chapter five ♔ it'll be a day like this one when the sky falls down

[eldritchweaver]

the blues - switchfoot

WHO || The Knights
WHAT || Failboat returns from the disaster in LA as the Knighthood goes on lockdown
WHERE || The castle, London
WHEN || Directly after this, Fall 2017
HOW || Actionspam

Hasmed's announcement does not brook any rebuttal: all Knights are recalled to the Castle, where they must remain until the Section Heads and Jack Chessing have spoken about the events in Los Angeles that have left the Knighthood without their usual leader.  

The entire Los Angeles area is now covered with a dark miasma that has interfered with any signals that might be sent out from phones, etc., leaving the whole world wondering what exactly is happening down there.  Final images showed horrendous monsters, a panic of citizens, looting and violence from humans and Shadowkind alike.  

Hasmed has warned of extra magical wards on the castle, and anyone arriving will immediately take notice of one very prominent one: above the entire roof of the excessively large building hovers a black and red sigil in the air, a pentagram in a circle surrounded by runes or words in an unknown language, stretching for miles.  

[ This is the social log for post-LA lockdown.  Failboat must complete the top log before being allowed to tag outside of it. ]

Comments

[anthophobia]

You seemed pretty good at it. Better than me.

[Maybe it had caught up with him while she was dealing with hers.]

It's not ending. We're still here. If there's one thing we are good at, it's surviving.

[65]

I was good for a little while, but ... [he shakes his head. the facade was exhausting.] Nothing last forever. Including our lucky streak with survival. You didn't see it. This is bigger than us.

[anthophobia]

[Her brows furrow.]

Bullshit. If it's the end of the world, then we either fight back or we die. That's all there is to it. Seems pretty simple to me.

[65]

If we fight back, we'll die. If we don't, we'll die anyway. There's no way good for this to end. I want to hope for more, but ...

[but man they just walked away from some fucking brutal shit tbh.]

[anthophobia]

You said it yourself. I don't know about you, but I'd rather die fighting. Otherwise, what's the point?

[65]

[katniss is doing her Inspirational Thing again and finnick trying very hard to fight it because he's still like nah fam i choose life. IT'S HARD.]

I don't know ... the line between bravery and stupidity is very, very thin. I just can't help but feel that it's not our fight to be fought.

[anthophobia]

Then whose fight is it? If we're not fighting for ourselves, who's left to fight for us?

[She doesn't understand why this is hard. Stupid or brave doesn't matter if it's the only option left, and laying down and waiting to die isn't an option for her.]

You have a kid, Finnick. If you can't fight for yourself, fight for her. I'm not saying you have to go throw yourself into the line of fire, but do something.

[65]

[short with her (because she's right):] I will, all right? I'll do something. I just have to ... figure out what something is.

[anthophobia]

[That's good enough for her. She nods almost awkwardly as if that took every bit of social energy she had in her and now she's just depleted.]

Good. [A beat.] For what it's worth, I'm glad you're here.

[He's probably one of the only people even remotely capable of really understanding her.]

[65]

I'm glad you're here, too. [he smiles.] We'll have to spend some more time together. Catch up. [with our shitty awful lives???? whatever, he still means it. likewise, katniss is one of the few people he thinks is probably truly capable of understanding him. because they've been through the same shit.]

[anthophobia]

Yeah. We could do that.

[She actually seems like she wants to, too.]

I'd like to meet your daughter sometime, too. If that's okay.

[65]

It's more than okay. I'd love for you to meet her. But ... right now ... I should go back to Myri. See if anything's changed.

[anthophobia]

Yeah, sure. I'll catch you later.