~Labyrinth of Shadows~(Private)

[Goldlily]

Elenca leans against a cold stone wall and smirks.

"Trying to do your love magic here little one? Here, let me help your concentration."  

[Goldlily]

A stream of blood fire vaults from her open palm, creating a whirlwind of crimson flame. It steaks around the elf, circling her form and holding Errie in place.

Errie cannot see anything but the scarlet flames, and the roar is deafening...all concentration is harder to achieve.  

[Goldlily]

Elenca frowns, irritated once more. The flames cease abruptly as Elenca pulls them back. She studies the elf silently, scraps of the prior conversation between Errie and Dorien come floating through her mind.

She walks lazily around the elf girl, her head tilted and a sharp smile upon her face.

"So easy to stand fast against aggression, is it not little elf? A violent word can be turned away with a soft voice, a brutal attack with sincerity." She pauses, letting her words be heard clearly to the elf's sharp hearing. "Yet, of all emotions that assault you--you seem to have no defense against love. You can never be with anyone save for your own kind. You can easily leave here, and rejoin your race, to have a mate, have children? Do not tell me that you never think of it. You are doomed here if you stay. Never to be close to another as a woman, never to know the touch of a man without such dire consquences?" Elenca tsk tsk's with her tongue. "So loney and cold....hidden behind a veil of bliss."  

[Goldlily]

The_Errand_Girl

"It matters not. Emotion, action, it's all superfluous. I'd be a liar if I said I never contemplated that which you speak, but here and now, it doesn't matter. What I feel doesn't matter. What I do doesn't matter. All I have to do is exist here and now, and that is all. All else falls as it may."

((Rollin' it...))

Elenca smiles, unperturbed as the elf seems to be. "All superfluous? Such a miserable existance. Your kind were meant for so much more than how you live now. A pale shadow of a true elf...your mother must be so disappointed."

Elenca pivots and walks away, her lithe form hidden by shadow. When she turns, only the red light of her eyes can be seen through the gloom "Yes, I know of your parentage...it was not too hard to discern upon hearing your sad little tale--think on my words. To simply exist is to be nothing, to be meaningless. However, if you are content being a shadow...then so be it."

Elenca waves her arm in an offhanded manner, opening another portal directly behind Errie, the gravity of the portal is strong, pulling on the elf girl severely.

((Errie, this is Elenca's home, anything over a 1 will dispell you from her world.))  

[Goldlily]

The gravity is too strong for Errie to resist, and the elf is shoved out of Elenca's world rudely--back to the Manor Gardens.


Elenca glowers at the seed of light marring her stone floor.

"Damn it....."  

[Goldlily]

Elenca glared at the seed, it's pulsing glow was growing stronger, throwing dancing shadows along the stone wall of the Labyrinth's inner chambers. She stalked over to the pale light, staring down with disgust.

Damn her. She was going to have to watch that one closely.

However, Elenca was confidant her sagacious words hit a nerve within the elf, even though Errie had tried to hide it. Another poker face. It seemed that this town was full of them.

Elenca gave a irritated huff and walked over to a black stoned pedestal-- To where an ancient book lay open, it's dusty pages turned halfway through. She scanned the exposed page carefully, memorizing the long forgotten words of a mystical language. She repeated them over an over within her mind, her concentration causing her forehead to furrow delicately. Once satisfied she had learned the spell, Elenca walked lazily over to the offensive illumination, her ruby eyes dilated almost black-- a phethora of magic was pooling within, obscuring her dark soul.

She kneels and chants slowly, the dialact rolling off of her tongue effortlessly.  

[Goldlily]

The light twitches but still remains.

Elenca does not stop chanting, and begins saying the mystical words louder and faster, her pale forehead becoming beaded with sweat.  

[Goldlily]

Still nothing.

Frustrated, Elenca pauses, catching her breath. She pants there on the chamber floor, feeling the chill of the stone beneath her legs.

She collects herself a moment, wiping the clear trail of sweat that threatened one dark eye. She glances around the room aimlessly, thinking how much she will hate having to move if this doesn't work.