SEOUL ♔ NOW THE SUN IS UP AND I'M GOING BLIND

[hacker]

delilah - florence + the machine

WHO || Anastasia, Jeanne, Doyle, Skye, Ward, Abbie
WHAT || The Knights are assigned to protect South Korea's President-Elect from assassination attempts.
WHERE || Seoul, South Korea
WHEN || End of April, 2016
HOW || Actionspam

Four days after the briefing, President Kim sends a plane for the team of Knights dispatched by Wynn, and their flight to Seoul—what could have been a grueling 12-hour affair—is spent in the most comfort that can be afforded by a highly regarded politician. The seats are roomy, the staff is attentive, and no one shouts at them to return to their seats.

They're put up in a hotel near the Blue House, the seat of the executive powers of South Korea, where the President-Elect has asked to meet them to go over the security plans for the inauguration.

Comments

[silvermaid]

[ when she comes back, ana will come to sit by her ] How is your husband?

[arretez]

Francis is well. He loves touring, I only wish I appreciated his music enough to join him. [ but lmao no, sorry, saint-germain. jeanne doesn't like that avicii shit. ] But it does give me time and reason to return to my roots. [ the cause, tbh. fighting for the cause. ]

[silvermaid]

Well, we're glad he's willing to part with you for a time. [ she sure doesn't sound surprised by the arrangement. it fits her worldview like a glove ]

[arretez]

I like to imagine he appreciates my... bougeotte. It is what brought us together, after all.

[silvermaid]

He'd be a foolish man not to, and he isn't that.

[arretez]

[ her eyebrows lift with an amused, but soft, smile. ] No, he's not.

[ reaching out, she covers anastacia's hand with her own. ] It's been so long since we've been on a mission together. I would say I feel like a little girl again, but it's been so long since either of us were little girls.

[silvermaid]

That, and I don't actually remember ever being one.

[arretez]

I suppose you must have been once. You cannot have sprung up fully formed, though I must admit that I cannot imagine Solace as a little boy... Dovan, on the other hand, I can imagine a tiny, jolly dwarf quite well.

[silvermaid]

[ she laughs at the image too ] Oh, I know I was, back on Lurue's plane. I just don't remember any of it.

[arretez]

A blessing, would you say? Or the infamous curse of the Lethe.

[heavensend]

The gift of Lethe. And I stand by that.

[arretez]

I can't imagine.

[heavensend]

What it's like to forget?

[arretez]

Oui. I remember everything, even if some of it has turned hazy with time.

[silvermaid]

It gets easier, with time. At the beginning, then it's more disorienting.

[arretez]

[ she thinks back to ashelia's recent arrival, heart twisting with sorrow for the young woman who remembered so much and couldn't go back. forgetting must be a mercy for some.

she forces a smile, fond. ] And yet you've flourished in this world.

[silvermaid]

Eventually. I struggled for many, many years. I felt lost for decades. It was only when I met Jared that things really turned around.

[arretez]

[ brb please hold while jeanne sighs at the romance of it all. ]

I understand completely.

[silvermaid]

I'll bet you do.

[arretez]

[ with a laugh: ] I can't help it, I love romance.

[silvermaid]

You and me both.