Wizard's House

[wizardseason]

"Hey"

The Wizard greets the evil-allured knights the same way every night, with the same word, while casually sitting on the steps of the porch outside of her little home. The building looks handmade, like it was built by people who cared about the place they were going to live. Surrounding it on all sides are fields as far as the eye can see. Vegetables of all kinds, with fruit trees and bushes placed throughout the landscape. Closer to the home are bigger trees, willows and others, providing shade from the strange three suns above. Wherever this is, it isn't the world that the knights know.

Plunged into the ground a mere few feet away from the steps leading up to the home is a handwritten sign that states the following:

Knight Rules:
- Tell others if you want
- You can't reveal others
- The world ends this year

Comments

[scandeled]

Matilda’s face turns pale, and she physically recoils at the very suggestion. “N-no! I’ll make the attempts on my own, thank you!”

[wizardseason]

That reaction is, overall, particularly telling about who Matilda is as a person. She'd found the right buttons to push, here. Could she push further?

"I could make the weapons Cif gives you stronger."

[scandeled]

"You could?" Matilda asks, tilting her head to the side. "That might help if I can figure out how to actually use a weapon." Again, with the subtle self-deprecation. But she does peer at the Wizard with a bit of suspiciousness at the offer. No one's nice without strings attached.

"Why would you want me to do that?"

[wizardseason]

Self-deprecation wasn't really a good look on Matilda, but the Wizard isn't one to tell her as much. It isn't her job to be the supportive helper, that just isn't her jam.

"So you don't die." Her answer comes without any hesitation, but not in an insistent way. Just a telling it how it is way.

[scandeled]

"Okay." Matilda says, voice a little hesitant. But with stronger weapons-- she might just stand half a chance. She's positive right now she doesn't. "What do you need me to do?"

[wizardseason]

"When you ask for your next weapon, ask Cif to make it 'magical'." She answers, turning away from Matilda again, looking up towards the sky.

"That's all."