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[priorly]

You know what they say about rats and sinking ships. Or the pirate will, ask him.

[sheriffing]

Well, lately he's been telling me not to give up hope. I think he might be right.

Besides, if something awful is about to happen, my default's usually to fight like hell.

[priorly]

If something awful's about to happen, I usually know.

And I think it might be.

[sheriffing]

How do you know?

[priorly]

Call it feminine intuition?

[sheriffing]

Works for me. I'd never knock someone else's super power.

[priorly]

It's just this feeling I get. I can't be certain that it's something awful, but the feeling I have is that it's something big. Like the feeling you'd get watching a meteorite falling from the sky, large and impossibly fast, too close for any thought of deflection until it's blocking out the sun.

And I'm a prophet, so there's that.

[sheriffing]

I guess I just keep going back and forth between wanting to distance myself from everything and everyone because something could go wrong here, and wanting to hold on as tight as I can to keep them safe.

Right now I'm in the safe place, so all I can do is hope for the best and try to prepare for... whatever this is. You're a prophet, you know it's coming. I'm a savior, so I'll deal with it when it does.

[priorly]

And here I thought you were a princess.

[sheriffing]

Pretty sure that doesn't count, I wasn't waltzing before I could walk and I didn't grow up in a place with turrets.

[priorly]

Well honey neither was I, and I'm a queen. A savior, though - isn't that traditionally some sort of martyrdom affair?

[sheriffing]

If there's some kind of inevitable doom involved, I haven't gotten to that part of the story yet.

[priorly]

Personally I'd prefer any noble deaths be put on hold a while. And ignoble, too, as mine's more likely to be.

[sheriffing]

I'm not planning on any crazy heroics. I just have some useful abilities, you know?

I need to put them to good use.

[priorly]

All these breadcrumbs you're dropping and we still haven't found the gingerbread house.

[sheriffing]

Have I at least distracted you from your emotional emergency?

[priorly]

No. It was more of a princess problem, to be honest.

But I do want to know what abilities you have.

[sheriffing]

I feel like you're expecting me to tell you that I bat my eyelashes and men fall in love with me, or field mice do the dishes when I sing.

[priorly]

I'm not sure what help that might be in the troubles to come, but do they?

[sheriffing]

No.

I just have magic.

[priorly]

Oh, just magic. I see. And fluttering your eyes to make men fall in love with you wouldn't be that.

[sheriffing]

I think that might be more your super power than mine, Prior.

[priorly]

Oh my eyelashes are straight from the dollar store, no magic to that. Although it may explain that emergency I mentioned.

Do you use a wand?

[sheriffing]

I'd be afraid of the false ones they sell around here.

No, that's more of a fairy thing. Like the Blue fairy, or Tinker Bell before she lost her wings.

[priorly]

Hold on.

What did they do to Tinker Bell? It was that boy she hung around with, wasn't it. Men are beasts.