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Sir Hasmed ([personal profile] eldritchweaver) wrote in [community profile] knightsoflegend2017-09-23 09:19 am

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



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. ]
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[personal profile] witchwoman 2017-10-17 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They're telling people not to contact you, so I assume you weren't allowed to stay. Where are you now? Are you there?

[Hell, she means]
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[personal profile] doubletake 2017-10-17 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You didn't listen, though.

[Just an observation.]

Cell reception isn't exactly stellar there, but for all intents and purposes, yes.
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[personal profile] witchwoman 2017-10-17 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
If you wanted to hurt me or use me, you could have done that ages ago. I'm only focused on keeping my family safe. And you will always be a part of that, no matter how disappointed and concerned I may be.

I just wish you would tell me how you let it go this far. Surely you knew it would only make things worse to keep it a secret for so long?
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[personal profile] doubletake 2017-10-17 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Saving the world was what mattered, Myri. Making sure that Lucia and Shayla get to grow up in a world worth living in. Not the truth. If the truth could have waited, we would not be having this issue right now. We would be there, figuring out the next step along with all of you.

I told you I wouldn't keep my secret forever, and that was the truth. But it wasn't supposed to be now.
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[personal profile] witchwoman 2017-10-17 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Please don't bring them into this. I want a safer world for those girls more than you could possibly know. You chose to do this alone, without talking to me or anyone else. Do not pretend this was selfless.

Is any of it true? The things they say about him? This mysterious husband of yours. I've done some reading and it's clear what the world thinks. I know it may not all be true, but-- there's so much.
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[personal profile] doubletake 2017-10-17 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You're right. I chose this path because I was tired of watching the people I cared for get torn apart by a force that we couldn't fight against. I wanted to be strong so that no one could ever make me a victim ever again.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I think I make a rather prime example of that.

He is everything I told you and more, Myri. That is what he is to me. I never said he was that to everyone.
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[personal profile] witchwoman 2017-10-17 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to trust you, Elena. I have loved you and cared for you since you first entered this world. I am not your mother, but I was your mentor and I will always feel responsible for your well being.

What would you do if it were me in your place? And try to forget all the wonderful things you know about him that we never could. Would you, after seeing all of the terrible mind trickery and evil in this world, trust so blindly?
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[personal profile] doubletake 2017-10-17 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That's exactly what I did. Des told me the truth and I believed him. He knew I was the only one likely capable of doing so.

It's the same reason that we told no one else, since it's clear that none of you can. You cannot see things the way we do because you lack the necessary darkness in your heart. That's not something I can fault you for, and perhaps you shouldn't trust me since there very well might come a day when I do hurt you for reasons outside of my control. Now that the knighthood knows my identity, they may very well come for me one day, and I will defend myself because I am needed for a higher purpose. His purpose.

He will always come first for me. In the same vein, I would never ask you to put me before your daughter. We all have things we would do almost anything for.
Edited 2017-10-17 18:58 (UTC)
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[personal profile] witchwoman 2017-10-17 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't even know how to respond to that.
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[personal profile] doubletake 2017-10-17 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Mark chose to harm us because it would save his people because he was their King. Jade died as a result. We all forgave him for it.

I am a Queen. I am already being condemned for it despite all the good I've done. I've wanted to do all of it and would continue to do so if I'm able. All I'm saying is the other possibility exists. Our lives are long and the winds can change in ways we don't expect. I'm trying to be honest with you and I hope you would know that I would do everything in my power to find another way.

If I've learned anything, it's that sometimes, there isn't one. You can hate me, if that will bring you some peace, but I will always love you, regardless.

That won't change.
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[personal profile] witchwoman 2017-10-17 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you loved me once. And now I think you love what I represented in a life too long ago for you to truly remember.

I have never turned my back on you, not even when you left with the person who aided my kidnappers, who allowed them time to torture me for months. I forgave you. I understood. I loved you, even then.

I failed you somehow. And I'll never forgive myself for that. And I think you are in a greater danger than you know. But I cannot save someone who doesn't realize they are drowning.

So I think this is goodbye.
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[personal profile] doubletake 2017-10-17 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I realize more than you think.

I'm not the only one who's changed.

Goodbye, Myrilandel. But I will be surprised if our paths don't cross again someday.

For your sake, I hope they don't.