Der DWSage: *Gets color*
Lithaladhwen: (I'm actually considering using this as my primary font now.)
Der DWSage: (I'd use bold, but Triton resets it after every message.)
Der DWSage: (ANYWAY. You start us off, or me?)
Lithaladhwen: *Zea is at her marketstand. She's sellin' stuff.*
Lithaladhwen: *There's a tall, dark-haired man peering over her shoulder at some ledger or another. It's John!*
Der DWSage: *And look, there's Sorune looking at a few things here and there and everywhere!*
Lithaladhwen: *John disappears and Zea waves to Sorune!*
Der DWSage: *Smiles and waves back! Well, before quirking an eyebrow at her*
Der DWSage: ...Something's different, and I don't mean your hair.
Lithaladhwen: Hm?
Der DWSage: Your aura...doesn't quite seem the same.
Lithaladhwen: *blinks* ...Wha--Oh! I guess it must be, yes.
Lithaladhwen: It's... part of the... that's right, I haven't seen you in a while.
Der DWSage: I have been keeping to myself a bit much lately...
Lithaladhwen: Oh! It's okay. I don't blame you. I'm sure you've got a lot going on. You've only missed a change in occupation for me. I'm... a full reaper now. I think. I have assignments and everything. *grins* I think the changes to my aura are part of that.
Der DWSage: Oh. Congratulations then.
Der DWSage: *Scratches his head-how do you congratulate someone on that sort of job?*
Lithaladhwen: Thanks! I'm... I really like it.
Der DWSage: *Nod*
Der DWSage: ...I knew a reaper once.
Der DWSage: Granted, that was Ayra, and I think she was the exception to the rule.
Der DWSage: She called Reshtaha some cutesy name.
Lithaladhwen: Yeah. Mister Mophead. I've heard plenty about her. e_e
Der DWSage: *Nod*
Lithaladhwen: Oh! Crap! I forgot to tell you.
Der DWSage: Nothing good, I'm guess-hm?
Lithaladhwen: I had an experiment work out really well a while back. You know the whole "ghost" thing?
Der DWSage: Yes?
Lithaladhwen: Well, it turns out part of the reason there are so many of them is that for a long time nobody thought they could be processed. John and I figured out a way!
Lithaladhwen: I guess other people are picking it up as well.
Der DWSage: o_o
Der DWSage: So...they fell through the beaurucratic cracks of reapers?
Lithaladhwen: *sigh of ultimate annoyance* Yeah. Pretty much. Though Lord knows someone had to do something eventually.
Lithaladhwen: Jezreel's also been behaving. I think he's taken a shine to James.
Der DWSage: Jezreel?
Der DWSage: James?
Lithaladhwen: James has apparently read his book.
Lithaladhwen: Which is all Jezreel needs to decide you're his new best friend. Or something.
Lithaladhwen: Jezreel's getting processed soon, when I've decided I'm done using him as a manservant for what he did before. *smirk*
Der DWSage: ...What book?
Der DWSage: IM:I feel like I'm in the middle of a mystery novel and haven't bothered to read the thirty pages before now.
Lithaladhwen: The one he based that whole insane plan on.
Der DWSage: ...Which plan? I think my memory may be failing me just a bit here.
Lithaladhwen: Everlasting Shadow.
Lithaladhwen: You remember his plan to... Yeah. You remember that thing with the cult? That was Jezreel.
Lithaladhwen: I learned this later from John.
Lithaladhwen: ( In case Sage has forgotten.... )
Der DWSage: (AH! Silvar. Nevermind then.)
Der DWSage: *Nod*
Lithaladhwen: (Because Sorune would probably remember that chunk of Zea's life.)
Lithaladhwen: Also, learned something interesting.
Lithaladhwen: John's not a ghost.
Lithaladhwen: I think it's why he can bully the others as well as he does. He isn't really one of them.
Der DWSage: I'd rather guessed that.
Lithaladhwen: Yeah, well. Got past me. Probably because I'm so used to seeing them. Best hypothesis I've got is that he's some kind of elemental native to the shadow plane.
Lithaladhwen: He has no answers for me on that one.
Der DWSage: ...Makes sense, I suppose.
Der DWSage: To a limited point.
Lithaladhwen: What doesn't make sense?
Der DWSage: This probably has to do with my still limited knowledge of Gaera's magical workings...
Der DWSage: But it was my understanding that shadow elementals had a physical form when they didn't intend to be otherwise. Then again, I never studied that particular area closely.
Lithaladhwen: I think he just happens to be incorporeal. He says he doesn't remember ever having had a body, and that his usual... manifestation was initially purely for my sake. More than that, I don't think he even saw himself as male until he decided that the little human girl was female and he must not be.
Lithaladhwen: The mechanics of that kind of... active self-imaging are kind of interesting.
Lithaladhwen: Anyway. Enough rambling about my work. What have you been up to?
Der DWSage: ...Not much, comparatively.
Der DWSage: >_> I'll have to read up on this.
Lithaladhwen: If you want to read up on it, don't bother. I haven't published a lot of these theories. If you want to hang around my lab while we're tossing ideas around though, you're more than welcome.
Lithaladhwen: No one'll bother you.
Der DWSage: I was thinking of whatever Silvar's written. Which is certain to be something.
Der DWSage: I forget his ridiculously long list of titles.
Lithaladhwen: Oh. I finally met him. He's... he's all right. He's definitely James' dad.
Der DWSage: Yeah.
Der DWSage: He's an interesting fellow, and likes his hat entirely too much.
Lithaladhwen: Yeah, now that I think of it he did have a hat.
Lithaladhwen: (Kai's law.)
Der DWSage: (=D)
Lithaladhwen: It's weird. I finally met James' dad, and he's been living with me for a couple of months, but I haven't seen my own father since. Is that normal up here?
Der DWSage: Probably.
Der DWSage: In Doma, the unnatural is natural, and the natural is unnatural.
Lithaladhwen: I... I guess.
Der DWSage: (We shall continue this once the INTENSE BATTLE subsides in the other chat, methinks.)
Lithaladhwen: (Yes.)
Lithaladhwen: (I need to go to bed soon. I have to get up in the morning.)
Der DWSage: *Shrugs* In any case, I've a few errands to do. I'll catch up with you later, Zea.
Der DWSage: *And he walks off!*
Der DWSage: (That cuts off one RP!)
Lithaladhwen: (Okay!)
Lithaladhwen: </rp>
Lithaladhwen: *logs and closes window*