Eternity RPC Board
03-22-2017, 03:06 PM
Elke certainly did see something, but whether or not it was something deserving of further investigation, well... about that, Elke was dubious.
The way the beast in her mind's eye moved in flickering, staccato motions seemed unnatural had there been a single being. The way it plodded along the riverbank, and then several paces away in the grove of trees, and then back to the riverbank - it didn't exactly make physical sense. But magic often tended to shirk physical sense at superficial observation.
And then again, both of the phantasmagoric things in her vision, or the one thing in two places - or whatever - did look essentially the same. Wiry, brindle grey tufts of fur and the eyes of something not wholly man but not void of humanity, either, flashed like the visual version of an echo through the wilderness. Getting the chronology of a divined sight jumbled wasn't unheard of. It was possible that the spell had been imperfect and that what the mage had seen and initially interpreted to be two beasties was actually just a mixed up replay of the same organism.
"Well," she reasoned with herself and with her two interpretations of her divination. "I did see something." Of course she had. "I saw a werewolf." With an outstretched hand, she pointed to the water's edge. "Over there." After a pause, she redirected her pointer finger to the trees just behind Nevina. "And there". Back to the banks. "And there again. And...." She let her arm drop to her side before she had fully returned her arm to the myrtle blind again.
"Well," she continued her line of reasoning. "They are fast, as you said. I'm sure it was just that."
Nevina was a much more experienced practitioner of magic. If there was something to detect, surely she would have detected it. And while Elke might not have been successful in her endeavors to impress her superior, dealing with only one monster was just fine with her.
"Should we get going again, then?"
The way the beast in her mind's eye moved in flickering, staccato motions seemed unnatural had there been a single being. The way it plodded along the riverbank, and then several paces away in the grove of trees, and then back to the riverbank - it didn't exactly make physical sense. But magic often tended to shirk physical sense at superficial observation.
And then again, both of the phantasmagoric things in her vision, or the one thing in two places - or whatever - did look essentially the same. Wiry, brindle grey tufts of fur and the eyes of something not wholly man but not void of humanity, either, flashed like the visual version of an echo through the wilderness. Getting the chronology of a divined sight jumbled wasn't unheard of. It was possible that the spell had been imperfect and that what the mage had seen and initially interpreted to be two beasties was actually just a mixed up replay of the same organism.
"Well," she reasoned with herself and with her two interpretations of her divination. "I did see something." Of course she had. "I saw a werewolf." With an outstretched hand, she pointed to the water's edge. "Over there." After a pause, she redirected her pointer finger to the trees just behind Nevina. "And there". Back to the banks. "And there again. And...." She let her arm drop to her side before she had fully returned her arm to the myrtle blind again.
"Well," she continued her line of reasoning. "They are fast, as you said. I'm sure it was just that."
Nevina was a much more experienced practitioner of magic. If there was something to detect, surely she would have detected it. And while Elke might not have been successful in her endeavors to impress her superior, dealing with only one monster was just fine with her.
"Should we get going again, then?"