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2 ☣ settling in
[1: the training center; last night]
[In the middle of the training center there is a ghost. Only not really. Ghosts generally don't fight T-rexaurs or wield really huge swords.
After almost two weeks, on and off, of watching the adventures of others in the training center and occasionally taking on a few Grats, Fenris has decided to see just what its more monstrous inhabitants can really do. Curiosity may be his stated intent, but of course his motivation is as always as much to release some of his fury at the world he's been thrown into at a controlled burn as anything else. Unfortunately, he wasn't exactly counting on this...rather remarkable dragon-like thing. He's not completely outmatched, but it's a giant dinosaur, and all he has is his natural strength and his armor. He could probably use a little help.
He's trying not to look like he needs it, though. He fights ruthlessly and intensely, with perfectly controlled, powerful swings of the sword and low, flat-voiced oaths muttered in some foreign tongue. And then there's the matter of his ghostliness. He seems insubstantial despite the obvious power of his blows, shimmering nearly white and moving fleetly, ethereally through the undergrowth.]
[1: the library; this morning]
[The work given to him over his time here has been easy enough, and the compensation fair. Collect and sort trays and utensils in the cafeteria. Wash Garden's official vehicles (all right, so he's not entirely convinced those filthy metal things aren't some kind of armored monsters, but aside from that). Spend a night making sure monsters don't escape the training center. That sort of thing. Today's job: "More librarians than usual have the day off. Pick up the slack for them and put the books back into place."
Fenris was supposed to get this done early in the morning, before the library officially opened. It's now 0915 and he's still standing in front of one shelf, holding a stack of books and debating internally whether he could get away with sorting them by color and calling it a day. It's one thing to tell Hawke that he can't read, you see; it's quite another to admit it to the people in charge of Garden.
On the plus side, he's feeling too awkward to be properly filled with rage right now.]
[In the middle of the training center there is a ghost. Only not really. Ghosts generally don't fight T-rexaurs or wield really huge swords.
After almost two weeks, on and off, of watching the adventures of others in the training center and occasionally taking on a few Grats, Fenris has decided to see just what its more monstrous inhabitants can really do. Curiosity may be his stated intent, but of course his motivation is as always as much to release some of his fury at the world he's been thrown into at a controlled burn as anything else. Unfortunately, he wasn't exactly counting on this...rather remarkable dragon-like thing. He's not completely outmatched, but it's a giant dinosaur, and all he has is his natural strength and his armor. He could probably use a little help.
He's trying not to look like he needs it, though. He fights ruthlessly and intensely, with perfectly controlled, powerful swings of the sword and low, flat-voiced oaths muttered in some foreign tongue. And then there's the matter of his ghostliness. He seems insubstantial despite the obvious power of his blows, shimmering nearly white and moving fleetly, ethereally through the undergrowth.]
[1: the library; this morning]
[The work given to him over his time here has been easy enough, and the compensation fair. Collect and sort trays and utensils in the cafeteria. Wash Garden's official vehicles (all right, so he's not entirely convinced those filthy metal things aren't some kind of armored monsters, but aside from that). Spend a night making sure monsters don't escape the training center. That sort of thing. Today's job: "More librarians than usual have the day off. Pick up the slack for them and put the books back into place."
Fenris was supposed to get this done early in the morning, before the library officially opened. It's now 0915 and he's still standing in front of one shelf, holding a stack of books and debating internally whether he could get away with sorting them by color and calling it a day. It's one thing to tell Hawke that he can't read, you see; it's quite another to admit it to the people in charge of Garden.
On the plus side, he's feeling too awkward to be properly filled with rage right now.]
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Fenris steps back, the glow fading from his skin, retracting into the white tattoos that pattern him. To Toph, it's like he suddenly goes from an insubstantial, feathery blur to a normal humanoid shape, as his weight settles back properly on the ground. He cocks his head slightly at her.]
You have my thanks.
[But also, apparently, his suspicion; his posture is even more tense than usual now.]
What was that you did? It was no magic I know.
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It's not magic, it's Earthbending. I'll explain if you tell me why you keep going from blur to human. You're lucky I knew where you were by the chopping sounds.
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[He sounds more amused than offended, if still a bit wary. A step closer, mindful of the raised hand, and he studies her more closely. There's something strange about her eyes--maybe her vision is poor (but it doesn't occur to him that it goes beyond that, of course; he's never heard of any sort of magic helping someone blind to "see").]
But what you ask isn't something I care to share.
[A pause. He wants to know about this earthbending, though, and if it's as dangerous as magic.]
There is magic carved into my flesh.
[Bitterness in his voice, bitterness and rage. He holds out one tattooed arm, unaware that she can't see it at all.]
It was not by choice, and I have no more to say about it.
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That sounds painful. Earthbending's basically being connected to the earth and being able to manipulate it. [Super simplifying, but that's what she's been telling anyone else who asks] I'm special, because I can bend metal, too. [Cocky grin]
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You are blind.
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I simply thought you someone with the sense to forgo luxuries. But that...also makes sense.
[He still sounds wary, though.]
This earthbending you have, how is it so different to magic?
[A note of contempt flickers into his voice at the end there, unbidden. He doesn't mean for it to happen, really. He's disgusted with himself, not her--frustrated at his mistrust of absolutely everybody here, with their strange abilities that might or might not be magic, that might or might not be trustworthy.]
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You fight to remove a tyrant the likes of the magisters from power, yet you allow it to continue.
[Yeah, he's going to ignore the latter part. He could argue against it, or at least he thinks he could, but he doesn't really feel like it right now. She isn't really a mage, even if there are similarities, and she won't understand if he goes on about it.]
Nevertheless, thank you. For your help.
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Not a problem, Flash.
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I want no epithet based on that. My name is Fenris.
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