And above all, no wishing for more wishes

[consultmybooks]

Characters: Rupert Giles and YOU!
Open? Oh, yes.
Where: All around Schwanheim and the surrounding farmland
When: All day 2nd of Rebirth's Decline
What: Giles is stuck in a bottle. Giles would very much like to let out of the bottle. Giles will grant you a wish should you let him out of the bottle. And if you don't want a messed up poltergeist throwing furniture around, you should probably take him up on that.
Warnings: PG - Mayhem and chaos, but probably nothing much worse.
A bottle catches your eye, as you go about your business

It might be sitting on the dresser of your room, on a windowsill as you walk down the street, or just laying in the grass as though carelessly discarded. It seems, in all aspects, to be a perfectly ordinary bottle...except, well, you probably know by now that it's never a perfectly ordinary anything. For one thing, it seems to contain something, a swirling white mist that seems to move throughout the bottle like a living thing, trapped and testing the walls of its prisons. For another, well, for those who can sense it there's an undeniable spark of power about the bottle, a sense of magic, something that just makes it stand out. And for a third, it's just quite a nice bottle.

Maybe it was left here just for you to find. How else can you explain how it wound up here, just where you happened to look at this very instant, sitting just where it needed to catch your eye?

Go on, pick it up. It will fit nicely in your pocket (even if you don't currently have any pockets) and a bottle is a useful sort of thing to have around, isn't it?

Well, once it's empty. Maybe you should uncork it and shoo that strange mist out, first. Can't tell what it might do to whatever you put inside, otherwise.

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[consultmybooks]

Yes, this was good, all of this was good. Estelle had made a good choice. If she could just look after the bottle, good things would happen. The world should be looking quite bright, right now. She can help lots of people, now that she has this bottle.

Such are the impressions and thoughts that will be trying to worm their way into Estelle's mind.

But she could do more. Estelle was in good shape now to accomplish her goals, but it could be better. If she'd just open the bottle, better things would be to come.

The contents of the bottle twist and move idly, seemingly utterly ordinary and their true nature undisturbed, for the moment. Compared to being swung around, shaken, or thrown, it thought this was going rather well.

[noblehealer]

She started to walk, the bottle held firmly as could be within her grasp. She didn't know where to start, but did know she had to start somewhere and work her way around. While walking, she looked at the bottle, trying to figure out what exactly was inside, after all whatever it was sure was going to be something she had never seen before.

Though, as curious as she was, Estelle refused to open it, after all it didn't belong to her, so it wasn't her to open.

[consultmybooks]

But here was something she'd never seen before. And once she found the owner of the bottle, she might never get to know what it really was, what it's purpose or its powers were.

Surely, the curiosity had to be a bit hard to manage? Didn't she feel the teeniest instinct to just take a quick look?

She's not shaking the bottle, so on the captured thing's list Estelle is already doing pretty well, but it still wants out and it wants out now. Its range is limited, but with actual contact with the potential client, it can at least try and reach out to her.

At the least, Estelle will soon get the impression that someone, or something, is watching her very intently.

[noblehealer]

Estelle had wandered towards the town before she started to ask away to the town's folk if anyone knew who the bottle belonged to, sadly though no one claimed it nor knew who it belonged to in the first place.

So with a slight defeat for the day, she had gone and settled down on a nearby patch of grass, placing the bottle in front of her and staring at it, as if she was trying to figure out it's owner by simply look along, or at least figuring out what was inside.

Leaning towards it slightly, her hands went and held the top ever so lightly. She was sure that whoever it belonged to wouldn't mind to much if she took a peek, after all it wasn't like she was going to use whatever it was inside. So with this new thought in mind, she finally opened the lid and glanced over it.

[consultmybooks]

Might have been a mistake, Estelle. The customary bright light that appears after opening the bottle is going to be a bit sharper, at that distance. A faint "whoosh" of air announces something escaping.

That something, when the light clears, will prove to be Giles. He's sitting across from Estelle, but he doesn't appear to have noticed her by virtue of being too busy trying to rub sight back into his eyes.

"W-Who is it this time?"

[noblehealer]

She jumped back slightly, not really expecting anything like that to ever happen from a bottle, but once the light had cleared away and she finally spotted just who or what was within, she was rather surprised.

"It's me Estelle. Though I don't understand how you managed to be able to fit into a bottle?"

[consultmybooks]

"Ghost. Intangible. Technically, um, I can fit inside anything, w-with enough concentration on my part or...force, on someone else's."

He blinks dazedly, vision slowly clearing enough that he can look up at her.

"Oh, um, a-and hello, Estelle. Thank you for, um, letting me out. It's, um, greatly appreciated, I assure you. I-If there's...anything I can do to, um, repay you, you only have to say."

Only has to say 'I wish', that is.

[noblehealer]

"A ghost! Oh dear." This was something she had no idea about and that made her sad, and have that need to help the spirits if there was no other way. If only she knew how to help in some way.

"How did you manage to get into the bottle in the first place?" She asked, thinking that at least trying to find out what happen would be a good start in the helping.