#!magiciansv

[tymeswept]

cont. @oathbroken​

        ❝ no, you’re wrong. ❞ she can feel it, can’t she? there is a dead weight around pippa’s neck, and it is anchoring her to this time, when hopping away is usually easy as nothing. ( she tries it, now, there and back in barely more than a second for him; she can travel, but not in time. not to...anywhere she wants to be. ) pippa can’t keep still, all of a sudden, pacing back and forth like she wishes to wear a hole in the floor. she wishes to wear a hole in the so-called present, and fall through to the past.  ❝ you--you have to be wrong. you have to be. ❞

[tymeswept]

call. @oathbroken​

        ❝ i have been thinking. ❞ pippa clicks the pen she is holding --- this strange, inkless pen that does not smudge, saving the whole edge of her hand --- and picks up the piece of paper she was writing on, filled with dates.  ❝ i’ve seen these times. i think it’s all of them, and there was magic there. history repeats, aye, it goes in cycles; i have seen that, too. so it is possible there has been a loss of magic before, and if that’s the case, it is at different times to these. so we need magical history books. your university must have a library. we can research---i don’t know if it will make a difference, but i can’t do nothing. ❞

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call. @arborvitas​

        she is curled up on the window seat --- as far away from any noise as she can get; pippa is glad that, at least for now, this building doesn’t seem overwhelmed by the technology of this century --- nursing a bottle of red wine. no magic. no magic means she is stuck here. here, or some other world running on a parallel time, and pippa has not felt so trapped since she was a child, being suffocated by the life her parents wanted her to fit into, even if she had to cut off parts of herself to do so. 

        but it’s worse than that, really. being trapped is hell, but pippa’s been living in hell for a while now. she’s unhappy, but so is she always. no magic is...catastrophic. if she could leave, it would still be gone. and how can that be good? ( she is trying so hard to be good. ) 

        ❝ i do not think i am good company, right now. ❞