[ The mage nods, her smile the pleasant neutrality of a professional's. The three piercings by the corner of her mouth seem to glow in the dark like tiny cigarette ends; Hei wonders, idly, if they are her power center. ]
Think of it as a smoke. Something you can inhale. Absorb into your body. Except once it's inside you, it becomes an open wound. Suppurating but never getting any better or worse. It's cloaked so it won't show up in physical examinations or images. But -- with your informed consent -- I can get it out.
[ Her attention shifts abruptly from Korra to Hei, and he finds himself caught in her scrutiny. That gaze of hers is somehow piercing; it makes him feel all laid open. On closer examination, he suddenly notes that she isn't twenty-something at all -- more like twice that -- and there is an eerieness to her girlish effervescence. ]
I can give you something too. For those dual auras of yours.
[ Dual auras? Hei's eyes narrow, first with confusion, then an angry burn of understanding. Tersely, ]
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Date: 2014-11-09 11:16 pm (UTC)Think of it as a smoke. Something you can inhale. Absorb into your body. Except once it's inside you, it becomes an open wound. Suppurating but never getting any better or worse. It's cloaked so it won't show up in physical examinations or images. But -- with your informed consent -- I can get it out.
[ Her attention shifts abruptly from Korra to Hei, and he finds himself caught in her scrutiny. That gaze of hers is somehow piercing; it makes him feel all laid open. On closer examination, he suddenly notes that she isn't twenty-something at all -- more like twice that -- and there is an eerieness to her girlish effervescence. ]
I can give you something too. For those dual auras of yours.
[ Dual auras? Hei's eyes narrow, first with confusion, then an angry burn of understanding. Tersely, ]
Stick to what I've paid you for.