from his friends.

[reachforthesky]

*you didn't answer the question for yourself!11 looks at him expectantly*

[playfreebird]

[well, a moment, then he softens]

[you will make me say it]

I am glad to hear from you as well.