Magic and Machine

This makes me so happy ❗

“It’s not that painful- why the hell are you crying?”

Day 4:  Doctors/Surgery/Medical Emergency

Decided to do one of my League OC with her employer who is a surgeon. Being an indentured servant sucks- but it gets even worse when your boss decides she’s in a sadistic mood and wants to start literally pulling teeth  

❝Only enemies speak the truth❞

❝Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty❞

❝As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners❞

❝Kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome❞

❝Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else❞

❝Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too❞

❝We lie best when we lie to ourselves.❞

❝Swear to me swear to me that if it isn’t dead you’ll all come back❞

❝Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real❞

❝Try to stop me and I’ll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can’t stop me!❞

❝Want a balloon?❞

❝All the rest is darkness❞

❝When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it❞

❝True sorrow is as rare as true love ❞

❝Sorry is the KoolAid of human emotions ❞

❝Love me. My head is so bad tonight. Love me. Love me.❞

❝But sin never dies. Sin … never … dies. ❞

❝That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery❞

❝Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear❞

❝Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up❞

❝When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won’t be offended❞

❝May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain❞

❝Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand❞

❝But I doubt if this is God’s doing. I suspect He’ll keep right out of it as a consequence❞

❝I am your number one fan❞

❝Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit❞

❝If you promise to be good you can have a piece of birthday cake❞

❝You know what talent is? The curse of expectation❞

❝Just go on dancing with me like this forever. And I’ll never tire❞

❝To hell with you. You just don’t want to admit it.❞

❝Death is great for the appetites❞

❝Jesus, you remind me of the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland❞

❝Hope? Yeah, I’m beginning to remember how to spell that word, too❞

❝Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented❞

❝Why didn’t you kill me like you did that guy back there❞

Now that was the far trickier question. The language of the runes was a strange, esoteric affair that most experts in that field still struggled with. It wasn’t true Rune Magic, the kind that warped the landscape in ancient battles long ago, but the art of transcribing the language of creation and entropy was as myriad as the thousands of forms of magic itself.

“Loosely.” Renzus told her, unable to restrain himself from letting slip a slight chuckle. “The language of magic is difficult enough to convert to written form, so when you add on another layer of linguistic complication when our human minds try and convert it to common…well, the result is often the imperfect expressions that runes provide.”

He paused, subjecting the assistant to his hawk-eyed scrutiny. She seemed very bright, far more acute than anyone in her station would be. This girl was an indentured servant? That felt like a travesty.

“What did you say your name was?” The robed man inquired, feigning an innocent tone of everyday conversation. He was strongly considering earmarking her for…well, some kind of recruitment. Perhaps not Crowhood, but her expertise might prove useful, if her potential could be better realized.

@hextech-hearted

Trying to imagine such a thing was far harder than anything working in this place had tossed at her yet- as the mechanic’s mind did not like working in indefiniteness. Though she was fully aware that the world around her was far from black and white, it didn’t make it that much easier for her to imagine. She had never really liked abstract thinking. 

“Sorta like...programming I guess.” she replied, tracing down the next set of marks down the fake argumentation- trying to catch herself to not get sloppy as she found she already had lost interest in the work “I mean, programming’s more direct, sure- but the way I’ve worked with it, it’s not as simple as telling people what you’re putting into the thing is going to do.”  she was honestly talking more to herself than the person she had asked the question to in the first place by now, trying to work it through in her mind as she continued with her tedious project “But even then, it’s not like magic is predictable in the same way as that. When you give something variables to work with, you tell it how to react to something. You give it a situation and it’ll act in the same manner a hundred percent of the time. Magic’s not the same way. I wouldn’t use magic to program a clock because it only has to act one way its entire lifetime, unchanging.” 

She took an unused bit of crystal that had been damaged in one of her last work orders into her un-gloved hand. The edge of her grin twitched as it shimmered- reacting to the contact of the powerful crystal in her chest. “But...magic ain’t so simple, is it? Even if you ask it to do something as simple as light up a room in a lamp, I think it tends to have more of a mind of its own.”

She had been rambling on for so long that it almost made her jolt when her visitor spoke again, resuming the last bits of her paint job before she answered his question.

1. “Oh no! Is this it? Looks dreadful.” 

2. “It’s so ugly you could almost feel sorry for it.” 

3. “Why is s/he crying?”

4. “Oh, come on. That’s funny.” 

5. “I know you’re there. Don’t be afraid.” 

6. “I know who you are. You’re my fairy godmother/father.” 

7. “You’ve been watching over me my whole life. I’ve always known you were close by.” 

8. “Hello, _____. I’ve known you since you were a little one.” 

9. “It’s everything I imagined it would be.” 

10. “You mock me. I know what you’re doing.” 

11. “Can you not see we’re having a conversation?” 

12. “When the curse fails, _____ will come for me. And on that day, I will be ready.” 

13. “I revoke the curse. Let it be known.” 

14. “Do all the fair people have wings?” 

15. “S/he’s coming.” 

16. “If we go inside those walls, we’ll never come out alive.” 

17. “Look at her/him. Look at what you’ve done.” 

18. “S/he’s only sleeping.” 

19. “True Love does not exist.” 

20. “True Love doesn’t just fall from trees, you know.” 

21. “Pardon me. I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t know where I am.” 

22. “Do you want to kiss her/him?” 

23. “I shall not ask your forgiveness, for what I have done to you is unforgivable.”

24. “Our kingdoms have been unified.” 

25. “S/he’s always in a hurry with her/his big wings.” 

26. “I’m not afraid. Besides, I’ve never seen a human up close.” 

27. “It’s not right to steal, but we don’t kill people for it.” 

28. “Are you fully grown?” 

29. “If I knew you were going to throw it away, I would have kept it.” 

30. “Someday, you know, I’ll live there. In the castle.” 

31. “My parents are dead.” 

32. “You really shouldn’t come back here, you know. It’s not safe.” 

33. “I like your wings.” 

34. “After all these weeks, look who came back.” 

35. “So. What do you do for fun?” 

36. “Go no further!” 

37. “I’ve come to warn you. They mean to kill you.” 

38. “What have you done to my beautiful self?” 

39. “Would you rather I let them beat you to death?” 

40. “Stop complaining. I saved your life.” 

41. “I must say, I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation.” 

42. “You’re not welcome here.” 

43. “A grand celebration for a baby. How wonderful.” 

44. “No! We don’t want your gifts!” 

45. “This curse will last til the end of time! No power on Earth can change it.” 

46. “Oh look. The little beast is about to fall off the cliff.” 

47. “Go away. I don’t like children.” 

48. “How could you do that to me?” 

49. “Fine. Next time I’ll turn you into a mealy worm.” 

50. “I had wings once, they were stolen from me. That’s all I wish to say about it.”   

51. “You don’t have to wait until you’re older. You could live here now.” 

52. “You have been very good to me, except for the time you accidentally fed me spiders.” 

53. “Well, it was nice to meet you, and once again my apologies for being such a clumsy fool.” 

54. “True Love’s kiss, remember? It can break the spell. 

55. “I’m so happy we’re leaving tomorrow.” 

56. “I’m leaving home.” 

57. “When were you going to tell me that I’m cursed?” 

58. “You look just like your mother/father.” 

59. “It’s so good to be small again!”

60. “I need a horse.” 

61. “Faster, _____, faster!”