Solstice

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

[Filter: Celts]

Check in, everyone. Now. I need your statuses immediately.

[Action for Puck]

[For Puck, Mab does not use a phone or the computer. She simply goes to his apartment. She has a key and she walks right inside as if she owns the place. Because she does.]

Puck?

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[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Been a strange morning. Being lighter than air is a new phenomenon for me.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Have your true abilities been rendered useless as well?

[Mab has no idea what her trade off was. Nothing is obvious except that the powers of Winter no longer respond to her.]

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Well, I'm not a weakling or a raving idiot, but I'm about as normal as any of the rest of the faculty would be in that regard. Lilith, too, has had a change.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Delightful. What's happened to her?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Well, seems she's traded out some of her sex appeal for a little slice of chaos.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

When you say lighter than air, are you meaning that literally, hon? Are you also glowing like the proverbial "fistful of fairy lights"?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Afraid so. And for a guy my size, that's no small feat.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

Awww, sorry about that. I'm sure you'll manage my powers just fine, handsome. I bet the kids are hysterical over it all. ;)

[Action]

[knavish-sprite.insanejournal.com]

[When Mab walks in, she's going to find a pale, shaking Puck. He looks downright terrified]

My lady... Something has gone very wrong.

[Action]

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

[She doesn't run, but there's a distinct urgency in her gait as she approaches him. She takes his face in her hands (her very warm-for-Mab hands) and makes him meet her eyes.]

Be calm. It's the Solstice. Gaia is playing with us. It won't last. I swear it.

[Action]

[knavish-sprite.insanejournal.com]

[At her warm touch, he draws back sharply, almost as if burned, and suddenly he looks at her with suspicion and alarm]

You're warm. What sorcery is this? Prove to me you are my Queen!

[Action]

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

[Temper. She must keep her temper. She hated being questioned, but once again, he was in distress. Allowances had to be made.

With her lips pressed into a thin, disapproving line, she withdrew her hands from him and went to unfasten her slacks. She unzipped them, drawing them and her underwear down far enough to flash the mark he'd given her on Samhain.]

Is this sufficient enough proof for you?

[Action]

[knavish-sprite.insanejournal.com]

[He pauses, looking at the mark. but not all of the suspicion dims]

It looks like my work. But it could be a very clever copy. I... I can't feel any magical remnants. Speak to me of something only my Queem would know, and I will believe.

[Action]

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

[She adjusted her clothes first. Mab was a lady, unless she was specifically deciding not to be. And then she stepped in closer to Puck, voice cool and flat.]

Your first night as a human, I petted your hair, made you tea, and sang you to sleep. And I swore to you that you would not die a mortal.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

It's gone..my Fomori half is gone.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Anything manifesting in its place? Ogma seems to have gained a replacement ability.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

I'm not sure..though my plants seem..healthier.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Your....plants?

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

Yes..and I feel so..so clearheaded. It's as if there are no longer two sides of my mind warring with each other.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

I would not get attached to it, Bres. Gaia isn't known for giving gifts, merely trials.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

Right..I will not.

You haven't said what has befallen yourself.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

My powers are absent, that seems to be all.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

Perhaps yours were switched with a mortal.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

My status is pretty damn annoyed, to be honest. How about yours?

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

I am passed annoyed. Gaia seems to think that her games will go unremembered once the long game is completed.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

Gaia is stupid beyond words if she thinks the Fae ever forget anything.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Vengeance is one of our talents.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

And we are so very, very good at it.

[piercethevale.insanejournal.com]

I'm feeling very very weird. They don't have earthquakes in New York City, do they?

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

Not usually, sweetie, no. I'm down in Philly for a couple of days but do you need anything? Oh, and stay calm and don't go near cemeteries.

I am going to kill Gaia first and then I'll strangle you, Oberon. For the love of little green peas.

[piercethevale.insanejournal.com]

I think I'll be okay if I just stay put and not go outside at all. It seems to go away when I'm above ground level. Thank you, though. How are you doing?

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

Aside from having my ex's dubious talents, I'm doing just peachy, thanks. Take care of yourself please.

[piercethevale.insanejournal.com]

Oh god, is that what's going on? I'll be fine, like I said if I just stay in my room. You take care of yourself too, milady.

[-himself-.insanejournal.com]

Hearing voices, and not in my head. This is really annoying.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

Gee, you think? Down a bottle of something and go to bed and wait for it to pass. Doesn't that usually solve things for you?

[-himself-.insanejournal.com]

My, we're feeling the love today, aren't we? What did I do to you?

Though I must admit downing a bottle sounds like a fine idea right about now.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

If you two wish to bicker, call one another.

Now, Oberon. Explain this hearing voices phenomenon that isn't in your head.

[-himself-.insanejournal.com]

Just what it sounds like. I'm hearing people talking to me that aren't there. Whispers and low voices that don't shut up. And my usual abilities are gone, or I might have a clue what the hell is going on.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

You probably have been given one of the death god's abilities then. There seems to be a swap going on.

[-himself-.insanejournal.com]

Oh goodie. I wonder how long this crap is going to go on. I have a studio call in a couple of days.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

It's the Solstice. If she remains true to form, it will end with the sunrise.

[-himself-.insanejournal.com]

I think I'm just going to curl up with a bottle like Titania ever so gently suggested and wait for it to all blow over then.

Just so you know, I'm not pleased by this at all. Gaia had better watch her back.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Glad to hear the three of us can agree on something.

[ill-met.insanejournal.com]

You forget how well I know you, Oberon. I've got your mislaid talents running about in my head and body. It sounds like you've got someone else's in you and filling the gaps.

Until you know what you have, be smart and stay inside.

[-himself-.insanejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not going anywhere, sweetheart. There are enough crazies in Hollywood. There doesn't need to be one more roaming the streets screaming at voices.

That bottle idea is sounding better and better.

And Gaia had better watch her back.