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(@Morgan) test
(Molly) Yep
(Molly) **He is in his Father's office in Die Dauerhaftigkeit, except he isn't. He can tell instantly by the slightly unnatural yellow tone of the light that he has slipped into her dream. He notices first that the office is much lighter in colour, no longer the navy, burgundy and cream it was, now in fresher, more Avalon shades. (MTF)
(Molly) His own desk, the blue topped one she bought him now has pride of place, covered in documents. The chair behind it is empty, but off to one side on a chaise is Molly. She is older, perhaps almost forty, and silver weaves through her red hair as her head is tipped down. (MTF)
(Molly) She nurses a baby at her bare breast, and a tiny hand grips firmly at that pale skin. Molly speaks to the baby, and he notices even her voice has aged a little.
(Molly) "Mädchen, you have your father's grip!" She gently removes the small hand, the fingers wrapping around hers. (MTF)
(Molly) " He will be back from Innesbruck soon. Papa won't want to miss a minute with you! But harvest is harvest." Molly sighs slightly "How is it you can be our last, hmm? Where has the time gone?" He realises he can move around at will.  (done)
* @Morgan keps his eyes on the child as he moves towards the desk
(Molly) Molly gently places her down, redoing her dress. The child looks up from the blanket on the floor. She is perhaps three or four months old. She looks at Morgan, shrieking with excitement, smiling and reaching for him. She kicks her legs with excitement.  She looks a bit like Jana did, except she has Molly's deep red hair and Morgan's greenish-blue eyes rather than Dietlinde's cornflower ones.
* @Morgan reluctantly moves his eyes to the desk, looking over the documents briefly before looking back to the child
(Molly) **there's a pile of letters, from what he can see they are to "Molly, Grafin Sudlachenburg" and signed "Mina Edelweiss Koertig, Freiarrin Graben". There is also a large ledger of the tithes and rents of Sudlachenburg, and a few letters to Morgan as Graf from various unfamiliar named nobles
(Molly) **She continues to watch him, reaching out her hands to him and kicking her legs against the floor
* @Morgan crouches down offering up his finger to the child's hands
(Molly) **She grasps it firmly, making an almost-laughing noise. Molly comes back to the baby, stroking her hair.
* @Morgan wiggles his finger, watching the child closely before turning his eyes to Molly
(Molly) Molly's nose wrinkles as she looks at their baby and she smiles. "You are very cheerful for someone who smells quite so unpleasantly, aren't you?". She picks up the baby, breaking their contact,  placing her on one shoulder. Mädchen frowns, looking pouty as she continues to reach for Morgan over her shoulder
* @Morgan watches them before looking round the room again
(Molly) Morgan finds himself inexplicably out in the hall, and  can hear Molly's father and a sort-of-familiar voice approach. They talk quietly, grimly. David is an old man now, and over the time in between has adopted Eisen dress. The tall young man with him is very handsome, though he looks deeply distraught and travel-worn.
* @Morgan frowns, following the men
(Molly) His blonde beard is a far cry from the drawn-on facial hair Morgan has seen his childhood counterpart sporting whilst playing pirates.
(Molly) David looks at him "Do you want me to tell her, Varick?" He shakes his head. "No, he was my father, this must come from me".
* @Morgan sighs
(@Morgan) Blossom, you dream of this wholly too much
(Molly) **nothing seems to change. David nods, looking solemn, and he sighs heavily "I never thought I'd live to see this". Varick shakes his head, choking back tears "It shouldn't have happened, not yet, not whilst the children are still so young. Where is Ehren?"
(Molly) "The Academy. We'll send someone" "No. It should be me. This is all my fault". David looks like he will argue, but Varick stills him, then he crosses himself Vaticine-style.
(Molly) Morgan finds himself on the inside of the room as the door knocks. Molly looks up from the infant,  utterly unaware of what is about to happen. "Kommen sie!" She shouts cheerfully, placing the baby in the pink-curtained Koertig crib, the child making a quiet cry of disapproval.
* @Morgan goes over to the child, offering his finger again
(Molly) **the baby seems excited to see him again. Varick and David come in. Molly looks both pleased and surprised before she takes in their grim expressions, both men's pain written on their faces. Molly comes round in front of the desk. Morgan can feel the surge of cold liquid shock and fear that she feels.
(Molly) "What has happened?" She speaks quietly. Varick's anguish is clear, his hands balling to fists. "I'm sorry. It's Father… he… he…" Varick shakes his head, unable to speak.
(Molly) **Mädchen clings tightly to his finger, watching him
* @Morgan wiggles his fingers again, effectively playing tug
(Molly) Morgan is hit with a deep sense of agony from Molly and it is a pain he knows all too well. The pain of losing a beloved spouse. Her eyes go wide and she shakes her head "No. No, you're wrong, it can't be!" David bows his head "I am sorry, Moll. He's gone".
(Molly) **Mädchen appears to be enjoying herself, smiling and kicking again. However,  the others do not seem to notice her happy noises
(Molly) Molly crumples to the floor, making the most agonised sound of distress he has ever heard. It feels like it is tearing at the very fibres of his being. She sobs and sobs, tears hitting her dress, her arms, the oak floor.
* @Morgan watches her in dismay, knowing he can do nothing
(Molly) He can see her heart is breaking, yet the men have no idea how to comfort her. Aside from the pain he can hear in her voice, he starts to hear a noise like a ship's deck groaning. Part of his skin starts to feel cold.
(Molly) Varick crouches down "I'm sorry, I tried to save him. She caught us unawares. She'd tricked her guards that she was fully sedated but she'd built up a tolerance to the milk of the poppy  and she got out. Then she lay in wait in Innesbruck, and then, in the night she… she…" He buries his face in his hands.
(Molly) Molly looks up "Al- Alarice did this?" She looks more angry than Morgan has ever seen, and can feel the white hot fury from her. Again he hears the creaking. The cold patch of skin feels like ice has been run over it.
* @Morgan touches his hand to the affected skin
(Molly) Between his hand and his skin is the raw Dracheneisen
(Molly) Varick nods "He wouldn't have seen it coming, he wouldn't have known. It was a quick… quick death" Tears roll down Varick's cheeks. Molly breaks down further at that most final of words. She sobs with pain, beating her hands on the floor with impotent rage. The boards begin to warp, twist, springing up as the nails can no longer hold against the force.
* @Morgan runs his hand over the dracheneisen, swearing
(Molly) **Mädchen starts to cry
(Molly) **It gets colder,  burning cold
* @Morgan looks back to the child, once again offering his finger
(@Morgan) I'm sorry young miss, I was rather distracted by my dying
(Molly) This magical effect spreads from her outwards. The floorboards, the furniture, the bookshelves. All wood is twisted as if by giant hands, a cacophony of groans and squeals as timber is annilihilated. Mädchen looks up at him in surprise, reaching for him pocket
(Molly) His*
* @Morgan watches the effect spread
(Molly) Splinters fly, books and papers are shed to a floor now made of a heaving sea of oak.
(Molly) **Mädchen cries again, loudly, a mix of fear and crossness
* @Morgan looks at hehr, confused
(Molly) **She continues to reach in the direction of the Dracheneisen in his pocket that is now painfully freezing cold on his skin
* @Morgan digs it out, holding it just out of reach
(Molly) **She wriggles and reaches. Tiny pieces of wood fly in front to his vision, the floor beneath his feet moving
* @Morgan swears, giving the shard to her
(Molly) **It is glowing in a similar manner to when he was using the fire magic,  except bright white this time. She watches him with a tiny,  sad expression, and he can sense that she is somehow saying goodbye
(Molly) **his vision begins to be obscured by the splintered wood pieces in the air
* @Morgan moves
(Molly) **As Mädchen touches both hands to the raw Dracheneisen, he is hit by a flash of white light, and he wakes
* @Morgan looks to Molly to see if she is awake
(Molly) **She is very fast asleep, frowning but giving no other sign of the agony of her nightmare
* @Morgan sighs, rolling out of bed to check the time
(Molly) **It is around five o'clock, with sun rise at quarter after six
* @Morgan shrugs to himself, getting dressed
(Molly) **As the axe is moved, she sits bolt upright in bed all of a sudden
* @Morgan watches her
(@Morgan) are you alright blossom?
* Molly seems to be struggling to get her bearings
(Molly) What... oh god.
(@Morgan) No, no... just me
* Molly purposefully breathes slowly and regularly
(Molly) What time is it?
(@Morgan) around five blossom
* Molly pauses a moment
(Molly) You are going out now?
(@Morgan) After that dream, I need to move around
(Molly) You had a nightmare too?
(@Morgan) Yours I suspect
* Molly shudders
(Molly) I hope not
* Molly wraps the sheet around herself tightly
* @Morgan nods
(@Morgan) not the first time it's happened
(Molly) Not as bad as that. That is the worst nightmare I have ever, ever had.
(@Morgan) I can't say I particularly enjoyed it myself
* @Morgan puts the axe down, coming to sit beside her
* Molly shakes her head
(Molly) It's alright liebling. This time of the day is special to you, sacred. You should go.
(@Morgan) No, you clearly need comforing]]\
(@Morgan) *comforting
(Molly) I will be alright. You're alive. That is the comfort I need.
* @Morgan frowns a moment
(@Morgan) Ehren is a name that keeps popping up...
* Molly watches him closely
(Molly) It means Honour
* @Morgan nods
(@Morgan) That doesn't explain why it occurs so frequently in your dreams
(Molly) I... I would like it as a name for our firstborn son, if you like it?
(@Morgan) I shall think on it blossom
* Molly smiles gently, bringing her knees up and wrapping her arms around them
(Molly) There is no rush
* @Morgan nods
(@Morgan) as you wish blossom
(Molly) How... How much of the nightmare did you see?
(@Morgan) All of it, I believe
* Molly sighs
(Molly) You saw the magic?
(@Morgan) The breaking floor and whatnot?
(Molly) The wood warping. Like you said magic used to be in Eisen
* @Morgan nods
(@Morgan) I was busy trying to work out why I was turning into dracheneisen while being giggled at
* Molly smiles
(Molly) You saw her?
(@Morgan) aye
(Molly) She's beautiful, isn't she? She appears in my dreams now and then
(@Morgan) I could interact with her
* Molly looks surprised
(Molly) I never realise it is just a dream, so I never get to consciously do so
(@Morgan) little madam stole my dracheneisen shard
* Molly nods, watching him
(Molly) You should go, liebling, I will be alright here.
(@Morgan) you are sure?
* Molly nods
(Molly) It is important to you, and therefore it is important to me. I refuse to be responsible for you missing that time
* @Morgan nods, standing
(@Morgan) as you wish my love
* Molly nods, taking a tinder box to light the bedside candle
(Molly) Have fun with your new axe
* @Morgan nods, fetching it up
(@Morgan) I shall, no doubt
* Molly smiles watching him
* @Morgan bows floridly before leaving the room
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