poly_chromatic | The 58th Song

Right, I was! Sorry...I'm not used to talking about it.

...can you keep a secret?

People say I can't, but they don't know what they're talking about, honestly. It's a little difficult to know if someone is keeping a secret from you, right?

Which means yes.

[He's been keeping a huge secret from his closest friends for years, so it's all good.]

[She nods, biting her lip.]

Okay.

[She looks around nervously for a quick second before she starts to sing.]

Flower, gleam and glow...let your power shine...make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine...

[And as she sings, her hair does indeed glow, the healing magic flowing through it.]

Heal what has been hurt...change the fate's design...save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine...what once was mine...

[And as she slowly stops singing, the glow in her hair slowly fades away, the magic slowly going back dormant. She's still biting her lip nervously.]

[That is... certainly a different kind of magic, but it's most definitely magic, he can feel it very clearly now, how it surges through those strands. And he's not surprised it's different, because they are from different worlds.

It's... fascinating, most of all.]

So it... heals?

[She can stop biting her lip. His expression is more curious than shocked, or anything else.]

[She seems to relax a little, bit, nodding.]

Uh huh...and that's why it's so long. If I cut it...

[She moves slightly, pulling back her hair to reveal one short, brown lock.]

...it loses its power, and it turns brown.

I see.

[There's just a really great urge of doing something for her, so should he...

He shouldn't, really. He can see Gaius's stern expression and that extra quirk to an already quirked eyebrow telling him that he better not think of doing something stupid, but. Screw that.]

How would the lanterns go over the sky, when you watched them? If... that makes sense.

They...they would go out from one spot. And it would start with just one, and then there would be thousands of them, slowly filling the sky in all directions!

[They sort of looked like this, actually: http://www.charmedeventsplanning.com/absolutelycharmed/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tangled3.png, http://www.pushing-pixels.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tangled-artwork0.jpg]

[One spot...

He probably couldn't make thousands of floating lights, but at least some, from the other end of the room somewhere. It would be a little different from taking them from already burning candlelights, but he'd be fine.]

Turn off the lights? I'm going to show you something.

Okay...

[She nods and goes to get the lights, and lo, it is dark.]

[After gesturing for her to come back over, he chooses a spot near one of the tables near the wall, and focuses very carefully. His eyes start glowing yellow, briefly, as a small fire starts, a bit like the light on a candle but not quite as focused.

Then, as he it starts ascending, he creates one more, and continues that way.]

[Her eyes widen as she watches the small lights fill the room.]

You...you're making floating lights...

[And her face just lights up like a child at Christmas.]

[He chuckles and spares one glance at her, but he doesn't want to get too distracted, just in case. And he keeps making small fires as he steers them across the ceiling.

There's only one other person he has done this for, but he doesn't think she would mind and, besides... he doesn't think he needs to be quite as careful here. A few people knowing should be fine.]

[She just keeps staring, wide eyed and filled with unbelievable joy...]

You...you're amazing...

[His grin widened and his cheeks almost flush, and he'll just roll around in that really nicely said compliment for a while if that's fine. While trying to keep an eye on all the lights.

Yeah, okay, despite the Gaius-like voice in his head saying he shouldn't have done this, he's happy he did.]

It's nothing, really.

Edited 2012-02-10 05:22 (UTC)

You're magic, then, like me...well, you're probably better than me, I can only do the thing with my hair...

...I won't tell anybody, I promise.

[She knows the importance of keeping secrets.]
I knew telling you was a good idea...

[So she understood it was a secret without him even having to say it. Maybe it wasn't so hard to figure out, but it makes him more sure this isn't dangerous.]

Thanks. If someone from my world would should up here and find out I have magic, it might get messy...

Don't worry, I understand...I mean, I lived my whole life in a tower because I had to keep my hair a secret, so I know it's important not to tell.

[She nods and smiles.]

[That does make him lose focus, and some of the lights fade away.]

A tower?

[Her face falls a little as the lights fade away, because she now feels bad she broke Merlin's concentration.]

Sorry, I didn't mean to distract you...

Mother told me that when I was a baby, people tried to cut my hair to use the magic for themselves...after that, she kept me in a tower to protect me from everything outside of it.

I know she was doing what she thought was best, but having been here so long, I'm...starting to see a lot of the things she told me weren't true. At all.

[At her apology, he shakes his head and just creates new fires as he listens to her, but he lets these ones just hover around them to create light.]

I use magic at the risk of my life every time, but that doesn't mean I'll hide away to protect myself, and anyone who cares for me wouldn't make me do that either. Life is dangerous for anyone, it's not exclusive to magical people.

[He sounds quite angry, even if it's restrained.]

Things aren't that black and white.

I'm not surprised you enjoy being here so much.

[She nods quietly, biting her lip again. He does sound angry...]

I've learned here that...well, I've got a gift. It's risky to use it, because somebody could take advantage of it, but to not use it to help somebody is just as bad.

...I'm not not used to telling people about it...

[Rapunzel sighs a bit.]

I'm learning that. The world is really grey, isn't it? Mother should've just told me that instead of keeping me from it.

Yeah. Sometimes, people aren't at all what you'd like to think, but going around expecting everyone to want to take advantage of you and hiding because of that... It sounds depressing.

[Rapunzel shudders slightly at that, nodding.]

I lived my whole life thinking that...I know it's not true, now, but...I just missed so much as a result...

Yeah... But you were going to see the lanterns, so you left the tower, right? How long did you stay there?

...18 years...

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