Jennifer Jones
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Tala nervously scratched Terry’s neck and head as he perched on her shoulder. She and Rane stood in the teleportation tower within Alefast, awaiting her siblings' arrival. They’d considered having everyone come to the teleportation receiving array within Kit, but as Tala was only set up with one such platform, that would have been a bit inconvenient to coordinate and make work well for all of the arrivals. This one time, Illie, Nalac, Dagan, Alva, and Osip would be coming from the Academy to join…-
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Tala met up with Rane and Osip outside of the family’s new house just before lunch. The plan that they’d come up with was for the two Refined to take the siblings out for a meal. Obviously, Nea wouldn’t be joining them, but they’d grab a meal and catch up with her that evening. Thankfully, Tala had communicated with her siblings before arriving in the city, but they hadn’t firmed up plans before the morning. As such, it wasn’t actually difficult to get the school-aged ones out a bit early for…
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“TALA!” Her younger brother sprinted out to greet her on the street, clearly having been watching for her planned arrival that morning. He was almost as tall as she was, placing in the taller range for the age… if she understood correctly. He wore a simple shirt and pants, not having gone to school that day. They were quite a bit nicer than the clothes that she had grown up wearing, and even nicer than the clothes her siblings had worn last time she’d visited. The family as a whole was coming up…
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Tala stood before the armorers with a bit of quiet sadness. “You’re sure?” Master Armach nodded. “Yes, Mistress Tala. No matter how we approach it, your armor works better if you only implement ablative plates at need, interposing them in between yourself and incoming attacks. Otherwise, they are unnecessary complexity that actually work less well in many scenarios.” She and Alat were reviewing their tests and analyses, and she had to agree with the man. “I do appreciate the extensiveness of…
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Tala sat in a sturdy—yet still comfortable—chair across from Rane. The room was away from anywhere public, though there were some windows that looked out over Alefast from their high vantage. They had both given their new inscriptions two full months in order to have time to set properly and become properly intermeshed with their natural magics. Even so, they were both a bit nervous as it was their first time, but they were excited too. Tala sent Alat a negative feeling in response to that.…
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Tala stood beside Rane—Terry on her shoulder—looking into the massive room, arranged so that she could make the necessary choices for her modular defensive wall segments. There were a couple of wall segments free standing at the far side of the room, but they were different sizes, and Tala didn’t quite know what they were meant to demonstrate. Most of the room, however, was filled with various magics, mechanisms, and materials that looked to be in various stages of construction or deconstruction,…
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Tala lay on the sand, Terry on her chest taking his ‘five more minutes.’ As she lay there, she used the opportunity to continue to amplify her own reality-node's attraction to itself with all her available power, even utilizing her void channels to pump more power to the inscriptions and let it amplify faster. It felt… like nothing? But a lot of nothing. It felt like staring up at the sky and really considering how It felt like standing on a mountaintop and truly realizing how massive Zeme was,…
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Tala stood within Mistress Holly’s workroom, nearly fully recovered from having her full set of inscriptions violently ripped out. As such, the Inscriptionist was ready to explain—one last time—the changes to Tala’s new schema, but she was awaiting confirmation to begin. Tala swallowed, centered her mind, and grunted in assent. “We’ve been able to layer in general improvements to the spellforms across the board, but this is likely the last time we can do that until you’ve Reforged. Your…
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Tala, Rane, Lyn, and Kannis moved quickly away from Brand’s restaurant, all likely quite happy that the two Defenders hadn’t been recognized until the end. Kannis shivered. “That was… That was something else.” Lyn nodded. “Absolutely surreal. I felt like their respect for the two of you was almost tangible.” Rane shuddered. “Yeah. There was definitely Tala analyzed his advancement and found that it hadn’t moved at all. Hers had, and while it wasn’t much, she had expected it to help…
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Tala and Rane didn’t talk much on their way to Brand’s restaurant to meet up with Lyn and Kannis for lunch. Tala knew that she was still considering what the little fox-man had said, and she assumed that Rane was as well. Nothing really came from her further contemplations, but she felt like she had helped them to set more deeply into her own mind, if nothing else. When they were nearly to the place, Tala glanced up at Rane. “What are you thinking about?” He looked back and gave a little smile.…
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