Before so much as touching any of that food, Sam's going to be checking it for poisons. He's no fool, and half of it is unusual colors anyway (who organised this buffet, anyway, Valerie? If so he's doubly suspicious).
Of course, food doesn't need to be poisoned to be a trap, and when the trap is revealed he drops his head into his hands with a groan.
Kaylana's never going to let him hear the end of this. (He also doesn't believe that bit about their problems being resolved for a second, but it's just as well they plucked him from after the fate of the world no longer hung in the balance.)
hedge maze
No. No, no, no, a thousand times no, he's already had to deal with one pain-in-the-ass labyrinth in recent weeks. No. He will cut his way out of the damned thing if that's what it takes - easier to do if he had a sword rather than his daggers, but there's a lot to be said for tenacity.
Any monsters that come after him within the maze are likely to find themselves dispatched by said daggers in short order, flying at their most vulnerable spots. So long as the daggers don't ricochet off something else, they strike true every time - and if they do ricochet, that's going to open up an awkward conversation with whoever just took the hit.
It's trying (very begrudgingly) to navigate the maze properly that really trips Sam up, thanks to a series of right turns. First it's the Guild before him, thriving like it should, never abandoned, never decimated by Mizzamir's whitewashing fuckery. Then he finds Blackmail - with his horse, which is sign enough that something unusual is going on.
After he shakes that vision off, Sam gives up. He's going to shadow-travel his way out of this fucking maze before it can taunt him again.
GEIS
Sam has not used a telephone of any kind before, never mind a 'smart' one. The sudden vibration on his person startles the shit out of him and nearly sees his poor Leaf stomped on, before he figures out it's... supposed to be doing that? Weird. How is it lighting up?
And, once he figures out it's meant for communication, as well as what their kidnappers are asking:
No.
He is not telling the fae about that time he gave up his identity. Absolutely not.
(Odds of this amounting to anything any time soon are low, especially since I would desperately need to reread and would have to write up a history myself. But: lol. Lmao, even.
Sam | Villains By Necessity
Before so much as touching any of that food, Sam's going to be checking it for poisons. He's no fool, and half of it is unusual colors anyway (who organised this buffet, anyway, Valerie? If so he's doubly suspicious).
Of course, food doesn't need to be poisoned to be a trap, and when the trap is revealed he drops his head into his hands with a groan.
Kaylana's never going to let him hear the end of this. (He also doesn't believe that bit about their problems being resolved for a second, but it's just as well they plucked him from after the fate of the world no longer hung in the balance.)
hedge maze
No. No, no, no, a thousand times no, he's already had to deal with one pain-in-the-ass labyrinth in recent weeks. No. He will cut his way out of the damned thing if that's what it takes - easier to do if he had a sword rather than his daggers, but there's a lot to be said for tenacity.
Any monsters that come after him within the maze are likely to find themselves dispatched by said daggers in short order, flying at their most vulnerable spots. So long as the daggers don't ricochet off something else, they strike true every time - and if they do ricochet, that's going to open up an awkward conversation with whoever just took the hit.
It's trying (very begrudgingly) to navigate the maze properly that really trips Sam up, thanks to a series of right turns. First it's the Guild before him, thriving like it should, never abandoned, never decimated by Mizzamir's whitewashing fuckery. Then he finds Blackmail - with his horse, which is sign enough that something unusual is going on.
After he shakes that vision off, Sam gives up. He's going to shadow-travel his way out of this fucking maze before it can taunt him again.
GEIS
Sam has not used a telephone of any kind before, never mind a 'smart' one. The sudden vibration on his person startles the shit out of him and nearly sees his poor Leaf stomped on, before he figures out it's... supposed to be doing that? Weird. How is it lighting up?
And, once he figures out it's meant for communication, as well as what their kidnappers are asking:
No.
He is not telling the fae about that time he gave up his identity. Absolutely not.
(Odds of this amounting to anything any time soon are low, especially since I would desperately need to reread and would have to write up a history myself. But: lol. Lmao, even.