#brightwindsbarony

She's at risk of getting sunburned 🙂

She is also disenchanted. Her mein buried. Her legs just two instead of glorious four. Oddly, looking at her, it feels un natural

Sparrow pulls off the road to park. "Rose!"

She turns confused "What kind of car.. "then a look up "Do I know you? You seem famliar.." then she lights up "Vanessa! Ross!"

Perhaps lights is too strong a word- she smiles, but it's like a ghost of who she is

"Mom! Get inside, you look like a lobster... anyone have water?"

"Check under the seat..."

She digs around, pulls out a water bottle, and offers it to Rose. "Mom, you remember Sp= Julia, right? She's a friend."

"I seem to be brain frazzled these days" Rose says "I'm sorry, Julia" She takes the water offered then settles in

"Probably the sun."

"What do you remember?"

A worried, desperate look at Sparrow. Hard to believe it once would have been nothing and now it seems like everything...

"You probably need some sugar, too... Ness, hand her one of the candies..." Said candies came from the Harkson pinata, and shimmer with glamour.

"Oh...yes, of course. Sugar." Feeling dreadfully dumb, she offers her mom one of the candies.

"I got in some argument with some jackass" It's tight as she finagles and drinks

Then the candy "Oh I don't think I'm that bad off"

"Can I have a sip of your water?"

"Surely" She hands it over.

She accepts the bottle and presses her lips lightly against the rim, almost a kiss more than a sip, and tries to think of how the others may have done this... she's not quite sure, but tries imagining the magic in her creeping down, vine-like, extending tendrils into the water to infuse it with a bit of her own magic... and then gives it back.

"Did you drink anything at all?" Her mom says dubiously

It's an odd feeling for Nessa. She's glad she gave something but it does mean she is. a bit less.

"Just making sure it wasn't stale. You weren't drinking enough. You could be dehydrated..."

"Seriously honey, You're going to wrinknle on me and you know how shallow I am" Ross says deadpan

"Seriously - Texas sun."

She snorts and drinks

And then guzzles it down before going "aahh... thank goodness."

And there it is, an almost phantom outline of a centaur

"Do you remember? Maybe we should let her out of the car to walk... or run... trot... canter?" She offers

"Candy."

Sparrow is zipping towards the hold! "Candy, and then Fire."

"Nessa, I don't want you giving too much and putting yourself in danger."

"She doesn't want the candy." She says in an irritated voice, then flushes a little. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that... " She fidgets in the seat a bit.

"Okay okay" She eats the candy and lights up more "I think I see why you wanted me to take it"

"We only have so much edible dross..."

"Can you make more? Or... Hope, or Pepper?"

"Can do like you did with the water - infuse it, but that comes at a direct cost, right?"

"The fire will be fine" Rose says firmly "I'll be okay. I'll rest there. That's how it works right?"

Ross frowns but nods

"And yes, the fire will help. What happened?"

"Can the fire run out...?" She asks in a small voice.

"well," Rose says "I ended up job hunting..and ran into this guy who runs a collection agency. I tried telling him I didn't want that kind of job POLITELY and he went into this horrible spchel about how it's the way of hte world, it is what it is... but the more he talked the more I... it's like it killed the hope in me. I had already used glamour earlier so maybe it was on me.. but that just took the last of it out"

"Oof, yeah. Autumn people can wipe you out..."

"The fire is not going to run out."

"I shouldn't have played with those cantrips so far from the hold " A huff from her "Guess you and Nessa are the magic casters, ross honey. "

Ross says "you'll get it. Just... as long as we got you"

the poor Jeep is almost a cattlecar, well, horse wagon? Okay, Centaurs are stuffed full on it.

Zoom zoom.

"I'm really mortified,Baroness. I apologize for needing to be.. "She grits her teeth "rescued"

"What? No! It happens to all of us."

Her tail swishes with irritation never the less