Hi Alastor! I have a question
If Zestial was to aid you a fight (hypothetically you both get ambushed when near each other) do you think he'd use weapons or have more magic based combat?
An odd hypothetical, seeing as we don't often happen across each other. But, in this scenario, both of us would be quite well off with our natural abilities alone. Besides that, I doubt he makes a habit of keeping lethal weapons on his person on a casual stroll about town. So, he would use magic based combat, as you put it, as would I.
Signing off
~Alastor :)
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The sea, cast against nothing but grey and featureless skies for miles and a furry of white blanketing everything else, is a dark and deep black like rough-cut glass, cresting up into peaks of cutting froth and diving back down into blessed darkness in each valley they leave behind. In a world as monochrome as this, even with the froth and the movement all around, the little spec of pink that floats up is hard to miss. It's framed by nothing but the ink around itself, the only feature against the stark nothingness above, and even though it's the gold of her crown that peeks slyly above the water first, it's the rose of her nose that stands out the most.
Really, that's all she has to lift up and out of the water, even if she hates revealing that much to the open air. The wind bites at her nostrils as she exhales, sending up a thin plume of smoke and seawater into an icy mist. The inhale hurts, and she can feel the difference as she refills her air bladders, her lungs, both in equal measure. This purpose is uncommon, but it can be nice, even when she has other methods of breathing too.
Her nose pinches shut as she slips beneath the water again. Technically, it's cold too, down here, but Miranda only knows this by technicality, not by sense. It's never felt cold to her. That kind of awareness is only born out of difference, out of vast and moody swings in a medium that she's grown more familiar with in time, but does not exist here. Her body exchanges the temperature for her, manages it for her, shares it with the water that becomes her lifeblood, so she's only recently become aware that her body could feel something like the terrible winds from above down to its core. If she had to guess, or to describe it to those whom such things come more innately, she might describe it as always feeling just the right amount of warm. To understand that she was a different temperature than the world around her, yes, but to never get too warm, hot blood carried out to her extremities to cool, and to never get too cold, keeping cool blood in her core until it warmed beside her organs and her beating heart.
She hadn't known before, a need to maintain such things, and she doesn't feel it now. Even as terribly cold as it is above, even as much as the smallest lift of her nosecrest back above hurts her, it is not so cold down here. It is the same temperature it always is, the same way it has always been, and it holds her body and buoys her up as though she is nothing more than another part of the currents that flow through the water around her.
It does bring comfort, shielding her the very moment she slips back under, and as she vanishes back beneath the endless black, the red of her body gone as quickly as she appeared, the biting cold of the wind vanishes too. Nothing else remains above the water line as a reminder, the eternal whiteness of ice forgetting as soon as this moment too passes into memory.
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okay I need to extend scene 4 by a page and I actually have been… mostly? Starting from the first panel down but this time I need to go full reverse and start from the last panel
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