The Twelfth Sun of Brotemburgh - Hour of the Howl

Biki it was a disaster!

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My Alchemy class that's what! We were supposed to do a simple incantation the teacher prepared for us to make the inanimate, animate. Simple, we were to take the rune stones and wave them over our elements whist reciting these words. Power of the stone, bring forth this being to my service. But something from deep down inside of me beckoned me to sing.

Of sticks and stones

I call your bones

Moss and sap

to bridge the gap

Come to me my little one

For the forest no longer calls you son

I don't know what came over me, but before I knew it there he was. This little thing, living and breathing. Professor Verata was enraged, she failed me from the class, and what's worse forbid me to take any other's like it. She said I was playing with the fates, and the power to create and destroy life should never be taken so lightly by a Mage in training, and of my level.

Oh Biki, she stripped me of my Alchemy ranks, and says she is going to have a long talk with Stathama when he gets back about my blatant disregard for the life forces.

~ ~ ~whhhaaat happenneeeed to the littllleeee onee?%*

Professor Verata took it away, she said she would speak with the council tomorrow before the ball to see what is to be done with the abomination.

~ *abominaaaation!%*

I know! He might have been a mistake, but he took a sturdy form, and if anything his ability to cower and show fear upon first creation attests to his ability think logically and fear old hags throwing you in cages. He was a success if you ask me, just not the success she was looking for...

~ ~*he feeaaarrsss?*

Not at first he didn't. When he was first created he seemed happy, and clumsy. Had problems standing, wobbly legs. Odikorh thought he was cute, but Odikorh thinks everything is cute. Odikorh tried to feed him a bug, but he ended up hugging it.

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It died, he hugged it too tight, and I think that saddened the creature. But then Professor Veratta flipped her Cowl and took it away.

Oh Biki, I really do just keep creating trouble where ever I go. It's as if I'm cursed.

~ ~ La mir~

Hold on Biki, there is someone at the door, I think it is Odikorh, I wonder what he could possibly want at this time of the moon.

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The Twenty Fifth Sun of Brotembutgh

Biki,
Sorry I haven’t written but things got a little crazy this week. Oh so much happened Biki, I don’t know where to start.
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All right, don’t have to be so pushy Biki!

Well I guess it started the last night I was writing to you. That was Odikorh at the door, apparently he and the Cogger, ~Goooooordon%?~ Yeah what ever, anyway I guess they are like best friends now. And Odi was talking to the Cogger about the lil moss creature thing I made, and I gues the cogger felt really strongly against its imprisonment and possible termination.
So we snuck into the holding facilities and tried to take it back, ~ yooou?%*  Well I'm not heartless Biki. But when the stupid Cogger saw all the creatures being held he almost flipped his bolts. Then Odi had this bright idea to let all the creatures go.
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I swear those two are dumber than a pair of onyx ceajai birds. All the creatures running amok… some of those are in there for a reason Biki.
~ yesss~
But it helped in causing a distraction for us to get away, we ran and hid in this storage cellar till the coast was clear. Or so we thought, as soon as we walked out, there was professor Verata just waiting for me. ~%!! She hadn’t seen the others, so I made a huge fuss pretending like I was trying to blame it all on them. Saying that they tricked me, and wanted me as a scape goat, then took off. She of course didn’t believe that, but she also didn’t believe they were behind me.
I figured it would be better if I got caught and not them, since no judgment can be passed until Stathama gets back, and I would like to believe he would be kinder to me. ~% thaaaats oddddd*~ I don’t know what you are talking about Biki, I always have my fellow brethren’s well being in mind. ~~~~
So I spent the last week in lock down, meditating and tuning my lyricasting. Check this one out.

Rocks will break
and Stone will erode

Time will win
and free me from this abode.

It didn’t work, but I still liked it. I think they fortified the doors with spell nullifiers for just such an occasion.
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  For a week I sat in that prison day in and day out, pondering to myself. The Cogger was surprisingly nice to me, he created various contraptions and gadgets to keep me entertained while I awaited the return of my beloved husebind.
There was this one crystal wing he made for me, this pretty little bird, that when the sun shines on it’s crystals it would sing the most beautiful songs. I had no idea the Cogger even had a musical bone in his body ~ ~ coooggers actuallllyyy h* But ooooh Biki the songs that would come out of that bird. I tried casting  to the melody, but I would always get so wrapped up in its song I would forget what I was doing and just listen and daydream. ~ %whaaat of?* Well that is non of your business Biki.
It was really nice though… what Gordon.. ?*..The Cogger did… He was probably afraid I would turn him in and then it was back to Cog he goes. But still….
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~ Stathamaaaa?%~
Oh Right! STATHAMA HAS RETURNED!!!
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He’s not doing too well actually. I saw him riding towards the castle on a hoof, but I wasn’t sure if it was him or not, so I took the goblet of water I had and tried your lyricast again. (it even works in a glass of water!!) ~%* But I could see it was him, he was just barely hanging on to his hoof, so I banged on my prison doors and told them our emperor has arrived, and he needs help. I tried to leave the tower, but the guards still wouldn’t let me. Can you believe them Biki!? Laws or no, I am still their EMPRESS!!
I couldn’t just sit there and wait Biki, I could see he was badly hurt in the goblet, but I couldn’t get to him. I don’t know what came over me but I jumped.
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I know! Right out of the tower window! I don’t know what exactly I had planned would happen… Actually I didn’t really plan anything.
I just knew that my husebind was down there, and I wasn’t.
~ hoooow?%~
I don’t know, I closed my eyes, waiting for impact.
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And then when I opened them, there I was… sitting on the ground, not a scratch on me…
~ how diiiid youuu?%*
I don’t know, but I was ok. I snuck into our quarters, and there he was Biki… My beloved husebind, lying in our chambers, struggling to breath. But he saw me, and smiled and I smiled with him.
The guards tried to take me back to the tower, but Stathama lifted his hand and they all backed off. That’s how mighty he is, he just lifts a hand… and they know… they just know.
I have been sitting with him for a few hours now taking care of him.
It is really hard Biki, ordering the priests to come and heal him, sending the peasant girls for more water and rags and telling them to not stop wiping him off. And then there are the cooks, my lord, it is like they have never cooked for a sick person before. I told them to make him a “heal all wounds” potion, and they gave me some “divine light” nonsense. I swear, I’m so glad we don’t have kids, throw a nanny in the mix and I would have gone crazy. It is just too much work sometimes Biki.
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Oh he is asleep right now. This is the first chance I have had since all of this to write to you again. He keeps mumbling something too me that I can’t make out. Something about me not being safe, I can’t really understand it though. He must be dreaming.
~ saafe frommm whaattt?%*
I don’t know, but he is waking up now so I have to go. Hello again Biki, and good bye my friend, I will write to you again tomorrow.

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The Twenty Sixth Sun of Brotemburgh

Well Stathama seems to be doing better with the help of those potions. He would be doing a lot better had they made the ones I suggested though. ~*"
The council still hasn't requested a trial for my misbehaviors, at least they have the decency to wait until he is well. Maybe if he takes long enough they will forget!
~Nnnoooo!~*
Biki!You really have no faith in me, I wasn't going to do anything to him, he is my beloved and I can do him no harm. But if something were to happen, that was out of my control... you know... I'm just saying....
~NOOOOO*%!
Oh alright!
YOU ARE NO FUN BIKI!

I went to Gor the Cogger's stables yesterday to see what was going on with the metal hoof.
~aaaannd?%*
Oh Biki, she is beautiful, her metals and flesh colors don't match, but I talked to Gordon about that. He says that he is going to stain the metal a bronze color once he is finished.
She has developed a few living hoof parts, and what she hasn't developed Gordon has created for her, and some of the parts he made, she has taken over and turned. Like the bones for the chest plate, half flesh half metal. She shimmers in the sun, and her emerald eyes glow fiercely as if they are the source of her power. I know she was a mistake, and I never should have dabbled in Haemocasting, but she is amazing. Even Gordon likes her now, I see him talking to her a lot while he works, and she seems to respond well to him.
~ ~ * hhhhooow often dooo you visiiiit himmm noooowww?%*
What do you mean I don't visit that dirty cogger. He is just on my way to a lot of places, and there is stuff around him I have to do, or see. So it is just by chance really that I run into him as often as I do.
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And you know, he is taking care of Little Moss right now while we hide him, so I want to check up on him as much as possible. So it is only natural that I go visit Moss on a regular basis of two or three times a day, and if I just so happen to see Gordo.. the cogger well so be it.
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~Littleeee Mossss?%*
Oh! Yeah that is the name Odi gave the Moss creature I created in our Alchemy class. You know at first I wasn't too fond of the little guy, but he really grows on you. Literally, he's made of moss.
But he is sweet, always follows Gordon where ever he goes like a little pewpie. Tries to help him too, by picking up equipment and handing it too him, but Moss is so small and weak by the time he picks something up, Gordon is already over there grabbing it himself.
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He is really cute, when ever I come over he just sits in my lap while I talk to Gordon.
~ abouuuut whhattt?%*
Oh, what, I mean when I check on the hoof. He sits in my lap, and we watch the hoof.
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Are you calling me a liar? I don't know what you are talking about! I need to go anyway, it is close to resting and I need to make sure the servants give Stathama a sponge bath tonight. I can't sleep next to those stenches another night. I'm telling you Biki, taking care of a sick husebind is hard work. Good Night!

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The Twenty Seventh Sun of Brotemburgh

They scheduled my trial, it will be in two days Biki!! TWO DAYS!!
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I don't know what to do! I have to be on my best behavior until then, I'm going to try to suck up to Stathama as much as possible as well.
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Why!? Because husebind or not, he still has to appear to be a just ruler. Can't go around showing me favoritism.
~ maaaaake up?%*
I don't know, do you think I should wear more? You think that would work. I could seduce ~NNNNOO! Coouuld you doooo somethiiing to makeeee uuup for it?~
Oh, I don't know.... swap punishment for punishment, I don't think that is a really good plan Biki.
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I have just got to stay out of trouble the next few days and perhaps... Hey Biki! It's my fan boy!! ~%!!!!~
I thought he had gotten bored with me, but there he is behind that pillar. I gotta pretend I can't see him, but I will pick you up so you can see.







There did you get a glimpse?
~nnoooo *
Really?
Oh yeah, I don't see him any more. I wonder where he

~what juust haaappenneeeed?%*


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Biki.
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Biki, that guy isn't a fan.
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