memezilla | Jail Cell Mee

It's not... yeah, it is this bad.

Why did you trust me though?

I have an ability. Nothing I can control, but... it shows me things. Things people I meet have experienced, if they happen to be relevant to the situation at hand. It doesn't happen all the time, or with everyone I meet. Just when it needs to, really. It's called the Echo.

[Mary at least doesn't seem phased by it at all. She seems relieved, even. She's a fortune teller, seeing into people's lives is a thing she's perfectly familiar with.]

So you know... It seems like I'm going to have to leave. Maybe find some Romani....

You could come with me. Like I said - I'm just passing through. I know some people who wouldn't think twice about taking you in - or helping you to find whatever it is you need.

[She pauses, and after a moment's consideration, goes on...] You kind of remind me of one of them, actually.

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[She holds a hand in front of her chest, eyes wide and curious.] Who?

I doubt you'll know the name - neither he nor I are really from around here. He's a real rogue, but he has a heart of solid gold. He's been through a lot lately, though...

[...Who among their group hasn't been through a lot, lately?]

We call him Thancred.

[She smiles,] Eric was quite the rogue too. I'm sure we'd get along.

[Her smile is pained. Eric had died recently, killed by the real murder and pinned on her like the poisoning had been. They even were trying to make it seem that she had killed her mother years before.

She'd been handed a real bad hand in life. Growing up in the worst part of town, barely able to survive despite having shocking psychic ability. Many of her friends died of disease. Just getting a cold could be a death sentence. There were times where starvation would lead to someone's death even when they worked together. She'd been driven to theft before, but that's where her criminal activity ends.

Many people in her place would be full of despair, but somehow once again she's smiling.]

[Aeslyn knew places like that. They went by names like Pearl Lane, Rat's Alley, and the Silver Bazaar, where she came from - and she's spent significant amounts of time in most of them.]

[The usage of past tense doesn't escape her notice, either.] I'm sure you will. He's a little intense right now, but... he'd never pass up the chance to make a good impression on a cute lady. Just don't take him too seriously - it's half act, half reflex, and half genuinely just being the rogue he is at heart.

[She smiles, starting to lead the other girl through the sewers.] He sounds sweet.

I'm hoping that Leroy's here. I'd like to have a chance to say good bye to him at least. I know he won't join us, his sister is very ill, she wouldn't manage.

He is. They all are, really - I get the feeling you're going to fit in like a hand in a glove.

[The news of a sick friend is... troubling, but not unexpected.] I may be able to help with that, at least. I've picked up a few things about medicine in my travels.

[She smiles, but it isn't too hopeful. She'd seen the illness take too many lives to really expect the sister to be able to recover, but there's no way she would try to pull Leroy from her.] I'm sure he would really appreciate it.

[She smiles back. Kid, you're in for a show - doubly so if her sneaking suspicion turns out to be right. Those cards you use have given her an idea.]

D'you believe in magic, by any chance?

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Of course. I am very psychic, as was my mother.

Not really what I meant, but it's related. ...Know what, here, hold this for me.

[She hands Mary a piece of crystal, its sides carved in excruciatingly minute detail with countless details about and stories of a certain type of magic-user - an Astrologian. Its glow was dull in Aeslyn's hand, but in Mary's...]

((Not that it makes a whole lotta difference coming from a meme, but what she just handed Mary is the Soul of the Astrologian; it grants the Astrologian class and abilities up to level 30. ...I could also ask if you happen to play FFXIV, in which case I needn't explain more. XD))

((I'm gonna run with it, tell me if it's off.))

[The crystal glows brightly, and Mary can feel the energy flowing through it. She had been taught her ways by her mother and the fortune telling mother of a friend, but somehow now things she didn't know before made perfect sense. She stares at the crystal, wide-eyed as she discovers how to tap into talents that had only been hidden to her before.

She's left speechless.]

[A very, very satisfied smile. She'd known ever since she picked up that stone that it wasn't meant for her, no matter how strongly it reacted then. But she does know how to make the tools of that particular trade - tools Mary will now have a significant need for. For now, she'll take the one she was given when she received that stone out and offer it - collapsed, it looks kind of like a cymbal with too many rings, but it pops up into something like a globe made of orbital rings.]

Let's go see if we can't help that sick friend of yours. I think you'll find you don't even really need my help, now.

((Astrologian is a healer class. It uses planispheres and cards to generate effects; its primary focuses are on buffs and it's one of three classes that have the ability to heal status ailments.))

[Mary holds it with awe and reverence and a smile filled with hope. Leroy's sure to be confused, but she's fairly sure she could save his sister now.

If only she could stay in the city and spend all her time healing the sick.]

I don't know how to thank you.

[She shakes her head and, still smiling (even if it's a bit sad, now), pats the girl on the shoulder.]

There's no need to thank me for putting you on an even more difficult path. Without formal training, you'll have to find your own way - and I know precisely how hard that can be. I'll be there to help you, but this is your path - it's up to you to walk it.

[She takes the girl's hand,] No, it's the harder paths that are the ones worth walking. I've been sad for too long about being able to do much for others, for only being able to be a shoulder to cry on. I don't care if it's more difficult, and I think I can manage finding my own way. I'm just happy that I can do more for the people around me.

[Looks like her travel plans have changed. This city won't be seeing the back of either of them for a while yet... but at least now, she has a goal.]

Okay. Let's go, then; the sooner we start helping your friend, the better. You know the way - lead on.

[She's already on it, leading her through the sewers to find Leroy and his sister. They go up a ladder and find a little area that is still a part of the underground, but about half the area is above street level.

Leroy looks surprised to see her and worried.] Mary Weather! But... Eric... Didn't you get arrested?

[Mary hugs Leroy,] I had help escaping. Let Aeslyn explain, I'm going to heal your sister.

[He's rightfully baffled, and looks to Aeslyn for answers while Mary went to the short cot and many hole-filled blankets that hid Leroy's sister.]

[Aeslyn stands back while Mary gets reacquainted with her friends, and nods when she passes the duty of explaining.]

I don't make a habit of staying in jail cells that I didn't do anything to earn my place in. Someone in there thinks that picking up little girls off the street makes for good business. We gave them reason to believe otherwise... [She clenches a fist, knowing just how bad things would have gotten for Mary if she hadn't been there.] And when we finish here, I'm going to go back and make sure they got the message. Consider it a parting gift.

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[Mary somehow just knew what to do, and it wasn't too long before a tired but strong voice calls out,] Leroy?

[Leroy runs to his sister's side as Mary steps away. He's busy hugging his sister close and crying with joy.

Meanwhile Mary slips back to Aeslyn's side.] Let's go. It will be harder if he needs to say a full goodbye.

[Aeslyn just nods - she knows how hard this is, and she's not going to draw it out. She does leave a package sitting on the nearest flat surface, though - inside are a significant number of strange coins. Hopefully enough to keep things around here moving upward.]

Get us back to that jail. I intend to keep my word.

[She leads them back into the depths. There seems to be some sort of navigational key written on the walls, but it seems nigh impossible to decipher.

Probably because they're merely landmarks, with subtle enough differences you wouldn't be able to really tell them apart unless you knew what you were looking for.

For the most part Mary doesn't even need to use these, though there are a few times she stops to check.

Eventually she leads them up another ladder that leads to a side alley a block from the police station.]

Jail Cell Mee

I know the feel

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Gah, what I wouldn't do to have these two meet in a real game...

I do play her pretty often. not currently anywhere, but I am looking at a place

Might I ask which one?

https://thelottery.dreamwidth.org/profile

Thriller isn't really my style, but I wouldn't mind museboxing with you elsewhere?

any time! You can always pm me, and I have a musebox boxouttahell

Bookmarking that musebox!

yay!

I see we have a friend or two in common - I recognize that Zetta.

Apparently we have some plurk friends in common too! Small world~

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