to live where one will

[do_what_thou_wilt]

It's raining, and that means it's muddy, and cold, and everything takes a little longer than it needs to. Auryn doesn't care. When he looks at the work in front of him, what he sees is freedom.

He knew, almost immediately, that he couldn't keep staying in the motel. It was good, in its way, for a while: motels and hostels have served him well in his travels, but he doesn't like paying what's basically overpriced rent to borrow something. There have been a lot of ways he's gotten himself from place to place, but the itchiness he'd been feeling to get out wasn't the same drive he usually felt to get out of a place.

He's not done with Siren Cove, yet, and that means finding a place to live. Making a home, not a camp or a place to crash.

His research had been meticulous. Someplace close enough to water to take advantage of the coast and the natural energies of the ocean, but far enough away that he isn't exposed. Away from town, easily hidden. He'd settled on a space a bit east of the Atwater place, undeveloped land but not so far off the road that it's hard to find again.

And then he'd started building, his tiny off the grid home. All told it's about 200 square feet with its upper half-story spiraling into the arms of a tree. He's done as much manual construction as magical lifting because it's his that way, his energy poured into the place, his blood in the wood when he gives power to the protections breathed into the place. But maybe he did a little suggesting to make the water collection work so well or to haul firewood.

No building permits, no permission, and the ward that makes people have a tendency to walk around it and forget it's there isn't, probably, legal either. The trees have accepted him, and no one's using the space, and that's all he's concerned with.
He's in a good mood then, heading back there, walking along the shoulder of the road with a knot of wood and a box that's equal parts hammer and nails and magical tokens.

[OOC: Open! Find Auryn and his tiny!house. Or get suspicious about what he's up to. But for the love of god, don't start googling tiny houses. Don't do as I have done.]

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[brigid_moran]

Brigid stepped through the shrine from Ireland and took a moment to just sit on the forest floor surrounding the stones and breathe in the air of home. It was different from Ireland, definitely, but there was a flavour to the air here that she truly enjoyed.

She hadn't been seated for long, however, when she felt a difference in the forest. There was something in the earth, pulling from it, in a way she'd never felt before. Pulling her cloak around her shoulders, she stood and walked towards the pull of power in search of the source.

Her brow furrowed, however, when she found the source but saw no cause or reason for it. Hand on the ground near her feet, Brigid looked around.

"Hello?"

[davin]

Davin is on a run before work when he spots Auryn up ahead. It's been awhile since he's seen the guy, and Davin's honestly a little surprised to still see him here.

But then again, maybe not. Magic is in abundance here. It can be a nice place for a witch. It's good to see Auryn, actually. Davin was just thinking about how he wishes he knew more witches in the city.

"Auryn, hey!" Davin yanks his headphones out and jogs up to him, falling in step next to him easily. "How've ya been, man?"

[aoife_coombs]

There had been a time when Aoife was afraid to swim, afraid to be overwhelmed by all the water and the force of the wind. With Thor, and maybe with Isaiah as well, things have so very much changed.

She had invited both water and wind to balance her, play with her, send her through heaven and ocean, being so silly and wild that sometimes she ended up with more water inside her than out. It didn't matter, Aoife was safe.

Except now she was climbing out of the water in a place where she hadn't left her clothes. Now she was here in her bikini, quickly cooling off, even with the wind wrapped around her. "Shit", she giggled, still high on adrenaline. "Not good."