:Don't get too excited. I'm sure I can help, but I can't just fix things.: Normally when she visits another canon it's for something simple, like that time with the dragon. :I've limits and I wouldn't want to act rashly and make the situation worse.:
Need can split her focus and do several things at once - she's with Camilla, she's with Palamedes, she's more distantly with Hot Coals of Vengeance and the other humans on the ship, she's in the River gliding past carnage as a fluid, winged shape. In Velgarth, she sometimes talks to people whose bodies are hundreds of miles away, too far to contact otherwise, on the Moonpaths, where distance doesn't matter. This River might serve similarly. Maybe. Oh, but it is a terrible place.
She listens to Palamedes explain himself. Calculations made with regards to complex magic are something Need is familiar with, at least. Sealing her soul into her sword hadn't involved any of those, but she's had a long time since then.
:You anchored yourself to part of your body and you've transferred that anchor to her. But with the nature of consciousness being what it is here, you're working around a harsh limitation.: Need gives a kind of lungless sigh, poorly disguising her own interest. :Your soul-sib should should really be looped in on this. Right now I'm insulating you a bit and taking your soul on so we can have this little chat and no one's the worse for it. That's not a long term solution but I can keep it up a while while I think about options. Here's what your girl's doing right now, by the way.:
She has the memory-scene change to a first-person perspective, as if Palamedes had taken over, of Camilla doing a series of lunges with Need in hand. The smell of the room, the prickle of sweat, the glad ache of muscles that haven't been used quite like this in too long. Need doesn't convey thought and feeling. She has a particular perspective of ethics in that regard - it's fine if she knows things, but other people shouldn't without permission unless it's really necessary.
:Do you want to talk to her?: Need asks. It will go easier if he can help to explain her presence, but also, of course he wants to talk to her. They're basically the same as oath-sibs.
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Need can split her focus and do several things at once - she's with Camilla, she's with Palamedes, she's more distantly with Hot Coals of Vengeance and the other humans on the ship, she's in the River gliding past carnage as a fluid, winged shape. In Velgarth, she sometimes talks to people whose bodies are hundreds of miles away, too far to contact otherwise, on the Moonpaths, where distance doesn't matter. This River might serve similarly. Maybe. Oh, but it is a terrible place.
She listens to Palamedes explain himself. Calculations made with regards to complex magic are something Need is familiar with, at least. Sealing her soul into her sword hadn't involved any of those, but she's had a long time since then.
:You anchored yourself to part of your body and you've transferred that anchor to her. But with the nature of consciousness being what it is here, you're working around a harsh limitation.: Need gives a kind of lungless sigh, poorly disguising her own interest. :Your soul-sib should should really be looped in on this. Right now I'm insulating you a bit and taking your soul on so we can have this little chat and no one's the worse for it. That's not a long term solution but I can keep it up a while while I think about options. Here's what your girl's doing right now, by the way.:
She has the memory-scene change to a first-person perspective, as if Palamedes had taken over, of Camilla doing a series of lunges with Need in hand. The smell of the room, the prickle of sweat, the glad ache of muscles that haven't been used quite like this in too long. Need doesn't convey thought and feeling. She has a particular perspective of ethics in that regard - it's fine if she knows things, but other people shouldn't without permission unless it's really necessary.
:Do you want to talk to her?: Need asks. It will go easier if he can help to explain her presence, but also, of course he wants to talk to her. They're basically the same as oath-sibs.