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[politicallyinclined]

I did it!

(What she did might be hard to understand until she purposefully attacks her Light shield. Her sword bounces off of the brightness and her lovely Peko-Peko familiar caws her approval from the other side.)

I can keep her and hopefully others safe. This is the first step; I want to make a much bigger shield. One that I could place over an entire area.

What do you think?

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[mayoninofukucho]

Yeah, it doesn't always work out... but at least if shit happens we've got workarounds here. Healers, necromancers, the works.

[He says that so flippantly, but he knows that despite everything resurrections aren't cheap or easy, even here on Avalon.]

But that's right, if you siphon up a curse or such it can mess you up, right? What do you siphoners do with that mana, just blast it into the ether where it can do no harm?

[Why is she suddenly responsible for teaching him about siphoning?! Well, maybe he drank a beer or two too many and decided to get chatty on AOL instead of just lurking like usual. Hence he also isn't really minding his manners. Sorry, Padmé.]

[politicallyinclined]

Necromancers? Those are the magic users that can potentially raise the dead, correct? I am uncomfortable with that power.

(Considering its unnatural. That argument could be made about all magic, but the other types don't try to undo death.)

That depends on the curse, doesn't it? I presume some of them are stubborn and they adhere to the siphoner. But I believe all curses can be broken.

(He can be chatty, he's fine! She has been purposefully cautious about using Siphoning because of his very questions. And she doesn't like the idea of weakening someone without their consent. In battle thus far, she hasn't had a chance to ask.)

[mayoninofukucho]

Hm, that's a good attitude. I reckon a proficient siphoner can break even tough curses. As for the light shields, I guess it'd be easiest to shield large areas - like a whole town - with multiple mages. About necromancy, though, I'm with you on that, even though I'm a death mage. But then again a couple of people who got killed here - outworlders, I mean - got brought back to life like that, so it's good to have the option. We need everyone we've got, after all.

[politicallyinclined]

I wonder how many of us have Light? I haven't met any others. (She tenses at the mere topic of reviving the dead. It feels like it flies in the face of the natural order. Then again, deaths in Avalon can be entirely unnatural. Maybe instead she should look at it as...bringing balance?)

I don't know how I would feel if someone brought me back. (Avalon has technically already done that.) I want to live, yet I... I don't feel I am unbiased enough to make that choice.

[mayoninofukucho]

Hopefully you won't have to experience it, but I reckon you'll find out if you die. If you'll be unable to accept your death and move on to the afterlife, be it because people left behind rely on you or other unfinished business, then you'll have to figure out what to do, continue to exist as a ghost or seek help from a necromancer.

[If only he knew...]

I'm not sure how many light mages we've got in total, but I know a few. Maybe you've met some of them too? Junko, Ereshkigal, Maribelle, Gokudera... those are the ones I know.

[He missed out on a whole lot of light mages, including some he knows but whose magic types he lacks awareness of. Perhaps they could use a census!]

[politicallyinclined]

Believe me, I am well-acquainted with that decision. (And she doesn't have any answers.) I also think people crave things that are the worst for them. A death should be an ending - a time of rest. But I wanted to come back before I came here.

(Can she thank a necromancer for fulfilling her wish?)

Thank you for giving me some names. If the time comes when we need widespread defense, I would be honored to work with them.

[mayoninofukucho]

You died before?

[That strikes a chord. Sure, they were talking about it anyway, but for it to actually have happened to her... the two women he worries about the most in the face of the calamity died on their homeworlds, too, and he's concerned about whether they'll be safe frozen in time on Prismatica where he last saw them.]

My condolences.

[Is that a proper thing to say here?]

Or-- I guess it worked out, in a roundabout way, if you wanted to come back to life anyway.

[He wonders, though, what will become of her and those who share her fate... if things take a similar turn as they did on Prismatica they probably won't be able to return home and stay alive. He's not going to muse about that out loud, though.]