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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:50 pm
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Jeremiah might have opened his mouth to say not my words but what Ezra said next was enough to make him close his mouth. It took him a moment to gather himself, his expression having gone blank as he processed.
It was not that Ezra had been with Melany, he had seen pictures from 1969, nor was it that he loved her. No, it was the fact that she had tithed him. That was-
He did not know.
"No, I imagine not. The Spinel Lady and Melany may as well be two different people." His postured had shifted, his shoulders rolling before he recognized the action and stopped himself. "As I said, I was under the impression that she was not the intended target. It was meant to be a spell schema ..."
His world still reeled a little.
"We're looking for the charter," Jeremiah said quietly, "to change the Court but ... would that change her as well?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:43 pm
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Jeremiah blinked, slowly, before he responded. "She already was once. You stated it yourself. Nothing of her was left and what she is now, outside of the Court, may be remnants at it's best of someone who's not been seen for ages. If it's an outcome of change, then so be it."
There was closure in this that he could see, for those who had been tithed by Melany. For Shiloh, for Thorne, for the countless tithes that had failed and served as fetches.
Were he not willing, had he paused to question himself about it, then he would have not been- Well, he would not have been the Jeremiah that came out of his tithing.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:54 pm
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"No," Jeremiah agreed quietly, "it does not." For all that he could say so be it, Ezra likely knew better. Consent was something important to him, something he valued above all other things- To strip it away, to potentially make it worse- It was close to unspeakable for him.
This was far too like when he had been in Ezra's study, a debate broken out over how to handle an affair brought forward and to force him to look at it from all angles. Including the ones he did not recognize.
Yet he was still willing to do so if it was a step necessary.
"It is still something that may need to be done and I have to be ready to do that. Never mind that we do not know what damage would be caused by destroying the Court. More harm could come from that than changing one person." One for many; it was ages old at this point. "... and what the Court has become, what it is, is not something that we are happy with. Perhaps if we could get Melany to understand, if we could relieve her of the burden, then that would be a path to consider." Except that they would have to delve into the magic that created it and that was something that needed looking into.
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