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

[perambulate]

You're lucky your accent makes my full name sound reasonable.

[ there is a reason she prefers bea and it's not because she has an affinity for bumble bees. ]

[likeagod]

It's a perfectly reasonable name, in my opinion.

[It's not the first time he's heard a comment on his accent, though, so he just smiles gently.]

When did you arrive?

[perambulate]

[ his opinion is faulty but bea smiles anyway because sometimes a compliment can be just a compliment and maybe she needed it. ]

This morning. Might go back out later if anyone from distant lands needs a ride. [ perks of the power. ]

Let me guess, you took a red eye.

[likeagod]

I did.

[This is the least shocking.]

This used to be where I was based.

[As if that explains everything.]

[perambulate]

It was all of us, wasn't it? At least once. [ she shrugs. ] I didn't stay very long, myself.

[ but that doesn't seem abnormal, she is a wanderer, she doesn't stay anywhere very long. she barely stays in joburg, it just happens to be the hq where she gets her assignments. ]

How long were you here?

[likeagod]

I suppose I wouldn't know. Perhaps.

[Dimitri likes setting roots, a place to come back to.]

This was my home for several years after I came through the Veil.

[perambulate]

Oh. [ that explains so much. bea was born in this world so she doesn't understand having... nothing. it makes sense though that he would be attached if this was his first home. ]

Makes sense. They tore down the house I was born in and I almost cried.

[ almost ]

[likeagod]

Unfortunately, I don't remember the house I was born in. I imagine I would feel the same way if I did, though.

[He manages a small smile.]

They've done a fine job putting everything back the way it was before I left, at least. I visited briefly after it was attacked but couldn't stay til the rebuilding was completed.

[perambulate]

This many mages in one place, I doubt it took very long.

[likeagod]

They can only do so much in a day. But no, not as long as it could have taken, I'm sure.

[perambulate]

Well, you know what they say about Rome.

[likeagod]

[He smiles, chuckling softly.]

Regardless, they did an impeccable job.

[perambulate]

They did. My old room which became someone else's room which is my room again? Looks exactly the same.

[likeagod]

[That causes his quiet grin to widen slightly.]

At least the familiar has managed to remain as such.

[perambulate]

Most of it. Hasmed and Solace being Dragon's Claws is about as unfamiliar as a shaved bear.

[ don't google it, it's hideous. ]