and the white knight is talking backwards and the red queen's off with her head

[undealt]

WHO || Gold, Amara, and OPEN
WHAT || Gold has arrived back from dealing with refuges in Bermuda. And now he's making frands. And surely everyone wants to know who dat lady is.
WHERE || The castle library
WHEN || some indeterminate time in June
HOW || actionspaaaam
OTHER || You can also pull Gold and Amara aside for one-on-one conversations if you'd like. Just specify.

If you go into the library today, you will find an unusual sight- for one thing, Gold's back, but he must have snuck in like a ninja because it's not like he made any great announcement of it. Just swanned in, checked on his crocodile, and immediately tracked down a certain blonde homo magi. Suspicious!

Said homo magi is currently in the library with him. In fact, they're in the section with all the magic books, chatting animatedly about... something or other. (A listen check of 18 will catch what they're saying).

Comments

[reallywicked]

[The longer this conversation goes on, the more Faye's gut twists. Even in hiding, it would be gone- and who even knew for how long? She doesn't have time to try to put on a brave/snarky face. In fact, all of her defensive walls fall away and she sinks herself into the nearest chair.]

It can't just...go. What do we do?

[undealt]

Consider our days in the Dragon's Fire numbered for a few decades. [His will save sucks, so he ends up looking thoroughly unhappy and wibbly. Amara basically cancelled Christmas on him.]

[besmitten]

All the more reason to appreciate and respect magic while we have it.

[reallywicked]

[Faye just nods in response to the both of them. The last thing she wants is to lose this but if she has no choice, she doesn't plan on wasting any time.]

I'll do whatever I need to. [She looks up at Gold. Hi, someone found their humility.]

[undealt]

[Gold plants a hand on her shoulder.] Yeah. And there's no sense harping on it until that dark day is upon us. Magic endures, whether it's with us or not. And those who practice it endure with it.

[besmitten]

[ amara looks pleased with such a resolution and nods once ] Precisely. True adherence to the discipline can prolong one's life, even through those hard dry years, as well.

[reallywicked]

Wait. [Faye's gaze snaps back to Amara.] Are you talking about immortality?

[undealt]

A longer life is far from eternal youth, I should think. [(Wisdom 22) You're gonna get old, Faye. You're just gonna get old for a much longer period of time. And you'll probably look like Hasmed.]

[besmitten]

Not eternal, no. Prolonged.

How old do you think I am?