video | CALL | un: wardenka

[boundinblood]

[At first, the wrong camera turns on, showing the book Katherine has laid out on the table, pages bathed in sunlight from a nearby window. It's nonfiction - biology, in fact, and its target audience likely in the young teens crowd. The open page displays a labeled diagram of a strand of DNA and a Punnett square with an explanation in small print, courtesy of a cartoonish character sitting on its corner, clearly drawn by an adult attempting to appeal to a younger crowd they only superficially understand. The normal-sized text at its side explains hereditary traits, with a side of how DNA determines everything about a person's appearance. It's helpfully colloquial.]

Well, I can't say I completely understand all of this, but- oh, wait, I've got it the wrong way, haven't I?

[She switches to the front camera to show her face instead, bags under her eyes indicating a rather long self-imposed study session. She raises a mug of something no longer hot enough to require one to her lips and sets it down offscreen with a gentle thunk. The window beside her reveals the skybridges, flying cars, and gleaming metal towers of Tomorrow, from several stories up.]

There we are! Now, as I was saying, am I right in guessing this means the...the essence of who we are is in...all of us? Does that mean spells that require a bit of, say, hair, from the caster have worked on the same principles as blood magic all along?

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[video/un: ghostprince; ironically, he has since befriended a sorcerer]

[shootaro]

Yeah, 'scept blood breaks down and is replaced in the body. Hair falls off.

Maybe that's why the blood stuff renews itself?

[Trip, you're not helping your case from before (okay, but he wasn't involved in that stuff at the time).]

[Video/un: troubadourCatalyst // cw: drug mention]

[thygospelevity]

[He doesn't know what things he is being shown right now, but it looks like a business blasphemous scientific nonsense. Or at least some kind of nonsense. He's not all certain.

But then he's shown clear the face of his friend (who he has decided is his friend based on having talked to them all of once) with bags as dark as his own are without a bit of covering. She's in Tomorrow. This is rectifiable, therefore.

But science turns to magic and suddenly that part is okay again. He folds his hands together as he speaks.]

Perhaps the properties of blood lay in its sacrifice. To cut a hair is to bring growth anew at no cost. To bleed is to bring a greater risk, for gift of greater connection. As more is spilled, the closer one comes to death and so the veil of worlds thins.

Now do not move in slight, for I must attend to the travesty that has befallen you. I have many a piece and practice to remedy this. [He says having dropped the prayer hands and gone to gather up makeup and what appears to be some herbs rolled in papers.]

[ text | un: barnes ]

[notthaticequeen]

sounds right to me anyway

Video, un: moonqueen

[story_and_teller]

Of course! Some people will tell you that blood's better, but that's really only if you believe it is.

[Loki pauses, and taps her chin thoughtfully for a moment.]

Unless you're a predator tracking wounded prey, then blood's king.