beheld_beauty | mes études

Belle studies magic.

It's tricky. Getting into and out of her rose-sphere is routine after a few days, but she still hasn't uncovered an explanation of how channeling works, though she's been informed that there are three options for how to do it (by herself, through a willing helper, or through an unwilling helper). Unlike the fourfold options for reaching the Dreamworld, this does not tell her how to begin fumbling towards a practical understanding, even though she can rule out the last one just on the basis of its description.

Beast can only do so a tiny bit of reading per day, and her pile of books that she can read shrinks much faster than his. She combs the library for multilingual dictionaries, so she can pick her way through the titles of the foreign-language books and at least prioritize them before handing them over.

Finally something in an obscure language that even Beast can barely read - Belle has to look up a lot of words - explains the channeling in a way she can understand.

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From:

deslandes

The Hedge-witch had 'To Look Upon the Past', and the Discerning Enchanter had 'To See True Form or Nature'.

Edited Date: 2013-03-12 10:09 pm (UTC)

From:

beheld_beauty

Hmm. Both promising, but the first looks a little easier.

"You want me to channel this one through you?" Belle confirms, reading through the instructions.

From:

deslandes

He nods.

From:

beheld_beauty

"Okay. This might take a while, I have to find your mindscape."

She drops into her meditative state and sets about looking for it.

From:

deslandes

Not surprisingly, it looks a lot like this castle.

But unlike in the real castle, the climbing plants swarm over every inch of stone.

From:

beheld_beauty

She has to be able to send the spell through it somehow. She inspects windows.

From:

deslandes

Blocked by thorns and ivy, most of them.

But the castle's front door - apparently, in this vision, the garden doesn't count as in his mindscape; the outer wall just plain isn't there - is clear of green things.

From:

beheld_beauty

Poke, poke -

From:

deslandes

It shifts slightly.

From:

beheld_beauty

It doesn't, she thinks, have to be open far, but it does need to be open -

Push -

From:

deslandes

The door swings open, inviting her in.

From:

beheld_beauty

She doesn't need to go in. But this is where her spell will go.

She forms the intentions and the will behind Looking Upon The Past, and - sends it, thisaway.

From:

deslandes

The power of Will... sparkles. Every shade of grey from black to white, glinting and swirling together in thousands of tiny motes that together make up a fluid similar to the Heart-power she used earlier.

It flows in the door, and away out of sight... and cascades out of a tower window a moment later, spilling around the covering vines.

The spell shows her the Beast as he was, as a human. Tall, handsome, just about her age, with curly brown hair almost the same colour as his mane.

He used to be a very happy person.

Edited Date: 2013-03-12 10:38 pm (UTC)

From:

beheld_beauty

Belle commits that face, that smile, to memory, and she opens her eyes.

"I wish I could draw," she says.

From:

deslandes

"Was I pretty?" he asks with a snort.

From:

beheld_beauty

"You laugh, but you were. And tall, and curly brown hair this long -" she gestures - "and smiling. You looked happy."

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deslandes

"I'm tall now," he observes. This is very true.

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beheld_beauty

"Yes, but you were then, too."

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deslandes

"I wasn't this tall then," he says, but now he is definitely being silly.

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beheld_beauty

"Well, you were only about my age, perhaps some of this is natural growth you had left in you," she suggests. "No, I think you'd be this tall now regardless of your previous height."