A second lesson

[Skye]

Having prepared her sanctum for yet another visit. The place thoroughly cleaned with the windows having been opened for some hours to let fresh air circulate into the room, snacks prepared even though she doubted the man would be interested in accepting any so would she still need to have them at the ready, what hostess wouldn´t? The blackout curtain for her little sleeping nook carefully in place, the big comfortable recliner dusted off to be prepared for the man.

Dressed in her usual black but perhaps more simple clothes than the norm, really not feeling much need for anything advanced when she was just at home.

The calm of the woods along with seemingly abandoned buildings closeby creating what to some might feel eery but to her it was peaceful and tranquil, not like the influence of her hallow spoke against that either.

Closing the windows and stepping down towards the workshop, the door half ajar to let the air circulate the room and make it easier for the Hierarch to step in, two daggers resting upon her back, clearly ready to be used as she sits with a piece of wood in hand, eyes carefully walking it over, stripping it down and back together over and over imagining what it might become as the nigh impossible to comprehend symbols of the room shines with their presence, each and everyone having a small possible likeness to something existing but seldom more than 5-15% before shifting away into something new, something perhaps unique, or taken from some very obscure source.

[Chambers]

It had taken a little getting to Skyes sanctum, reliant as he is on the bus service to get as close as he could then walk the reminder, still after a while the symbol of crossing Skye had shown at the Consilium meeting is scene and that helps him find his bearing. On approach to the Arrows sanctum his rituals are dismissed each in turn so he approached without spells in his pattern, good manners and a sign of good intentions.

Once the door is found a triple rap knock makes his arrival known. Dressed today in a more standard shirt and trousers as if he has come from an office or a class the exception being the men's pea coat with mahogany buttons folded over one arm, not needed but brought because spring weather has been known to turn chilly from time to time even towards the summer end.

After knocking his waits enjoying the peace of the place, similar yet subtly different to how the marina felt it might be the scents on he air or the closeness of the trees, still quite pleasant.

[Skye]

Putting her piece of wood down at the knock and jumping over towards the door, glancing through the opened crack before opening it in full towards the man.
”Welcome, I hope you found the place well.” Glancing out behind him. ”I know it is a bit isolate and away from where most tend to walk, but I quite like the closeness to nature. And hey I get the biggest yard one could ask for.” True it wasn´t hers to do as she pleased with but walking in it was not exactly anything frowned upon.

”Come in, come in.” Leaving the door open behind her as she walks through the workshop, along with all of the symbols everywhere over towards a stair up towards her little home, and taking of her shoes. ”Please take of your shoes at the end of the stairs, I do not like them inside.” Walking up and leaving the entrance opened for him, and walking into a corridor. To the right a door leading into a bathroom/shower, another door leading into a closet, with smaller cabinets built into the top walls, and ultimately leading into a unexpectedly large yet not to big kitchen. To the left a way into her living room, filled with one three seat couch, one two seat and one comfortable recliner chair all centered around a table and towards a TV bench. Many of the wooden objects including the table having strange markings somewhere upon them similar to the ones seen on the walls down in the workshop. Resting against a wall on a little wooden stand her skateboard sits plugged in for charging.

Pillows and blankets placed upon the couches, the window closed and thick drapes marking of a corner of the room for her sleeping nook.
”Can I get you anything? I know you do not like accepting much but I would be one bad hostess if I did not at least offer, I have some treats, water, tea, milk, lemonade, bubble tea in a can, I think I have a coffee machine I can fire up somewhere as well, and of course ice cream. It has been in the freezer for a bit though.” Always good to have for guests but she seldom went for it alone.

Placed underneath the table in its own little shelf a bunch of books in English, Mandarin and one in Romanian can be seen with a heavy inclination towards Mandarin books and notebooks.
”Please sit where you feel comfortable, the recliner is exceedingly comfortable. I do not know how many nights I have fallen asleep reading in it.”

[Chambers]

A warm smile is given to the Sharman as she opens the door. "Yes easy enough, a little searching but nothing that caused any significant delay." When invited he will enter. Much like himself it seems she has the workshop by the front door, although the only symbols he can boast are those that give the boat its name, nothing like what he sees here. "Skye what is all this?" Gesturing loosely to the many iterations.

Leavening shoes unattended was a bit of an ask of trust, if this had been a cabals sanctum it be would a gentle no followed by him leaving. That's not to say she doesn't have a spirit or some such able to serve that purpose. But an active spirit would set off his unseen senses. And so the normally perfectly normal task that in their society was a massive measure of trust and risk is done and his shoes removed.

Coming up he stairs he looks around only so much as to know where the doors and windows were before following through to the living room. "That's very kind but no thank you." She meant well but couldn't know of his reasons why refusal was a must. Taking a seat on the two seater sofa leaving the chair as comfortable as was promised for its owner. "It's interesting isn't it, I can see reflections of design between our sanctums yet they are distinctly and unquestionably different." Just like the paths the two mages walked. Life and death, absolutes and change. Reflections that for all the supposed similarities did not meet.

But well they were here for a reason. "Your text didn't specify what you wanted to discuss today beyond a lesson on the lex, what's on your mind?" Putting the ball in her court for what she wants to learn today.

[Skye]

”Glad to hear it, never sure if one will find it well or not.” Stopping to look upon him a bit taken aback, so used to no one asking about the many things covering the entire place all around them. ”Remember the symbols I spoke of around me? Well these are them paired with imagination and fragments of what could be, each and everyone incomplete, holding nothing to anchor them to anything more than by happenstance, freely crafted in imagination and bewilderment.” A soft smile as she touches against one of them. ”In essence they mean nothing to no one but to me, to me they are a source of calm and to feel a physical representation of my closest ally.” True would one look so was there certainly one or two symbols that could be connected to something occult or of some people at some point, made purely by happenstance and hidden amongst hundreds of others.

Glad he did indeed listen to take of his shoes, not as if she would have minded him to put them in a bag and carry with him as long as they did not hit the floor.

Getting into the living room, making a quick check that the curtains were up to conceal her sleeping nook that was not one to be shared with anyone else, not to be seen by anyone.
”I figured as much, yet the offer is there on that note have you considered carrying a water bottle of some kind in your belt?” A quick glance to his waist. ”The months here can get rather hot so access to water with you could certainly be a nice thing.” Or maybe access to water was more of a her thing. ”Well we are both crafters, we both work in the most basic of things to exist, yet where both are connected they are also highly different. One ageless, one shifting over centuries until rebirth comes.” Like their mediums they both so very different yet connected in a manner.

A bit curious why he choose the couch like that but placing herself down on the central three seater one and taking out a notebook from underneath the couch.
”I would like to focus on the Lex of course, however if possible so do I think history would be good to include if possible. Understanding the history of the Lex would mean understanding our history a bit better and understanding how things came to be.” Tapping her lips with the pen. ”What is that old saying those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it? I am certain the Lex must have some aspects born from something similar or am I grasping at straws with that?” Not that she knew how much he could share about that though but would take anything he could.

[Chambers]

Beholding the assorted gibberish and meaninglessness of the symbols Skye saw and manifest he not for the first time is given pause to question exactly how sane the Arrow is. "When you said you saw symbols I didn't think this." It does force a revaluation of her, how far can a person bordering or dipping into madness be trusted? relied upon?

A shake of his head. "If I'm exerting myself sure but I am rarely away from my Sanctum for sufficiently periods to make it a requirement." It had been a curious observation nothing more, a reflection of personality and paths perhaps but not some deep rooted conversation topic.

A nod that was simple of enough. "The gold laws of the lex magicia were recovered from the fall of Atlantis, laws that governed our society at it's height. These laws were recovered by members of the Mysterium and shared to the Dimond, much much later becoming the pentacle." Now of Atlantis he of course could talk very little. "The ladder champions the lex and you would need to ask members of that order for more detail if they were willing to share it." A big if. "Otherwise the Golden laws have been the crux of our society since their recovery. Everything built with them as the foundation." Not much more to say on it really unless she had a specific instance in mind. "So far so good?" If so he would move or , if not well it was a good point for questions.

[Skye]

Looking towards them again with a chuckle.
”The ones I see are not this intrusive, they are there to aid, to prepare my conscious and subconscious desires. Most of the time dancing on the peripheries, not this intrusively unless I really aim to use them.” Quite a difference. ”This is more made for memories and calmness for me, they are not guiding, but they hold memories. Memories of when I created things as a child, symbols put on gifts I made for my siblings, for my raisers, or others, or at least in part. Most if not all of them have parts here, parts in another symbol, some parts of a memory when the ones I see aided me that is worth recalling, creating a little puzzle only I can follow.” And therein a calm, a calm brought forth by so many memories. ”In short I guess the best thing to call it is a wall of etched positive memories in a chaotic mess to make them impossible to understand or be whole for anyone but me who has memories attached to them, and know where each part was moved to. Yet born from the symbols that have always danced around in my mind.”

Shrugging, nothing more really needing to be said on the topic.

Starting to move her pen over paper without an edge out, making nothing get stuck upon it, more so for a memorization technique, one of many she had been trying as of late as she listens to the man.
”Yes I do believe we touched upon that last time as well. However if the gold laws were found by Mysterium and then set back into motion what made them spread over all of our communities? We exist pretty much globally yet the gold rules are set everywhere as far as I know?” Looking to him for confirmation. ”How did they spread, and got accepted to such a degree and around when? Do we know what century, or era it happened in?” Tapping her pen against the paper for a moment. ”So if the golden were found by the Mysterium and then set into or perhaps back into motion when we were still the diamond does that mean that the silver and bronze law system did not exist then? And if so what shifts did this discovery create that we can see effects of today?”

[Chambers]

As functional as the arrow was if rather odd at times the lifelong perception of symbols that seemed for all intense and purpose to be nothing more then figments of her imagination still spoke to a fragility of the mind or sanity that left an uneasy feeling. What is the difference between what she describes and some one high functioning schizophrenia? or some other bout of psychosis. And the stream of words about positive memories gets no answer from the quietly concerned Moros.

Snapping back to the questions at hand. "We don't know when Atlantis fell and when the Abyss opened." If they did alot of things would be much closer to them. "And the time after the fall was a chaotic and barely documented if at all." No, more esoteric methods were all that could glean information form that time and even then so so rarely. "I don't understand the question? As I said the Mysterium shared this discovery with others who had banned together after the fall, the remains of the Atlantean orders that still strived." And well Atlantean orders being gifted a fragment of lore from their silver city of course it took.

This was easy given the rest of the lex did not have its origin in the murky unknown times post the fall. "The silver, Bronze and Iron laws are things we have added to the lex." And only by those skilled enough to do so. "The silver because the laws that governed for Atlantis do not cover every situation we find ourselves in, no longer living in that city." The silver laws being local documentation such as charters and by laws. "The bronze is nothing more or less then records of precedent. Past rulings, decisions and trial outcomes." The history of a Consilium preserved.

[Skye]

Fully unaware of the thoughts of the Hierarch, silently going on about their business hoping she had presented the aspects she was willing to share well enough to be grasped whilst hiding some of the deeper aspects. Not that they would be hard to figure out should one put the puzzle pieces together.

”So you mean that the gold laws were shared by them rather quickly after the fall and as such were never truly lost, rather kept by ones of their order from the start to quickly be shared once more?” That was not what it had sounded like at first. ”Your words about them being recovered made it sound more like the Mysterium found or uncovered them again as lost wisdom rather long after the fall and in a time that could more easily be nailed down. Which was what spurred my question of when and how they spread.”

Shaking her head to the words.
”So what birthed the Silver, Bronze and, Iron law system to begin with, and how did it spread? Not the laws involved within them but the system of utilizing them in their current manner.” Thinking a bit, wanting to make sure that she was clear. ”I get that the gold laws were laws that ruled already before the fall, and what the silver, bronze and iron laws are, but what shaped and spread the system of using them in this manner. And made it widely accepted for just this system to be in place rather than any other system, or there being multiple ones as we like the Sleepers both have grown in quantity and now inhabiting possibly more parts of the world.” Not like someone with their abilities couldn´t have made nearly any part of the world their home in bygone eras.

[Chambers]

Now his is just confused. So back to basics. "Atlantis fell and all its lore was either lost or believed to be lost." Some mages of the time likely held onto scraps. "During the wandering that came afterwards things are very murky we just don't know beyond the broad strokes." And each of those was a hotly debated topic. "During this time mages found each other and tried to rebuild what they could of the society they had lost." Precisely how hard to say. "During this time the gold laws were rediscovered I don't know when or how or the time between the fall and the discovery in fact I am unsure if anyone knows that." Again murky time period. "All of the none seer Dimond mages that survived would have known Atlantis and is ways and customs so a rediscover does imply one or more generations had passed before this was discovered." But assuming things was a fools game here. "The Dimond orders stayed true to their purpose well enough to make it to modern days, working together as best they could to try and mimic the situation in Atlantis as best we know of it." That really is all there was to it.

Skye was asking question that unless the ladder had them locked way just didn't have solid answers. "Skye its a time period mostly unknown to us and the sympathy to it is rarer then you can imagine." Not to mention the forces that tried to stop them and that even master of time could only get the briefest of windows to look over even if they managed to get to anything relevant.