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The Great Hunt, Prologue - In the Shadow

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(Wheel icon) In which someone's being very naughty.

First, the dedication:

And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall anything stand nor abide . . . Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time without end. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us, and burn us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last Battle, and his blood shall give us the Light.(1) Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation.(2) —from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon, as translated by Ellaine Marise’idin Alshinn, Chief Librarian at the Court of Arafel, in the Year of Grace 231 of the New Era, the Third Age(3)

Thusly, the prologue begins, our perspective that of...

The man who called himself Bors, at least in this place,(4) sneered at the low murmuring that rolled around the vaulted chamber like the soft gabble of geese. His grimace was hidden by the black silk mask that covered his face, though, just like the masks that covered the hundred other faces in the chamber. A hundred black masks, and a hundred pairs of eyes trying to see what lay behind them.

The room looks ornate, but the roaring fires give off no heat, there are no windows, and only two doors. The walls are covered in tapestries, but behind them is bare stone. Bors doesn't like to think of where the room is, but he was summoned, so he came. He's glad the fires are cold, because he's wrapped in a huge amount of black wool to disguise his build and the fact that he's stooping to look shorter. He's not the only one taking this tack.(5) He watches his companions silently, because so often they make a mistake, give themselves away.

Servants, young men and women dressed in white and looking more than similar, circulate with drinks. He wonders if they'll need to be killed, but when he looks into one's eyes, they're as lifeless as a doll's.(6)

Some people don't bother to hide themselves. One woman is dressed in a scarlet red dress cut in a style that practically screams that she's someone wealthy from Illian, standing against a particular tapestry like she knows it will draw attention to her. Another wears a dress of a particular kind of fabric and cut that marks her from Arad Doman, and a bracelet bearing what could only be her house symbol, because "no Domani bloodborn would bend her stiff pride enough to wear the sigils of another House. Worse than foolishness."(7)

There's even a man in Shienaran clothes in sky blue, carrying himself like a soldier.(8) Bors prides himself on being able to read people and to know in an instant who they are. He sees others from Kandor, Cairhien, Ghealdan, even a Tinker, who he thinks disgustedly that they could do without.(9)

The disguised ones are no better. He spots the silver boots of a Tairen lord, lion spurs worn only by high-ranking Andoran Queen's guards, and a man with a tattoo marking him of the Sea Folk.(10) Then he catches two women wearing Aes Sedai rings in a row, both fully cloaked in black, and neither acknowledging the other. He curses them both, they're both less welcome to him than Tinkers.(11)

A chime sounds, and two Trollocs enter the room, followed  by a Myrddraal who commands them to drop and grovel. The whole room drops and chants a devotion to the Dark One, though Bors thinks internally about how the DO is sealed and the Creator is salvation, repeatedly cutting himself off with reminders that he serves “a different master” now. A voice tells them to rise, and Bors turns to look with just one eye. He sees a projection of a man, dressed all in red with a red mask. Would the Dark One appear to them as a masked man? Just one of the Forsaken, perhaps. He muses on how the Forsaken were trapped with the DO, and despairs that the women Aes Sedai were spared when the men were destroyed by sealing them all.(12)

The figure commands them to rise, gesturing with hands black and red, burned and raw. Would even one of the Forsaken appear to them so? The figure names himself Ba'alzamon, and promises that the Day when their master destroys the Wheel of Time and takes control of the world is coming. If he is the DO, he's switching between first and third person a lot.

He shows them three young men, one a mischievous country lad, one a curly-haired muscle guy with yellow eyes and a battle axe, and a reddish haired farmer or villager with blue eyes and a heron-marked sword.(13) He says that someone in the world will be, but isn't yet, the Dragon. He doesn't say why he's showing the boys.

“The Dragon Reborn! We are to kill him, Great Lord?” That from the Shienaran, hand grasping eagerly at his side where his sword would hang. “Perhaps,” Ba’alzamon said simply. “And perhaps not. Perhaps he can be turned to my use. Sooner or later it will be so, in this Age or another.” The man who called himself Bors blinked. In this Age or another? I thought the Day of Return was near. What matter to me what happens in another Age if I grow old and die waiting in this one?(14) But Ba’alzamon was speaking again.

Baa tells them to learn these faces well, and all sound and movement stop. Eventually some of the people around Bors start moving like they're talking to someone, but he sees nobody they're talking to, and he hears no word they speak. He quickly figures out that each is hearing their own instructions for what to do next.

The red-masked man appears before him, and Bors finally gets his instructions, to return to Tarabon and redouble his efforts for the Light,(15) and to watch and have his followers watch for the boys. His third instruction regards "those who have landed at Toman Head, and the Domani." The voice continues but Bors half tunes out, wondering what it means, none of it makes sense. (16) Abruptly the man grabs Bors's head and he's assaulted with visions and pain. An impossible sky with a great wind, a girl in white vanishing, a raven, a soldier in an insectoid helmet, a golden horn, a wolf ripping out his throat, on and on.

When it stops, the red man tells Bors some commands are too important to be known by the one who carries them out, and leaves.(17)

Bors thinks about the boys, naming them the Blacksmith, the Swordsman, and the Trickster in his mind.(18) Who are they? How important are they? Blue eyes could mean Andoran royalty, though not in those clothes, but there are some Borderlanders and Tairens and some from Ghealdan with blue eyes... that's no help at all. The Blacksmith's yellow eyes puzzle him even more.

A blank-eyed servant touches Bors's arm and leads him to the waiting room where he'd been led on his arrival before the meeting. He's told to change back into his own garments, nobody will see him leave here nor arrive at his destination, but it would be best to be already properly clothed.

The man who called himself Bors shivered in spite of himself. Hastily he undid the seals and buckles of his saddlebags and pulled out his usual cloak. In the back of his mind a small voice wondered if the promised power, even the immortality, was worth another meeting like this, but he laughed it down immediately. For that much power, I would praise the Great Lord of the Dark under the Dome of Truth. Remembering the commands given him by Ba’alzamon, he fingered the golden, flaring sun worked on the breast of the white cloak, and the red shepherd’s crook behind the sun, symbol of his office in the world of men,(19) and he almost laughed. There was work, great work, to be done in Tarabon, and on Almoth Plain.

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(1) Well, that seems rather definitive on the subject. (2) He will be a terrible force, but he will prevail. Weep, for you will be put through the wringer before this is over, but if you personally survive, so too will the world. (Is that a spoiler when the text is saying it literally here and we understand the context of literary foreshadowing and genre expectation? A 14-book epic is probably not going to end suddenly with a catastrophic loss, right? The fun is in finding out how we earn that success and what's lost along the way to pay for it.) (3) The New Era is the one our heroes are living in the year 998 of as of the last word on the matter. So, this was translated less than a millennium ago. (We don't talk about linguistic drift here, or how 770 years was enough to bring us from literal Old English to modern English.) (4) So, probably not that name in his daily life. (5) The last thing a Darkfriend is going to trust is another Darkfriend, the same way some people never really trust others because they know they're in it for themselves and will backstab the nearest target when that's the most expedient path to their goals, and what's to stop the next person over from being the same way. They project their insecurity and fear onto the motivations of others, and drive each other away. (6) Human puppets. If you still thought this would be a Ringsian tale, hopefully this chapter is setting up the appropriate amount of horror to change your expectations on that matter. (7) But then we get into the mindgames. How many layers deep is this? Would someone, in fact, give up their most ingrained comforts and symbols to ward off identification at a gathering like this? (8) I wonder if this is anyone we know. (9) Recall that even Egwene had some prejudice against them last book. A man like Bors has probably never been asked to reconsider the prejudices with which he was raised. (10) Admittedly, harder to fake than the clothing and accessory disguises. (11) This makes more sense at the end of the chapter, doesn't it? He may be a Darkfriend, but he's with the Whitecloaks for a reason, our Bors. But, look how quickly he judges each person, as if he's correct immediately. How many do you think he got right? How many do you think we'll meet again, or have met before? (12) So many assumptions in this set of Bors's thoughts. Some of this meshes with what we know from book one, but some of it is distinctly dissonant, and some of it is unknowable at this stage. (13) Hey, it's cha boys! Ballsy, what are you up to? (14) A clever observation. (15) It's enough to make you wonder if the Whitecloaks are really doing the Light's work in what they do. I say, as if we didn't have that whole Perrin and Egwene imprisonment sequence last book. (16) Someone's landed at Toman Head, and the Domani are one of the people there, from Arad Doman, which borders Tarabon just about there. It's on the map if you have a print edition, off on the left hand edge of the continent. (17) So, we have some unconscious planted commands. (18) Apt descriptions of their archetypes thus far, even though Perrin hasn't done much smithing on screen. (19) The golden sun, the emblem of the Whitecloaks. The red shepherd's crook, clearly a sign of specific role and/or rank. Shall we keep an eye out for anyone wearing one?

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Checked my class schedule and added room numbers to my calendar. Stoked to be back in the COOL science lecture hall btw. Fucking love the planetarium. (There's a reason the science lecture hall evoked in any Empire City mention looks like that.)

Anyway, the point of Bloodsaw's whole internal arc in this expedition story (BTTNP, actual title pending) is that they're (1) having a shit time mentally (I'll explain some other time) and (2) learning to open up and have friends for once. Friends are a hard thing for Caroline Bradshaw. Like, it's fairly normal to be nineteen and never really have had friends before, but they're not having a great time of it; and the story kicks off with them trying to cut Tiff off (in the middle of the effects of point 1), while Tiff realizes, a week later, that she actually does need to interact with them because they're kind of friends (ouch, oof) and cosmic work colleagues. So, because Tiff needs something from a mountain range in the Northern Realm, the two of them are forced to interact while Bloodsaw's imploding.

The majority of what's going on in their head has to do with coming out of point 1 and reckoning with point 2, thanks to Silvis drilling it into them that they can be cared for and Ben (who came with Tiff) forcing them to understand that they will be cared for and they get no say in the matter, which culminates in them resurrecting Tiff because she's dead, she was the first friend they ever had, and it's unfair that she's gone (and maybe it's selfish to want her back, but goddammit, they want her back. And the universe needs her to finish her machines and fix the planar breakdown, so suck it).

And, like, it doesn't fix them. They still break down in THP when Bern drugs them, even though they finally feel like the Saint. They ask for a divorce on the night of their wedding. They still have a hard time with things like letting Silvis see them cry, like when they're listening to the song Ernest, Grace, and Ryo wrote (at the end of their birthday, no less). They can't they're still kind of a dick, honestly, especially when they're tired or particularly sore-- because they're still themself, but it's nice to be cared for. And they can do that.

Anyway, a crucial part of that is that the four of them (Silvis, Bloodsaw, Ben, and Tiff-- and Kepler, since he's there, even if he doesn't ever talk except that one time in TGE and only ever does mischief) get snowed in for a couple days. That, in combination with the road trip aspect of the expedition and the fact that Bloodsaw is slowly coming out of the slump they're currently in, means that the four of them are just kinda chatting. It's that sweet spot of, like... well, this isn't exactly plot, not really, because they're stuck in a cave-- but it's some essential characterization. Ben and Bloodsaw get to bicker a little, Bloodsaw and Silvis talk about cookies and about Gram Coldiron, Tiff does some homework. They're bonding in a way that they need to, especially after a couple days of dealing with a horrible wizard that was trying to kill Bloodsaw (that Silvis then murdered, Bloodsaw resurrected, Tiff got mad at Silvis for lying to her about trying to kill (she was more mad about the lying), and so on). Like, it's been a stressful couple days. They just need to have a few days to sit in a cave and do some homework and eat some pancakes.

And part of that is realizing that Bloodsaw, Tiff, and Ben all had the same gym coach, despite Bloodsaw having been in a completely different graduating class (on account of having gone to high school in the nineties), because Chad Brower is old as shit and loves his job. Bloodsaw also mentions that they were in the first session of Wonder By The Water after Chip Winger took over the camp, meaning that they knew all the camp counselors there-- Henry, Ruben, Ellaine, and Stacey. They mention off-handedly that one of the counselors was pregnant, and Tiff goes, well, yeah. Ellaine Stevens. She was pregnant.

Because Tiff knows that. First of all, Ellaine Stevens is Eddy's grandma. So jot that down. Second, she knows Stacey Blake is dead. She knows for a fact that David McFadden, noted werewolf hunter, tracked down Stacey Blake, dual werewolf-zombie, and killed her that past February, which was the catalyst for Denny not talking to her dad anymore. Denny was already struggling with that decision, but the fact that her dad came to town on her birthday and killed someone (even if that someone did bite Suzette Sweet, who was dead at the time) who was just trying to live her life in a cave, permanently eighteen and doing her best, kind of made the decision for her.

But Tiff can't say all that, because Ben's in the cave. Bloodsaw knows Denny is a werewolf, and knows Silvis wouldn't care. Lycanthropy is normal in the Northern Realm-- but it's not normal in the Mortal Realm, where Ben is from. Furthermore, Ben and Denny's parents are dating, which gets more context in this cave portion (and technically gets some more intro earlier on, because I've got my fingers in so many parts of the timeline). Ben can not know that (1) Denny's a werewolf, (2) Denny's dad hunts werewolves, and (3) there's all sorts of drama happening there, so she's just like "Stacey's dead. I'm not saying anything more."

Some plot stuff does happen in the cave. Like, absolutely. It kicks off with Ben literally falling down a mountain, Tiff getting a rock through her leg, and Bloodsaw (1) freezing and (2) healing Ben through some Mormon imagery (lol). (I did a lot of Mormon imagery in this one. Because I'm a little freak.) Tiff also has a full-on vision in this one. Like, full-on, without inducing it.

But the cave! Stacey Blake! She's real, she's dead. It's canon. I've got to go back and write that out now, lol.

1/7/24

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What about high spirit

Okay so it's basically a story set in a world in which long ago magic was everywhere, but over time it faded, until one of the last magic endowed people, a High Spirit, created many instruments and enchanted them with the last remaining magic, sealed them away across the land, and then passed away.

Nowadays, society is this weird mix of different sort of styles in different lands, so, for instance, there's this big desert with a steampunk sort of ab aesthetic.

Now, there is exactly one magic user left, a High Spirit who was cast out for her greed, and cursed with immortality so that she could watch everyone around her perish while she lived on forever.

Sick of living in the shadows, she claims the enchanted violin, puts the last of her own magic into it, making it far stronger, and goes on to take a huge bit of land from one of the kingdoms.

She puts the people of this land under a form of mind control with the violin, forcing them to do her bidding.

Now, nearby, a wedding is being held, when all this happens.

One of the musicians playing for the occasional has an ordinary instrument, but also the pair of magic drumsticks, although the magic part is unknown to him. This is Missy Andrews.

When the Outcast High Spirit, who I haven't named yet, plays her music, everyone at the wedding is caught under the spell, except for Missy as he holds and is connected to the drumsticks, which keep him from being affected.

He runs as far as he can, then hitch hikes back to his home town, where he meets with some old friends from school: Shannon Meek (she/it) and Mannie Pauler (she/her).

He tells them what happened, and they get understandably really worried. That is when Mannie, who is the one with the magic guitar, points out that Missy was at the wedding but wasn't mind controlled like everyone else, and if someone did that, they might just come after him to ensure no witnesses.

Shannon, who has the magic mic, suggests that the three of them bunker down in its father's place, as the guy is one of them Apocalypse Preps or whatever they're called, and Missy and Mannie agree.

(Also, side note, Shannon and Mannie are aware of their instruments magic, but neither knows about the other's instrument's magic, if that makes sense??)

So meanwhile the Outcast High Spirit is absolutely furious, because despite her violin's power, she knows a band of magic instrument wielders could absolutely ruin her plan.

After plotting for a small moment, she decides to hire one of the best bounty hunters in the land, this being Aster Gaer, who, unbeknownst to the Outcast High Spirit, has the magic bass guitar.

The plan is to promise to pay him wisely, because she doesn't know squat about bounty hunting so controlling him and telling him what to do with the violin is out of the question, but she does know that you can just buy the services of people in that line of work, and most of the ones she's heard of will do anything for the right price.

The thing is. She isn't actually going to pay him. When he either eliminates the threat or brings the threat back to her to deal with, she plans to take him under control.

So he sets out after Missy.

However, a very long way away, in one of the largest and richest kingdoms, the only child of the king and heir to the throne discovers a hidden cavern, with the magic piano/keyboard within. This heir is Spot Allain (they/them) who will, like Aster, join Missy, Shannon, and Mannie very soon.

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LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE WRITING: IMAGERY

A. IDENTIFICATION

Identify the type of senses used and underline the words that makes it connected to the sense.

Sight    1. His almost –black hair captivates my attention.

Sound  2. Ellaine has a high-pitched laugh.

Touch   3. Her hair feels wiry.

Smell    4. Freddie wears too much aftershave.

Taste    5. The pizza tastes extraordinary and mouth-watery.

Touch   6. The rocks still wet from high tide.

Sight    7. The way the sea seems as blue as the sky, making it hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Sight    8. The tiny pink shells in the white sand were picked by the little girl.

Sound  9. The cry of the fox sounded like a child is a terrible pain.

Touch  10.  His ex-girlfriend gave him a cold handshake.

B. Read and assess the statements below. Identify the correct type of imagery used in each item. 

“The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.” – The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

Visual Imagery

 “The hour was approaching at which the continental breakfast begins, or rather ceases, to tell, and the ladies bought some hot chestnut paste out of a little shop, because it looked so typical. It tasted partly of the paper in which it was wrapped, partly of hair oil, partly of the great unknown.” – A Room With a View, E.M. Forster (1908)

Gustatory_Imagery

 “There were strange, rare odors abroad—a tangle of the sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near.” – The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1899)

Olfactory Imagery

 “I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.” –  Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Auditory Imagery

 While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”  – The Raven, E.A. Poe

Tactile Imagery

 C. Respond to the following statements briefly. 

1. How does language impact the reader?

Using language in writing is like choosing words to create tone to convey message and communicate our ideas to the readers. It makes the reader feel what they have to feel in their books or whatever they are reading, for example reading a newspaper which some parts or pages are using literal language will make the readers very informative and feel alert and updated on their surroundings while some parts of the newspaper are using creative writing such as stories for entertainment will make the readers feel entertained and hooked-up to what they are reading. And also, it will make the readers know if they are reading something educational or fictional. 

2. What is the significance of imagery?

Imagery is very important especially when in Creative writing. It makes the reader feel the situation even if it’s words only. It will make them experience like they are in the actual world of literature and will give them idea on what the author is trying to convey in their works.  

D. Write a short paragraph of your favorite foreign or local travel destination applying sensory details and types of imagery. 

My favorite local travel destination is People’s Park in Tagaytay. I remember when I first stepped on the bumpy road of People’s Park it was 6:00 in the evening, all I felt was the chilly atmosphere and my ears were filled with the buzzing sound of the tourists’ that are quietly having conversation with their companions enjoying the brilliant view of the city from the mountain. While we are walking and enjoying the cold air, we saw some fascinating spaces where you can buy souvenirs to keep. As we keep walking, we found a spot where we can enjoy the aromatic smell of the cold breeze and watch the glowing sun as it sets. As the time passes, the entire place became dark and shadowy that gave us a glittering and sparkling view because of the radiant lights coming from the city. It was 8:00 in the evening when we decided to go home. We bought some freshly carved and shiny wooden key chains and some tasty Espasol for our souvenirs.

BONUS ACTIVITY. Try to rewrite this sentence into a more imagery-rich one. You can use the sensory details provided.

The ancient floorboards creaked beneath her, cold, bare feet as she paced the room apprehensively.

The wooden floorboards were creaking as she paced the room frantically. As she walks back and forth bare footedly on the dusty floor, she was sweating cold but can barely feel it because of agitation and the tension she was feeling.

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Ice cream truck driver injures 3 in drunk driving crash on National Ice Cream Day, police say

http://dalaznews.com/news/us/ice-cream-truck-driver-injures-3-in-drunk-driving-crash-on-national-ice-cream-day-police-say/

Ellaine Durham was arrested for allegedly driving into a auto even though drunk.  (Virginia Seashore Sheriff's Spot of operate)

A Virginia lady was allegedly drunk Sunday when she crashed the ice cream truck she was driving into a auto, injuring 3 men and women -- on Nationwide Ice Solution Functioning day.

Ellaine Durham, 35, was driving the truck by way of Virginia Seashore when she strike a vehicle and injured the occupants, police reported.

The individuals in the automobile have been taken to a health-related center with non-life-threatening accidents. Durham was discovered in the vicinity of the scene, police stated.

A individual witness, Coeltryn Kirkland, claimed he watched Durham strike a tree and travel off. Kirkland described the scene to WTKR-Tv.

“It was chaotic,” Kirkland claimed. “The comprehensive aspect of their automobile was caved in. It appeared seriously terrible. I’m astonished it wasn’t worse than it was.”

Durham was billed with driving even even though intoxicated and a handful of counts of felony hit-and-run, the The Virginian-Pilot reported.

National Ice Cream Day is celebrated every third Sunday in July. President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation in 1984 in honor of the dessert.

The Affiliated Push contributed to this report.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox Data. Abide by him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

[urisk-factor]

so tell me about High Spirits 👀

Ok, so I just answered an ask where I talk about the basic story, but here I'm gonna talk about the main five!

Let's start with Missy Andrews, the one who causes so much trouble he gets a reputation for it! Missy is a cis woman, the only cis person in the cast, and uses he/him. He is a lesbian, and looks like this:

He plays the drums, and has the pair of magic drumsticks which basically create sort of magic porta drums so he can play. He stands at five foot ten.

Next up I'll talk about the singer of the band, Shannon Meek. While questioning her gender and sexuality, it doesn't exactly know who she is, but it does know that she uses she/it pronouns. I haven't exactly gotten a visual design for it yet though. She has the magic microphone. Also, it is about five foot nine.

Next is Mannie Pauler, who has the magic guitar (which can be acoustic and electric depending on what the player desires, in this case it is electric). Mannie is a trans woman using she/her pronouns, and is Queer. Again, I don't have a visual design yet. Also, she is only four foot eleven.

Aster Gaer is an interesting one imo because he starts as an antagonist. He is a trans man using he him, and is panro ace. He looks like this:

He is a bounty hunter at the beginning of the story, but quits to join the band after getting caught in what was essentially a bidding war between a king allied with the band and the Outcast High Spirit, who hired him. He has the magic bass guitar. He stands a whopping six foot eleven, making him a giant compared to everyone else.

(Oh, and side note, he dresses a bit different in the beginning, I might draw his bounty hunting uniform later).

Finally we have Spot Ellain. The non binary heir to the throne of one of the largest kingdoms. They use they/them pronouns. Their father is the king that I mentioned while talking about Aster. They have the magic piano/keyboard (same story as the magic guitar) which they found just before the start of the story. Sadly, again, no visual design (I started on one for them, got angry, and scrapped it). They are six foot tall, exactly on the dot.

(Oh, and, another side note: due to the history of magic in the world this story is set, not everyone looks very human, some moreso than others, which is why Missy has purple eyes, Aster's skin is grey and his eye is pink, and why Spot is most likely gonna have paw-like feetsies)