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[lilacwood]

(A slender, white figure is sitting on the shore of a peaceful river. She is dripping wet, her knees drawn up to her chest. Warily, she glances at her communicator, pushing back her thick mane of white hair absently.)

You mustn't move too much or too fast in this heat. When you feel overwhelmed, find the shade of a tree or cool water.

(Amalthea closes her eyes and stretches out in the grass, resting on her side.)

This forest is like mine. I could rest...

(If her skin wasn't so sensitive to sunlight...bugs... How do humans stand it?)

Does anyone remember me?

Comments

[Video]

[lilacwood]

I would rather die than remain like this. (She feels her resolve failing in that regard, however, and that frightens her even more.) ...you are a...magical creature?

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[li_amaranth]

I'd rather survive and find a way out of my prison.

[Unfortunately, she can't say more than that on exactly what is holding her in this shape. Li was incapable of doing so for the sheer fact of the curse she's under preventing her from doing so.]

...Yeah, you could say that.

[Video]

[lilacwood]

I do not know if I will ever be free. The one who cast the spell isn't here.

(And magic is often rather specific about how it can be cast and broken.)

The longer I remain like this, the more I am forgetting. Soon I will imagine I was always a woman.

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[li_amaranth]

[...Yeah, Li's well aware of that. Painfully aware of it.]

...Sounds like we have a similar problem.

[She snorts softly.]

Kelpie. Irish descent. We're cousins to the Scottish herds.

[Video]

[lilacwood]

Kelpie... (This is a new encounter for her and she stares at Li inquisitively.) I am...a Unicorn.

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[li_amaranth]

[This is a new encounter for the both of them. Li's never met a unicorn before. Even in her world they're rarest of the rare.]

...A unicorn.

[Pause.]

Let me guess, last of your kind too? If so, then fuck.

[Video]

[lilacwood]

The others were driven into the sea by the Red Bull. There, King Haggard keeps them. (Her gaze is distant, seeing the castle and the waves below.)

Re: [Video]

[li_amaranth]

[She frowned a little.]

Well, Still fuck all kinds of duck. But, at least your kind are still alive and you know where they are even if they are captives.

Mine are dead. They were either killed off by the humans or cursed by mages and as good as dead. I haven't seen another of my kind in over a hundred years.

[Video]

[lilacwood]

For now they live. (Immortal beings can't really die. But they can forget they were ever free.)

...I'm sorry. (She means that and the words are spurred on by the ache of loss in her heart.)

I think it must have been that long for me too.

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[li_amaranth]

[But, they were still alive. That's what counted in Li's mind.]

...Yeah, I hear that and it does jackshit.

[Soft snort, but, she does relax a little and nod.]

So, looks like we're only slightly different. And here I wanted to keep bitching you out for being an idiot.

Kind of hard to do now that I know we're in similar boats.