*When you come back to Green's house after your negotians for trade and what not, probably more tired than you were before, you can feel something in the air is different. Green's magic is heavier β there's more of it inside the wards than usual. It doesn't hurt, but it's clear the magic is to protect people as best it can.*
*More than that β you can feel Audrah and Wild's magic heavily, too... more heavily than usual because their magic is intwined with Green and his family at least... but today? Today, their magic is heavy as if holding something back.*
*The kids are all in the orchard. You can hear them playing as the birds watch.*
*You swear you can smell a particular type of thunderstorm β the one you thought left behind. How many times have you thought that, though?*
*Alfie meets you on the porch, giving his best smile. It's good, but itself not convincing to someone who's known him his whole life or can feel the magic in the area.*
*Something is in the house, and they don't want the kids near it. Gan waves at you, yelling something about 'surprise dreams' before turning back to his game with Ben.*
*Tori's magic flares, familiar and new all at once. It is quickly covered by waves of Audrah's magic while Green's magic holds the wards and Wild's keeps a barrier between the kids and the house for now.*
*Whatever is happening... Tori is in the middle.*
NO
*Alfie stands straight as he finally speaks.*
Hi, Sky. Papa didn't say you were coming over. Are you okay? How did the trade talks go?
... I'd offer you tea but you caught us at a bad time for tea.
*Thunder echoes in the area even though their are no clouds. It almost sounds under water...*
*... You're starting to feel a little weird. Far away but not. Tired, but you probably already were.*
- @def-not-the-daughter-of-a-legend
(Red is Alfie)
*I jumped off Crimson. Wren keeping an eye at a distance. Just a precaution is what they all tell me.*
Odd... its not normally this quiet...
*I'm walking on my own. Just about. But my movements are slow. Calculated.*
Tori... somethings...
*I hear the yell and I move as fast as I can. Running into Alfie.*
I'll tell you all about them later...
Alfie. Alfie whats... wrong. Whats going on?
*I feel exhausted. But... thats probably from the use of everything. From the poison...*
