Bless Me, Soahc, For I Have Sinned|Malagard | Khel

[Darastrix]

Schuldig laughed, then grimaced, massaging his throat. It didn't really hurt, but it felt dry as hell. ~I probably shouldn't have been comfortable with it, but fuck, it was fantastic. Bring me something to drink when you've got a minute? I didn't get any water breaks.~

[Kender Bard]

~Very well.~

A short while later, Filly teleported to him, mug of cold water in hand. She smiled, held it out to him, but then her smile faded into a look of concern and puzzlement. "Schuldig, what happened to your eye?" She tried to get a closer look.

[Darastrix]

Schuldig shrugged, unconcerned and uninterested for the moment as he took the mug and drank. Water was a lot more important; he could worry if he needed to when he was done. ~Let me have this, and you can go healer on me all you want. If anything happened to it while he was playing with me, I don't remember feeling it. And my eye doesn't hurt and I can see, so if something did happen, it's probably healing up already.~

He set the mug aside with a satisfied sigh and looked up at Filly, widening his eyes so she could see better. "M'kay. How's it look?"

[Kender Bard]

Filly stuck her face close and narrowed her eyes. Then she fell back slightly on her rump with a shocked gasp. "Your eye is a rainbow! Around the iris." She was a bit wide-eyed. "And there's some kind of mark I think, somewhere in there."

[Darastrix]

Schuldig stared at Filly for a second. "What." Okay, now he was interested. Still not so much concerned, though, since it didn't seem to be hurting anything. Rolling his eyes, he pushed himself off of the couch--thank you SO MUCH, Soahc; I was comfortable--and stretched a bit before ambling toward the mirror.

And he stopped. And stared. And pulled down his lower lid and stared more. "Of course. He couldn't just give me pain and pleasure and whip me and tickle me and do shit that went even deeper than mind-level. He had to leave his mark." He leaned closer to the mirror. "He fucking did. My eye's a fucking rainbow and he put his holy symbol on it."

He gave a sudden snort and turned back to Filly, smirking. "The Proud are going to be so fucking pissed that it wasn't one of them."

[Kender Bard]

Filly smiled, weakly. She was still concerned... But still, she shouldn't be. Schuldig said he was in no pain, after all, and Soahc wouldn't try to hurt him maliciously... Still it was unusual. "Yes they will," she agreed with a slightly more normal smile after reassuring herself that things would be fine.

Soahc whispered in Schuldig's mind. Look at her and think of sin.

[Darastrix]

Schuldig stiffened slightly at Soahc's voice. Apparently, there was something else to this that he hadn't caught onto. What did you do to me? he wondered, though he didn't really expect an answer.

Look at Filly, think of sin. That was easy enough to do. He held up a finger in a 'wait' gesture that he sometimes used when a conversation was taking his attention, hoping that would keep Filly from worrying until he found out what was going on, and turned his thoughts to sin.

[Kender Bard]

Filly waited patiently, heaving a small sigh as she chased her thoughts around.

Focusing on sin when looking at her caused him to see, through his newly branded eye, a faint rainbow aura around her. Some of the colors were brighter and more prominent than others, however, most noticeably a wine-red color.

Lust.

The knowledge sprang to his mind, unbidden. Filly's sin of choice and exercise was lust.

[Darastrix]

Schuldig blinked in surprise and shook his head a little. The vision, aura, whatever, was gone now that he wasn't focusing anymore, and good thing. He wasn't sure he'd like that all the time. "Lust," he muttered to himself. He already knew that was Filly's sin of choice, but holy fuck, he could see it now? This needed to be explored further.

"Okay, so...my eye's not just a different colour now," he announced, raking a hand back through his hair. "It's like I can See; See your sin. There's all these colours around you, and the brightest one is Lust."

[Kender Bard]

"How can you see lust?" Filly asked, puzzled. She cocked her head. "Your eyes is changed again! It's... This kind of dark red, almost a purple."

[Darastrix]

"That's what colour it was," Schuldig said, turning to the mirror again to check. Sure enough.... He touched himself under the eye. It seemed strange that his eye could change colour like that and him not feel it somehow. Not that he could imagine what changing colour should feel like.

"This is the colour," he repeated, turning and tapping next to his eye for emphasis. "I could see a bunch of colours around you, and there was more of this than anything. And I just...knew what it meant. Brad says visions can be like that sometimes; he sees symbols, but he knows what they really mean."

[Kender Bard]

"That's so bizarre," Filly murmured, coming to look at it closely again. She touched his temple lightly. "You're certain it doesn't hurt?"

She didn't say what she was really thinking... That the last time someone's eyes changed color abruptly it was when Harmony had bonded with that sprite.

[Darastrix]

"Doesn't hurt, itch, feel dry, anything," Schuldig said. "It feels like it always does. And this is Soahc we're talking about. Since when does he do normal?" He picked up her worry, and reached up to take her wrist and pull her fingers to his mouth to kiss. "It's fine. No sprites involved. Humontis just about wiped them all out, anyway. They're going to be licking their wounds for a while, and their bone to pick now is with the Beasts and Earths."

[Kender Bard]

Some of the tension eased out of her at that. She leaned in to kiss his lips softly. "Very well," she agreed with a small smile. "If you can have faith, I can as well. What are you going to do with your newfound trick?"

[Darastrix]

Schuldig grinned. "First, I'm going to see if I can make Locket consider joining the Envious, however briefly. And see what sins some people we know lean toward and what colours they are. And find out whether people like Locket make my eye turn one colour or two."