hexywitch | Charm ☼ 004 [video]

[Lily's set herself up in the library in her house. There's a cauldron in front of her, a small flame flickering beneath it. She stirs the pot three times clockwise, and then four counterclockwise.]

Hello, Vatheon. There are quite a few new people floating about again, so I thought this was a perfect time to post. I'm Lily. As you can see I've been doing a bit of potion brewing. I finally made it down to the Nostalgia Nook, and the shop from my world is absolutely brilliant.

[She pauses to check her potions book and adds an ingredient, tapping the cauldron twice with her wand. Potions is very complicated and delicate.]

I stocked up on ingredients, so after I brewed a few potions for friends of mine, I thought I'd brew a few other useful ones. First of all a big batch of Pepper-Up. [She gestures to the cauldron.] That'll be a cure for the common cold. And hangovers. So if anyone's feeling a bit under the weather, let me know.

That said, [She turns the heat under the cauldron down.] Equius. Sollux. I'm ready when you are.

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[Sigh.] Don't worry about it. Not important.

What are the Unforgivables?

There was just a lot of information in there that I have no context for.

[She counts them off on her fingers.]

One, the Imperius Curse. Basically a mind control spell. The caster makes someone else placidly do their bidding. Two, the Cruciatus Curse. A torture spell. It inflicts excruciating pain upon another person. Three, the Killing Curse. Instant death.

Edited 2011-10-05 00:38 (UTC)

Mind control is something some trolls can do with psychic powers. Vriska, out of who I know, though Tavros can do the same thing with animals. I don't know about torture spells, nor do I want to. But killing...

[He seems to sink into himself, eyes squeezing shut tight as he remembers the bright surge of white light...]

[A shudder runs down his spine. Pulling his legs up onto the bed, he hugs his arms around them.]

I'm glad you're better than that.

Edited 2011-10-05 00:42 (UTC)

I haven't met either of them.

[She nods. She is better than that.]

That's how I'll die. The killing curse. Avada Kedavra.

Vriska's crazy as fuck, but Tavros is mostly just annoying and stammers a lot. He used to live here.

[He slowly looks her way, expression full of sympathy.]

I've never died like that, but I know people who've been killed by magic.

Here as in Vatheon or here as in your hive?

At least it's not painful. There are people who have completely lost their minds after being tortured with the Cruciatus Curse for long periods of time.

The wizard who will kill us will try to kill our son, too. But it won't work. He'll survive. The only one who's ever survived it. They call him The Boy who Lived.

My hive. Namely to keep his stupid ass out of trouble, first from Vriska, and then because he and Terezi wound up moirails for a while.

[He makes a hard to read noise.]

At least you have that much, then. No pain.

Can I ask how your earth son survives?

...because of me. Because I die for him.

Edited 2011-10-05 01:46 (UTC)

... What?

[Eyes wide, he stares at her, not quite comprehending.]

That--how did that work?

My sacrifice protects him. Emotions that strong have power, especially a dying wish.

[Karkat mulls over her words together with what he's learned in recent days. Sacrifice, emotions, a dying wish. His brow furrows.]

You might be right.

He lives. So I must be. The Boy who Lived. [She smiles softly.] He's famous.

In your world, at least. I've got no fucking clue.

[~~Even though he's met him here. Strange world.~~]

For me, my ancestor apparently raged so hard at the end of his life that I inherited it from him, expletives and all.

Yes, I suppose the rules are different in different places.

[She smiles.] Well that explains a lot.

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