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

[realists]

Babies don't have a place in violence. [ which isn't said like she's desparaging sirs reedhym and odair, just stating a fact. babies don't belong in violence and so often that is where they are.

that little girl on jedha.

jyn knows she didn't make it off the moon, she knows, even if she'd hoped otherwise. ]

[mr_manners]

[He glances at her at that, before shaking her head.]

No, they don't. But sometimes it doesn't work out the way you'd hope.

[And there's something sadder than that, lurking under the surface that he can't quite put his finger on.]

[realists]

[ jyn was born in a war. she knows better. but it doesn't mean she doesn't wish innocent children would get to stay innocent. she doesn't want them to grow up like her, she's a terrible thing to grow into. ]

No, I guess it doesn't.

[mr_manners]

[He nods in agreement, one hand moving to rest against Lucia's back gently.]

In some ways I think it's good. I wish they didn't have to live through it, obviously, but it reminds us what we're fighting for.

[realists]

Hope.

[ it stings at her chest, twisting with familiarity, a desperate plea to keep fighting. she'd kept fighting and now she's here...

what a shitty calling. ]

[mr_manners]

[He nods in agreement. That's all it really comes down to in the end - whether they can give the next generation that or not.]

It's better than fighting for fighting's sake.

[realists]

At least this one is something tangible.

[ the babies aren't just the idea of hope, they're the actual future. ]

[mr_manners]

[He nods in agreement.]

What about you? Sticking around to fight the good fight?

[realists]

[ she shrugs, noncommittal. ]

Haven't decided.

[mr_manners]

[He nods.]

Yeah, me either. I think it's going to depend on what my wife decides.

[realists]

[ jyn reaches out to pat his arm. ]

Good luck.

[ her head jerks back toward... away idk ] I'll see you later.

[mr_manners]

[He nods in agreement, before heading off to put Lucia down. /scene]