#rivervale_lodge

"Whoa," He shakes the flask as if it burned him a little

"I see you taking up a shield at dawn. I see it has been handed to you by a man in black and gold. He is powerful, and yet his heart is in a box. A young woman has that box. You bow and go before her..." His brow knits "Interesting... there's more"

"Like what?"

Siv comes back out with drinks but pauses as she sees things are underway

"She bows back," He says startled

"Interesting." He says again in a rumble. "Very interesting... there's a parallel shape in the mist of memory. Two lines side by side."

Siv watches this fascinated. Then Emmit speaks "Dagmar, I'd like to try another cantrip...a willow whisper, to talk to the oath itself and see what it tells me"

"Hunh? Okay..."

"I think I'm about to burn out this flask though. No worries, Agnes doesn't much approve of corn whisky dross" A chuckle "So she'd like thank you. I am not sure this will work. Primal is not my strongest."

"It won't hurt her, will it?" Siv says protectively

Emmit looks at Siv ready to defend one of the strongest widlers he's ever seen, and fights a smile lest it look like a smirk "SHouldn't. But there is always a chance of backlash. Up to her to risk it"

"I'm fine. I want to know."

He nods, offers her the flask "Don't drink it, spit in it. Just once, please"

A frown... but she complies.

He nods, takes it, and pulls out a cloth, a cigarette lighter... is he making some kind of moltiov cocktail with a metal flask "Oath, I am the Mountain of the DeBukes! You are old, so am I! You are entrenched, well, I've always been here. You want to try to deny me again? Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!" And he throws the flask a good 30 feet above them where it explodes and...vaporizes leaving only light! Glamour cascades down her

Then he cups his ear and whispers "Okay Oath, tell me your purpose"

"...Dude! That was cool.."

He winks. After the bang above, you might think she wouldn't hear a whisper, but she does an answer rising all around her, maybe from within her? "To ensure the safety of a daughter loved very much by a lord and father so she might survive an enemy fore ordained"

"...But we stopped the bug guy before she came..."

The farmer whispers again "Was this oath forced upon Dagmar of old?"

To show he's lisstening to the girl , Emmit whispers "And once the foe was taken care of, why did you not end?"

Emmit holds up three fingers, to indicate how many questions are left. Siv understands "He's got to whisper his questions or it breaks the spell. He's got three questions left I think. Give him one if you have to know or he'll guess himself?"//Emmit taps his nose

"How... is there a way to end this without hurting anyone?"

Emmit nods and whispers "how may this oath best be ended without it hurting either the protector or the protected?"

Again the area around....from her? Speaks "When names are known truly, I and my twin maybe lifted. I by she who is beloved and shielded for she shall be in her authority then"

Emmit looks curious at that, then glances curiously to Dagmar

OOC: And I am redundant about curiosity

"Twin?"

Emmit clearly was wondering about that himself "Does Dagmar have another Oath with a hold upon her still?"

Emmit scratches his chin "Then if Dagmar did not make your twin oath, what oath did the other make that is your twin?"

and the magic of the cantrip ends

Emmit rubs his brow, "Whew"

"Your drink, Mountain" Siv hands it over, "Cold Lemonade"

ANd she offers one over to Dagmar "Did you understand any of that?"

"Names known - that's saining, yeah?"

"That's what my guess would be," Emmit says taking a sip

"So, I mean, maybe it isn't forever? And if she's here until she's sained, I won't have to leave..."

"Of course you won't" Siv says

"Actually," Emmit says "It sounds like the oath on you can only be lifted IF she lifts it. But she can only do that when both of you are sained." THe Troll elder says "You'll have to convince her"

Siv frowns, "You mean she's going to stay 'her shield' for as long as Tanya likes?"

"That was the EASIEST Least risky way to remove it," Emmit says "There are other options I'm sure. But let's not forget about the other oath"

"What happens if I fail? If she gets hurt?"

"That I don't know, but I suspect its only going to be 'broken' if you either hurt her yourself, or just sit back and let her get harmed"

"it won't break if you get cut up and fall to the ground and then she ttakes a boo boo, if that's what you're worried about" Emmit adds

"What if I'm not there, though? If she's at school and I'm in another place?"

"I'm not quite sure. I imagine that you might FEEL her in danger... see, Oaths usually have benefitsl, and not just for trolls. They can strengthen your will, or help you sense an Oathmate from a distance, so on" Emmit says "Oathmaking is actually pretty advanced magic in it's own way"