[video: week twenty, friday]

[growingwild]

[The image that appears is of Briar, sitting on the grass just outside the ship and frowning at the device in front of him. Settled next to him is a potted miniature pine tree. But the most striking thing about him is the intricate leafy vine tattoos on his hands and forearms - which if you look closely at, you might be realise are actually moving.

When Briar starts talking, he seems to be addressing the mirror itself rather than anyone on the other end]

You can't be working, you know. I've never been able to scry - and besides, you don't even have any magic anyway, so I don't see how I'm supposed to talk to anyone with this.

[Not that Briar's all that sure he wants to talk who whoever brought him here. But magical objects without any magic is just plain bizarre, so his frown deepens]

Comments

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

Um...I don't know what that means? I mean, I went to school for it...

[Action]

[growingwild]

You don't? [Briar blinks in surprise. But maybe he's being hasty. Maybe they just have different words for it, where he's from?]

You know, academic mages - they draw their power from their own internal magic. While ambient mages get theirs from natural things.

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

[He frowns in thought for a moment.]

You...get your magic from something else?

[Action]

[growingwild]

Not my magic - my strength. My magic's always there, but I get my power from plants - I'm a green mage. [Briar titled his head to look at Remus] Don't you have ambient mages where you're from?

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

No, I'm sorry. I'm not sure I understand how that works.

[Action]

[growingwild]

Its...[how did he even end up explaining this? Sure, ambient magic wasn't common, but it wasn't incomprehensible!]...my magic's based in plants, alright? So my magic's connected to them. Academic mages don't have that connection. They can do more - usually - since they're magics not based in one or two natural things, but they don't have the same strength.

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

I see. [Remus grins, because that all sounds fascinating, and then has a brief coughing fit into his arm.]

Forgive me. I'm a bit...under the weather.

[Action]

[growingwild]

[Oh no. Briar is not buying that. He might be new here, but he has already heard a bit about what's going on here]

...Under the weather? Under the weather? You've got the plague, haven't you?

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

...yes?

[He frowns apologetically.]

[Action]

[growingwild]

[Briar grits his teeth as he spits out his next works] And do you realise that you're bringing your disease with you? To someone who doesn't have it?

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

I'm sorry.

[He frowns, rubbing his forehead.] I wasn't...I wasn't thinking.

[Action]

[growingwild]

Well you should have! Especially with a spell like that, where you could spread the diseases anywhere in the blink of an eye! Lakik's teeth, you need to go back to where you were, right now, and stop going anywhere near people who haven't been exposed yet!

Re: [Action]

[prophetic_name]

That's not how it... [He trails off because this is not a time to be arguing about the theory of magic.]

Yes, you're right, I should...

[He pulls himself to his feet to disapparate back.]

[Action]

[growingwild]

[Briar just watches the space where Remus used to be, grumbling about people who go and make things worse when they should know better. Lakik's teeth, he'd better not get sick!]