Raising a hand to knock on the hard wood door, more out of formality rather than necessity, he pausing for what was polite before reaching a skeleton hand to the door handle. Opening the door a crack and slipping inside, shutting the door behind him, the tall skeleton blinked once and regarded the two with a near scientific interest. Humans, in what was technically his work space. Of course, they wouldn't have been allowed too near unless they were expected, and they were expected.
Coming up behind them noiselessly, and observing for a moment…so this was human magic? Humans had things other than magic to work with, so it was always interesting to watch them use magic, which monsters...were nearly entirely composed of. Clearing his throat quietly, “I would have hoped…that you would have waited for a monster physician to come in to observe, lend aid in your work. Regardless, how is the patient?”
Bernadette and Gavin, at first wanted to wait for the monster physician, but they weren't given much of a choice when one of the monster patients had suddenly gone into a worse condition. They had cried and screamed, causing Bernadette to immediately jump to aid the poor monster. She had been concentrating her magic on trying to heal the monster and banish the pain just as Gaster had come in. As soon as the monster was breathing steadily and was in stable condition, Bernadette sighed in relief and she looked to Gaster as he cleared his throat.
Bernadette answered Gaster, "His condition is currently stable, but I wouldn't say he's quite out of the woods yet," For now, the balance between magic and matter was equal now, but she couldn't say whether this was permanent or not.
Gavin apologized Gaster bowing to him (and making Bernadette bow as well), respectfully, "Our apologies. We couldn't exactly wait and do nothing while someone's condition was worsening right in front of our eyes,"
Regarding the two quietly for a minute, though it felt like much longer, Wing Dings gestured for them to cease bowing…though; he didn’t quite wait for them to do so, as he came closer to check the patient himself. Indeed, tentatively holding a glowing hand out over them, the humans weren't trying to deceive him, “There are some concerns about human magic possibly agitating the magic coursing through the bodies of monsters, but despite not following what was generally agreed upon…”
Letting out a faux breath, such small actions looked to matter to humans, but he gave the girl a patient smile and then an understanding nod to her mentor, “I know the king and queen would have great approved of your actions, commended you two for them, even.” There was doubt, however, if the humans would have been as understanding in the reversed situation.
The both of them came out of the bow after a moment, just as Wing Dings gestured for them to do so. Bernadette watched as he checked on the monster. She caught onto what he was trying to say by his comment, and she wanted to speak up about how she made sure that her healing magic was harmonious with the monsters' magic (because she noticed that that was the case when it came to concerns about human magic agitating the monsters') and didn't try to force itself, but she remained quiet under her mentor's disapproving gaze.
Bernadette was somewhat curious by the fact that a skeleton had let out a breath. Did Skeletons breathe? She was somewhat at ease when he gave her a patient smile and an understanding nod to Gavin.
Gavin answered Wing Dings in return, "We only did what we thought was right," He then stated, "Ah, we haven't properly introduced ourselves. I am Gavin, and this is my apprentice, Bernadette,"
The tall skeleton nodded down at Gavin's answer, "That is the only thing anyone can do at this time, in these matters." At the other end of the introduction, Wing Dings tilting his head at the younger of the two humans. Bernadette, was it? Sounded familiar...bringing a skeletal hand up to cover his mouth absently--
For a moment, his eyes flashes two different colors, and the world fell away into black...this was easily the obvious signifier for the start of a encounter, the human's souls laying bare for the monster to see.
*Wingdings is highly interested in the human magic.
Bernadette immediately noticed Gaster's head tilt and how his eyesockets flashed orange and blue right before the world fell away into darkness. She looked around in concern as her soul, her vibrant and lively green soul, appeared. The start of an encounter...did this mean that Gaster wanted to kill them? She looked to her teacher.
Gavin seemed to remain calm as his patient, dark blue soul appeared. He decided to ACT and show a small magic trick, creating a illusory butterfly in order to help sate Gaster's curiosity, and he asked Gaster as he did so, "Surely, you don't intend to do anything...unpleasant in front of the patients?"
“Interesting.”
The magic didn’t seem all that different from what monsters could come up with, but he supposed he was merely scraping the surface of what humans could possibly do. Hearing the question, Gaster’s eye sockets narrowed a fraction before one flared a bright orange. The monster was fine, still unconscious behind him. Flicking his gaze back to the older of the two humans, knitting his fingers together as if they were having a mere chat…then again, for some monsters, very forward encounters like this with strangers were not entirely unsound, “Of course not, but thank you for being concerned about the patient.”
*Wingdings smiled, adjusting his arms to cross over his chest
Solid white doll-like bone hand formed in the air, hovering up and around, passing the butterfly through the perfectly round hole in it.
“How about you, Miss Bernadette?”
Bernadette watched the interaction, nervous about the tension and how Gaster's eye sockets narrowed before one flashed. She really hoped that her teacher's question didn't seem accusing or anything awful...
She watched as a solid bone hand with a hole in the middle of the palm passed the butterfly in curiosity. However, she jumped slightly and became flustered when he directed his attention onto her.
Her face reddening, she pulled out a large spellbook "Oh! Right! Uh..." She frantically flipped through the pages, hoping to find a good spell that would best show her magic ability. Gavin chuckled and he told her "There is no need for something so complex. This is not one of my tests. One of your expertise spells should do, Bernadette,"
Bernadette, her face now slightly red with embarrassment, closed the book and answered "Ri-Right, my apologies,"
She decided to ACT.
She cleared her throat and channeled her magic energy for one of her more used spells, before she looked out, through the darkness to see a window and a small, normal (not a monster) bird, a finch, nearby. She gave a whistle and the bird came over and landed on her finger. After a series of chirps and whistles from her, and a response from the bird, it flew off from the finger, went outside, and flew back to Gaster with a pink flower in its beak.
After the bird came back, she spoke in a different language, one much more familiar to Wingdings and not so familiar to humans, directed to the skeleton, "The flower's for you. I hope you can accept this small token,"
Watching from where he stood with curiosity, his glowing gaze went from mentor to apprentice…and from apprentice to off where her gaze had wandered off to. Watching the exchange of chirps, his eye sockets widening when the bird came in with the small pink flower…Wingdings’ eyes popped out of their sockets when the bird and the girl offered him the pink flower. Right away, however, he knew he was getting ahead of himself.
Returning them back to their sockets, and trying to look less flattered, less touched than he really was…Wingdings took the flower and lightly pushing its thin stem through a button hole of his jacket, murmured out loud as the blackness of the encounter started to flicker away, though the language was accented by all-caps, ”YOU DID PARTAKE IN THE PROJECT…A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF REASERCH HAS BEEN CONTRIBUTED BY YOURSELF…”
*Wingdings is sparing you
The apprentice saw Wingdings' reaction to the offer and was somewhat surprised that eyes had actually popped out of his skull. She started to wonder if skeletons really did have eyes, but she didn't think too long on that. His reaction didn't seem to last as he went back to his stoic self and accepted the flower, placing it on his jacket
Bernadette smiled and answered humbly in the same language "I merely gave a couple ideas after studying your project's thesis,"
Gavin didn't understand what Bernadette and Gavin were saying, but he didn't press. It didn't take long for both him and Bernadette to SPARE Gaster. The darkness of the encounter faded and the scenery went back to normal after learning that they gained no EXP and their LV remained the same.
Afterwards, she thanked the bird through a simple tweet and it flew off shortly afterwards. After the bird was gone, she stopped channeling the magic energy that was necessary for the spell.
Almost looking genuinely perplexed by her answer, Wingdings held a hand up after a moment, ”YOU ARE BEING MODEST.” Watching the rest of the encounter fade off, and the young female closed off her magic, the skeleton turned back to the ailing monster. No status changes, and though it wasn’t quite ‘fallen down’…no improvements.
With a knock, a bearded six-legged monster, two tailed lizard monster shuffled on in. Gaster blinked at it a moment, then with a nod, spoke up slowly in the common language, “Have you yet met with the other head healer? It might seem frivolous, but the night watch has come in, and knowing that boss monster…Toriel is probably still pouring through the books of the ‘tem maj colege’, as she is very concerned about the outbreaks. So, ahem...this will be an especially good moment to meet with her face to face.”
Bernadette and Gavin both looked to the monster who knocked and entered the room, before turning their attention back to Wingdings as he asked his next question in common. Bernadette was caught by surprise, she hadn't realized that night had fallen at this point. Gavin answered as she focused her attention back on the conversation, "I'm afraid we haven't met her yet. We would be happy to meet with her, and see if we can offer any assistance in her research,"
Bernadette asked "Hang on...Toriel...Do you mean Toriel as in the Queen?" Gavin chided Bernadette "Bernadette, don't speak so rudely," Bernadette nodded and answered her teacher with an apology.
“It’s alright,” Bringing a hand up to rub the side of his skull, the skeleton had a rather amused smile, “Yes, Queen Toriel. I have no doubt that she would very much like to meet you two. Our royalty is…always willing to meet newcomers. Any time they are available, any convenient location, human or monster.” Tilting his skull and smiling, there might have been a slight bitterness towards the end, or it might have been a trick of the candlelight. Who knows?
Gavin raised an eyebrow at the bitterness that the skeleton seemed to hold at the end. In order to prevent the silence from becoming an awkward silence with a hand on her own chin and a thoughtful look, "Oh, I see! ...You said she was looking through the books. Would she be in a library right now? Where can we find said library?
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