Video - Attempting This Princess Leader Thing

[mal_contented]

[Mal closed her connection to Merlin and considered what he had said when she arrived, about what a princess is here, about leadership. Then she opened her connection to everyone through her mirror.]

"Alright. Listen up. Someone is missing and we've been asked to go help. Those who chose not to. stay in the assigned apartments. Yours or together with others, I don't care. If things go sideways it will be easier to keep you lot safe if we know which one building you are all in."

[A deep breath.]

"For the rest of us. We need to work together. Most of you probably don't know or like me. That's fine. Most of you if I know you... I don't like you. But we don't have to like each other for this. We just need to work towards the same goal. After, if you want to tear into me, fine, you're welcome to try. But until we all come back successful and safe, we are horns out, not in. We are one."

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[strangeandunusual]

She nodded gleefully, bouncing a little on the balls of her feet, then pulled her focus back in, studying Mal's hands. The trick would be shifting the focus to her, and not just washing herself again. Mal's hands were more slender, her fingernails longer, the kind of hands you saw in magazine ads for fancy polishes. Once she was sure she had a good mental image, Lydia closed her eyes and tried again:

"Beware forswear, and out, damn spot: make clean Mal's hands which now are not!"

This time, the bubbles were the same vivid purple as her friend's hair and had the same effect, but to Lydia, they looked more lavender, almost white.

"I must be getting better," she remarked, pointing. "That looks a lot more like soap."

[mal_contented]

She grinned a bit and flicked her fingers to show them off. "You very much are," she said, proud of her friend.

[strangeandunusual]

"Now we're definitely clean enough to go grab a drink." She beamed. "I think I need it, too, magic is thirsty work."

And dizzy work, she realized, as she turned for the door: but it wasn't as strong as it had been when she'd fixed Mal's hair. It would pass soon enough.

[mal_contented]

She laughed as she headed towards the door, grabbing her knapsack. "It's the couplets. Not sure why but rhymes will dry you right out," she teased.

Call it here?

[strangeandunusual]

She shook away the memory that threatened to rise, of Adam and Barbara's bodies crumbling as Otho droned out those terrible incantations from the Handbook, and focused on the good times ahead. Her new friend. The way this was all clicking. The fact that they were going to go save someone that mattered to her.

"You're not kidding," she grinned, giving Mal a playful nudge on the way out.

Sure. TY for the thread!

[mal_contented]

She chuckled and threw an arm around her shoulder as they headed out.