#titanswill

@titanswill​ sent: "The pity is -- no one will believe you."

  How many times has she had this nightmare? She had lost count, and each time only felt more real. Pain lanced its way up her back, but she felt 𝗍𝗈𝗈 𝗇𝗎𝗆𝖻, 𝗍𝗈𝗈 𝖽𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖼𝗁𝖾𝖽 to react as she normally would. That was the only thing that was keeping her from panicking, allowed her to speak...but even that defense was falling away the longer this lasted. They were so tired.

   "𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒, 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝..." They managed to whisper, their face turned completely away from the object of their suffering, their pain, their fear. Emperor Belos stood over her, menacing as always, his shadow falling over her shaking, huddled form as if to consume her.

@titanswill​ expressed: Gently sets his hand on the boy's shoulder. He's got such a soft smile. Could he possibly be... proud of him? It's unclear, though Belos is in a surprisingly good mood today.

🞠🐦︎🞠 Unprompted --- Always Accepting

    Noel tries to straighten up even more from his pin straight posture, a dull ache spreading out from his left shoulder when Belos touches him. Even the gentle touch is enough to cause the chronic pain to flair up, not that he would ever express as such to his uncle.

He shouldn’t be here. He shouldn’t be doing this... But how else was he going to find more information? He’d already looked through all the books in the castles library and even went through the forbidden stacks of several of the towns libraries, but he couldn’t find anything of what he was looking for...

So now he’s here, standing outside the emperor’s personal library. Only the most restricted of information was accessible solely by Belos. If that fact alone wasn’t enough to keep the boy away, the enchantment on the door’s lock should have made him turn back.

However, in reading so many books on wild magic he picked up things here and there, including how to bypass heavily enchanted locks. From a pouch on his hip he pulled out his palisman that quietly transformed into his staff form.

Hunter took a deep breath and drew a small golden spell circle in front of the lock. There was a loud click and he stashed Rascal away before trying the door. The knob turned easily, the large door creaked softly as he opened it. No one was inside... Good.

Quickly he hurried it, softly closing the door behind him. It wasn’t a large room but there were still several book shelves filled to the brim with tomes and grimoires. It would take him some time to look through them, but he hoped he’d find something quickly. He wasn’t sure how long he would have until his uncle came back here.

Hunter sifts through books, skimming their contents, trying to find anything talking about wild magic. One looked promising and he starts to flip through the pages, trying to glean what he can from it.

A noise catches his attention and he shuts the book, clutching it to his chest as he spins around to face the door.

“L-Lord Belos.” The name caught in Alex’s throat at the Emperor’s appearance outside the young man’s rather simple house, though it was a quite a ways away from the rest of Bonesborough, lingering dangerously close at the cliff of the city. 

“I mean, to be fair...”

@titanswill​ asked: "Why is it always you little cardinals when there is discord among the castle walls?"

Oh no. Belos found out. Time to act very chill and not too chaotic. Don’t say anything foolish at all. Everything is perfectly fine and nothing is wrong. 

@titanswill​ asked: Casts a sleep spell because good god child GO TO BED

        the teenager rushes so quickly into the emperor’s throne room that he thinks for a split second that he might get whiplash, the loose hairs that normally dance about his face now tangling within themselves in his hurry.  the portal key that contained several drops worth of real, true titans blood was a pleasant pressure in his palm, and hunter was careful to handle it in such a way that no more of the blue liquid would seep from the wound in its eye.

       “  uncle!  ”  he’s breathless, alight with energy, ecstatic and trying not to shake.  “  uncle, i  ...  i’ve found some.  the titans blood.  the mines were completely dried up, but i  --  i managed to get my hands on another portal key. ”  he hardly knows if he’s making any sense. there’s electricity soaring through his veins, making him dizzy with excitement. he did it, he really did it. there couldn’t possibly be any means to replace him now, no need for his uncle to hassle over finding someone to take his place. he did it. he’s completed his mission and returned to his uncle with results.

       “  you can go back to the human realm!  WE can go.  here.  ”  he wastes no more time in opening his hand, revealing the necklace in all of its glimmering, shattered glory. 

       “  unfortunately, some of the blood has leaked out.  but  -  but i have good reason to believe that this is most likely the only resource of titans blood ... anywhere!  and it’s yours!  ”  hunter can hardly contain himself, but with a snap in the back of his mind he recalls that this man is not only his uncle, but his emperor. with a groan of the day wearing down on him, hunter drops to one loyal knee and lowers his head in respect, arm still outstretched.