Did I ever mention that the person who cast the spell that took us to Storybrooke and scrambled our identities was the Queen? And then the Mayor. Public figures are trouble.
Just don't put any curses on fruit that can only be broken with True Loves Kiss, and I think we'll be fine. But if you could also not put wanted posters for my friends and I up around Skyhold I'd be very grateful. 'Banditry' and 'treason' are such ugly words.
It is not impossible for me to do so but- I have a contract with Compassion. If I do harm to those that are not demons, darkspawn, the undead, the contract is broken and they will leave me. I would rather not lose them- and I do not care to use my magic against others in the first place. I am a healer first.
Yeah, no, I get that. But you don't want to use it to hurt people. That's different. It's good. There was this wizard, actually, who made my cloak. My granny went to ask him for it, and in return he took some of her memories. Memories of an old injury, so she still had all the pain from the wound, but none of the memories of how she got it. I don't know, I don't really understand magic back home.
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That- if it were done here I would call that blood magic- the warping of a mind, taking memories. But if that is but the price of such a thing- what does it gain him? Is there power to the memories and that is what he spends? How can anyone craft their spells in such a way when the cost is so great?
I don't know. I tried to go to him once to get something to help her with the pain, but he wouldn't accept money. I honestly have no idea if it's just... a power game, or sadism, or some kind of checks and balances deal. I've heard that Regina has cast magic to help people that didn't come with a specific cost, but then Rumpelstiltskin... he offered a girl a chance to go to a ball and be able to escape a terrible life, but the cost was her firstborn child. He gave Snow a vial of potion to make her forget love and heartache, but she had to give him a hair. I don't know.
Power games, most likely. [ She makes a low sound of disgust in the back of her throat. ] Skills like these are mean to help people- to better lives, not hurt them.
There was a second curse. One that took us from Storybrooke, back to the Enchanted Forest? Regina had to cast that to save us all from something awful. ( Ruby pauses then, chewing the inside of her cheek. )
She had to give up the thing she loved most to do that, otherwise it wouldn't work. And I think she had to do the same to cast the original curse. Maybe it depends on the spell?
...I think I shall take the sleepless nights, templars, and possibility of possession if it is the only cost for my magic. If the price was something so dear and magic so easy to twist about to create calamity after calamity?
( Ruby pauses a moment as she moves through the snow, spotting some more herbs for harvesting. )
I-- I say a lot of bad stuff about Regina and Rumpelstiltskin, but he gave up his life to protect Storybrooke, too. And she had to keep on living knowing she'd never be able to see her son again - she had to send him away, with Emma. It's hard to be at ease with someone who hurt us so many times, but really is trying. I think her magic has hurt her as much as it's hurt the rest of us.
Intent, with magic, matters. For good or for ill you are using your will to shape the world- as such you best have an exact reason for the change. Otherwise you have...curses and bombs that destroy chantries, you have blood mages that twist minds about, you have the taint and the darkspawn.
It can cause so much pain. We can break so much. At times mending the world seems impossible.
It's not, though. I mean, there's pain and there's darkness, but... if we didn't have those things, we'd never appreciate how good the good stuff is. And I'm not saying that the world has to be bleak or that it should stay that way, but when there is that darkness? It makes you fight that much harder. Mending the world is definitely possible. You just have to remember why you're doing it.
I am not saying... [ She sighs, attempting to find her words. ] I do not want a world without pain or loss. I just want them to have meaning. For there to be some manner of purpose. That people do not die or bleed in vain- and there is so much senseless loss and death. That is what I wish to have less of.
( Gently, that. ) It'd be really nice to be able to know things have meaning. That when they happen... they don't get drowned out by so much else that they start breaking down into nothing. Or-- not nothing, but do you know what I mean? When there's so much, sometimes the things that are smaller but still mean something to someone get disregarded?
( She sighs a little, not frustrated, but at a loss for words, a little. ) It'd be nice if people just had room to breathe. Which, you know, works with the less death and loss thing, I guess.
One would hope that with what we are doing now, we will build a place or take action enough to offer those around us that time to breathe. That after we will have more than enough time to enjoy something close to peace.
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There was a second curse. One that took us from Storybrooke, back to the Enchanted Forest? Regina had to cast that to save us all from something awful. ( Ruby pauses then, chewing the inside of her cheek. )
She had to give up the thing she loved most to do that, otherwise it wouldn't work. And I think she had to do the same to cast the original curse. Maybe it depends on the spell?
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( Ruby pauses a moment as she moves through the snow, spotting some more herbs for harvesting. )
I-- I say a lot of bad stuff about Regina and Rumpelstiltskin, but he gave up his life to protect Storybrooke, too. And she had to keep on living knowing she'd never be able to see her son again - she had to send him away, with Emma. It's hard to be at ease with someone who hurt us so many times, but really is trying. I think her magic has hurt her as much as it's hurt the rest of us.
It makes being a Wolf seem easy, honestly.
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It can cause so much pain. We can break so much. At times mending the world seems impossible.
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( Gently, that. ) It'd be really nice to be able to know things have meaning. That when they happen... they don't get drowned out by so much else that they start breaking down into nothing. Or-- not nothing, but do you know what I mean? When there's so much, sometimes the things that are smaller but still mean something to someone get disregarded?
( She sighs a little, not frustrated, but at a loss for words, a little. ) It'd be nice if people just had room to breathe. Which, you know, works with the less death and loss thing, I guess.
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