A life never lives in peace

[philancer]

WHO: Sylvain and anyone!
WHEN: September
WHERE: Cadens and Libertas, Horizon
WHAT: catch-all, open prompts, closed starters
WARNINGS: blanket warning for fire emblem canon and war?

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[philancer]

Pity. I do so love to be helpful.

[ His lips quirk at that, but he takes a deep breath as he nods. Closing his eyes, he tries to focus, seeing what he could sense.

For a moment, there's nothing. A complete absence of everything.

And then he feels a rush of warmth tingle at the edge of his awareness, light and happy, and his breath hitches as he gives a sharp inhale. ]

Shit. I can feel that.

[warfed]

[Oh. Her eyebrows quirk upwards as she opens her eyes to look at him once more, surprised— the sharp surge of which he should be able to feel, as well.]

You can? What is it feeling like?

[It feels silly to ask, but if they're testing his abilities, they ought to compare, yes?]

[philancer]

[ He makes a face when one strong emotion is quickly chased by a different one. Although he has to focus, since just because he can feel them doesn't mean he can immediately tell what they are. Other than surges of emotion, anyway. ]

The first one... It was warm. Comforting, almost. Relief? Happiness? I'm still trying to decipher what each of them mean because sometimes it's just a rush of sensation, rather than translating directly to one emotion. [ Maybe because she was feeling more than one? Or they're getting tangled with his? He's not certain. ] The second one was cooler, a little sharper... Surprise?

[warfed]

You are having both right, I think.

[She nods, offering him confirmation.]

I was recalling how glad I felt when I learned I was not being alone in this world— and then feeling surprised when it was hitting you so suddenly. You are feeling the emotions of others!

[It seems rather straightforward, which is quite lucky, as emotions rarely are.]

[philancer]

[ Sylvain still looks a little overwhelmed by this discovery in general, scraping his fingers through his hair. ]

It seems so. [ Great. ] What the heck am I supposed to do with something like this? How did it even happen? I'm pretty sure I could never do this before. I think I would have noticed.

[ He'd frequently been in the presence of very strong emotions most of the time back home. ]

[warfed]

Claude was telling me that people are able to be gaining new magic here.

[Her own experience with magic has always been minimal at best; she learned some spells while training as a dancer at the Professor’s recommendation, just in case they were ever necessary, but their potency has always left something to be desired, and she’s never felt particularly called to pursue magic much further.]

I had thought that maybe you would have to be taking the time to learn it yourself if that is something you wanted, but maybe that is not being so.

[philancer]

This wasn't something I learned... [ He shakes his head. If he's honest, he hasn't even known where to start learning magic here, although he's played around a bit with the white and black magic he'd already arrived here knowing. Seeing if it still worked the same way he remembered or if he had to learn how to cast it differently here. ]

If anything, it felt like I just became more aware of it gradually, the more emotions got heightened around here. I can't even pinpoint when or where it started. Or why.

[warfed]

I see. We are finding more questions than answers.

[That seems to be the way of things here, doesn't it?]

Have you mentioned feeling differently to Claude? I wonder if he might be knowing something. He hears a great deal.

[Or goes out of his way to dig it up. Either way, their friend is very well-informed.]