>>5813538“Speak,” she commanded, as you might command a dog.
“I am—”
“I know who you are,” she said. “Obviously. I have been watching you for some time.”
She had?
“You have?”
“Don’t ask stupid questions,” she said. “I’m a busy woman, and I do not like to repeat myself. Why are you here? I gather it’s not to return to your classes?”
“N-no,” you agreed.
Instead…
>You demanded the whole, unvarnished truth about what happened twenty years ago, under threat of exposure>You sought a stipend for independent research in exchange for your silence>You requested an exemption from traditional classes, and access to the laboratory facilities beneath the Tower, to pursue the independent study of Life Magic>You spoke of your concern for Izirina—and told her ‘mother’ what she had told you, and about your fears for her plans>You asked about Hershy, where he came from and what he was made from, and for help in preserving him in restoring his youthful vigor>Write-in [making any explicit demands for resources runs risks and requires a roll; the more extreme the ask, the higher the DC and the bigger the consequences for failure]
>>5813530*Hershy hopped upon her chest to nestle there
[Gah.]
