Day Twenty-one - Exploration
Who: Ice, Lizzy, Saul
When: Early afternoon
Where: roaming near the lake
Rating: G
Status: Closed, completed
Summary: Ice encounters Lizzy and Saul, and eventually invites them to DM.
( Under the nightgown // over the skin // Turn all the lights out // and let us begin )
When: Early afternoon
Where: roaming near the lake
Rating: G
Status: Closed, completed
Summary: Ice encounters Lizzy and Saul, and eventually invites them to DM.
( Under the nightgown // over the skin // Turn all the lights out // and let us begin )
Though if it had, she would have been sure to inform Saul to stay away from the greenhouse. It was hers, after all.
Spotting the woman that she had not seen before, she grew curious. She was quite pretty, and Lizzy didn't think she had seen her before, therefore she was temporarily of interest.
"Hey! Lady!" she called out irritably, her legs swinging and heels bumping against Saul as she inadvertently tried to urge him forward. "Lady, hey! What are you doing?"
Saul scowled faintly, wincing slightly when Lizzy's heels dug into his shoulders. "My apologies," he said as he approached the woman - whom from a distance, he assumed was a new arrival - his voice sounding somewhat strained. " ( ... )
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New home didn't really fit the bill; this wouldn't be home. This was simply a temporary residence ... her new surroundings, as it were.
Though she recognized them, neither seemed to recognize her, and that was interesting. Deciding to play off their lack of recognition, she wondered what she might learn from them - if she could learn anything at all.
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Saul ignored her.
"Just arrived?" he guessed, trying and failing to get Lizzy off his back. He winced as she kicked him. Clearly, he was a bit too preoccupied to figure out why this... new arrival looked painfully familiar to him.
In fairness, he hadn't heard about the swap. And she did look familiar, in a vague sort of way. He just wasn't putting the puzzle pieces together properly.
"Apologies," he said after a moment. He attempted to shift his weight so he could offer his hand in a shake. "Saul Miles. This," he jerked his thumb upwards. "Is Lizzy. She's..." he trailed off. Then he shrugged, causing Lizzy to grip his hair tightly as she became unbalanced. "For lack of better explanation, she is my daughter."
"I'm not calling you Dad," Lizzy grumbled, irritated that Saul was making friends again.
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The only downside would be if he knew Trinity, and Trin had mentioned her sib. But she thought the odds of that were nearly as small as those of Paige showing up. This man didn't strike her as Trin's sort.
She did take his hand, shaking it politely before releasing it. "Have you been here long, Saul?" She followed his lead and more or less ignored the child. It might be a mistake, but she'd cross that bridge if she came to it.
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She was painfully curious though.
"About two weeks," he said calmly, scrutinizing her curiously. Now that he had a moment, she did look painfully familiar. But he just reasoned that she must have family somewhere around here. "I imagine that you know why you're here and what's going on?"
Lizzy scoffed. "No she doesn't. 'Course she doesn't. No one knows what's going on."
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"What were you called for?" she inquired curiously of Saul before her eyes shifted back to Lizzy. "And you?" Maybe being directly addressed would appease the girl; Ice didn't know. She'd never really raised any of her children.
Ice kept herself carefully schooled, her expression mildly curious but calm, her body relaxed, even her heart beating at a normal, relaxed pace. Years upon years of training helped with that.
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"I can make you do anything," she said, grinning wickedly. "Just by telling you to do it."
She smiled somewhat smugly. She was, in fact, appeased - for the moment at least.
Saul frowned at Lizzy for a moment before he returned his gaze to 'Paige'. He shrugged once. "I've been called for her," he said. "What do they call that? Catalyst or something?"
He put a hand on Lizzy's shoulder to stifle the curious questioning he was certain would come from that answer.
Lizzy frowned, but the hand on her shoulder did cause he to remain silent about Saul's storm-powers.
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Then she wondered if Belle could override it. She made a note to investigate that once she returned to the other side. She wasn't sure how to go about testing it, but she'd figure it out.
She assumed Saul was lying about being a catalyst, but she smiled and nodded all the same. "I'm sure they simply needed someone to look out for her," Ice murmured. Her eyes flicked over his face before dropping to the girl, studying her quietly.
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Show off won out.
"Saul, sit!" she ordered, a giggle in her voice.
Saul groaned slightly, partly from embarrassment, partly from surprise, and partly from pain as his legs gave out from under him and he fell to the ground, landing on his backside. He shot a glare to Lizzy, sighed heavily, and looked up at Paige. He shrugged once, his irritation clear, but he hoped that she understood that there was little he could do about it.
"And your skills?" he asked calmly from his position sitting on the ground.
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So Saul was possibly more than a catalyst, Lizzy could control people ... she wondered how far that stretched. "Are there limits to what you can tell someone to do?" she inquired innocently.
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Saul rolled his eyes, and wrapped his hands lightly under Lizzy's legs to support her as he stood, looking at Paige. "That's only half true," he said, and though Lizzy swatted him, he continued. "There are varying levels of power, and some last longer than others."
He thought about pointing out that he didn't feel compelled to sit anymore, but he thought that was obvious.
Lizzy sulked a bit. "You're still listening to me," she pointed out.
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It seemed a bit counter productive to her - but what did she know? Maybe this power was from a reality that wasn't overly interested in self preservation.
Grey eyes flicked curiously beyond them once, but no one was around that she could see and her gaze returned to the pair of them.
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"She could," he said. "But she would have to really want the person to cause themselves pain in order for it to stick, because they'd likely fight it." He paused. "Or not... fight it so much as delay the effects, or find the loophole."
Lizzy swatted him. "Shhhh!" she pouted. "You're telling everyone how to fight me."
Truth be told, he really didn't care who knew about the ability, regardless of which side they were on. Perhaps it was foolish of him, but he had a rather bad taste in his mouth about it. And really, he didn't think that there was anything to combat it.
Still.
"You know, you look familiar..." he murmured, almost to himself as he studied her a bit more closely, trying to place where he knew her from. "You have family here?"
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"I do have several daughters though," she continued. "It's possible - likely, even - that they've found their way here."
Ice kept an easy, disarming smile in place as she kept her eyes on them.
Still, it was good to know what she'd learned about Lizzy - she couldn't make anyone actually hurt themselves on a whim. It wasn't much, but it was something.
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Except that she'd been summoned to Riverfell.
Out of impulse, he made plans to warn Isadora about her later - or at least mention it in passing - but then he wasn't entirely sure where things stood between them lately. Maybe Isadora wouldn't want to hear from him at all.
Lizzy clued in, quite delayed, that Saul was untrusting of this woman, and now started to regard her skeptically. She was far from subtle, though she didn't realize.
"It's weird," she mumbled, wrapping her arms more tightly around Saul's neck. "Some people have their... entire families showing up. And some of us are entirely alone."
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But then, what did she really know about anyone over here?
She was aware of the change in the child's demeanor which implied to her there was a degree of mistrust and her gaze slipped back to Saul, studying him intensely but subtly, the way she'd been trained. She watched his face without actually appearing to be paying undue attention to it, grey eyes flickering slightly.
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