Quiet waves don't mean silent days (private, social, w/ Velvet)

Luna's attire:

The midday sun shined warmly down on the private beach, the warm weather accompanied by the gentle waves of the water created a soft and comfortable ambiance. Had it not been for the privatized ownership, this place would have been undoubtedly swarmed with people, the sounds and scent of numerous bodies and their culinary contents polluting the area. However since the beach is private, the natural beauty is preserved in pristine condition. The serenity and the exclusivity were the sole reason that Luna decided on this locale to spend her time.

It was only the night before that she was told by her mother, brother, sister, alleged work wife,  and even a few guild members and various employees of the Red Dragon Tavern told her she needed a break. Three days prior after returning from a arduous and dangerous job where the client refused to pay, her three year younger sister Zina after leaving the special boarding school all family members of mages were expelled had come to live with her instead of returning home to River Village. It was Luna's plan to figure out an employment situation for Zina somewhere in Ace of Spades, but the prospects in that department were slim and frustrating.

On the second day, her mother and half sister planned to visit Luna before they would travel off to meet with others of their tribe. However to add to Luna's stress, Solaris her half sister arrived first and was arrested promptly for entering the bar, due to a arson and disorderly conduct charge from a previous visit. Luna had found Solaris and jail and paid bail, restitution, and emotional damages inflicted as well as covered the medical care bill of the victims. Needless to say Luna was not impressed and her stress seemed to multiply as a result as she still had little success of finding something for Zina. 

The day before Luna had managed to find a good job for Zina as at a small cafe and the debt collector's guild she hired seemed to be making progress with the former client refusing to pay up. That morning things started to look up for the Nature Fairy until just past noon when it all went to hell. She was at the market with her mother when she heard of a fire at the cafe she got Zina a job at. When she got there her worst fear was true, her half sister and biological sister had gotten into a fight and it somehow came to hurt Luna.

Apparently Solaris decided to visit Zina as she was working, and Solaris wasn't known for her emotional sensitivity or judgment, and when bringing up the past and her direct involvement in ruining the life of all five other siblings, an argument piqued out that at first drove away customers, until things literally got heated. From what Luna heard, Solaris lit the place on fire.  It was put out before anyone got hurt, but Zina was fired and Luna was charged with the damages. Following the frustrating encounter, she was called by the debt collector guild who claimed there was a problem and it would take a week to resolve.

Later at home Luna finally hit a breaking point where she snapped, lashing out at almost everyone as the stress had eaten through her patience. After calming down, it was made clear that she was overworked and over-stressed. It took convincing from her mother, Zina, Amelia, and most of the patrons and employees of the bar to make her admit she needs a day off. Amelia and Shirain admitted that they would take care of all the responsibilities Luna had for the next few days, and that she needed to relax. It took two hours of convincing but Luna surrendered to the recommendations of her family, most of a tavern's common population, and an artificial life form.

Meanwhile at the present day Luna had arrived early in the day figuring that the beach would be a peaceful place. In the middle of the beach, she had set up a large umbrella and laid down a towel with a reclined back rest set up next to two bags, one insulated one not. Laying down in the shade she was reading a book, sipping water from a bottle as she was unwinding from the stresses she was faced with lately. She took a moment to look away from her book to check the time on her Infinite Improbability Chronometer. "Time flies huh. Although It's only noon and I already went through over half my books..."

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As Luna began returning her attention back to the book in her hands, her sixth and seventh senses started to flair and gnaw at her as she sensed the approaching life force reaching the private beach. She sensed the magic accompanying such a life force, knowing it was more then the average person, so she wasn't initially troubled as she assumed it was another member of Sabertooth. "Given the level of strength they're at, it's not Sarah, Mai, or any of the higher ups. I'll leave them be if they don't wanna talk to me. It's their choice." She thought to herself as the feline like woman was not within Luna's sight quite yet. She kept her presence calm as the other mage seemed to start to get closer. However her recent time devoted to the art of medical and medicine practices and honing her magical senses granted her an interesting form of awareness within close proximity as Luna could sense the flow of life within an individual if she focused. 

However as the distance between the two ladies closed, a slow alarm started to go off in the back of Luna's mind as her senses were detecting something strange, or more accurately not detecting something. Luna knew that afflicted areas of a body, such as a paralyzed limb feels differently then a healthy body part, like a dimmer light. Luna could sense two small, almost pockets of the barest of minimum life force in the approaching individual which almost scared Luna. At the back of her mind she was wondering if the girl was injured which prompted her to glance over at the approaching woman discretely. 

As the girl got closer Luna could see the low activity was condensed to be in and right behind both eyes of the woman, however it took her more than a moment to look beyond the superficial layers as she was almost drawn in by the beauty of the woman. It took a deal of focus to not react immediately. She did not want to alarm or scare them off. "Damn, she's gorgeous." When Velvet was a few meters away Luna slid her book mark into the page she was reading and closed the book.

Luna politely turned towards Velvet as she put the book down, and was a little surprised at the sheer formality being shown. She didn't see herself as someone as high authority and was normally uncomfortable with people bowing to her, however this time was slightly different as she was already on the ground, Luna could see the feline ears approach. "Do not scratch those ears, do not scratch those ears, do not scratch those ears." She mentally repeated as she was close to the woman's head as she bowed. However she had a closer look as she tried to deeply sense the life force within the girl and fear that her earlier predictions were right. The life force within and just around her eyes were lower then the rest, but Luna couldn't pin down any one reason, but since she couldn't sense any immediate dangers to the body she hypothesized that whatever is going on has been around for most of Velvet's life. 

Luna chose to avoid the subject of the girl's eyes for now as the girl was clearly able to locate the fairy, know when to stop, demonstrating some form of awareness, and ultimately it would be rude to react to information obtained by relying on a magical sense. She decided to try and casually engage with the woman. "Hello Velvet, I'm Luna, and don't worry, you're not bothering me in the slightest."

She tapped the stack of books she had already read next to her, "Truth is I was running out of books to read." she said in a lighthearted tone. "Wait a minute, isn't this the same Velvet that is popular at the bar? This is just getting more and more confusing." Luna steadied her breathing, maintained her cool. "Just out here to relax, get away from the stress of either nearly dying or nearly losing my mind trying to get ninety things done at once."

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PWC 1477
TWC 1929

Luna sighed as she analyzed the behavior and mannerisms of the feline attributed mage, and she really felt uneasy. The way Velvet was treating her reminded Luna of her former responsibility as the Guild Master of Aurora, she often faced this kind of attitude, often with an undertone of fear as if someone was facing a queen. In those days, Luna had to remind herself daily that she was no more important then the next or last person no matter her responsibility. As far as she was concerned she was not Velvet's superior, elder family member, or anything of the sort. However Luna knew despite her feelings, she was not able to easily blend as her power was magnitudes different compared to when she was a guild master. Not to mention she had to face the fact that she brought such a reputation as a healer and her stories spread around Ace of Spades as well.

When Velvet asked Luna if she could sit, Luna took a moment to think whether the woman was being polite or believing she was in the presence of a goddess or noble. "Yeah I don't think I wanna know the answer to that and pretend it's the former." Luna suppressed the line of thinking as she chose to at the very least pretend it was the former. Luna moved mover letting there be enough room for the joyan mage underneath the umbrella before patting down beside her. "Of course!" Sit down before you get a burn or something." She said slightly concerned for the girl's skin. "I'm not some fancy noble or a goddess, you don't need to treat me like you'll be swallowed by the earth for upsetting me." She said in an attempt to break the ice to make her dialogue with the girl much more easier.

However as she got closer to the Joyan she was able to sense the abnormalities in the life force of the woman. She knew she had to be careful as otherwise asking could be considerably rude. At the moment there was an internal struggle between Luna, Velvet's close proximity was now driving her opposing instincts wild. Her throat dangling as her eyes longing, the anxiety raised as she was fighting with herself was too hard. Her toes wiggled before she took a deep breath and finally relented, she knew she had to go for it. She took a deep breath as she prepared herself to bring up the subject in a delicate manner.

"Since you heard about me, you probably heard that this form isn't my true one as I am actually a rare kind of Fae, Nature Fairy. Nature Fairies are heavily tuned into the essence of life, Life Force itself. On the surface it is no different from magic sensory, but when I am closer, I can sense more, detailed facts. Like from a distance I can identify someone but when I get close to someone, I can see the flow of Life Force throughout their body." She said as she was slowly preparing to lead Velvet towards her point, trying to be gentle so she doesn't completely blindside the woman. She gave a moment of pause so the fact would be able to sink in before continuing.

"I am just going to ask flat out, are you okay? There is, an unusual abnormality in your eyes, the life force barely flows enough to keep your eyes minimally healthy if it can be called that. I can't sense any. physical blocks right away." She reassuringly put her hand over Velvets and spoke in a soft tone.  "If you don't feel comfortable talking about it, I get it. I am always around if someone needs healing or even someone to listen. My grave got renovated to hold a lot more secrets."

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Luna was glad to hear that Velvet was comfortable to speak about her blindness and vocal muteness. However what was nagging at Luna was Velvet's reaction to Luna touching her hand, she thought that Velvet was using some form of sensing through magic which was later confirmed when Velvet admitted the suspected theory of sensing through auras. She remained silent and listened as the Joyan explained her ailments before retreating into a state of embarassment. Luna however was more worried about the woman retreating into a state of paranoia about discussing her issues. "Don't worry my confidence is hard to break and I am in no position to judge others, and stuff like this is hard to overcome unless you open up your mind and soul."

Luna took a moment to process all the information she gathered as she was starting to get a feel for the capabilities of the feline woman. "Her entire sense of sight has been replaced with magic sensory, she can register auras so why was she surprised? How does she not notice?" Unless her abilities are unrefined... that would prevent any contradiction in all obtained information." Luna thought as she took into account Velvet's clumsy rumors, poor ocular life force, curse, explanation of her adaptions to her lack of sight and speech, and how she seemed to speak as though Luna outclassed her in magical regards.

She took a moment to think of how to help Velvet. From what it seemed Velvet was only aware of the radiant, Luna's heart was a glorified magical treasure which could easily mask her fingertips. "Your sensing appears a little rough around the edges, as you said you might be learning but I think I might be able to help you out." She said adjusting her posture as she prepared to compose herself to guide Velvet into seeing the world. "I can't offer you sight or the stars, but I think I can help you expand your current sight. I wasn't able to diagnose by glance at the start. It took me some work to get where I am, but I think I can guide you if you want."

Luna got onto her knees preparing to guide Velvet into a new form of observing the world. "I believe trying to see people is leaving you blind, so I want to help you see the world first." She said softly, not wanting to pressure the woman but did want to be supportive.

WC 412
PWC 2532
TWC 3948