The Queen's Chambers, Sidra, Glacia, Sunday Afternoon (Fandom Time)

[glacial_queen]

It had been a long and miserable two weeks. Just ask anyone who had had the misfortune of dealing with their Queen. Karla was a terrible patient; somehow managing to be a tyrant even when she was coughing so hard she could barely speak. It was a good thing her nasty chest cold had also kept her asleep a great deal, or it was possible she would have been overthrown by her own Court.

Now, however, she was on the mend. Which, on the positive side, meant she was feeling almost human again--and behaving that way. On the negative side, it also meant she was bored out of her mind. Morton and Julian had finally made good their escape after their third straight hour of playing cradle, her lunch lay untouched because she was tired of soup and toast, and the next person who came in to make her take another foul-tasting brew was going to get kicked in the face.

There was clearly only one thing to do. Call people and whine about how bored she was. Also, check up on anyone who had gotten tangled up in the latest bout of Fandom crazy, but mostly the whining and bored thing

Let's see. Who to call first?

[Open for phone calls, visitors, and them what live here. If you think Karla would have called you, she did!]

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[trigons_child]

"Then why does the mirror almost always show me something evil and twisted?" Raven said softly. She'd tried so hard to cling to the few better futures that had been hinted at, but she grew more and more tired as they slipped through her fingers.

"That Raven who was here -- that is who I truly am. Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy, Greed. Even Gluttony and Sloth. I feed on pain and misery." The ecstasy she'd felt at Warren's suffering still lingered inside her, and his screams still echoed in her mind even when she tried to meditate.

She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself. "I dream about killing my friends," she said. "Even before this. I dream about it all the time. Or of forcing you or Jono or others to love me. I have remade Sidra and Fandom in my image a hundred times. I cannot deny what I am."

[glacial_queen]

"Wrong," Karla said, stern words but all compassion in her tone. "You are not any of those things. They make up parts of you, but they make up parts of me, too. You don't think I don't have fears and nightmares about what I could do with my power? There are exactly three people stronger than me in the entire Realm. Possibly in all three Realms. I know it's not the same as having your heritage, Raven, but I don't think it's all that different, either. In the end, it all comes down to power and what we do with it."

She reached for Raven's hands. "You struggle and fight against the temptation in your blood. You choose, again and again, to be good. These things Fandom shows us--perhaps they're warnings and reminders so that we keep fighting, because we know the stakes of what would happen if we failed."

[Apologies for the break! Remicaid & crazy over here.]

[trigons_child]

"I used to tell myself that all the time," Raven said, shaking her head. "I wish I could still believe it." Maybe it was because this time had been so long, over a month as her evil self, but it had left her faith in herself shattered.

"Am I so eager to heal because I am compassionate, or is it merely because I feed upon the pain? I cannot say for certain anymore. I fantasize about taking my brothers' powers and bestowing them on my friends. Sometimes you are Wrath, but more often than not you are made into Lust."

And she would make Jono Envy, and Anakin Wrath, and twist Warren, Dinah, and Momoko with Greed, Sloth, and Gluttony. Sometimes those she corrupted varied, but it always ended the same. Her friends consumed by Trigon's power and under her control.

[No apologies necessary, bb! *glomps*]

[glacial_queen]

"I've seen you after you Heal," Karla reminded. "You don't look like you're relishing it. Proud, yes, and happy you were of service. But you don't look like a smug cat licking her whiskers."

Karla cupped Raven's cheek and looked her directly in the eyes.

"Do you trust me?"

[trigons_child]

"Part of me does enjoy it," Raven murmured.

She looked back at Karla at her touch. "I do," she said. It was herself she didn't trust.

[glacial_queen]

"I enjoy when I Heal, too. There's something to be said about taking something broken and wrong and making it better. That drive is part of being a Healer, darling."

She caressed Raven's cheek. "Trust me, then, to see you more clearly that you do."

[trigons_child]

"I will try," Raven said, hoping she sounded more convincing than she felt.

[glacial_queen]

Karla squeezed her hand. "And I'll help you. No matter what."