[hr][center][h3][b][u][Stoneworks - Interior][/u][/b][/h3][/center]
[center][A Chaotix14 / XianaEvermor collaboration][/center][hr]

[i][color=#dbc5db]Yue's eyes snapped to the table as Raudd captured one of the cards beneath his hand, watching the ripple of displaced air spread slowly from his palm, lifting the edges of the adjacent cards.  For a while, nothing... and then a sound.  Her eyes widened as she focused on Raudd's hand, resisting the urge to save the card from the agonizing torture it was experiencing, seeing as there technically was no rule preventing outside interference, and Archer hadn't moved to stop the man... just watched her with that irksome grin.

Flecks of silver manifested at the corners of her eyes, and her irises began to burn amber as she focused intently on Raudd's hand.  Wisps of smoke and angry mottled red curled up from under his palm, and Yue's expression turned vaguely horrified as... something... wailed at her in agony.  Despite the time dilation, it hit her like a drawn out cry, and she couldn't suppress the shudder as ripples of white pulsed through markings in the table she hadn't noticed before.[/color][/i]

[b][color=#CE2B95]"It's... screaming,"[/color][/b] [i][color=#dbc5db]she muttered in a haunted tone as Raudd held up the blank card victoriously.[/color][/i] His smile was quickly wiped off his face by this announcement as he fumbled with the card trying to figure out how to deal with it. Zolya noticing this swiped the card out of his hand and procured a fountain pen from her cloak.

[i][color=#dbc5db]Yue flinched as Zolya's fingers slammed dramatically against the card.  The force rippled through it, shaking the decaying residue of the original markings from the back of the card.  As the light faded from the dust it gasped in distraught tones, and then was scattered as Zolya pulled it away.  Yue's brow furrowed with concern.[/color][/i]

Mending type spells weren't really her forte, in the first-place nature didn't lend itself well to restoring anything dead... Then just make it not dead. Drawing up the nature aspected mana latent in the environment through the pen the black ink flowed across the paper as the runes laden with mana took to the paper.

[i][color=#dbc5db]Yue's eyes followed the pen tip as it slammed into the card backing; it resonated throughout the room like a cannon shot.[/color][/i]

[b][color=#CE2B95]"Ah...,"[/color][/b] [i][color=#dbc5db]she croaked involuntarily, mouth agape.[/color][/i]

As time progressed the formation came together nature and rejuvenation runes, among others, tied together by the Web of Wyrd at the center of the card, the runes around having been placed symbolically like the branches of a tree.

[i][color=#dbc5db]The pen tip scraped savagely against the corpse of the card's markings, sending up plumes of desiccated [White] which seemed to dissolve slowly into the residual glow of the room.  Yue cringed against audial assault, and squinted her eyes against the brilliant [Green] with which Zolya wrote.[/color][/i]

Having finished the formation Zolya imbued the card with mana activating the magic formed onto it's surface. The ink burning away as the paper of the card first yellowed, then formed a grain as bark and a wreath of tiny leaves formed around the edge of the card. [color=#018c3b][b]"I think that's the best I can do, it's still blank though."[/b][/color] She said as she handed the card over to Archer. Though she doubted it would be used for this game, much easier to detect the cheating when the one unique card switches faces.

[i][color=#dbc5db]Zolya's [Light] slithered, and the processed cardstock protested as it was mulched, consumed, repurposed, and hardened into bark.  The groaning and snapping of rapid growth grated against her time dilated senses as the leaves sprouted.  Her eyes followed the card as Zolya handed it to Archer, who held an expression of endless amusement.  Yue exhaled, and her eyes returned to normal as the world slipped[/color][/i] back into Realtime.

[b][color=#CE2B95]"I don't... want to play anymore,"[/color][/b] she croaked, with an expression of pale horror.  [b][color=#CE2B95]"I'm gonna...,"[/color][/b]  she trailed off as she curled up in her seat, cradling her knees against her chest.  Yue held her cup of coffee against her lips as though it were the last warmth in this cold, cold world and stared out into space past everyone with a furrowed brow.

[b][color=#c45302]"Well would you look at that!  You've disturbed our little Fang so much that she's lost interest in a game,"[/color][/b] quipped Archer, with the biggest smile.  [b][color=#c45302]"That's one hell of an accomplishment you should be proud of, Raudd."[/color][/b]