The Shade | "Joe" {Josiah Cole}

[deaths_head]

Death god
Undertaker
Stablekeeper
Hired hand

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Re: 8/2

[deaths_head]

It's possible. The magic left in me was destructive--meant to hollow out a human soul. Strip all but the magic in it, take away identity and everything else. My personal power was what protected me, I had too damn much of it.

Might be she ought not to use this power too much 'till I can get a look at her. All magic has a price, best we know what hers is 'fore she goes using it willy nilly. Could be that price is Ray having increased control of her from afar, if his power's anything like the kind I got hold of my own self.

Re: 8/2

[intrinsicrandom]

I'll tell her not to, or to try not to. I don't think she was using it on purpose, it sounds like an accident.

If it were like my magic, I could help her more, but all I could really do was make sure her body was uninhabitable by anyone but her. And before you ask, yes. I did make sure he couldn't just hop into mine.

Re: 8/2

[deaths_head]

Wasn't gonna ask, son: she may not be the Boss, but she's got her face. You wouldn't do anything that'd risk you hurtin' her.

Odd bit, but...I think I'm startin' to understand that mindset a touch.

Re: 8/2

[intrinsicrandom]

I wouldn't, no. I'd do anything to save her. Any version of her.

Are you? Because of Miss Goode? Or Angel? Both, I imagine.

Re: 8/2

[deaths_head]

Fair certain. Least with Angel--but that's easier to know, she's not just my daughter, her soul is mine. If the world don't exist with her in it, then the world don't get to exist.

Cordy? It's...similar. I think.

You breathe a word of this to anyone, and I'll skin you alive, but...you 'n the Boss. How'd you know? That you--felt somethin'.

Re: 8/2

[intrinsicrandom]

I can understand that. Believe me.

Who would I tell?

Oh, that's easy. Without her, I get stuck in my head. Almost literally. Back home, I once spent four days holed up in my apartment working on an experiment. I learned how to speak Welsh because I was bored in the hospital after a car accident I got into because I was distracted by a physics problem. When I'm with her, that doesn't happen and I'm more present. That's only happened with one other person.