☎️ @the-last-laughing-magician you have one message:
“Fair warning, sorry but, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOOOOOOOOHNNNNN!!!!!”
Mara half-yelled into her phone, joy obvious in her voice.
“You're turning what? 72?”
The young woman joked, indulging in a short snicker before she went on:
“More seriously, so sorry for being late. My mom showed up at my place in the early morning out of the blue. And spend her day picking apart my life choices whilst simultaneous complaining that we don't see each other often enough, go figure... But I'll give it to her, she was a good sport about traipsing around town with me to get your birthday gift! I meant to call you about it yesterday too, but we ended up going for dinner and I-I forgot...”
She admitted, voice quieting in embarrassment.
“But the gift has been secured and according to my tracker is being delivered as we speak. So look out for a decently sized parcel eheheh! I think you'll like it! I hope you do! And if you don't, well, you have to keep it anyway because it was a pain to get it and I know a guy named twitchy Richie for it so...” She giggled. “Anyways, this voicemail is getting far too long so ta-rah! See ya later mate! As you scousers say.”
Mara paused, brows creasing.
“Wait, I didn't say who it was, is it? Well, it's M. And you should know because one, we've fought a demon together and two, let's be honest you probably don't get that many courtesy calls anyway.”
“Okay, this is really goodbye now. Goodbye!”
With those words, the young woman hung up.
Kagutsuchi's ( the sandman / lucifer ) liquid breath — the item is about the size of a champagne bottle and contains a magical liquid fire granting some pyrokinesis abilities.
When poured onto something, the liquid is able to set anything on fire, including demons and the fire cannot be extinguished by any normal means, only water blessed by a prayer to Susanoo-no-Mikoto or coming from a vial/bottle/bowl/receptacle with the sea god's Japanese name carved/engraved/whittled on it.
When a shot's worth is drunk, the drinker is granted immunity to being burned by fire for up to 10 minutes, however it wears off at time passes so if you were stuck in a fire for say 8 minutes, you'd leave alive but with second degree burns onn bare exposed skin and could suffer consequences for inhaling so many fumes. Alongside this mild immunity, comes some ability to control and manipulate fire, not generate it however. So one could absorb fire and its heat, augment or reduce existing flames, heat up objects and shape flames into forms, like a shield of fire or create rings and arcs to slice larger, more widely spaced, or evasive targets with sweeping arms movements or ignite weapons such as arrowheads or blades.
Warning: drinking too much of it can lead to quite literally burning from the inside, and if endured, turning into some sort of fire demon, very alike to the human torch but trapped in an on-fire form.
It seemed befitting for the Hellblazer. Like a tool to better feed his natural abilities but also fall back on. Hope you like it!]
