Shedding Light - What's Left in Shadows
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smartass_captainThe courier takes so long to arrive he begins to suspect treachery anew.
They weren't friends--no. No, Felix made sure to show the Truth of that when he disappeared to planes unknown with Knowledge that never should have been shared. He should have seen the writing on the wall sooner. Shouldn't have been so quick to assume they were misplaced though even then his chest seized tight with the realization of the treachery shrouded among those quiet shelves.
Should have fled when the first missing tome was mentioned, before the exact tally of all that had beenRAIDED gone missing could be ascertained. Like a fool, he'd kept his head down. Assumed that they had been clever enough. That there was no way this could trace back to Him. And Felix?
People pleaser wide-eyed boyish Felix?
He didn't have it in him. He wouldn't Dare pull something like this. Not truly. They'd just been misplaced. They'd turn up.
They didn't turn up. Seasons came and went and Nothing turned up. Every other moon the list of crimes grew longer and yet still he had been foolish enough to Hope....
The Caeluses are old mage blood. Entrenched with family homes and libraries all of their own. Felix didn't Need to do any of this. He was a coward. A coward in a way only the powerful could be. He feared the eyes of his family and so he kicked downward onto the Friends less fortunate than himself. Soon, even the small room he keeps (and shares with the mice, more often than not) in Bravil will be out of his means and then what will he do?
When the courier comes, it's not with tomes wrapped tight in linens and warded with spells. He comes with a letter and Matthieu has to laugh so he doesn't cry with his rage.
It would be easier if the courier never came at all. Assuming the worst is easier than trying to read between the lines of a man begging for more time as if he's the one who's been put to pasture because of this. Whether or not Felix Caelus truly intends to make anything right is left for the Divines to know. Mathieu isn't about to hold his breath this time. He knows what was in those missing tomes, for starters.
Once bitten, twice shy.
They weren't friends--no. No, Felix made sure to show the Truth of that when he disappeared to planes unknown with Knowledge that never should have been shared. He should have seen the writing on the wall sooner. Shouldn't have been so quick to assume they were misplaced though even then his chest seized tight with the realization of the treachery shrouded among those quiet shelves.
Should have fled when the first missing tome was mentioned, before the exact tally of all that had been
People pleaser wide-eyed boyish Felix?
He didn't have it in him. He wouldn't Dare pull something like this. Not truly. They'd just been misplaced. They'd turn up.
They didn't turn up. Seasons came and went and Nothing turned up. Every other moon the list of crimes grew longer and yet still he had been foolish enough to Hope....
The Caeluses are old mage blood. Entrenched with family homes and libraries all of their own. Felix didn't Need to do any of this. He was a coward. A coward in a way only the powerful could be. He feared the eyes of his family and so he kicked downward onto the Friends less fortunate than himself. Soon, even the small room he keeps (and shares with the mice, more often than not) in Bravil will be out of his means and then what will he do?
When the courier comes, it's not with tomes wrapped tight in linens and warded with spells. He comes with a letter and Matthieu has to laugh so he doesn't cry with his rage.
It would be easier if the courier never came at all. Assuming the worst is easier than trying to read between the lines of a man begging for more time as if he's the one who's been put to pasture because of this. Whether or not Felix Caelus truly intends to make anything right is left for the Divines to know. Mathieu isn't about to hold his breath this time. He knows what was in those missing tomes, for starters.
Once bitten, twice shy.
