[catch-all] my body is a cage;

[dreamflowers]

WHO: Jade and You.
WHAT: Catch-all log for April.
WHEN: Month of April, namely after the Shard-Bearers have awakened in their respective Resting Rooms.
WHERE: Various, but mostly Old Springstar (and Skysong).
WARNINGS: Psychosis due to the Arcane Fever stuff. I'll mark in the subject headers for anything heavy.

Prompts will be added in the comments. If there's anything specific you'd like me to whip up for you, feel free to hit me up in a PM, discord, or plurk (whippoorwill). This will be especially helpful as Jade's Arcane Fever will result in her struggle to discern what's real and what isn't, potentially causing her to hallucinate alternate versions of characters! Fun times.

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[dreamflowers]

[At first, the window disappearance is just... odd. Had Jade not experienced a similar phenomenon during her experience with the Rhalâta, she might have reacted with a bit more shock. Instead, she has more of a dull "well, that was unexpected" flinch of the shoulders, brows lifting and eyes darting from the now-windowless wall to the comfortably dressed up inhabitant.]

Neat trick. Somebody's gonna have to show me how that works sometime...

[The illusions she creates can't do anything quite like that, at least.

[Rather than dismay or denial, Jade simply shrugs, before casually setting down the bag as instructed.]

Pardon me. I wasn't aware that this was your residency.

[There's a sort of forced politeness in her demeanor when she speaks, like she usually does when she's trying to tailor a situation to go her way.]

[cyfaredd]

[ Howl raises his hand, and with a flick of his wrist, the bag floats up into the air towards him. ]

Who said it was?

[ And he grins. Is he joking? Messing with her? It's hard to tell! ]

Now, answer my question, won't you? I won't ask why you're here. That part is obvious.

[dreamflowers]

[Interesting response. But Jade doesn't have time to mull it over before she finds the bag being floated away.

[Now that just won't do.]

Oh, no you don't.

[She clenches her fingers together and pulls the bag back towards her. Of course, she's not a particularly skilled Mentalist, so her telekinesis is passable yet... lacking. But still. Heck if she's going to just accept someone trying to take her stash when she manages to pull it back just enough for her to at least grab hold of the shoulder strap with her free hand.]

And if you must know, I've been liberating the worldly attachments of the privileged by relieving them of certain... material possessions.

[More words than necessary just to say "I'm stealing their shit", but whatever.]

[cyfaredd]

[ The bag halts mid-air, being pulled on in two opposing directions. Howl's grin twitches ever-so-slightly, but aside from that, there's no reaction.

But he definitely isn't letting go of his own grip on the bag. ]

Miss. I know it's the middle of the night, but I'm far more awake than you seem to realize.

I'll ask again. How did you get in here?

[ He doesn't seem to care at all that she's stealing things. Or, if he does, he isn't showing it. ]

Nobody should be able to get into this place. Bearer or not.

[dreamflowers]

[Was it really that strange? Jade blinks, tilting her head. She still doesn't fully let go of her bag, either, clutching onto it with both mind and hand -- now more out of the principal of it than anything else at this point.]

Pff, how the heck should I know? I'm magic. Shit just happens to me sometimes.

[Really, she has been known to do such things, so it wouldn't be the first time she stumbled into a magical anomaly that wasn't meant for her.]

What, did you have this place warded off or something?