#earthrunes

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Returned to Earth Runes, Zara has more information than she thought possible. It is distracting really.

(Distracting enough even SHe might fail a perception plus Kenning)

/roll 7

((See what you did?))

(Yes. Now ask me if I know shame? 😉 )

She walks on in, missing the flickers of glamour

((Sluagh DO get -2 diff 😄? )

One THane , a troll, arches eyebrows as she walks by, but keeps his gaze steady after it almost slips from focusing on her too much.

A courier, racing by, stops, smiles, then resumes his duties.

While she missed the glamour, she might realize she is getting.. atypical attention, mostly from men, but some women too

In a Fiona hold, this is ..very suspicious.

(Perception plus ALERTNESS)

/roll 7

She sees a moth going around a corner... one she knows well.

She follows around that corner, feeling somewhat disconcerted by the attention.

Stevi walks by with her new charge, but checks Zara out with admiration before returning to her duty

The moth tried to sneak into Vashti's sewing room. That sneaking has failed.

And Vashti's room IS usually private

"Oh my, where hath this moth appeared from? Mayhaps I shouldst get a cup and a card..."

A voice mmph "Rude, and after all I've done to protect you, dear sister"

Clearly she has transformed back in her room. SHould Zara enter it, she sees Vashti smoothing out her wings and dress, a sign she JUST changed back

"Hello, dear sister." She lifts a hand, palm out.

Her sister greets her in return with her own palm out but looks amused at her sister "If thoou could see yourself now, you might say something unseemly. Still, it will protect those hunting Zara Scwhartz"

A ruffle of alarm, and she checks Vashti's fitting mirror.

And she sees...herself. This is...

(Perception plus Kenning again)

/roll 7

Oh! Oh no... it's some kind of fuddle that OTHERS see, normally sluagh need only try a little to pierce such, but her sister, skill ful, used that against her so she didn't notice on herself ... until now and she willing 'dropped' her guard

In the mirror is a figure far more like...well, it's awful, offensive, but definitely no one would think it Zara...

Vasthi speaks up "You war with balor? Then I grant you this cloak of zaralessness. They will not find you if thhey hunt for you"

She gapes.

"Vashti!"

"Yes, sister dear?" Vashti puts on the face of an angel

Of course, some angels ARE said to be fallen

"You've turned me into some kind of... floozie!"

"Which is the UNcola, of Zara Cola," She nods "Thou art most welcome." A smile as her sister gets it

A soft groan.

"Thou must explain this to mine Earl."

"Oh fuss fuss" She hands over a..friendship bracelet? "Put this on, and it lasts a hundred years instead of the hundred minutes" The timing isn't likely that, but the point is made that this will extend the illusion "Does he not already know you are going to war with the snake and tower again?" A brow

The glamour in the bracelet is subtle, only the strongest kenners will know it extends a fuddle.

She bites on her lip. "My Hunter always knows me. But still."

"This is.. disconcerting."

Vashti ponders "If he were any other man, I dare say he'd not mind so much, but as thy trueheart is ... atypical, he might well view you with disgust now. Shall be a learning experience" She assures "And knoweldge is never wasted, is that not what sluagh say?" SHe looks over her "Forget thee already that thy trueheart bird will not betray you to each other always?"

Pooka speech garbles, and flips, but the point of the trueheart bird is one to consider

"Truth."