[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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[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Trey then gave a series of inquring noises to Alexander as he got scritched.

"No, he doesn't normally walk around naked. It's just because he thinks he's in a dream." Then some more noises. "No, I didn't burn his clothes, they're in the bedroom. He seems to like prancing around like this. And I don't mind watching him."

This earned a flick of the wings.

"I imagine you figured out what we were talking about. So I won't translate."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Am I offending him? Perhaps I could put some clothes on."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Alexander chuckled at this one. "No, you aren't offending him. He was just curious as to why you weren't wearing any clothes. It's not something he sees that often, as most humans prefer to wear them."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's warm and hallucinatory in here, so..."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"So you decided to prance about naked for me to see," There's a naughty grin on his face at this. "Hoping that I would take shameless advantage of you, yes?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

He stretched a bit. Damn, that boy is way too skinny. "Perhaps."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Eat." He said gesturing with his spoon, "You need some meat on your bones. Sex later. I do have things to do after all. Like figuring out what exactly I'm going to do with you."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

He resumes eating. "What are the options?"

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I could conciveably keep you here. Though it may get rather dull for you as I'm often gone for long stretches of time. I could take you with me on some of those long streches of time, but that would require some modifications of you." He scooped up some stew, handing a few pieces to Trey. "I could send you back to your home and let you come and go as you please. Which would require me talking with Hedge, as he has the pass I gave you."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Modifications? What sort of modifications?" Nick frowned, eating slowly.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Well, for starters, heal you up some. Then there is the whole problem about you being human, which rather limits the enviroments that you can visit. It would just be a sort of ... making you a bit more capable of handling different enviornments, and being able to protect yourself should something seperate us in a hostile place."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"That would be very useful!" Nick can just think of the possibilities.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Mmmhmm. Makes your survial chances in a star that much more likely. Though you wouldn't be able to keep the modifications on your home world. There are rules against that."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

Nick sighs. "Ah, I see."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Trey, deciding that Alexander wasn't feeding him quickly enough, started to help himself, earning him a light whack on the nose. "Sorry about that. So tell me, Nicholas Sayre, what should I do with you?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"I really should wake up soon. I'm sure I'm needed in some way or another. I could take you to see Hedge and perhaps the act of leaving here and going to the Old Kingdom would get me out of this hallucination. And if it doesn't you can meet Hedge."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"So me meeting Hedge wouldn't prove that I'm not a hallucination?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"I never have had Hedge in my hallucinations before."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"This is probably a good thing. He doesn't seem to be the type I'd like to see prance around naked." He says this staring into his bowl, a wide grin on his face.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"No, I don't think so." Nick finished his stew. "Well, I suppose I should get dressed, then."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I'll clean up here and meet you in the main room to let you out?" he asked, offering a bit of vegetable to Trey.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"You're coming, right? To meet Hedge?"

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Of course. I told you. He and I have to talk. I don't like it when people take things that I make gifts to others. Especially things of power," he said reasuringly, secretly pleased that Nicholas wanted him to meet Hedge. That he wanted this to be real. Or so Alexander hoped.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"All right." Nick stands up and heads back to the bedroom to get dressed.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I think he likes me," Alexander commented to Trey as he cleaned up. This was basically dumping the bowls into the over flowing sink. Trey chirruped at him. "Okay, yes, the part where he thinks I'm a hallucination is a bit off putting."

Another chirrup, this one a questioning one.

"Well... I suppose some sort of clothes would be more appropriate." He walked out to the main room, clothes appearing on him, as did his sword. He didn't think he would need it, but it did wonders for intimidation factors.