COVEN-WIDE TELEPATHY MESSAGE

[spellheal]

Hello everyone! I hope that all of the new members are adjusting well and getting a hold on their magic. As you were informed earlier, we'll be leaving soon! Isn't it exciting? We'll be returning to the hub in a few days -- oh, many of you newer additions have never been. Feel free to ask questions about what it looks like and the living situation.

I'm mostly sending this little mental message to ask how everyone is doing with regards to collecting those magical bones Qri is asking for. I have about 30 that I have saved, and I'll pack them in with our things before we leave. Feel free to give yours to me and I'll keep them together for safe keeping.

Also, I'm always available if you need healing or to ask questions...to talk even!

Oh. This is Genette, by the way. Sorry, I should have mentioned that earlier!

Comments

[rootandbranch]

I get that you're not happy about this either, but you're asking us to take Qri at her word when she's doing stuff that doesn't make sense, and as far as I can tell, you don't have the information to make you believe her either? So it's super weird to me that you do.

[politely]

Sorry.

[and, after further consideration:]

Have you or Brie ever disobeyed her? Has she ever done anything about it?

[spellheal]

I haven't asked anything of you. It's not my place to. I'm charged with helping with healing and information, as ironic as you may find that, not asking favors. My beliefs are my beliefs, and you're allowed to do what you want -- I simply don't think defiance benefits myself or anyone else.

Magic doesn't exist in my world. Through Qri I have gained magic, I can speak to and understand others with meerly my mind, I've traveled across times and universes. I don't know what more proof I need that what I've been told is real. I also know that her powers are limited. It would be more beneficial for all of us if this process worked more quickly, but it does not because there is a need to generate more energy for her than she puts out. I believe that's why more members were gathered in the first place.

I have never disobeyed her. Brie has no benefit in disobeying her either. Do you believe that there is a better way to see whether or not we make strides towards our end goal?

[rootandbranch]

Sure, Qri is asking, not you. I won't argue with that. Getting told to represent her is a hard job.

I do think there's probably a better way. Qri must think so too, or she wouldn't have changed what she was doing before. I'll accept that we don't know what it is yet. I just wish she'd tell more so we can figure it out.

Let's talk about something else for a second -- I was curious about one thing in your letter that never got explained. If I'm remembering right, you said our abilities let us invest energy into her. Is that just with stuff like the Eltos bones, or is it more directly too?

[spellheal]

It's not a direct investment. Your magic enables you to help her and will always exist. For those without any magic, like myself, we would be next to useless without this magic and the magic of others around us. Even those WITH previous magic may not always be able to use it -- well, you read the letter, obviously, so you understand.

Sorry if that sounded more dramatic than it should have been, consider it poor wording.

[rootandbranch]

Don't worry about it.

I'm guessing you and Brie haven't made suggestions to her either, from how you reacted to me asking about a better way.

[spellheal]

There hasn't been much to suggest. It was different when it was just two of us, but I think with more members comes a more pressing desire for a different managerial style.

[rootandbranch]

[that's enough of an understatement that Geir has to huff out a tiny laugh at it.]

Sounds like it. For one thing, having the job of being Qri's mouthpiece and no real power or knowledge has got to sting.

[oh, right... Genette might be unused to it on more than one level. he wonders if her last boss was this much of a pain.]

Did this kind of thing happen to you at home?

[spellheal]

No, not at all. And in that case, I'm not sure what you mean happened to me back home. It was much more...normal than this, obviously.

[rootandbranch]

[mildly dismayed more than accusatory]

I don't know anything about what you think is normal. If your job doesn't bug you at all with all of us here asking you questions, I don't understand what you're thinking even as much as I thought I did.

[spellheal]

It's just that if you mean was I under the charge of a space witch and forced to communicate as her mouth piece with people from other worlds when I was where I'm from originally...no, absolutely not. If you mean something more vague or general, I'm not sure of what that would be.

[rootandbranch]

Having to serve, and answer for your master, without all the facts.

[he sounds just interested rather than judmgental: some people serve. no shame in it]

[spellheal]

My life revolves around servitude, yes. However, no -- I'm not used to living so in the dark like this, though I don't think I need to know everything in this situation.

[rootandbranch]

Well... I hope none of us stay in the dark forever, necessary or not! Maybe if Qri gets stronger, it'll get better.