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[gemigod]

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Steven lives in Helian's Glade and can usually be found somewhere in the gardens. Letters can be left on his bed, which is made of moss and several supernaturally large blooms, or the drawer filled stump where he keeps his belongings. He is responsive to network communications but prefers not to speak one on one over them.

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[ action; in the garden ]

[quillandaxe]

[ Sometime after the memories stirred by Autumn's magic really start going, it won't be terribly hard to find Moenbryda in the garden, cross-legged and looking thoughtful. One of her journals is open on the grass beside her, and light flashes and sparkles between her fingertips, like she's weaving a cat's cradle out of thin air. The motion will be familiar to Steven from seeing her do it before -- Moenbryda's working on creating the magic for one of her smaller, more complicated little illusions. ]

Hello, Steven. [ She'll say, without looking up from her work when he gets close enough to address casually. ]

[gemigod]

[Steven looks around, like he's sort of surprised that she realized it was him even though she didn't look up. He lifts one of his hooves, looking down at it with a frown.]

Hey! [He smiles sheepishly, coming closer.] What are you working on?

[quillandaxe]

[ Roegadyn just have exceptional peripheral vision. Or, well, Steven is generally just hard to miss as he is, much like most of Spring's servants. ]

Oh, you could say the Whisper's season has inspired me. I thought I'd take a crack at weaving some illusions of my own. Care to take a look?

[ She beckons him closer. Once he's near enough, she holds out her hands together to form a sort of half-closed clamshell, an amphitheatre with two distinctly unfamiliar figures moving through it in a palm-sized re-enactment. ]

[gemigod]

[Steven gasps. He hadn't fully considered the idea of using illusions to replicate memories, mostly because no one else he knows is able to do so on this level. He looks at her with wonder in his eyes.]

Did you see this?

[quillandaxe]

I did. [ Moenbryda confirms. She closes her hands, and the little figures vanish, the illusions collapsed. ] It's not the only one, either. I don't suppose you've seen something similar while you've been wandering around the castle?

[gemigod]

Yeah, I did...

[He sits down in the grass, looking increasingly lost within his own head. There's so much happening all at once, after months of searching.]

One of them was... kind of like that one. Just some fae complaining about how the other courts were staying in the castle.

[He glances away. He sounds more unsure.]

The other is... kind of a long story. Did you ever... see a mural of a cat, around the castle?

[quillandaxe]

Not a mural, no, but ...

[ She links her fingers together and parts them again, like a cats' cradle, strings of light dangling between them. A little concentration, and the light coalesces into a small image of a tapestry -- one Steven has likely seen before, of a cat under a sunbeam. If it looks especially familiar, it's because it's one of the tapestries Yuya has hidden from Helian. ]

I've been given to understand it's a delicate topic. [ She inclines her head in the direction of Helian's tower. How much she realy pays attention to the goings-on in her garden is hard to say. ] And I've seen it in another form.

[ Her hands collapse together, dissolving the illusion, then pull apart again. In each palm sits a glittering symbol seemingly embroidered on cloth -- one of a sun, and one of a cat. ]

[gemigod]

Oh!

[Steven seems surprised she already knows, and for a moment, he also seems worried. Have they been too clumsy with keeping this discrete? Maybe she saw it on her own, but...]

Where did you...?

[He doesn't want to ask too specifically lest he be too obvious.]

[quillandaxe]

[ Steven’s worry is plain to see, at least for Moenbryda, and she smiles and shakes her head. ]

Yuya showed me. It seems like you’ve been up to quite a bit since I was last around, hasn’t it? What do you make of it, Steven?

[gemigod]

[It's like a little exclamation mark goes off above his head, and he begins to understand. Ah, if Yuya did it, then that's all good! He smiles a little, like he's excited to talk about it.]

Yeah! [Then he pauses having to remind himself to be quiet.] We... started finding all those cat symbols pretty recently. I'm almost sure that the cat lady was the castle's old queen. Something happened to her... and Helian and Calor seem pretty broken up about it.