#baronyofthesilverwolf

Blossom touches the treasure, and activate the Chamber... the dance studio opens, and in she slips

She hasn't looked in Bluebell's prize yet. She's searched the kitchen all over, and her room and Roch's spot and even risked peeking in Briar's when when the cap was with the dogs

A large and airy studio, with polished floors perfect for any maneuvers from ballet to waltz, break dancing or swing and beyond. Her hooves tap sharply against the floor with clicks that are reminiscent of tap dancing!

A chilly feeling accompanies her as she moves into the dance chamber...

The hairs on the back of her neck where her hair becomes more of a mane prickle, like someone is standing behind her.

"Hello?" She turns

looking over her shoulder

If there is no answer, she looks about for some glass

When she looks over her shoulder... no one there. Turning back around, however... there's a lady in here with her!

She looks an awful lot like Calanthe! Not as pretty, obviously. Though her green eyes are rather bright and sparkly.

"I do not remember you." She says.

"My name is Blossom, I'm new" She says nicely nicely thank you, "It's nice to meet you"

She drifts closer to Blossom, looking over the Centaur with some interest. A hand reaches out towards her, fingers outstretched, grasping.

And the centaur darts back "I'm sorry, but the last time I let a stranger I didn't know grab me I got kidnapped" mater of factly "What's your name please?"

There will NOT be a leech repeat

at least that's what the girl tells herselff

"You do not know me, and yet you are in MY House..." She reaches again, and this time, vines crawl from her hands, like roses, except roses are in the garden, and are pretty, and certainly aren't supposed to come from peoples fingertips.

And the girl slips on the floor tryin to back up TOO quick and screams "HELP!"

A stumble as Blossom retreats and backs into one of the mirrored walls, if you're not used to the studio layout, it can be confusing... and the scary plantlady closes in.

Just as her vines would reach to wrap around Blossom. a voice rings out, with the power of Sovereign behind it. "STOP!"

Calanthe is in the doorway! Dahlia shrinks back, hissing angrily. "YOU."

"Blossom, come to me." Her voice does not allow any room for argument.

And the centaur scrambles and RACES to Calanthe , because Calanthe is good and nice and will save her!

Vines withering and retreating back into nothingness, She shrinks against the wall, fading thr.... actually, no. She flattens against the wall - and finds that there is nothing outside of the room to move into. The studio existing in a pocket space, there are no rooms out side the walls.

"Behind me, Blossom." Calanthe says, as her hands dance, forming patterns in the air that look rather like snowflakes.

Blossom moves behind Calanthe, then sticks out her tongue at the mean vine lady "you're gonna get it now!"

A glamourous icy blast fills the chamber, even as Calanthe backs out, and once Blossom and she are both free of the Studio, the statue is touched, to close it up!

The doorway disappears.

An exhalation, and Calanthe looks down to Blossom. "You did well."

"Who was that? She claimed it was her place? Why would she lie like that ? Is she jealous of you?" A hug

"She is not something for you to worry abo-"

A crackling sound. Frost slowly grows over the statue, coating it with crystals.

"uh.. did YOU do that?" She looks at the statue

Calanthe pales, and takes a step back. Her voice hushed. "Did you find the glass?"

"No, I was looking in there for it. I checked Briar's room.. don' tell her, and Gwen's too... when I couldnnn't get in some others I thought the studio.. and then.. that mean witch lady with the horrible plants appeared. She said she didn't remember me. Said it was her place"

Calanthe is watching the statue. The frost is spreading in a pattern of creeping vines. "Go. Now."

"I'll get help!"

And she does , headin out to call

"No- just..." Calanthe starts to argue, but it's too late, the nimble childling has galloped off.

"I created you - I control you. You will NOT defeat me." She says to the statue, even as the wood splinters and cracks, as vines worm their way out.

"We shall see..." One of the vines whips Calanthe's way, and she takes a step back! Not retreating. No. Of course not, just, reassessing.

She looks around the hallway, searching...

Nadeen does not often walk with sword in hand but she does now , guess who the centaur caught for help first?

She eyes the statue, then Calanthe "She's in there" Not entirely a question

"Destroy it!" Calanthe does not wear a sword other than for ceremonial court attire... she certainly does not have one now. Were she down a hallway where she rolled an 8 or higher, there may have been one on display, but as such, she only has a rather hefty marble bust that she has lifted, an eye on the intricately carved statue of a dancer.

Nadeen moves to the statue "Itt's not a ghost, is it?" She says "This is your creation." And she motions with the sword, nnot to smash it

The tromping of booted feet heard approaching, though still a few halls away.

but a sealing motion "Your magic sealed... your rage dennied, until I release you, you mustt abide!"

"A ghost?" Calanthe looks surprised, and for a moment, sneers. And then in shock as Nadeen casts a cantrip!

A shriek, like steam escaping from within a kettle, and the frost vines start to melt, disappearing back within the statue, drawing into the cracks...

Calanthe lifts the marble bust HIGH above it, ready to dash it upon the dancer!

And Nadeen stops her "NO. " Interceding "You break a treasure and all you'll do is feed her all the gglamour in the ttreasure ad you break the ward physically... she'll come out strongeer than before"

A sputter, but the bust she holds is lowered. "Then you must release the binding so that she can be drawn out and destroyed!" Calanthe retorts, even as the two thanes come upon the scene.

"Danica, Linnea, to me." The two thanes arriving, and trying to make sense of the scene before them, even as they shuffle in the now crowded hallway.

"No" Firmly "I will not .. for now, she is secured. Destroying her might in danger the Baron... prevent the chance of his restoration"

"In your selfish desire to grasp the whole, you will lose what you might have had!"

"And in your fear of being exposed, you risk the baron"

A look to the thanes "Wherre is the Baron?"

"And I will not allow you to destroy him in your quest to possess him."

The thanes listen to this, wary... and both look to Calanthe.

"You have NO idea what I'm willing to give up to save him" Nadeen declares

Her lips curl up in triumph. "You may hold a title, but here, I hold the cards. -I- am Chancellor, not you. Danica, Linnea, escort the Baroness to her chambers."

Linnea hesitates. "Chancellor. You mustn't do this."

Danica grimaces, but moves to Nadeen's side. "Baroness, please. Come with us."

Nadeen's eyes narrow, sword still in hand; "Very well" Calming, and she makes as if to put her blade away, twisting it... and turning it, and the bunk spins, the reflection of the blade catchin he Ailil's reflection "By my love, by my title, I do demand, by my defense of the balefire here while you merely plot and plan, Confess truthfully ALL your treachery, Calanthe, tell your part in Sister's death and cover up! I COMMAND I COMMAND I COMMAND!"

Dictum flies!

Calanthe shrieks in anger, and her two Thanes close in to protect her - but from THIS attack, even Troll might cannot defend!

The chancellor writhes, she tries to deny the order, she DOES, but her will falters before Nadeen's righteous demands.