Hunting for the King

[thequestgiver]

Characters: All who are searching for the King!
Open? Yep
Where: Starting at the castle
When: RD 10
What: The heroes go hunting for the King.


The castle staff, as unhelpful as always, had no idea where the King had gone to. Some had guesses, of course, he went off to track down Prince Charming and drag him back home, he went out visiting the Giant Kingdom, he went across the sea, he went to see the state of the Old Capital, no, they hadn't actually seen him leave... they just knew that he had. This just happened every now and then, you see, one of the older maids explained. The King, being the King, just sometimes was elsewhere. Just wait a little while and he'd be back soon enough.

But that was hardly helpful now, now was it?

Comments

[sorcerous]

His skill isn't gone -- only his power. So he reaches out to her and touches her skin, murmuring a spell of transference. Gods, it's only drips of power that once moved through him in torrent, but he opens a narrow channel to her, a quiet, small path of power.

"Trust me," he urges her, softly, his eyes fixed on her.

[tenuefarfalla]

Trust him. Sure. He's done so much to earn it. Well... he didn't let her die, that's something. Of course, he could have just not wanted to deal with the corpse in his bed. He certainly hadn't left her on a high note or in the best of shape. Still, if her choices are to trust Loki or stay here being ineffectual--

"Carefully," she says, but she takes a deep breath and stares at him and lets go of a little bit of that control, keeping her magic tied up tight inside her. It makes her palms sweat, makes the skin on her shoulder tingle under his icy touch. But she doesn't push him away. And she can feel the power flowing out of her, like a thin stream of ice water being drawn up out of the ground by Loki's fingertips. It's only the tiniest portion of her power, but it's even and steady and strong.

[shadow_sage]

Liara, of course, says nothing. She watches, but she also activates her omni-tool. Despite everything it's lost since she arrived (features she misses quite a bit), the sensor suite seemed at least somewhat functional, so that is activated even as the others link.

At the same time, she lets a soft blue glow surround her, and though her tool seems to take most of her focus, she is ready to step in and put Loki on the ground if he seems to be hurting Cho. Liara may not know either of them well (nor believe in magic), but she's not an idiot.

[sorcerous]

He flinches, inhales sharp between his teeth. There is a ripple of pale, human skin that flows outward from where he touches Cho, and it fades again into blue just as quickly. The scalding magic burns within him.

He murmurs a spell, too quickly, close to stumbling over his words. A spell to create a path, to find what it is they seek: the King.

[tenuefarfalla]

Loki shapes Cho's power, and the magic flowing between the two of them takes the form of the proper spells. Directed by an unfamiliar force, it stings Cho, making her skin almost crackle with a strange discharge of static.

And then the paths light up, leading into the castle. She stares down after them. "Well..." Then she nods her head once, internal decision made, and begins following one of them. Into the castle. Where the staff all insists they have no idea where the King has gone. "Something tells me we're not going to find what we're expecting."

[shadow_sage]

"I can't think of a single real accomplishment which I've been a part of in years that happened as we expected it to." She's still glowing, but not watching Loki as intently, and the note of irony in her voice is almost lost in the hint of excitement that comes out at the same time. Doing something is a damn sight better than not doing a thing, even if it probably frivolous.