You're my priority right now, so I won't get distracted. [ if a slight manic break could be called distracted. still, this much is true. he's much more worried about hwylryn and the feel of him in his arms is grounding. ]
So let's see...after Norna sealed herself away, everything was chaotic. They captured us and tried to burn us at the stake, but that wouldn't kill us. It did hurt and I'm still not overly fond of fire, but I wouldn't call that the "hurt" of this story.
When I got away, I ran into another Witch. She had a plan, a really stupid plan, to clear Norna's name. But it would require me changing her appearance from an old woman to a mirror image of Norna. Up until that point, I had only used my power to grant small wishes. Fixing a torn vest, cleaning up a stain that wouldn't come out. Something like that was way beyond my current capabilities.
But she wore me down and I didn't know what else I could do. Everything seemed awful. So I granted her wish. I mostly succeeded, but since the cost of that wish was so great, I fell into a deep sleep for three hundred years.
When I woke up, after all that time...things were worse. Norna was permanently sealed and the King who had betrayed her ruled over all the other kingdoms. Everything was irrevocably broken, and I had slept for three hundred years because I was dumb and naive.
[ he does laugh here, but it's low without much vigor. ]
That was the last time I trusted anyone, until I met a certain dragon...
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You're my priority right now, so I won't get distracted. [ if a slight manic break could be called distracted. still, this much is true. he's much more worried about hwylryn and the feel of him in his arms is grounding. ]
So let's see...after Norna sealed herself away, everything was chaotic. They captured us and tried to burn us at the stake, but that wouldn't kill us. It did hurt and I'm still not overly fond of fire, but I wouldn't call that the "hurt" of this story.
When I got away, I ran into another Witch. She had a plan, a really stupid plan, to clear Norna's name. But it would require me changing her appearance from an old woman to a mirror image of Norna. Up until that point, I had only used my power to grant small wishes. Fixing a torn vest, cleaning up a stain that wouldn't come out. Something like that was way beyond my current capabilities.
But she wore me down and I didn't know what else I could do. Everything seemed awful. So I granted her wish. I mostly succeeded, but since the cost of that wish was so great, I fell into a deep sleep for three hundred years.
When I woke up, after all that time...things were worse. Norna was permanently sealed and the King who had betrayed her ruled over all the other kingdoms. Everything was irrevocably broken, and I had slept for three hundred years because I was dumb and naive.
[ he does laugh here, but it's low without much vigor. ]
That was the last time I trusted anyone, until I met a certain dragon...