Cloudless climes and sunny beams

Lucianne Lovejoy

"Age is a funny thing," Lucianne agreed thoughtfully. "I try not to think about it much but I guess I'll be looking like this for a long time, huh? Regalia kind of stop aging after a certain; it's why elders like Wind's Respite are so revered. They're not just thousands of years old, they're tens of thousands of years old."

It would be sad, outliving the people she knew. But Lucianne figured that only meant she'd have all the more opportunity to find more important people in her life, more people to help, more people to befriend.

Lucianne Lovejoy

She tipped her head to the side. "I actually don't go there very often," Lucianne answered. "I was born human, you see, or mostly human. There's wishing spirit magic in our blood and I just happened to come out with more of it than usual. I chose to become a Regalia later on -it meant ditching a few things but I accepted the consequences and I'm really happy with how it's turned out."

Lucianne Lovejoy

"It's a little of both, honestly," Lucianne admitted. "People can choose to become Regalia if they have enough spirits' blood in them. It means essentially being reborn, though. The first Regalia were just normal nature spirits who got sick of being what they were. They decided to become protectors instead of just bystanders in the world."

Lucianne Lovejoy

"Oh, I remember who I used to be. I was just me, but more impatient, not as kind, and too afraid to take the opportunity to be generous to others," she said. "But the transition from human/spirit hybrid to Regalia is one of the easier ones out there. It helps to be human-shaped, for one, because most Regalia are human-shaped. One of the other proctors, she used to be a spirit of the deepest parts of the ocean. There's not much she can recall about that except darkness."

Lucianne Lovejoy

"Oh, it's wonderful for her now! She's a lawyer on the island and she's got the nicest moms," Lucianne said happily. Loralai really did have such a fortunate life as a human, Regalia, whatever she identified as nowadays. "Her family's so big -I'm actually from one of its many branches. All of us have a tendency to draw supernaturals to us so that's how I found out about the Regalia thing."