jan 25th. text.

[skittering]

Sender: Lalli
To: Everyone
Subject: owl

( written in sharp, scratchy handwriting: )

can make your owl stop screeching if you need me to

good at it. cousin's an owl sometimes

just tell me where to find you

Comments

Sender: Hunter

[hashtagwoof]

What do you mean your cousin's an owl sometimes?

Sender: Anya

[grandduchess_anya]

I tried singing to some baby owls while weaving some dreamotion energy to calm them down sometime ago.

I may have gotten a little carried away with it as I nearly put my partner and my dog to sleep.

[skittering]

his luonto's an owl

luonto's part of the soul. protects the rest of it. some kind of animal shape.

strong mages can take that shape in the dreamscape if they want. i think he likes the owl better. it looks mad

[skittering]

did it work

[hashtagwoof]

[ What. Is he not-texting some kind of soul wizard now? Because this sort of thing would make zero sense in the real world...

Oh, right. He's in Dreamland, not RL. Or his world. This is weird. ]

I take it the lumo thing applies to souls where you're from?

[skittering]

luonto

only if you're from finland. dunno if your world has it

sender: emil

[enflame]

You can stop this one here from freaking out for star

❰ the handwriting is legible but shaky until the next letter is simply a long trailing line down the page. ❱

[hashtagwoof]

I'm from the UK, and I'm pretty sure the last mage we had was Merlin. From a dozen centuries ago or something.

[ Of course, Merlin isn't supposed to exist. But if we actually had FATHER BLINKIN' CHRISTMAS show up in January... ]

[grandduchess_anya]

Why yes. It did really work. The owlets managed to calm down as soon as I began to sing to them.

[skittering]

emil

??

[skittering]

how long did it last? the calm

( he's never tried singing - but then again, the owl he knows would've hated it. )

[skittering]

not many finnish mages, either. more than anywhere else though

except stupid iceland but they don't count

[grandduchess_anya]

It does manage to last for a couple of hours before we brought the owlets back to the mother owl.

[hashtagwoof]

What's wrong with Iceland?

sender: Oriphi

[hearthwarming]

Oh! Is your cousin a shapeshifter, too?

[skittering]

you've never met an icelander have you?

stupid, all of them. only one i tolerate was still stupid enough to ship himself to the silent world in a food crate. nearly starved our crew out

[hashtagwoof]

[ It takes some time to respond. Hunter needed a moment to process what he just read. ]

1. What's the silent world?

2. WHY?

Sender: Jiang Cheng

[legbreakings]

[ Browsing through journal chatter, he could have ignored the name easily enough and also the taciturn speech; for all he knows Lalli might be as common as being surnamed Jiang.

But can there really be as many Lallis with a fixation for people from ice land? For the ice people's sake, he hopes not. ]

Wait. You are the Lalli from the future who hates ice land people.

I didn't realize you made it here, too.

[skittering]

sang the whole time? or just at first

[skittering]

only in the dreamscape. mostly

in the real world once in a while but that takes too much energy. dangerous

[skittering]

what




you came from asgard?

[skittering]

known world - the parts of finland, sweden, iceland, norway, and denmark with survivors. settlements

silent world - everywhere else. dead, undead, corrupted. uninhabitable. no word from beyond it.

( as for why........ )

thought he was sending himself to sweden or something. stupid

[legbreakings]

Asgard? What is that? I'm from the Containment Zone. And so are you!

I saw you mention a silent world to someone else. I know it's you. The annoying one.

[hashtagwoof]

Yep, you're from some other world. Like I said, I'm from the United Kingdom (England specifically) and we're definitely not dead.

[ Let's focus on that instead of the shipping people thing, k? ]

[grandduchess_anya]

Just at first since this is the first time I have attempted to do something like this.