and you shlep around like shackles

[ladyisak]

This is the kernel of a scene, narrated by the Strategist I played as part of playtesting Glitch -- Anzu Aligern, the former Power of Thresholds, currently Dying of Gates. It's sort of a proof-of-concept for a longer fic I've been wanting to write about Anzu and his boyfriend Lebed Morningstar, the Power of Liminality, who's in a strange and, ahem, liminal species situation -- he's been given a Destiny that formerly belonged to an Aaron's Serpent, but it hasn't quite taken effect yet, and he's kind of shlepping it around unsure of what exactly it does besides confusing other Serpents.

Anyway, Anzu and Lebed have a Cause -- what it is becomes clear in the excerpt -- and they're going around trying to recruit both Nobilis and Excrucians, and here they've decided to try and talk a Deceiver into helping them out.

( all the roots from which you grew )