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Alessa Gillespie ([info]bring_god_down) wrote in [info]chaosunraveled,
@ 2009-08-25 15:34:00

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Who: Alessa and Open to anyone who might be in Emptiness
When: Late afternoon - early evenine
Where: Emptiness
Ratings: PG-13
Warnings: Some cursing, inner thoughts about violence, and brief mentions of blood.
Summary: A couple of days after half the game has disappeared, Alessa heads to Emptiness to collect her thoughts.


What ever had happened this past week was all practically a blur to Alessa. She had killed Alex so she could unite with him; been forced to live as an alternate version of herself that wanted to cleanse the world with fire; had talked with Blythe the evening after that; attended a wedding; rested; received a letter from Blythe that her and Kain were leaving. If that weren't enough, Alessa soon found out that Sal had for reasons unknown to her, disintegrate into ash. To add insult injury, several people on Asgard's side had either disappeared, or left.

And Metatron was one of them.

Alessa had been hit with a bout of depression, and she wasn't entirely sure when it would go away. Now she was inside one of the random hotels in Emptiness; staring at the wall, and thinking. She had talked to Henry, but could only mention that she would miss Blythe; she couldn't tell him that she was also upset about Sal's death. She shouldn't have been upset at all about his death, but right now she couldn't help it. Oh, she was happy! Happy that the bastard would no longer be able to hurt anyone, happy that the sick sadistic son of a bitch would no longer be able to torment Alessa herself.

But, a part of her was upset. In a way, Sal had once proved to be a source of rather small inspiration for Alessa. It was Sal who had once told Alessa that she needed to choose a path and stick to it; and that nobody could tell Alessa what she should do. In another way, Sal had also proven to be a source of relief for Alessa's oft kept hidden torturous rage.

He was gone, and she was left confused, and feeling lost. With a sigh, she stood up from the bed, and headed outside. A walk would do good, she figured.

The brunette was walking up and down the streets, and past buildings. On occasion she would spot a rock, or a can, and start kicking it until it went away from her immediate path. "I don't know what I'm going to do. I can no longer speak to Metatron, and I don't have an opinion of this Jophiel yet." she spoke outloud to herself.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-26 07:58 pm UTC (link)
As vast and full of secrets and mystical places as the realm was, Myre was having increasing difficulty sniffing out crystals and precious stones. Theoretically, she had more than enough for all her magical needs, but dragons were hoarders.

At least there were places in town to plunder for jewels and crystals and other shiny things. Only certain stones worked for magical purposes, but precious metal was comfortable and draconian nature simple came with a love of sparkly and glittery things. And now that she had her lair to herself again, Myre wanted to leave no one in doubt that the cave in Niflheim was hers.

She felt she had a nice haul for the day. The cloth bag slung over her shoulder was filled with jewelery, most of which she'd call the stones out of later. A few would be useful for when she was in human form, worn as two-leggers did.

She had been planning on shifting and flying the short distance back to Niflheim when a sound caught her attention a street or two over. Curious - and always on the lookout for something to alleviate her boredom - the dragon stalked over to investigate.

Well, it was one of the Asgardians, all out by her lonesome. She didn't know this one. Myre grinned and folded her arms as she had seen Jamal do when intimidating others.

"Well, well, well. I thought you people didn't scurry out of your borrow alone."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-26 08:53 pm UTC (link)
Someone else was in the vicinity, and by the way they spoke it was obvious, at least to Alessa, that they were from Niflheim. The Asgardian looked up, and realized that she didn't know this Niflheimer. Not surprising really; it was no secret (at least not to Asgard) that Alessa preferred to go out into Emptiness alone.

She looked over the 'person' making mental notes of her appearance, and the cloth bag she had slung over her shoulder. Dead animals? Body parts? No, Alessa would have been able to smell it. Either way, it was of no concern to Alessa what Myre had in her bag.

There was also the matter of the body language. Arms folded, and mouth grinning as if this person was trying to intimidate Alessa.

"You don't keep up much, do you?" Alessa finally stated with a question.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-26 08:59 pm UTC (link)
"Why should I?" Myre shrugged. "I just don't see too many of you all by your lonesome. I thought you were all too scared the big bad Niflheimers were gonna get you." She grinned wider. What was the two-legger female doing out here, anyway? Myre didn't go into Emptiness much, except to plunder stores and occasionally meet with Rufus without fear of their teammates eavesdropping.

"But maybe you're one of those people who likes to go looking for trouble. Is that it?"

Without knowing much of anything, Myre couldn't really taunt the woman. She had no real desire to actually hurt her - it was too easy to hurt two-leggers physically, there was no fun or sport in it. Besides, it probably wasn't the best idea to damage her Master's allies physically for no reason.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-26 09:28 pm UTC (link)
"I can handle myself," Alessa stated bluntly; which had been the truth so far in these situations.

She stepped back, and didn't say a word for a while. She had to figure out if this 'person' was a threat or not. So far, Myre hadn't attacked Alessa yet, but she knew that she had to be prepared just in case the dragon tried anything. Not now though, Alessa knew that she had to play calm.

"Well, if there's nothing else; I'll be going." Alessa said with a shrug.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-26 09:31 pm UTC (link)
"Oh really?" Myre laughed. There was no harm in just scaring the woman, after all. She wet her lips, taking a step forward. She guessed the two-legger didn't know just who - and what - she was being badgered by. Which was fine with Myre.

"I still want to know what you're doing out here alone," she went on, cocking her head. "You don't even look like you're armed. Not a very bright idea. But I guess you Asgardians aren't known for your minds."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-26 09:50 pm UTC (link)
"What business is it of yours?" Alessa asked a tad angrily. Alright, so Alessa was getting just a bit scared, but kept her composure. Even so, she knew that she had to prepare herself; just in case this...thing decided to do something.

At the whole comment about the mind, Alessa chuckled. "Don't assume that we can only be armed with what you can see."

A bad idea? Maybe, but she was prepared to teleport away if the dragon tried anything. Right now, Alessa wasn't in the mood of physically fighting.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-26 10:04 pm UTC (link)
That little comment piqued Myre's interest. So she was armed, just not with a human weapon.

"So either you're stronger with your hands than you look, or you've got magic." Her body language relaxed just a tad. She honestly hadn't spoken to many others who could do true magic, and she was curious.

"And I guess it's not any of my business, but I'm curious. And if you're still wondering who I am, I'm Myre."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-26 10:24 pm UTC (link)
"Hnn, I'm Alessa," she answered back more out of courtesy than anything else. She noticed that Myre's body language had relaxed a little bit, and the tone of voice that she had spoken with was, to Alessa, filled with curiosity.

"I don't like calling it magic," Alessa answered truthfully. To her, magic was the deliberate borrowing of the power of a higher being. As far as Alessa was concerned, she didn't have to borrow her power from anyone. She sighed, "What are you doing out here?"

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-26 10:32 pm UTC (link)
"Then what do you call it?" So maybe she didn't have true magic after all. Too bad. Or maybe they just called it something else in the world Alessa was from.

"Me? Looking for things like this." She reached into her bag and pulled out a gaudy gold bracelet. "There's stores just full of the stuff and you can just take it." Now that she'd answered Alessa's question, it was only fair the two-legger did the same as far as she was concerned.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-26 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Alessa thought for a moment, before deciding that using the umbrella term wouldn't reveal too much. "Psychokinesis," she answered. She looked at the gaudy looking gold bracelet that Myre had pulled out, and put two and two together. She figured that the sack was probably filled with gaudy jewelry.

"Yeah, which is almost creepy if you actually think about it," Alessa said.

Now, she had to tell the dragon why she was here. Alessa wasn't about to say that she was upset about her best friend leaving, or tell her that she was upset about Sal. "Sometimes I prefer Emptiness more than Asgard's mansion."

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-26 11:58 pm UTC (link)
"Siiko what?" Myre's face wrinkled in confusion. She'd never heard that word before, and didn't even know what language it was in. It almost sounded like one of those strange old human words, the ones for man-made magic-that-wasn't-magic.

"Huh? Why? No one makes it and it doesn't belong to anyone, so what's so weird about just taking things?" It wasn't like she was stealing it, no one would miss it.

And Alessa's explanation for why she was here was pretty disappointing. But at least one Myre understood. "Oh. Females of any kind don't like being kept in cages. Even pretty ones."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 02:52 am UTC (link)
To slightly show Myre what she meant, Alessa spotted a small rock, and brought it into her awaiting hand. "I mean, that this place can be creepy if you think about it. A functioning town devoid of people." Alessa really didn't care what Myre did as far as 'stealing' was concerned. After all, Alessa was known to 'steal' books, and music from here.

"Hnn, I suppose not," Alessa answered, of course not telling Myre the whole of the truth. Tired of holding the rock, she hurled it away, using her telekinesis so it would travel further.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 03:25 am UTC (link)
"Oh, human mind magics." Myre shrugged and tried very hard not to shy away when Alessa lifted the rock with her powers the rock. She didn't quite manage to hide it. Just like that little bitch Shana. Not that Myre had an automatic aversion to any two-legger with human mind magics. It was just that she had lifted a rock.

Myre had never quite gotten over what Shana had done to her.

"I hate to tell you, but whatever you call it, that's magic. Most humans where I come from can do that. Except the elves."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 03:34 am UTC (link)
Alessa shrugged, "Humans where I'm from couldn't do it. And the ones that can...well, they were usually burned at the stake as witches." Alessa had decided to keep her other abilities at bay, and neither did she mention that she wasn't completely human. There were just some things that people didn't need to know.

"Magic is the borrowing of the power of a higher source. At least, that's what it is in my world."

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 03:40 am UTC (link)
"Your two-leggers burned each other to death?" Myre was disgusted by that thought. "Elves killed humans and halflings with those powers, but elves will kill anything. Except each other, even they didn't do that."

As far as she could tell, two-leggers on other worlds were crazy. And then Myre laughed, because what Alessa said was just ludicrous to her.

"Magic comes from within," she said, her body language shifting suddenly, becoming almost that of a teacher. "We have a reservoir inside of us that holds our power. Outside things can boost or strengthen our powers, but they come from inside of us. To take and use power from another source is a foul, terrible thing. It's not magic, it's stealing."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 03:59 am UTC (link)
"Amongst other things," Alessa answered dully. "How noble of them, then." That comment was directed at the whole elves thing.

When Myre laughed, then took the stance of a teacher, Alessa was somehow reminded of her mom. Except her mom had told her that a certain demon could control her powers, but not to release it. "I suppose if you want to call it that. My mom could do things, but she always had to do spells; chant words; draw symbols, and magic circles. She had to get her magic - her power from demons."

Even stole some of my power. Alessa thought to herself.

"Anyway, does it matter in the end?"

"

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 04:05 am UTC (link)
"Like a gleeman?" Myre wrinkled her nose again, a gesture she didn't realize she was even making. She had just spent so long and so much time in this form that it was adopting normal human gestures.

And despite her attitude and the fact the two-legger wasn't of her own Lair, she was interested in the discussion.

"I guess it doesn't, but I haven't met many people here who can do true magic." She tilted her head, her hands on her hips. "We called the elves demons. They could share their power - give it to others or take it from others. Maybe they really are demons. They came from some other world."

She had just assumed it was something they called them because they were evil.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 04:29 am UTC (link)
"Is a gleeman someone who uses black magic?" Alessa asked curiously. Judging by the way Myre wrinkled her nose, Alessa could only assume that a gleeman was not a good person.

Alessa, strange enough, found herself also drawn to this discussion.

"Huh." Alessa thought about that for a moment, "Elves and demons were two entirely separate beings where I came from; I never really studied anything about elves though."

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 04:37 am UTC (link)
"No, they're someone who can't really do magic but pretends they can." The dragon frowned, trying to figure out how to explain it right. "They use tricks so people can't tell. They chant and do things with their hands and objects."

She bit at her lower lip and rolled her eyes.

"If we're going to keep chatting like this, can we sit down or something? I feel stupid just standing here. Especially if we're going to talk about elves."

Fire and rain, she hated elves.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 04:46 am UTC (link)
Alessa sighed, and said somewhat disgustedly, "Yeah, that sounds like my mom."

Alessa looked around, and spotted a bench, but at the same time figured that she could always head to the library and read about them there. "There's a bench over there, but then, I can always look it up at the library here,"

She hadn't expected to get into this sort of conversation with someone from Niflheim of all people, and of all things.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 04:55 am UTC (link)
"I've read about elves in some of the books around here. They don't sound at all like the elves I'm used to."

Myre didn't verbally agree, she just moved over to the bench and folded herself down onto it bonelessly.

"There are three kinds of magic where I come from. Elven, draconic and human. Elven magic is all illusions and battle magery. Draconic magic is natural magic. Human magic is magic of the mind - like what you can do. Moving things, speaking across long distances, things like that. Humans are really the only native people in the world, though. We dragons came through a Gate to it thousands of years ago, then the elves came and destroyed everything and enslaved the humans."

These were things she didn't mind talking about. She had all this knowledge, she should use it. Besides, if enough people from Asgard's Lair could say she had been decent to them, she figured her Master wouldn't catch any grief for training her if they found out.

Anyway, she was bored.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 05:21 am UTC (link)
She followed suit, sitting down on the bench and position herself so she was seated sideways and her feet were on the bench, knees slightly folded to her chest. She listened attentively, and why should she not? Alessa knew that wisdom and knowledge could come from those who were considered enemies. But, as she listened something about what Myre was saying made Alessa think.

Alessa once had the ability to shift environments, which may be considered 'elven' magic; natural magic, Alessa didn't have that. Out of curiosity she asked, "What about a human who can go change environments; go into people's minds...make that person see things?"

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 05:27 am UTC (link)
Myre didn't entirely understand the question. She frowned and chewed at her lip, on hand fidgeting with her hair.

"Well...that's mind magic, isn't it? Making people see things that aren't there by manipulating their mind, right? Or do you mean like an illusion? Illusions are magery, and I don't think humans from my world can do it. Halfbloods can, though, since they have both elven and human magic.

"I don't know everything about two-legger magic. I didn't have many lessons on it - Mother focused all her teaching on my brother. But I lived among elves and humans for a few years and learned things that way." Mostly about elven magic, admittedly, but that was because she had lived with Sheyrena.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 05:40 am UTC (link)
A halfblood, so already Myre had answered Alessa's question without realizing it. "Well, both. I knew someone in my world who could change the environment a person was in. He could actually pull people into a different dimension, and make them see things. Things that were in their minds, but things that he wanted them to see." In a way, Alessa was sort of referring to herself as Alex.

"Oh, I see. Are you a draconian?" she finally asked. No idea why she asked, but the woman seemed to speak of the elves and humans as two species that were different than her.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 05:47 am UTC (link)
"I'm a dragon," Myre said bluntly. Were there really still people who didn't believe that? What did they think she was going to d, try and maneuver her whole bulk through the town?

"I'm just in two-legger form right now, that's all. Anyway, I've never heard of that. Gates can pull people into other worlds, but no one person can make a Gate. And that's magery, too. Elves could do it, according to history, by pooling their magic together. It sounds like you're talking about something that's like...an illusion inside the head."

Which was as interesting as it was terrifying.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 06:09 am UTC (link)
"Oh, alright," Alessa said just as bluntly. She had read about dragons in fairytales, both western and eastern. She knew that they were both feared and revered by people of varying cultures.

"Hnnn, I see..." she looked down in deep thought, almost feeling another sense of isolation. So she couldn't do that here in this world, but knowing that she once had that ability didn't make her feel better. "Yeah, an illusion of the mind. Anyway, it's not like the guy is here. Just a matter of curiosity; that's all."

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 06:53 am UTC (link)
"There aren't any elves here, either, but it's still worthwhile to learn about their magic." Myre leaned back, arms flung back over the back of the bench.

"I don't know how much you pay attention to what's said on the teleson things, but I'm a Shaman. We're scholars of magic. All magic, just not draconic. I just never got proper training from Mother since she loved my brother more and lavished attention on him instead, even though I was going to be Shaman after her." Ugh. Stupid Keman. And stupid Shana and stupid Mother, too.

"If your mother was a gleewoman, how were you taught?"

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 07:13 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, I suppose it is." Alessa shifted herself back, noticing her shoe was untied, she tied it.

"Yes, on that day we became different, I noticed you had mentioned something about it." Not that she had paid any attention to it; "You were basically deprived of some natural birth right?" She asked.

And, oh boy, that question; there was no way to completely dance around that. "I-I was never actually taught. I was born with it. All my mom taught me was how to control it," and did not do a good job of it. Alessa thought to herself after the spoken statement.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 07:26 am UTC (link)
"Yeah. Yeah, I was." Myre nodded. "When a Shaman's brooding, there are certain things she does to ensure the child will be a Shaman. But Keman was the favorite, and then Mother kicked me out, and that was that. She didn't really teach me much of anything, either. I taught myself."

And now she had a far better teacher, anyway.

"But I'm still a Shaman. I read the books and I figured everything out myself and I took over when Mother decided she didn't even want to be a dragon anymore." She glanced over at Alessa, her expression hard to read.

"Some females shouldn't be mothers, if you ask me."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 07:53 am UTC (link)
"That's too bad, but it worked out in the end, right?" Not that Alessa really knew; she hadn't paid too much attention during that meeting held by Asgard a month or two ago.

"Well, as long as you got to do what you were raised to do, and as long as you wanted to do it..." Alessa mentioned, really not knowing where she was going with the whole thing.

"No, I agree, but we can't choose who gives birth to us."

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 05:09 pm UTC (link)
Myre shrugged. "Do you hate your mother?" she asked, suddenly. She wasn't possessed of brilliant insights into the human mind, but Alessa hadn't seemed happy to talk about the woman. And Myre simply felt vindicated by finding someone else who had matriarchal issues.

"What do you plan to do with your power?" she also asked. As far as she was concerned, it was a sin to possess gifts and not use them. In that, at least, she had heeded her lessons as a dragonet. Magic was a gift, and it was to be used to help others.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 06:17 pm UTC (link)
At the question Alessa bit her lower lip; she really didn't want to go into that; not with someone she really didn't know. "I loved her, and hated her," she finally responded while looking at Myre with a stoic expression on her face.

At the next question, Alessa was not sure how to answer. "I used to use it to help people. But, the abilities I used for that were stripped from me. Most of what I have now is for offense and defense."

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-27 06:32 pm UTC (link)
"You can still use those to help people," Myre pointed out. "That's the whole reason anyone has magic. That's its purpose. And since we're supposed to be at war, those are useful magics to have."

Not that there was much actual war happening, as far as she could see. Petty scuffles between the teams and games weren't what she'd consider a war at all.

She didn't bother to press the subject of mothers any further. She didn't understand what Alessa meant, but the woman's expression was clearly readable.

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-27 06:54 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah, I have used them to help before," she didn't mention about the time with the talisman, and how Banru had attacked their group. She had used her abilities to protect the group, and herself.

At the mention of war, Alessa laughed, "Some war, the ones in charge can't even think of enough challenges. We've had two challenges since the start of this whole entire thing." She, much like Myre, didn't see this so much as a war, but a deadly game of sorts. Winner take all.

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[info]seekerofwisdom
2009-08-28 05:01 pm UTC (link)
"I'll take your word for it there even are challenges," Myre said, scowling. She'd never participated in one. She yawned and stretched, a day of trying to ferret out useful gems and pretties for her hoard catching up with her.

"Ugh, it's past my nap time." She stood up, her skin feeling too tight as it always did when she'd stayed in human form for too long. She was sleepy and anxious to be back to her Lair and her hoard. She gave Alessa a strange, almost angry look before giving her one last bit of advice.

"In my world, human mind magics can be focused and strengthen using crystals."

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[info]bring_god_down
2009-08-28 06:58 pm UTC (link)
The look that Myre gave Alessa spoke volumes. She understood that Myre was likely the type to get very cranky when deprived of her sleep. Not saying anything about the crystals, Alessa just said, "Right, I should be going now myself."

She stood up from the bench, and walked back, disappearing into thin air; teleporting herself back to Asgard.

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