witchual: (the boundary between dreams and reality…)
Magilou ([personal profile] witchual) wrote in [community profile] awashlogs2019-06-16 02:18 am

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WHO: Magilou and Artoria
WHERE: Deep within the forest
WHEN: Mid-June, pre-event
WHAT: Magilou and Artoria go in the forest for hunting. They get more than they bargained for.
WARNINGS: Monsters and the usual spooky forest shenanigans

[ When Magilou suggested that she and Saber take a trip through the forest for hunting, it's not as though she was expecting a welcome party. This is the barrier that keeps them enclosed in their fairytale prison; to call it foreboding would be an understatement. An endless expanse of colorless trees leading only to darkness, the mysterious quests for slaying monsters deep within - it's almost sinister in its simplicity, but this isn't the first abyss that Magilou has stared down.

After they've walked past the edges and into the deep thickets of gray beyond, Magilou looks behind her, only to see an unfamiliar maze of trees. It's impossible to see if the thought affects her at all, with her usual carefree mask plastered on. If it weren't for her efforts to keep her footfalls light and her voice low - and the fact that she'd triple-checked her Guardians and strung the journal she arrived with around her waist - she'd seem almost completely unprepared for what they might face. ]


I was hoping there'd be something exciting for the main course... but it's been so silent so far. If this is meant to be a trap, they could have made it more subtle.

[ It's silent. Silent, when there were animals to hunt at the fringes before, as if it was meant to drag them deeper in. It's... strange, unnatural, and even though that means everything bad and nothing good, Magilou doesn't stop walking. They've already come this far. ]
artorian: (the lady of the lake)

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[personal profile] artorian 2019-07-17 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ When Magilou plays along with Saber's story, she puffs up slightly with satisfaction. Artoria was never in the business of creativity. As a king, she was famously honest and straightforward, the very example of integrity. Taking part in Magilou's Menagerie, spectacle of illusion and grandeur that it is, often edges her out of her comfort zone, however much Magilou assures her that she can just act as herself. So this small creative story of hers -- though not particularly wild or elaborate, though Magilou could easily conjure up a similar story in two seconds -- is a point of pride for Saber.

Magilou may believe the story, or she may not, but isn't that the magic of conversation with Magilou? Accepting everything even if it isn't believable, understanding things that aren't said. Truth and image not always aligning but always present together, neither completely without the other. ]