WHO: Zelgadis and others just get in here ok
WHERE: A vacant lot all groomed and abused for sword&sorcery practice
WHEN: Next week...pick a day
WARNINGS: Idk yet
SUMMARY: Magic and swords and spars and spectators and whatever else happens happens ok? ok
FORMAT: No (whatever you want)
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good lord zel get a job )
With "Cure three," a glittering barrage of white stars burst to life like fireworks, if the sound of explosions were replaced by chimes. Every scrape was sealed up, every bruise blotted out, blisters undone; in the few seconds it took for the spell to run its course, Terra had visibly gone from beaten and bloody battlefield escapee to looking like she'd just rolled out of bed. The same could have been said for him, if he ever wore his damage as superficially as she, but the spell burrowed beneath the skin as well. Even muscle aches were taken care of.
When the stars cleared, Terra gave him a once-over, hoping it had caught everything.
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His shoulders sagged when he exhaled, all said and done, and he caught her look on the tail end of that once-over.
"I need to learn that one."
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The options being him driven to madness or her outright killed again were hardly topics she wanted to bring up.
So instead, the smile she wore eased up some when she said, "there's a few of yours I wouldn't mind trading for," and with little other fanfare leaned forward to press a quick kiss against his mouth.
If that wouldn't distract him from thinking about her hypothetical death, she wasn't sure what would.
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only for a sudden wave of dizziness to sweep over her, knocking her off balance to fall right back over, arms flailing.
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"H-hey--!" Not that...he had been thinking of much of anything outside of the immediate present, but. He really hadn't expected to have to catch her, so...one arm managed to get hold of a shoulder, but the other one was all wrong, almost an involuntary guard that wound up propping her up, elbow on shoulder, wrist on clavicle. It was weird. But he was more concerned with the falling than the catching.
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you alright?" Both hands got a shoulder to keep her steady as he fretted.
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"From using too much magic?" he offered, still concerned. Nothing was ever simple, not even harmless things. Not in his experience.
...Well. Unless it was just Amelia falling off of stuff. But that wasn't the case.
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But for all that, she shrugged, nowhere near as concerned about the whole affair as Zelgadis was. "See?" she added, as though the conclusion were obvious, "You've gotten better since the last time."
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He would confuse himself if he thought too hard on it, then and there.
"You should probably eat," he said instead, looking streetward. "Even if it is different, magic still burns energy."
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Terra tilted her head a little, scrutinizing his profile. "You're... worried?"
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"W-well, I should be," he sputtered. "Why wouldn't I?"
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In a hasty attempt to drop the subject, he shifted - though not so fast as to send her stumbling or keeling over - and stood ahead, grabbing her hand. He was gawking at the street very intensely.
"So let's go."
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So Terra conceded with a blank sort of 'okay,' letting him take the lead. She certainly wasn't going to make any arguments if the lack meant hand-holding.
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Then stopped, wincing, letting go.
"Hold on."
He had to go get his stuff.
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