CHAPTER FOUR ♔ does it run in your blood to betray the ones you love

[coldheritage]

♬ The Truth - Nonpoint

WHO || Failboat, Rafael, Isabella, Nadia  [Closed]
WHAT || After an exciting Grammy night, the Knights meet up with Nadia to hear what she has to say
WHERE || Staples Center, LA -->  Warehouse
WHEN || Feb 8th, 2015  [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam

[  The Knights' mission to stop the signal and prevent Draken's cult from spreading whatever subliminal message  was lurking beneath Keijen Blade's performance was a success.  It didn't come without its bumps in the road, however:  Alexander Anderson showed up, and the Knights ran afoul of the Mind Master.    Buffy nearly died fighting Anderson, but in the end, he was defeated, beheaded, and hopefully put to death forever.   Finnick, though, found himself thrust into a mental illusion that convinced him he might still be in the Hunger Games, and left him uncertain about whether any of his life here was real.  

Another surprise came in the form of an announcement by Nadia Reichenov, an artist working with Crombe and company, that she was changing her band name and taking things in a 'new direction'.   This direction was perhaps revealed when after her performance, she approached the Knights in Rafael's dressing room - and handed them the necklace that connects her to the Nightmare God Malaak'a, saying she was willing to tell them everything.  ]

Comments

[savemyself]

And did this work? For you? [ that last bit sounded p personal bro ]

[nothingsodivine]

[Des looks down at his feet so he can hide the look on his face- the pained smile that suggests so much and none of it is sadness, so much as the bittersweet acknowledgement that it wasn't what one would call an easy path.]

Yeah. It actually did.

[savemyself]

And how did you find this thing?

[nothingsodivine]

[Des's smile becomes serene, almost wistful.] It found me.

[He swallows, as he realizes he'll have to explain this further and it digs up some painful memories.] Rafael wasn't the only one who probably put too much on Eterna Jade's shoulders. I didn't think she needed a pedestal, but she could have been my salvation. When she died, I thought everything went with her. And when I was at my lowest point... Everything just fell together.

That makes it sound so simple. It wasn't. Not by a long shot. But if I have to believe sometimes things have to fall together like that. That all the pain and bullshit we can't escape means something in the end.

[savemyself]

[ she's quiet for a moment, clearly uncomfortable having the story be about jade since... reasons, but taking it in ] I hope you are right. I really do.

[nothingsodivine]

[yeah, sorry, isabella, everything is about jade until it isn't.]

Me too. [He squeezes her shoulder and then turns to go.] I'll let you get back to that cigarette, now.

[savemyself]

Hmm. [ she takes another drag, and then once he's turned around, she faces away as well, and says: ] Thank you.