[Open] in the workshop.

[master_troven]

The workshop was kept fastidiously neat. More so than the rest of the rooms in his house. It was the cleanest and most organized room in the house. Despite his packrat tendencies, he knew that a clean workshop was a safe and productive one. It was both a mundane and magical workshop, letting him work on simple wood carvings or the delicate intracies of a universe in the same room.

He sat, half dressed and hair tied back, on a wooden stool setting up a stasis field of some sort over a work bench. On the bench was a sliver of shiny silvery blue metal. A shard of a sword he had picked up in the Nexus. The shard had tried to turn him good, then evil, then young, then sane, then insane, but as he was not always totally good, nor totally evil but completely and utterly irrivokably nuetral that it couldn't do anything to him. As for his age, his shape was of his own choosing and he could chose a younger form if he so wished. Sanity came and went as it pleased, no sword fragment was going to change that. That was not what caught his interest though.

No, today, Alexander was interested in trying to reconstruct the sword using the shard as a base pattern and try and weave out what had been into what would be. It was easy enough, really, it just took a lot of fine tunning and delicate work.

THe stasis field was set, rotating slowly. Picking up the shard in a pair of tweezers he set it into the field. It shimmered for a moment and then glowed a steady blue. He picked up another instrument from the work bench, a thin piece of wire, He pushed the wire into the field and drew it out from the shard several times creating a thin spidery web. Still using the wire he poked a few holes in the web into another deminsion.

Satisfied, he leaned back and watched it for a moment, before scooting his stool over to another work bench. This one empty. He stared at it for a long moment before waving his hand over it. A thin three demensional network of interconnecting lines appeared before him. He studyied it for a long moment before murmurring, "If I was a soul shard... where would I be?"

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[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Nick nods, frowning slightly.

Then he doubled over in pain.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Alexander started and let out a small curse. "I suppose now your Master wishes a few words with me," he said to Hedge.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Nick straightened back up, white smoke coiling from his mouth and nose. "Troven, you fool. Why would you come here?"

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Because I promised Nicholas that I would. And because I am not frightened of you."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Hedge takes advantage of Alec's distraction to pull out his bells, carefully muffling them.

Orannis looks him over, and then laughs- a nasty, unpleasant sound. "You should be. Now be still!" A gesture, and an attempt to freeze him where he stands.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I never listened to anyone when they told me that, why should I listen to you?" Alexander said, feeling like he was young again. This was so much fun! He took a step forward, definatly.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Orannis frowned and pushed hard with his will as Hedge swung Saraneth and Kibeth, willing Alexander to return to his home.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I thought I said no playing with the bells." They heat up again as Alexander politely ignores any sort of suggestion that he should bugger off.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Hedge puts them away. "Master, this... man... is beyond the power of the Bells."

Orannis screamed, a much worse sound than his laughter.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"That would be because I am not a man."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Orannis purred. "No? What are you?"

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"An embodiment of Chaos," He tilted his head, eyes narrowing a bit.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

The Destroyer laughs again. "We're kin, you know. Free Magic and Chaos..."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I never liked half my kin, so don't think that'll earn you any favors with me." He affected an easy and relaxed air, leaning back onto nothing.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"I don't like mine either." Orannis walked over to Alexander and loomed.

"Your interference with this body will do nothing. I will be unbound and he will die in the process."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Height was something Alexander had never managed. He peered up at Orannis bayfully. "I rather like having sex with him. So, no."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Your sexual relations are of no interest to me." The Destroyer sneered at him. "And they won't stop me from using him."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Not unless I remove you from him and place you in a jar somewhere. Would you like that?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"You wouldn't dare. It's too dangerous."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I have less sense that can fill a thimble. So, yes, I probably would do that."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"You'll kill him."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I doubt that."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"I do not." And the Destroyer was gone again, leaving Nick in a crumpled pile.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Alexander was at Nicholas' side in an instant, muttering to himself about evils that thought they knew everything. He checked Nicholas' pulse and ran his hands through the boy's hair, completely ignoring Hedge. "Oh my Delusional one what has been done to you?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

His breathing is shallow and his skin is icy cold. Hedge watches impassively.