Prismatica Inbox

[bolderfell]

Inbox

video ⬤ audio ⬤ text ⬤ delivery

Therion ⬤ OCTOPATH TRAVELER
residential district ⬤ Lunatia, Level 2
moonblessing ⬤ Cordis

info ⬤ permissions ⬤ kinklist

Comments

text, un: rosaceae

[roseblooms]

You went out in this torrential rain, a few days past. Have you noticed any odd phenomena lately, after being doused?

un: T.leaf

[bolderfell]

Besides the storm getting worse, you mean?

[roseblooms]

Besides that. On a more personal level, is what I mean.

A source whose perspective I trust implicitly thinks the city may flood so deep as to partially submerge the buildings. I'm concerned, to say the least.

[bolderfell]

Seriously? Hell. Doubt we can get to higher ground now. We're not flooded yet, at least, but we don't live in the lower levels of the city.

Is there something the rainwater's supposed to have done to me personally? Something like the way the Lyestellan hot springs make you talk?

[roseblooms]

It's only a premonition; it may not come to pass. But he and I both have had that ugly feeling about this storm for a while now.

Yes, I'm afraid so. I know someone that was caught in it, and he's ended up in a bad way as a result. It seems he's been rendered unable to moonlace.

[bolderfell]

Hell.

Haven't noticed anything myself, but I haven't tried, either. Moonlacing, that is. Not like I can go anywhere or do anything in this weather, so didn't really feel the need.

[It's not, after all, Cordis.]

Don't exactly know how to convey exactly how wet I DIDN'T get when I went out that one time, either.

[roseblooms]

Be careful, if you do attempt it. When I say unable to, what I mean is —

It's not just an absence of results. Attempting it seems to actively cause him pain.

[bolderfell]

It hurts and it doesn't make any Chroma?

[roseblooms]

That's how it seems. As you can imagine, I haven't many avenues for testing the hypothesis.

text, un: rosaceae

[roseblooms]

I may not be available for a while. Something's come up.

I wanted to make you aware.

[bolderfell]

What happened?

[roseblooms]

You've seen the strange rifts opening up here and there out of seeming nothingness, I presume?

I know the person responsible for it. He's crystallized now. I assume from the expenditure.

I'm debating options.

[bolderfell]

Got him somewhere safe?

[roseblooms]

As best as I can manage. For whatever value of "safe" is achievable here.

I'd exclaim in exasperation that I don't know what he was thinking, but unfortunately, I suspect I know exactly what. The bloody fool.

[bolderfell]

I won't ask.

Can't easily leave my day job right now, we've come up short-staffed. Probably because of the rifts. Is your partner with you, though?

[...]

I realize I don't know whether or not your partner's the one who's currently a hunk of crystal. Are YOU safe enough, is what I'm asking. Helping someone recover from crystallizing doesn't always put the helper in the best position.

[roseblooms]

I need you to tell me everything you know about facilitating a recovery from this.

...please. I meant, it would be helpful if you could tell me, please.

[bolderfell]

Kurama. You've got more important things to worry about right now.

[Than being polite to him, he means.]

You're right, it happens when you run out of Chroma. The only thing I know works is moonlacing, but I wasn't that far gone. Should still work. Might take a while. Just being held reversed it all eventually.

my kingdom now | continuity is for suckers

[roseblooms]

Are you in an adventurous mood, pretty thing?

[bolderfell]

If it's you inviting me along? I could be. Time and place?

[roseblooms]

Your choice. I have a particular activity in mind, so it's only fair that you get to pick the locale in exchange.

[bolderfell]

[A pause.]

You wanted to see my house?

[roseblooms]

I'd like that very much.

[bolderfell]

[Kurama receives not only an address, but a little indicator blinking on the map function. Therion's come so far from that day he picked Kurama's pocket, not knowing about digital currency or even electricity.]

Ground floor. I'll leave a window open so you get the right room.

[roseblooms]

[That's quite the Therion flourish, inviting him to come in through a window instead of the front door, but he both likes it and can appreciate the benefits of doing it. For one thing, it's a big damn house he's paying a visit to — big enough for eight people, after all. For another thing, Therion's not the only one in said house, and neither he nor Kurama are particularly interested in publicizing this visit. Probably for good reasons.

So he arrives, softly, and he makes his way through the window like an expert, but only after sending in a tendril of a seeker plant just to make sure he's not being set up for some kind of clever trap.

He really wouldn't put it past Therion. A thief is a thief is a thief, after all.]

[bolderfell]

[A thief is a thief is a man, and all the seeker plant--and Kurama--will find is a spare, tidy room in which Therion's been idling his time with woodcarving, quiet and content. He looks up from his whittling a moment before Kurama makes the window and smiles, tucking the knife away again and moving to offer him a hand. Kurama doesn't need it, but something's... He wants to welcome him. It's something like that.

He closes the window behind them before saying a word.]

Not hard to find, huh.