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[rumorate]

WHO: Allison Hargreeves + YOU
WHEN: After the Beacon, through their stay at the inn
WHERE: Various.
WHAT: Allison comes back from a canon bump, and she's in not a great place.
WARNINGS: SPOILERS FOR THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, SEASON 3.


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[rumorate]

[She takes a deep breath, just as she has before. Since she's not looking in a mirror, she hasn't notice the way her eyes turn gold as she summons her ability. She does as requested:]

Sit down.

[And she waits, to see what happens.]

[inferus]

( Wrath does not sit (he sees the gold of her eyes, the anger within her - part of her). He feels the will of her power as he did before, but it is more powerful this time. It carves its way through his very mind, and it takes more effort to resist, to push past it, to push against it. His hands rest on top of the table. He feels the anger in the command - the pain, the hurt, but the anger too.

And he pushes beyond it to remain standing.

Even still, there's something else within his being - the curse, running, pulling away from it as if it is- as if it is frightened, as if it does not know- His grip on the chair in front of him tightens as the curse reverberates inside of him, and his eyes close.

And Allison will see in turn: Sursea on his throne, waiting with a dagger in hand, for him. Ready with her curse, ready with consequences for an action his brother so recklessly took. )

[rumorate]

[She flinches back, past experiences reminding her that she can't be careless with who she rumors, and seeing a woman with a dagger reminds her all too well of Viktor and how quickly that bow snapped across her throat.

Her hand comes up on instinct, to protect herself, but a second later she realizes that there's no one there. What she's seeing wasn't real - at least not at present, in the moment in front of her. Her eyes float back to Wrath and she has to ask:]

What the fuck was that?

[inferus]

( Wrath recovers himself as quickly as he can, straightening his shoulders, swallowing through the strange twist within his body. He watches her own hand come up as if instinctively, as if to protect herself, but he is more stricken by her question - that she should ask anything at all.

She saw? That should not be possible except from what he knows of the Hargreeve's powers, how they received them, why wouldn't it be? The First Witch could not have possibly prepared to protect against it. Can her power now somehow break past the curse that has enshrouded him and Emilia? )

...the curse.

You felt something?

[rumorate]

I saw something.

[Felt might not be the right word, but she definitely had a vision of some kind. That experience, at least, she can speak to. She has no context for the image itself, though if it's related to the curse, she can assume it's important.]

A woman on a throne with a dagger. Is she ... ?

[The one who cast the curse? The one who put him and Emilia in this situation?]

[inferus]

The First Witch.

( It's as much confirmation as he is able to give, and Wrath must choose his next words carefully. His fingers gripping to the chair further. )

...Emilia does not know all of this. I am- ( He breathes out and in and out again ) not able to explain.

But you- Your power has grown in strength. I felt it, and it- the curse pulled from it, from your influence.

[rumorate]

So it doesn't like me, huh?

[Her head tips to the side because that is interesting. She knows her power can be useful, but not normally on this kind of level.]

I assume it can't be as simple as saying "You are no longer cursed."

[That would be too easy, but at least there might be a way she could help her friends.]

[inferus]

No, the curse is too complex for that, and it would need somewhere to be sent, but if you were amenable to it, your ability could help. I have never felt it respond to anything in the way it did to you.

( Granted, it is unlikely anything within his own world would be effective against it beyond whatever it takes to break the curse completely. )

I have theorized the curse could, at least in part, be filtered into one of the dark mirrors that exist in this world, but I was uncertain of how to move it.

( It is possible she could command it to go into the mirror instead, and there would likely be consequences regardless as there always is when breaking a curse. )

[rumorate]

Okay.

[Yeah, she can make that work. She's sure it won't be as simple as that, but she's willing to help any way she can. Emilia and Wrath are her friends, and if she can make things better for them, she'll do it.]

Just let me know when and where.