Mia and Isern Direct Messages

Characters: Mia, Isern

Format: Direct Message

30 July

**Stihtere\_Isern**

How do you fare?

**MIAdenAway**

First week of Calvarn's been good thus far. Haven't really gotten to know one of my roommates- I think she sorta backed off when she registered Seafoam and I knew each other. Classes have been interesting, I finished one of my assignments due next week already because I was so excited.

Aftermath of Sydney's alright. Digesting the bad knots of poorly-healed Self I knicked from my sister, they've fouled my mood but better me than her. I think she's scheming things, but when wouldn't she be?

I don't think I looped you in on that situation- I apologise for that. I met my old life, she possessed me, she's now a little less crazy for having made contact with her soul again and I'm a little more knowledgeable for having met who I used to be.

I think those cover the cliff notes.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

You were split?

**MIAdenAway**

Soul and Self-majority from Body and Self-minority, via high velocity car crash and saturated immaterial scenario by applications of 'Star Children' and 'The Light of Bliss'

My old life got herself entrenched in the connections of Sydney, so people rushed to her and my aid, gave the Body (my sister) three of the seven charkras and sent me on my way. The overall goal was a very convoluted way of sabotaging or killing us both in order to diffuse the karmic costs of doing so.

They didn't share who had the Soul when they asked the people in our life to choose between her and me.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Interesting.

It explain some of what I have observed.

**MIAdenAway**

Not all?

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Not everything is caused by singular major events.

Some time had passed since then, other influences entered.

What scheme might she be doing? Seeing to re-combine? To stabilise? To get revenge for some perceived slight?

**MIAdenAway**

She healed wrong, and she knew it was happening, so she tried to... ride the way down, if that makes sense.

Choose the sort of monster she was going to become.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

I understand.

**MIAdenAway**

Her overall goal is to have her Soul back. She's made herself fae-like, as easily persuaded by drama and a good story as sound logic, so if either of us go Other enough, a Familiar Bond or permanent Hosting arrangement presented right will probably be as acceptable.

And from there, she didn't want to be a grudge bearer, so she made herself mercurial, two faced. Picked a few 'yes definitely' people to stay loyal and consistent with and let herself go chaotic everywhere else. Used masks and costumes to define the boundaries, varied her speech, different names, that sort of thing.

So she's sort've setting us up for a standing rhythm of cordial hatred.

Maybe she'll pounce on me and possess me again, but the only two options from there in my understanding is she and I cohere and we become the same person again, or my Crown Tattoo activates because she's too foreign an influence and she gets kicked out like last time, having gone a little less insane after making contact with our Soul again.

All else in the interim is... drama. If I can help it.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

How have the classes been? Which are you taking?

**MIAdenAway**

The Relations School And You, Build An Other Workshop, Insular Hazards, Intro to Practitioner History, Self Defence, and Introduction to Kinesic Practices. I'll get to pick another few by the time those classes are over, they're too short to fill a whole semester.

Do you have an area of study you'd like me to pursue?

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Not currently.

Although I would advise avoiding the Abyss.

Its effects could be worse on you than they might be otherwise.

**MIAdenAway**

I have been similarly advised and readvised, I assure you I have a deep, abiding, and healthy fear of the idea.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Do you need for anything?

**MIAdenAway**

The oath I swore, a year in your valley. Suffice to say if I and my sister recombined, the new whole would be rightly bound by it as well?

**Stihtere\_Isern**

I would expect so.

**MIAdenAway**

I would like to fulfill this oath. Is there a time you would have need of me in particular? I doubt you're in any rush, I simply seek a date to plan around.

Asking for the time I'd be most useful seemed a good way to pick.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

There is not currently a time I can think of that would have more need than another, not for a year in full.

**MIAdenAway**

An upcoming month perhaps? Even a fortnight. If I am remembering right that you assented to completing the year in pieces.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Around the Autumn equinox, would you be available?

A week, half either side.

**MIAdenAway**

I've no conflicting plans. I should be available, though I won't swear to it- being foresworn over scheduling seems a sad fate.

I'll plan around that time, possible be early.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

I would have a request to make of you.

Do not feel that you must accept.

Do you know of a Jane Doe?

**MIAdenAway**

Oh. Yeah. She's in my Relations School class.

Heard her name on the roll, stood out among the wizard and upper class names as normal.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

I do not believe it to be important but what do you know of her?

And could more be learnt on my behalf?

Without her knowing of it, ideally.

**MIAdenAway**

I'm so keen to do this. Is it that you'd like me to make friends with her?

Or will gathering information suffice?

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Information is what I am after, anything more than that is up to your discretion.

**MIAdenAway**

I'll see what I can do. Ask around, identify some mutual acquaintances.

Anything I should know going in? Reason she's of interest, dangers?

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Her name and Calvarn recently came up in a report from an agent. If she is the same person as believed then that is interesting to us. She is associated with dangerous people, how much a danger she is I am unsure.

**MIAdenAway**

I am now even more keen to do this.

I'll tell you what I find out, hopefully at length enough to satisfy your curiosity.

**Stihtere\_Isern**

Be safe, yes?

**MIAdenAway**

I can't exactly fulfill my oaths if I get too injured before I get the chance. I'll be clever, and hopefully wise.