I would have picked a quote about shadows [OPEN]

[atouts]

Who: Childermass & open.
What: Having finally gotten his shadow teleport spell to work, Childermass is trying to iron out just how to control the damn thing...
When: During the Mainframe stop, before Performance week.
Where: Around the carnival.
Warnings: n/a

i. all around the carnival

It's a whole lot of trial and error, it seems, this shadow magic, but at least Childermass doesn't anticipate ending up anywhere deadly as he goes from shadow to shadow, place to place. He's found early and late in the day works best, when the sun is forcing shadows to cast at an angle. Night time only deepens and darkens the entire world, which, in theory, you might expect to make it the easiest time of all, but there is such a thing as too many doors...

So, during these days before the carnival opens, it won't be uncommon to suddenly find a tall, somewhat dour-looking (exciting as messing around with magic like this is, he just isn't the sort to let on to that easily) Englishman abruptly existing where there hadn't been an Englishman — or anyone at all, for that matter — before! Look fast enough and you'll catch him moving like he's just stepped out of somewhere, though there's usually nothing but shadows and whatever is casting them behind him.

This could be inside buildings, the cookhouse, the Big Top, all around the forest—

ii. or in your trailer, any trailer at all

Or accidentally shadow-stepping straight into the closet in your trailer or maybe even the bathroom, if the lights been left off in there by some chance. There'll be a THUMP of Childermass walking directly into something — a broom, the shower curtain, whatever it is — and then a muttered curse of, "Oh, damn it. Not again."

And here he thought he was going to be better about this than Strange was...

Comments

/plays Greensleeves on the accordion

[showmystar]

Childermass' comment goes by without any issue from Allen. He's used to the stares and the confusion. It doesn't bother him anymore.

The mention of spells, however, has him intrigued. "You mean teleportation?" he asks easily, as if he's had some experience in that himself. "How does it work? Is there some sort of . . . space between the shadows in which you travel, before you pop out the other side?"

[atouts]

"That would be right. I do mean teleportation," Childermass confirms Allen's guess. The question about the 'space between' earns a pause, however, and he has to consider it for a moment, brow furrowing and gaze drifting off away from Allen for a few seconds before it comes back around to him.

In the end, he shrugs, but he does his best to answer.

"In a way. I pass through darkness on the way from one to the other, though I do not know if it's a real space between shadows or simply a way that the spell causes to exist, just for that moment."

[showmystar]

"Strange. I only ask because I had access to something similar before I came here, and I haven't been able to access it since."

Allen had figured it was due to the Ringmaster's influence. There can only be one dimension hopper in town.

"Oh! I'm Allen Walker, by the way. In case you were wondering who exactly nearly cut you in half," he says with a chagrined smile.

[atouts]

"Is that so?" Childermass can't help but ask curiously, but he will pause from questioning Allen further to at least return an introduction of his own. Half the time, the magician is fairly rude, enough he might just gloss over it, but the lad's done nothing to deserve that.

He does raise his eyebrows at the rest, though. In case he was wondering who nearly cut him in half, huh? He gives a faint huff of laughter at that.

"I suppose I was wondering just that," he admits, then adds, "John Childermass, who is very glad you managed to not cut me at all, in half or otherwise."