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[lefthandedgenius]

[Lydia is perfectly dressed, perfectly coiffed, and her smile is dazzling.]

Hi, everyone.

My name's Lydia Martin, and I'm a banshee.

[She lets that sink in for a moment.]

So here's the thing. This city? Is full of crazy stuff that no one ever suspected was even possible. I mean, if we can cope with guys who run at superhuman speeds and people from other planets, I don't exactly see the value in hiding, especially when you're dealing the scientific improbabilities of transdimensional pocket universes that exist outside the forward movement of time and there isn't even a wardrobe to explain it.

So my thought is? Let your freak flag fly. Who's going to persecute you here? Who's going to tell you that you're impossible, and shouldn't exist? Not me. And maybe there's other people just like you here, or maybe kind of the same, or just a -leetle- different since the rules from their universe don't apply. Wouldn't you want to meet them? Wouldn't you want to know more?

You're in the one place where you don't have to hide. Unless you're like...an axe murderer or something. But if you still feel safer keeping things on the DL, tell you what. If you're interested in reaching out to like minded Cityzens but want to do so discreetly, contact me privately, and I'll keep an eye out for those with similar origins.

You know what they say. Live together, die alone.

Comments

[lefthandedgenius]

What exactly am I about? Aside from wanting to find out what exactly I am.

[eiremagic]

You're a bean sidhe. That's all.

[lefthandedgenius]

And how did I get that way? What am I able to do?

[eiremagic]

What do you mean? You were born that way. How the else would you become a bean sidhe?

You can scream, the entire fucking City knows about that now.

[lefthandedgenius]

But I wasn't. Something happened to me and made me this way.

But let's say that the potential to become this way was in me already...wouldn't that mean that whoever...changed my state of being knew what he was doing when he did it? Or was it just random chance?

[eiremagic]

Something might have woken you up. Another fae could do it. The right kind of mage. The right kind of magic.

[lefthandedgenius]

It wasn't a fae. Or a mage. But it was something supernatural.

Are you some kind of expert on this stuff? You sound like it.

[eiremagic]

I'm a blood mage. And a sidhe. So yeah. I'm an expert.

[lefthandedgenius]

[Okay, that sounds kind of sinister, but who is she to judge. And no one's interjecting with panic-filled DON'T TALK TO HER messages.]

Could you help me?

[eiremagic]

What sort of help are you looking for?

[lefthandedgenius]

I need to learn about what I am and what I can do. Right now except for once it tends to...control me more than the other way around.

[eiremagic]

Is it separate from you?

[lefthandedgenius]

You mean like is it a separate being that I host? No.

[eiremagic]

Then it can't really control you, can it? Unless you mean the powers go out of control, which, for fuck's sake, yeah, you need to get that looked at.

/private

[lefthandedgenius]

I don't have any control over it. I can only scream when I'm scared. I get this feeling and it just pulls me toward dead bodies. I get these weird feelings sometimes that death is going to happen. But I want to be able to tap into this before the bad stuff happens and maybe I can help to prevent it. And I don't know if this is the limit of what I can do or if I'm capable of more.

[eiremagic]

Shite.

Yeah, all right. I might be able to help with that.

[lefthandedgenius]

It would be amazing if you could. Thank you.

[eiremagic]

I'm Eden Mac Cionaoith.

[lefthandedgenius]

Lydia Martin, but you knew that. Good to meet you, Eden.

[eiremagic]

Who woke you?

[lefthandedgenius]

A werewolf.

He didn't 'wake' me. He bit me. And he's not here, so there isn't a whole lot I can do about him.

[There's clearly more to this story but Lydia probably wants to wait a bit to share. Plus she has other people's safety to consider.]

[eiremagic]

It's not a literal waking. Me da did mine when I was three. It's just a term.

Anyway, we don't need him about. I'll see what I can do.

[lefthandedgenius]

Thank you, seriously. I've got a few other people looking into it, you know, from a scientific perspective and stuff.

Wait, your dad made you a fae when you were three?

[eiremagic]

I was always fae. I've always been fae, I'll always be fae. But the weird shite - the magic? That has to be woken up.

And yeah, I was three.