<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Between Time and Outside</span></strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ca/80/e1/ca80e14d974ba257a040889cd05602df.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><strong>NAME:</strong> Kyless (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=322870.msg15501371#msg15501371)<br/><strong>DAY:</strong> June 15th, 2021 | 9:30 AM <br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> SOPHE Headquarters, Main Floor, Seated in Front of a Large, Bright Window<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> The Smart and Strange Doctor Toshiro and his Peculiar Marceline<br/><strong>MENTIONING:</strong> The Too Curious Doctor Lary<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong> Kyless is visible, <em>jingling</em>, and sneezing small, magical fireworks.<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> Her Bells | Causal, Mayan-like Clothes | Toshiro's Gift</span><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">At least the Doctor Toshiro seemed to like her <em>joke</em>, because the trickster had <em>no</em> idea what ‘Ama-tear-raz-zoo’ was, but it certainly was not a good <em>secret</em> or a good <em>reason</em> to forget the sun. “<em>No</em>, the best way to avoid <em>Unseen</em>things while traveling in the dark is to <em>follow</em> someone else who knows the way back <em>without</em> the light. And, if <em>they</em> are not there, then stay together, and <em>hide</em>, until the light returns.” Kyless spoke as if she was somewhere <em>in between</em> understanding and not understanding Toshiro’s story. As if she understood the rules, but not the game. Or perhaps it was the <em>other</em>way around. The trickster swallowed, swirling her tongue in her deep, blue cheeks. Then, softly, as if to warn him and not scare, “There are always <em>Unseen</em>things, Doctor Toshiro. Too many to <em>look</em> at. And <em>not</em> one likes a thing that <em>cheats</em>.” She <em>sneezed</em>, another magical flare of white, silver and green. <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>.<br/><br/>“Rule<em>makers</em> only appear when their rules are broken, when others <em>cheat</em>. They are <em>Unseen</em>things before that.” The deep blue demoness wiped under her nose with her free, braceleted hand as she paused, still gazing out of the horrid, human glass. “They like being alone, like watching, not playing. Too <em>many</em> things to watch, they cannot play. But Rulemakers always very powerful. They…” <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. Kyless shrugged, the other of her hands still mostly trapped beneath the <em>purr-ring</em> Marceline. It was very warm there. “… Give <em>some</em>thing, in order to create their rules. I do not know why,” the trickster added with haste before the Doctor Toshiro could ask yet <em>more</em> questions, “but it makes them win, <em>every</em>time, all time, forever. So I travel <em>around</em> their rules, all <em>around</em>, <em>every</em>where, but I never break their rules. I never <em>cheat</em>. The human Mallory will <em>not</em> cheat but she is <em>also</em> much too curious, and too small. There are…” <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. Kyless turned her horned, <em>belled</em> head left and right as if deciding on a <em>certain</em>thing. “<em>Other</em>things that watch humans that are too curious and too small. <em>Seen</em>things. <em>Seen</em>things who forget <em>Our</em> rules.” The Doctor Toshiro should <em>not</em> follow the human Mallory. He should not follow most Other humans as they were so <em>fragile</em>. <em>He had to… remember.</em> They all forgot, even the <em>most</em> <em>important</em> <em>ones</em>, but the Doctor Toshiro had to remember. He had paid the price, after all.<br/><br/>“Your <em>sacred</em>book will <em>not</em> compare to my magic, no matter how the Last's story is told.” Kyless retorted, and looked at him with big, round eyes, as if he had <em>offended</em> her <em>some</em>how with his many, many questions. <em>Because of course she could not show him the Valley of the Jollytwills, today, this day. Not a second time. He… His gift… He had made her magic small!</em> Her free, braceleted hand reached out, but instead of something to hurt, it was something to <em>hold</em>. She took his <em>tool</em>, his pencil, and began to draw on the open sky of his drawing, leaning over the purr-ring Marceline to do so with ease. “Why do you touch Marceline like that?” The trickster asked, as the pencil drew loops, and lines and dashes in the sky, in one big circle, in one big <em>symbol</em>. Her sharp golden eyes did not leave the piece of paper before her. “Would she like it if I did it too, or just when humans do?” Kyless was quite interested in <em>this</em>, this small interactions happening in her lap, well, more or less. Marceline had magic, and she was a <em>not</em>-cat, and yet she enjoyed the touch of <em>humans</em>. “There will be <em>others</em>, other humans, on the mission that I am <em>allowed</em> to go, but only allowed <em>without</em> my magic, yes?” Kyless was going to the Outside without her magic, without her… <em>connection</em>, without what she loved most of all. But after all this human <em>time</em>, behind all of that human <em>glass</em>, the trickster would do <em>any</em>thing to <em>go</em> Outside. <br/><br/>The pencil stopped just as Kyless pulled away from Toshiro's <em>sacred</em>book, and <em>sneezed</em> again. <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. Another magical flare of purple, green and blue floated between them, spinning above the demonic <em>symbol</em> that Kyless had finished drawing. It was a circle, filled with other circles, and language, and lines, and loops and <em>ties</em>. “That,” the trickster sniffed, clearing her fuzzy nose yet again, “is the Last Jagraw.” It was the unique, demonic symbol of the Last, of his <em>magic</em>. Something so full of detail, so full of emotion that the Doctor Toshiro would not be able to read it... Not yet, not <em>this</em> soon. Not without Kyless. But he could <em>try</em>. “Try to understand,” Kyless added, choosing her words carefully then and now, trying herself <em>not</em> to sound too <em>hopeful</em>. Without magic, without the demon realms themselves there was little more she could do to explain the Last, on this very strange and short day.</span>