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|Poses=:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It's been a few days since Stephen Strange was dropped off at the Sanctum's doorstep. The surgeon thinks it was the same angel that rescued him from what he's been told was the Astral Plane, but he's still not convinced it wasn't some hellscape. The former sorcerer was led in by the brownstone more than any person, though a man named Wong was helpful, Stephen wandered down a hallway to a doorway that he felt was meant for him. A side bedroom that Strange thinks as he entered it and the basic room was furnished as if for him, with a large bed, clothes easy enough for the damaged hands to put on, and a decanter of scotch that seems to stay full no matter how much he drinks from it. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stephen has encountered a rather helpful and bizarre woman with a horse half that kept saying she could help with his mind and tried to teach him a spell to cast a ball of light, but of course the doubter couldn't conjur a thing. He simply sighs and groans, retiring to his room and drinking further, still eyeing the amulet wrapped around his neck that has been there since his time in the astral plane, something he feels constantly and fears. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rachel has been considering how to broach this matter with Strange since she heard of his arrival. Other matters took precedence- such as instructing the Sanctum to bar entry to the "Angel" that took Strange from the Astral plane, for one. It might not be an easy task, but seeing as she was in no rush to speak to the Doctor as yet, her focus was on keeping him and the Sanctum as safe as possible. She had no idea who the angel was- just that they were the same being as two others she'd met, and that meant she had no idea who -any- of them even were. She may have needed Wong's help to increase the security, as it were, but it was rather impertinent.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, the time has come- despite how far along she may be in adding to the Sanctum's ban list- for her to have a chat with the man known as Stephen Strange. If nothing else, maybe she can help him understand who he is, regardless of whether or not he remembers. To that effect, as the man within the room drinks, there comes a knock at his door. When he opens- or if he responds to the affirmative at all- the door itself will seemingly have opened to a room that it not only didn't open to before, but couldn't possibly have opened to at all, in the middle of a seeming wall of bookcases that is on the 'eastern' side of the library.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stephen stands up from the wingback chair in his room at the knock and dangles the tumbler in his left hand between his fingers, careful with the ammount of tremors in his hands the dangling seems to be the cleanest way to hold his drink. Though he has to adjust it often to keep from slipping. He opens the door and immediately sighs as it's not a hallway. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"You knock on my door and then what, shift reality to make me talk to you in the library." Stephen says more to himself and yet he sounds annoyed. He takes a long sip and then enters the room from 'his' room and makes his way towards Raven. He's wearing a pair of NYU sweats, a top that's seen better days and drawstring pants that aren't tied, for a few reasons, "Why don't you just let me wallow in my misery?" <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven sidesteps out of the way of the Doctor as he strides from his room. Her response is rather swift, as she allows him to make his way into the library. "I shifted reality to knock on your door. You elected to speak to me in the library." she notes, slipping her hands up to pull the hood of her cloak down around her neck, as opposed to keeping it up to hide her face.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She follows Strange out into the library itself, and continues to speak. "I understand you must be feeling rather... Distraught. As far as I'm aware, you don't remember anything of yourself. I mean to ask you questions you have probably already been asked: What -do- you remember, Stephen Strange?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Well, it's another day and Kae's returned to the Sanctum... Her tail whips back and forth once, and she shoulders her backpack, before tilting her head to the left... She then raises her hand to knock on the door... Pauses, then shrugs and knocks, a forehoof pawing a bit nervously before she stops, hoof stomping "Stooooooop..." She mutters to her self... "Crazy nervous fidgets of that lower body, sooo gotta finish getting everyone else fixed so I can fix my self.." She mutters... <br><br> Kae then wraps ont he door a couple more times before waiting, arms now crossed bbelow her chest while she looks around curiously. "Lezzee, ways to pull his memories back with sympathetic magics...Ummm, well if he had any clothes oor important items on him at the time of doing whatever it did that blew away his memories..."She mutters, then ummms... "That would be easiest, other linked items to help pull things back, giant frigging circle to summon em... Ummm..." She goes through another list of things while waiting to be let in. <br><br> Suddenly she freezes, winces and turns around waving her now glowing hands "Die y'little buggers!" She calls out, and she wipes out fleas she picked up from her apprentices's cat familiar... Kae then sighs and idly scratches at the bit over her foreshoulder that was itchy... "Fur's a pain... It really is...." She then stands upright and looks at the door waiting "Least four feet let me just kinda stand and not have too much of an issue being still..." She's not really still a back hoof is lifted currently to shift weight off it...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"I remember driving off a cliff and crashing." Stephen says rather honestly, "Everything else I 'know' I've been told by someone else or ..." He trails off, "I remember waking up in some place people tell me is the Astral Plane, then I was brought to some ... facility upstate, I have no clue where or what it even was. They told me all sorts of things, but I still believe I was in a coma since the car crash." Strange says with a deep frown. "I don't know what or who to believe." The forgotten wizard sighs to himself. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Downstairs, Wong opens the door and quietly ushers Kaelyn in, taking the supplies he's ordered off her broad shoulders and then quickly ushering her up towards the Library. "The Sorcerer Supreme is meeting with Stephen finally. Your help might be quite useful." Wong notes before he disappears and gets to work on another spell of his own doing. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven is quiet for a short while, listening and thinking about what had been proposed as Strange tells her what he knows. "That is intriguing." she states, stepping forward and closing some distance between herself and the former Sorcerer Supreme. While Wong directs Kaelyn to the library, Raven asks what she feels is something of an important question. "If you could, can you remove your necklace?" she asks, directing his attention to, of course, the Eye of Agamotto. "I don't know of its full capabilities- but it is a powerful artifact. It is possible that it may have had some role in harming your memory."<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven has at this point brought her hand up, palm raised. "I do not want to keep it- in truth, I do not want it at all. But there is no reason, from what I know, that you should have lost your memory. If I have any theory at all, it relies upon the artifact you carry, or the injuries you sustained during the conflict. I don't think it is the latter- because you were not at risk of dying when you were found... Unless I am mistaken."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae is let in and she nods to Wong "Which room?... Oy, so don't like it when he does that." She huffs... The power in those lungs of hers makes it almost sound like an equine's snort... She then blinks as she hears it echo. "Yup gotta get cured..." She mutters and hmms, tail flipping left and right.. "Now if I was a memory lossed Sorcerer Supreme, where would I go.." She mutters.... <br><br> Kae then puts her hands on her hips and looks around trying to figure out if she can pick up voices from anywhere.... She then calls out "Hey Woong, if you can hear, me where am I supposed to go anyway?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stephen looks down to his chest and pulls the amulet up over the hem and rests it on the outside of the sweatshirt he wears. He looks down at it held in one hand and then he shakes his head, "It burned me awfully every time I tried to remove it." Stephen answers honestly. It seems the deadman spell he placed upon the eye could only be removed by himself. Stephen the sorcerer was a very thorough man. "I did think myself dead initially when I woke in the astral plane. There was a voice speaking to me and kept saying I was going to die soon." Stephen says with a frown before Kaelyn shows up and he gives the weakest of smiles to the centaur, <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In response of Kaelyn's request a blue and yellow bioluminescent snake slithers by Kaelyn's hoof and seems to pause, waiting for the centaur to follow it. After a few minutes, Kaelyn is led to the door to the library, and the snake slithers up the door briefly before it simply stops glowing and fuses itself to the wood and seems as if it was part of the carving the whole time. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rachel offers a nod to Kaelyn when the centaur enters, but as yet, she has no reason to stop speaking to Strange. "A dead man's switch. You, or someone, placed an enchantment on the amulet, it seems. I wonder..." Raven begins to wander the library, searching momentarily for particular knowledge. "If you knew that you knew things that you did not want others to know, the question is whether you'd remove that knowledge from your head were you about to die." There is a pause- at this point, Raven almost seems to be pacing rather than anything else. "Without having you present in full, I am mostly shooting in the dark... But it is an idea, at the very least."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae squints briefly and tilts her head "And I thought my place was wonky." She mutters, while following after it she finally arrives, then nods back and smiles and offers a bit of a wave.. She tilts her head curiously.. She then umms "Well if your theory is right and all... That might make it easier to fix em.. Generally what was done can oft be undon, specially in he magic field... Alllsooooo, I've been doing research on some techniques we might be able to use to bring back his lost memories.... Sympathetic magic is good at making connections, even eitherial ones and ones to things lost or destroyed... Mayhapse we could use it, with something that he'd have had on him throughout his time as a mage, or most of it and maybe use the memories connected to it to bring back and reattach the rest?" She asks curiously of Rachel... <br><br> "It's a long shot and all, buut, I think it could help.." She motions to the Amulet on Stephen "MIght be able to link the Sympathetic magic to that maybe to help pull those memories back?" She says and her tail lashes once, she then glances aroudn the library, and blinks, pausing "Ooh, don't have that one, will have to see about getting a copy at some point..."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"You think there's magic and memories stored within objects and not just refiring synapsis in my mind by forcing stimuli upon me?" Stephen asks with his grey eyes aimed at Kaelyn, after he looked at Raven and unsure of what she's even saying, her roundabout way of speak is a touch confusing and annoying to the doctor. There's just a lot of information to process in very little time. Something he's good at doing if he had even an inkling of knowledge of what they were talking about, but the surgeon is not a wizard. Not now. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven nods along for a few moments. When Stephen finishes, it is not the hesitation or skeptcisim in his voice that clues her into the way he feels. "For you, right now, it feels fantastical. However, you admit to seeing the impossible, or the somehow double-unlikely every day, perhaps even every moment, since you awoke on the Astral plane. You cannot focus on how -unlikely- something is. Focus only on how much you want it to happen." It is then that Rachel gestures to a floorboard. Without the sound of moving mechanics, the floorboard separates from the others and rises, revealing a clean, well kept, but otherwise rather old-looking mirror.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"If you focus on your necklace- just... Think about it. Ask it to open. You don't need to visualize anything other than that you think it -should- open and that you -want- it to. It's an eye, and eyes open. Please try, Doctor."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae tilts her head curiously and watches Raven, then looks to the Doctor... She doesn't do much right now, except pull a book from her pocket and holds it for now as she studies the good 'doctor' while waiting to see if he can get the Eye of Agamotto open...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stephen takes in a long breath through his nose and his holds up his shaking hands around the amulet at his chest. Slowly he breaths out of his mouth and turns around before he approaches the mirror. "I need to think it should open and that I want it to, like closing my fist, or making a ball of light. Is that all?" Stephen says, sounding not exactly sarcastic, but he doesn't have the tone of a believer. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The tremble in his hands is pronounced at this angle and he frowns at that above all else. It seems to over power his very being. The lose of what he once was. The power over life and death he wielded with these two hands, gone. What was he without his hands. Was he really a wizard, was he really some great man? Stephen closes his eyes and closes his fists tightly, or what feels like tightly, his fingers barely able to close around his thumbs. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven lights onto the disbelief. "You must be open minded- You do not have to -believe- that what you are doing will elicit results. You do not have to believe in magic... But you have to focus on the impossibility. You must admit that it could be -possible-. The rest will come... Either now, or with time." There is, then, a pause. Raven starts to walk in a short and quiet semi-circle, around the perimeter of Strange.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Open your eyes. Think of it like... If you've ever spoken to someone who was paralyzed, Doctor. Think of what you would tell them if they -could- move a limb, but felt as if they couldn't. Ask the eye to open, yes, as if the eye were your own. If you want to open it, it should open- think of it that way. The should and could are stronger than the shouldn't or couldn't. Think of it as possible, and the truth will set at least some of you free."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae tilts her head. NOt really much she can do right now, so she settles her book in her pocket and proceeds to look through the library's books curiously, tail now lashing occasionally as she clops from one shelf to another, scanning down the spines for titles...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The sound of hooves against the wood floors echo out through the large room, and Stephen's hands open, but his eyes do not. He focuses again on trying to open -his- eyes, but they stay closed. All three of them, but he stays like this for several minutes, breathing in slowly and exhaling slowly as well. Stephen's just about to toss his hands down when a small sliver of yellow light peeks through the metal of the amulet and Stephen says, "I'm sorry ladies, I do not think I am a wizard, I just don't have it in me." He says and the sliver shuts back up and he sighs, opening his eyes and turning around to find his tumbler. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven is silent during the time it takes for Strange not to fully open the eye. The sliver going unseen by Strange isn't exactly an issue- but Raven can... Feel, as it were, the level of disappointment and self-destructive emotions that Strange has coursing through him. She could force the matter- or, rather, she could try and force the matter, but there is another thought that occurs to her- a pensive expression crossing her features for the latter moments as Strange seems to retreat.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Give it another try, Doctor." Her tone, now, is less... Directing and more... Thoughtful. "Picture the same thing- try to -do- the same thing, but this time... This time instead of staying silent, can you tell me how it felt to work, before the accident?" The pride, is there- and Raven knows pride. "Can you indulge this thought exercise, and while you try... Just talk. I want to know what surgery felt like for you."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae can't really do too much at this point, then umms, and tilts her head curiously as she watches... Kae then pulls a book and begins flipping through it curiously... Finally she grins as she opens the page in said book to a picture... She tilts her head and makes her way over where the other two are, then silently hands it to Raven... It's actually an image depicting Strange... Afterall he's in quite a few books and whatnot... Kae then winks and wanders by to watch the good Doctor try and open the eye...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"I'll- I'll try." Stephen says as he closes his eyes again, and this time, he opens his mouth. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"It was like, I could control nature itself." The surgeon says, the words spilling forth. "I was the best, it was undisputed. I could fix a subcraneal hemorrhage with my eyes closed." Stephen says, the irony not lost on him as he cracks a smirk. The sliver in the eye opens up once more only noticeable by the tiniest bit of light escaping the amulet. "I had-Have?-had a perfect surgical record. I never lost a patient. Not one." The eye opens up just the smallest bit more. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stephen begins to speak, and Raven is watching. There is, to a degree, no reason for her to speak as yet. Kaelyn helps- if she needs to coach Strange further, if this isn't successful, then showing him some evidence of who he doesn't remember being might help him accept what was lost rather than reject it. However, all the same, Strange's emotions are like a fire- and Raven is going to stoke it. Not just with her words, but with her own gifts. There is fuel, that she adds- it's an esoteric concept, but the ability she has to manipulate emotions go a long way. As long as there is something for him to reminisce about, and feel confident about, Raven assures that it will not waver.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"A perfect record? That seems impossible." It almost seems like she's doubting him- and with her poker face, it's hard to believe she isn't- but this is just adding fuel. When confronted, it tends to make people defend themselves- it makes the pride and in this case, the happiness of proving oneself, push forward. Raven is provoking his memories, to elicit the emotions she hopes will unlock something within him. After all, so far- Raven isn't entirely sure that the sensation of surgery and magic are different at all to the former Sorcerer Supreme.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae tilts her head and listens still, then goes on about gathering evidence from the library, hooves clopping heavily as she moves from shelf to shelf, soon enough gathering one book after the other... SHe then pauses at seeing one in particular, an eyebrow raising, then she grins slightly.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Completely perfect, not on death." Stephen repeats, the eye opening further, the wash of the light of truth hitting the mirror and past it. The light reflects back into the amulet but it's not enough to bath Stephen in the eye's magic. "Nothing was impossible for me on that table. I just had to focus and with the right tools, I saved lives. I was the best." Stephen says, his hubris at an all time high since the Astral Plane. His self worth and pride over flowing. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven nods along, now resuming the pacing behavior that she'd begun before. For a short while after Strange stopped speaking, however, Raven had little to say- but she wasn't about to give up in any fashion, and wouldn't stay silent long. "Okay then, I just have one question. If your record is perfect, there must be someone who gave you more trouble than anyone else. What was your toughest case? How did you find your way out of it?" Sure, it sounded like an interview for some newspaper or something similar, but at the same time... It was meant to stroke the ego. Get Strange talking, and -keep- him talking. Raven, it seemed, was very good at that.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae smirks a bit more and then sniggers some... She tilts her head and looks at Strange, then to Raven... She then closes the book and with several others puts it near where Raven was sitting before, patting the pile and grinning a bit as she looks at Strange curiously. Raven has this well in hand, there really isn't much reason for her to add to it.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"My toughest case." Stephen says, as he starts to think about it, suddenly it dawns on him and he snaps his eyes open and sees the light beam coming from his chest and he gasps! The eye shuts fully and Stephen takes several steps backwards and finds himself on the floor after toppling over a side chair. "What was that!?" Stephen asks with a finger pointed at the amulet and it shakes more so than usual. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven takes each book as it is offered- though her attention is firmly on Strange as he reminisces in his various successes. She seems... Overall nonplussed as Strange falls backwards, directing her attention to him and taking a step or two closer. "That," she begins, "Was the eye responding to the way you used to feel. The way that working magic used to -make- you feel. This may be... Overwhelming. This may be unpleasant, but." she states, tossing the first book Kaelyn had handed her down. The page it opens to- of course- is the one that prominently features the Doctor. The reason Kaelyn had given it to her in the first place.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>And of course there's a picture, of Doctor Strange in full regalia, it's written by someone else, but the article is litterally about the Doctor... Kae umms... "Yeah it seems really oold? But well being able to flop between realms and sometimes times can do that with a Wizard... Most of us can't do the time thing. You could." She says with a slight smile. She then points at books "Memoirs, your own from your early time I think as a mage, and of course biographies written about you..." She says with a big grin... "All really good connections to your past..." She says and glances to Raven "Also useful for any kind of sympathetic magic to coax those memories back to existance with the whole magical link to em..."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Still on his backside, Strange slowly reaches up to take the offered book out of Raven's hand and he reads it, his eyes widening with each word. It takes him no time to get to the bottom of the segment he was reading and closes the book before putting it down on the floor. "Kaelyn, get some of those spells ready." He says, swallowing his pride and fear. New resolve wells up in the doctor and his hand trembles some more, but it's different. "Rachel... keep doing your thing." The surgeon stands back to his feet and stands back before the mirror. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven nods a few times as Kaelyn reassures Strange. She takes a deep breath, and for a moment, seems to be steeling herself just as Strange was. Then, she begins pulling doubt and fear into herself. She is in that sense feeding off of Strange, even though she does not actually feed on the emotions. "Tell me, as I asked, about the most difficult case you've ever encountered."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae nods slowly at the mention of spells.. She looks to Rachel "I think the Sanctum needs your permission to let me set this stuff up?" She says and holds up her phone.. "Got the requisite circles allready done, and I think I've enough info in those books and with the Eye on him like that to be able to do this..." She says and oohs "Word of warning, I don't think this will hit you all at once, it's supposed to come to you as you sleep... So you kinda wake up refreshed as if coming out of a dream... I've heard of cases though where the memories have come flooding back... " She says and ummms... "Either way, should this work, you'll get em." She says with a grin... <br><br> Meanwhile, Kae is looking at her phone and around and rubbing the back of her neck... Finally she shrugs and reachs into her backpack and pulls out a very large bit of paper, it's like big enough she could probably lay on the thing... She then begins unrolling the thing... "Again will need your permission to activate this thing but I can set up the circle." Yup, Kae's allready got it drawn out... Lots of clopping and moving and shifting giant horse bum ensues as she's trying to move about the thing make sure it's all completely flat, and getting the memoirs written by friends and whatnot set up, the books also written directly by Strange too as well. Even something she got from Strange one of the time she met the person...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Strange closes his eyes, a faint smirk at the corner of his lips. This is all wrong, but it -FEELS- right. He is in control of this moment, of himself, and of the room. Again. This is what magic feels like? This is what Stephen feels like. He's on his A game. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"It was a craniotomy, young girl was shot in the head during a trip with the family. Angry employee of her mothers wanted revenge. Shot the girl on accident." Stephen explains the story, as he closes his eyes and a lot quicker, the third eye begins to open but it still opens itself at a snails pace. He feels the effects of Raven helping, and yet he keeps telling the story. "The surgery lasted for eight hours. I had to cut a hole in her scalp and skull in order to reach the actual bullet, it hadn't gone through. If it had, she wouldn't have been on my table." <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven does her best to ignore the imagery. She cannot have anything directly impinge her focus on the matter at hand- even though she has to comprehend the story enough to continue on. She is bolstering the Doctor, but she needs to keep him talking- and keep him feeling comfortable. To this end, she does one important thing- and sends the cape over to drape itself over his shoulders.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"So you only operate on cases that aren't fatal." she states- not entirely ignorant, but knowing, hopefully, what buttons to press to keep him talking. "The skull must be a difficult thing to work with. How do you know how deep to cut?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae continues messing with the circle, then gives Rachel a thumbs up, and she motions tothe center of the circle. It's an incredibly intricate circle, kind of resembling a star, but definately not? Anyhow, there's runes here and there, running along the various lines, at its 'center, which isn't really centered is an open area, and where lines connect in points or at the ends on the outer edge of the circle are books. There's probably rhyme and reason behind it but Kae doesn't elaborate... <br><br> Next she's pulling something like a necessary bag or pouch out of her saddle bag, and begins placing ingredients around the circle in small circular empty spots, these , for those who know being places the spell is going to consume the item.. Included in those circles is the small thing Strange gave to her.. Maybe it requires some personal sacrifies of the caster? Next is another circle next to it, and a small circle like that near the large one... Kae then tugs a small knife out of her bag and looks at the 6 inch blade dagger... She glances to Strange and Rachel and motions to the circle... Smiling at Strange some and as Rachel talks she waits for them to be ready for Strange to step into said circle...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The eye begins to open further as he talks, but it's not quite aimed at the mirror, seems Kaelyn's spell was put in the right spot and the surgeon stood in the wrong place, but he should be able to be nudged while blinded fairly easily. "I operated on those that were only fatal, but were above the skill of the other surgeons present." Stephen says, not a lie, but not a total truth, but it's a truth how he views it. "my patients would have certainly died in someone else's care." He explains further. Still cocky, still sure of himself even as his hands shake around the spell. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven listens to Strange, now missing her cloak and feeling rather... Exposed, as it were. "Oh, so you worked on cases that -needed- you." Raven, for her part, gets it. She understands that there's an underlying truth there, that isn't exactly so glamorous. "But I am still curious. When you worked on this girl's skull, how did you manage to know how to keep the girl safe? The work must be very precise, because there cannot be much room before skull turns into brain. How did you save this girl?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>While Strange and Raven talk, she hmmms... She looks from one to the other, a quick whisper, and well the circle and all its contents are suddenly under Strange's feet, having Strange placed exactly where she needs them to be.. Kae nods some and grins a bit and then moves by Strange, whispering. "Don't let me interrupt, talk.." She says simply.. She then, using the knife, takes a small lock of Strange's hair, in fact he probably doesn't even feel it. Kae then places that in that little area by Strange's little part of the circle, then clops to the part of the circle with the next spot. She then holds up a note to Rachel, it says &lt;&lt; Keep talking, alterd the spell accordingly.. Ready to go with it...&gt;&gt; She says and then folds her four legs under her at the prescribed point, bending down as she litterally cuts her self on her thumb. She then takes a breath and places that blood in the circle, dripping it slowly till eventually the whole circle is litterally died red... <br><br> Oddly no sharp intake of breath or hiss of pain or anything is made as she then binds her thumb and begins quietly whispering...<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The yellow light errupts from Strange's chest as the cloak sits upon his shoulders and his hair is cut to make Kaelyn's spell work. He feels the light leaving him, almost sees it as if the eye is something he can see out of. "I had to take a risk to push part of her brain away from the bullet as it was lodged between her skull and brain, I needed the second opening to get the clearest possible path to retrieve the bullet." Strange explains. "Everyone else would have simply gone into the entry wound. What I did was more complex, but the results were far and away better for the patient." He probably should check up on the girl. It's been some time since he's looked into how she's doing. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The spell Kaelyn is casting and Raven is affecting, Strange's light cone begins to widen, covering more than just the amulet this time, he's being affected as well this time. <br> <br>

:'''{{#var:141|Rachel Roth (141)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Raven hasn't much to do other than signal Kaelyn to cast the spell. To Strange, she continues to speak. "I see. There is a lot that could go wrong with your method. How did you know where was safe to press? What benefits did you gain by opening up a second wound? It seems like it would be more beneficial to limit the trauma the girl was experiencing, physically. What made the results somehow better?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1291|Kaelyn (1291)}} has posed:'''<br>Kae is still whispering her eyes shut... There really isn't mutch visible going on with the magic she's doing, save a feint glow to the lines around the circle that seems to spread, first encompassing the things that are meant to be there later, then well the lines reach the little sacrifices, one by one they're burned away it seems, consumed by the magic, before then the lines become more than just faint as they zip toward Strange, or at least his circle. They're golden in color, and then move to hit the outer part of his circle as the runes throughout the thing flash gold as well. The lines of his circle then also flash golden, and Kae at that points holds up a vial of well, gold dust.. This is sprinkled on the circle, whiles he still whispers. <br><br> The horse-woman seems rather practiced at this kind of ritualistic magic, it's something she uses often when wanting to avoid the use of components she has objections to using.. She usually makes up for it with some kind of specialized circle, however this time she's just simply using very very very old magic.. A way to link to someone and find and recover something lost... In this case memories... As the gold dust hits the circle it races and coalesces around Strange's circle, the lines them selve becoming crusted with now molten gold... This then seems to lift off the page as it were and is consumed by that slight radiating film-like light now formed at the base of Strange's feet... <br><br> Then Kae simply stops whispering... Her part of the magic's done, now it's time to let the circle do its work... It stays lit for a little time as it tries to litterally find and bring back those banished memories.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:71|Doctor Strange (71)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"The brain swells when it comes into contact with atmosphere. My method had the benefit of reducing pressure that was trapping the bullet against the skull by the inflated brain, as well as creating an area to guide the bullet out with. It's easier to work with two hands instead of one." The doctor emphasises as he opens the eye further, the mystic light shining all across the mirror and spilling past to fill up the room with the awesome light. <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The spell beneath his feet causes a subtle ripple in Stephen's mind that eases the effort of pushing the eye to open that much more. With Raven's expert coaxing and devouring of his fear and doubt, Stephen finally opens the eye of Agamotto to its full capacity and the yellow light fills the room off the mirror and back into Stephen. The light of truth gives Stephen the truth's he's doubted and expelled. It gives Stephen his memories back. And with a brief twitch of his wrist, Stephen's hands fall still and he closes the eye. He looks back to Raven, and then Kaelyn and then back to Raven. "You rescued me..." A few words but a familiarity is there in them. <br> <br>
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