silver no more.

shed the skin and show the gold underneath independent fairy tail oc written by Jana

[arroe]

Natasha Masharova

[bassiter]

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Landslide by Fleetwood Mac except it’s playing through your car’s old radio cassette player as you drive alone through the desert at night. As far as you can tell, the nearest human life has got to be wherever that distant thunder is rolling in.

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[kunizuuka]

[undermyanumbrella]

[halycontrailed]

lamiacrowned‌.

lyon grumbled and crossed his arms. he looked away from eva and sighed once more, still being haunted about the conversation. at least, he was aware it was going down in the book of Conversations We Will Pretend Didn’t Happen and he only hoped he could repress the memory from his mind. he was not to confident in that, but at least little mari wouldn’t remember. he was jealous of his own daughter’s cognitive abilities (or lack thereof, in this case). 

he looked back at her and then raised an eyebrow. he skillfully did not say that it would be something jura wouldn’t consider important to eva. he was determined not to elaborate on the topic and he was only to happy to take the boon about bosconian slang. “oh? what kind of terms do they have? at least, anything interesting i can slip in about neil and insult him without him getting it.”

ah, neil. eva ... grimaced. one of these days, lamia scale would surely manage to have a fire mage within their ranks who was not ... she was, of course, biased. she had --- before she had left and broken up with him --- dated jacob, the previous problematic fire mage. and while jacob had been mostly  ( and fatally )  a risk to himself and himself alone, neil was just an asshole. there was no way of sugarcoating this. in all likelihood, it would probably not be deadly, unless he would be his --- usual, charming self to someone who was disinclined to let him get away with it and would shup him up, permanently.

“ very creative, very colourful, ” she replied, rubbing the back of her neck. “ i'll give you a list ... some of the terms i coaxed out of jura along the years so ... i hope you put my hard work to good use. ”

she was convinced that jura had humoured her, mostly, when she had asked him for  bad words  in his native language. she had claimed that she had wanted to understand  real bosconian  as opposed to what the books she had used to study were inclined to teach her, but she had also been fifteen. and probably a bit of a brat, too.

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lamiacrowned‌.

lyon despaired for his life. then where did jura get the chance…we said he overheard it. much like when lyon himself did. he looked away from eva. he could recognize she was not necessarily at fault, but still. the morbid embarrassment still clung to him. she had no idea what he was talking about and he would give ANYTHING to also have no idea.

ignorance was bliss. “…very well. i certainly regret ever knowing any slang.” that was the truth, perhaps the most basic truth of his existence at the moment. “i’d still say we should get him a book to avoid…any more mortifying conversations. i will not say what occurred, i am sure if jura wants to tell you, he will.” lyon did NOT want to. 

she could not deny it --- her interest had been tickled awake, but eva had not made it into the advanced corps by chasing after every peculiar little thing that could do this. and now, so many years after this accomplishment, she knew for a fact that sometimes, it was better not to turn over every stone to see if there was something hidden beneath. and this, she felt in the depths of her soul, was a stone she did not even want to touch.

“ if he thinks it's important for me to know, he'll tell me, yes, ” she said quietly, hitting her --- excitement that despite the years of her travels, this was still a truth with a stick until it died down. it was bad enough that lyon knew of her old crush, she would not give him any reason to believe that it was  not  in the past. “ i do think it's a little ... odd that i'm probably more familiar with bosconian slang, these days. ”

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upon seeing eva, lyon frowned heavily at her. she was in era. she was here and she let jura…become aware of things jura should leave alone. and who had to pay that price? who had to explain to jura? lyon. though he felt a bit flattered at the older man’s trust…lyon did not want to be apart of it. “you should let jura know modern slang, eva. get him a book or something since you’re both here in era.”

for the first time in many years, eva was genuinely puzzled. why was lyon looking at her with the same accusing face she had last seen when she had been seven and had accidentally broken one of her father's tools? she could not recall having done anything recently that would justify this and she did not think it was about something she had  not  done either. well, at least this was what she thought until lyon  voiced  his dismay and ... clarity did  not  suddenly happen.

“ aside from me having not a single clue what you are talking about, ” she started as she frowned at the ice mage, “ i am  also  not sure if i'm qualified to teach anyone any slang. it's not like  i  am hanging out with teenagers. ”

[rulesearth]

“ your assistant let me in. ”

had she announced herself by kicking the door open and having a marching band follow her, he could not have been more surprised. eva gold had been gone from his life for over a decade, having left the guild and the country to tend to a quest no one else had been as qualified for as she had. before she had left, she had been one of lamia scale’s finest — and one of his dearest friends.

“ i didn’t realise you were in town, ” he responded, mentioning towards the visitor chair. in fact, he had not even known that she was in the country again. there had been whispers on the hallways that someone had completed a  hellishly long assignment,  but he had not thought that this someone was someone he knew.

she grinned, wide and blinding. ten years and she had not changed much, had only grown into her skin. she had not just gained laughter lines, she had also gained a quiet confidence that showed in the way she carried herself. “ i told sherry not to tell you, ” she said as she kept pacing, fingers drumming a hasty rhythm against her side.

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[slytherinnpride]

[halycontrailed]

‘ i guess i took a good selfie. ’

“ it would appear so. ”

the woman sighed as she shook her head. had she anything to stand on, she might have mused aloud if this was how his mother had raised him but as things stood, eleos  had  raised her son whereas via ... via had left behind an infant daughter and a husband. she had wanted to stay, had wanted it more than anything in the entire world, but ... even a god could be slave to their own nature and the more she had wanted to stay, the less possible it had become.

sometimes, when she had ran so far and so fast that her lungs had nearly given out, when she had walked the darkest paths of the underworld, she had wondered if it had all been a game of pretend.  let's pretend i could be good for you.  if they had only ever fooled themselves into thinking that she could be more than the woman who had never learnt to stay, who was always on her way to another place. she had wanted to be more than this, but ... it had not worked out. sometimes, she was afraid that it never would.

leaning back in her chair, she shook these thoughts out of her head, sharp eyes focusing on the other god. “ though i wouldn't expect arden to be  superficial  ... so a good selfie is probably not what won her over, ” she added, the inherent awkwardness of this a crushing weight on her shoulders.

[halycontrailed]

“But I don’t mind.”

 she was quiet, sharp eyes watching the fire dance in the front of her. there were times, like now, when she missed days when things had been easier, so much easier. days when she had known what she had  wanted  from life, days when --- days when she had known where she stood, too. the simplicity of those earlier days had gotten lost, perhaps already when sherry and the boys had left, but latest when eva had been the one who had gone away.

it had been necessary, she reminded herself with a near frustrated huff. it had been necessary because there had been no one else who had been qualified or willed. the fact that she had been nineteen and probably only wanted to get away for a short time, only until guilt would stop choking her ... it did not matter. it did not matter because things could not be changed, anyway, and because she had gotten lucky. she had lost a few years, but she was still in one piece.

the same could not be said for every teenager who had ever gotten caught up in a mission bigger than them, who had felt like they had to step up because the actual adults had not. she  was  truly lucky.

“ sorry, ” she apologised quietly, finally looking away from the fire and towards the other mage. “ even if you don't mind, i shouldn't go and unload my emotional baggage on you. you have enough things to worry about already. ”

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[rulesearth]

the world holds its breath with trembling hands, waits for the dices to fall.

@wtchscrim said: a relationship!

[queenlymusings]

JASON MRAZ’S KNOW // SENTENCE STARTERS

LET’S SEE WHAT THE NIGHT CAN DO

“Let’s drive down to the river at midnight and dance in the dust of our headlights.”

“Let’s score some good seats for the sunrise.”

“Let’s get dressed up in clothes we don’t mind getting messed up.”

“We don’t need the map, we’ll just drive.”

“I wanna get lost with you.”

“I wanna see what it’s like to spend the whole night with you, just you.”

“And we’ll stand in the Canyon alone, singing our favourite songs, and wait for the words to return in the echo.”

“Let’s see what the night can do.”

HAVE IT ALL

“May you have the confidence to always do your best.”

“May you take no effort in your being generous, sharing what you can, nothing more, nothing less.”

“May you know the meaning of the word happiness.”

“May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows.”

“May the road less paved be the road that you follow.”

“Well, here’s to the hearts that you’re gonna break.”

“Here’s to the lives that you’re gonna change.”

“Here’s to the fact that I’ll be sad without you.”

“May your educated guesses always be correct.”

“I want you to have it all, all you can imagine, all, no matter what your path is.”

MORE THAN FRIENDS

“It feels like we’ve been friends forever and we always see eye to eye.”

“The more time we spend together, the more I wanna say what’s on my mind.”

“Take it easy.”

“It ain’t easy to say.”

“I wanna be more than friends.”

“I wanna tell everyone you’re taken and take your hand until the end.”

“At the risk of sounding foolish, I don’t wanna fool around no more.”

“If we’re gonna do this, then let’s do this.”

“You can fix my broken heart if it’s all yours.”

“I’m giving you my heart, don’t break it.”

“Either way, I know we’ll make it.”

UNLONELY

“It could be love.”

“Once you get to know me, I could be your one and only.”

“I could make you unlonely.”

“We could take it slowly, we could keep it low key.”

“I’ve been chasing summer around, searching for the sunshine and looking for a good time.”

“A whole lotta love can make the clouds go away.”

“Maybe the time for us is now.”

“When the table’s set for two and there’s nobody with you, let me be your someone else.”

“I give you my word although I’m making words up.”

“But I don’t give a fuck.”

“I’m fresh from the farm where critics can’t bother me.”

“Living is tricky as it is so that ain’t stopping me.”

“And honestly, you ruined me with your beautiful smile.”

SLEEPING TO DREAM

“I’m dreaming of sleeping next to you.”

“I’m feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town.”

“I’m counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes.”

“I close my eyes … what a wonderful sight.”

“I’m sleeping to dream about you.”

“And I’m so damn tired of having to live without you.”

“But I don’t mind.”

“I hit the light and I thought you might be there.”

MAKING IT UP

“I may go through this life, never knowing who I am or why I’m here or why I’m doing what I’m doing.”

“And they were making it up, making it all up.”

“What else can we do? It’s the only way to get through.”

“Life’s so hard but life’s alright ‘cause I’m here with you tonight.”

“Some people think the world revolves around them.”

“Some people like to pile things up around them and surround themselves with a beautiful lie.”

“There’s more to this life that what you see.”

“And it’s true what they say - that life is but a dream.”

MIGHT AS WELL DANCE

“I can’t stop thinking about you and dreaming of your smile.”

“You’re keeping me from sleeping.”

“We got nothing to lose, might as well hold hands.”

“We’re already fools so we might as well dance.”

“Put your loving arms around me once more and we’ll go crashing into folks on the dance floor.”

“We got nothing to lose, might as well take off our pants.”

“Soon the song will be over, we’ll have to say goodnight.”

“I’ve got the sweetest crush on you.”

“Baby, let’s go.”

“We’ve good nothing to prove, might as well take off our pants.”

LOVE IS STILL THE ANSWER

“The question is: why are we here?”

“This beautiful life, what is it for?”

“There’s only one answer that matters, even if your heart has been shattered.”

“Whatever you want, whatever you’re after: love is still the answer.”

“We all made mistakes, no, we’re not perfect yet.”

“The question that sits on everyone’s lips is why should we pick ourselves up and start over again.”

“The question I’ll ask at the end of my days is what did I give and will I take.”

“Even if your heart and dreams have been shattered…”

“What the world needs now is love.”

“All you need is love." 

[lamiacrowned]

‘ i’m not sure why you’re acting surprised ’

the flush on his face was now not ONLY due to alcohol intake. for now the pair area  few drinks in as lyon’s last hurrah in era before he embarked back to zinnia in the morning. perhaps, in the morning he would regret drinking being the pair’s outing of choice, but now, he was having fun. 

of course, the subject of JURA NEEKIS came up. normally, this in itself would not be embarrassing but the subject matter…

“you’re right, eva,” he said, not even slurring that much, “i shouldn’t be surprised about your crush on jura in the past. i, also, had quite the uhh affection for him.” this would mark the first time lyon vastia had ever said this fact out loud. to eva, no less, but in this aspect, he felt a kinship to the other mage because of it. 

“needless to say, this fact does not leave this conversation.” he could not live with the idea of any of his other guildmates knowing this. not just them, but the man himself. lyon would rather die. 

[halycontrailed]

❛ so that’s what you do.. you command attention. ❜

“ just as easily as i redirect it, yes. ”

eva had never believed in false modesty. she was  good  at what she did --- sometimes, this meant that she was as present as she could be. other times, it meant that she disappeared into the background, taking up as little space as possible. and this, in turn, meant that she was very good at influencing how others perceived her --- and when they even took note of her presence.

throwing back her head and downing the  disgusting  herbal potion that was supposed to strengthen her so that she would make it through winter without a cold, the mage grimaced. “ it's why sherry wants me to be in era, i think, ” she said quietly. it had to be the reason, really --- there was no way sherry would exploit her office for personal reasons. “ i've always been  very  good at getting my hands on information and with jura being legally banned from telling her things, someone else has to be the little bird who whispers things into her ear. ”

things were changing in era, and before long, the guild masters who would not be caught off guard by the changes would profit greatly. and just like she would have kept eyes and ears open for ooba, eva was now doing the same for sherry --- though sherry, at least, knew better than to call what the brunette was doing espionage. because most of the informatuon came to eva without much effort on her part.

[halycontrailed]

❝Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.❞

“ you don't, i do. ”

because she was --- between jobs, so to speak. her wallet would be filled for months to come as the successful end of her long, long quest had come with a nice reward, a reward so nice that even the expensive life in era had not yet put a dent into it. this meant that right now, she was not one of the mages who chased from one job to the next to have their rent money ready when the landlord came knocking. instead, she enjoyed something she had not known for  years:  freetime.

while sherry and lyon had not enough time to juggle everything, time was the one thing she had in abdundance, right now. and another thing she had in abundance was loyalty to her family, and sherry had been part of her family for many, many years now. and despite everything that had happened, every mistake that had been made, eva would not let her friend down now.

grabbing one of the magazines sherry had left behind before she had rushed off to another meeting of the guild masters, the brunette flipped through it as a sigh escaped her. “ and time for this isn't the only thing i have, ” she added as she looked up, a grin shining on her face. “ i also know at least three mages who still live in zinnia who owe me. i can get the nursery painted and all that during the next weekend ... from what sherry said, i understood that you are in crocus then? ”