[it's whispered the name to her over time, pressing up against her consciousness, hovering in the doorway but never quite being let in. (because letting it in means using it, and she is no sorceress powerful enough to contain that.) still, she says it gently. if it knew enough to talk, it knew enough to be offended.]
You will have to be strong. It will likely speak to you, on occasion, try and tempt you into using it. I have no certain idea what will happen if you give in, but the words another used to explain them was that they "disrupt what is real, alter the very fabric of what is."
I ask you to carry such a thing until the place where they are meant to be hidden is established -- it is being constructed, but its completion is some weeks off. Blood granite is a slow thing to work with.
[she explains it all now not to have the chance to hold the sigil longer, but to give him the last chance to back out. it was power at the price of so much danger, but it didn't have to be forever.]
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[it's whispered the name to her over time, pressing up against her consciousness, hovering in the doorway but never quite being let in. (because letting it in means using it, and she is no sorceress powerful enough to contain that.) still, she says it gently. if it knew enough to talk, it knew enough to be offended.]
You will have to be strong. It will likely speak to you, on occasion, try and tempt you into using it. I have no certain idea what will happen if you give in, but the words another used to explain them was that they "disrupt what is real, alter the very fabric of what is."
I ask you to carry such a thing until the place where they are meant to be hidden is established -- it is being constructed, but its completion is some weeks off. Blood granite is a slow thing to work with.
[she explains it all now not to have the chance to hold the sigil longer, but to give him the last chance to back out. it was power at the price of so much danger, but it didn't have to be forever.]