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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] animalistic 2017-10-28 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Malia spots the man, carrying the baby and she cants her head. There have been a lot of babies around here lately.

Well, maybe not a lot, but it feels like a lot to Malia.]


Which one is that?
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-10-28 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Rory glances to her then back to the baby.]

Lucia Reedhym. Easy to tell because because of her sunshine glow.

[aka she's a little orange.]
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-10-28 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [She doesn't recognize the name. Not that she expected to. She sort of just nods a lot when people talk to her.

They talk a lot and really most of the time she knows that she won't see them again for at least a month. It's not worth the investment most times.]


Is it yours?
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-10-28 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

No, I'm just babysitting. Her mother is out on a mission.

[That mission, but there's nothing to say that Vi isn't coming back quite yet.]
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-10-28 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Got it. [She looks at the little thing. Wrinkling her nose up in confusion. She doesn't remember being this little. She doesn't remember seeing anything this little before she got here.]

What are you going to do with it? Just carry it around forever?
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-10-28 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

She's just a little fussy and having trouble getting to sleep. I'll walk her around until that passes and she tires herself out.

[He notices she keeps using "it" but maybe she'll catch on if he ... doesn't.]
Edited 2017-10-28 03:01 (UTC)
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-10-28 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[That probably won't work. Malia doesn't really care. She's mostly just curious if babies are going to happen a lot more around here. If so, then she needs to invest in ear plugs.

Noise cancelling headphones.]


Then you put it somewhere? Won't it start to cry again if you put it down?
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-10-28 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles a bit.]

No, she won't. If she's asleep, then I can put her back in her bed and she'll sleep through the rest of the night.
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-10-29 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
You just leave her alone? You're not afraid something will happen?
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-11-12 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

Nah, she's a good sleeper. And most people don't bother them when they're in a private rooms. And I don't leave her completely alone. I'm not far.
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-12-01 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Seems complicated. When can she survive on her own?
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-12-01 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[That almost makes him laugh, but he manages to keep it down.]

Not for a while yet. At least not legally speaking. Depending on where you live, parenthood tends to be an at least eighteen year commitment.
Edited 2017-12-01 18:41 (UTC)
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-12-06 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I was on my own for a while as a kid. I guess I missed out on a lot.
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2017-12-11 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing wrong with that. And parenthood isn't for everyone either.

[If she doesn't want to have kids, then she doesn't have to have kids.]
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[personal profile] animalistic 2017-12-20 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. No, I was in a car accident when I was little and then I lived in the woods. So, I didn't have a childhood. I had wildlife.
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2018-01-02 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
... Oh.

[Not what he was expecting, but ... also not the weirdest thing he's ever heard either.]

So you haven't given any of this a whole lot of thought then.
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[personal profile] animalistic 2018-01-06 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
No. Not really. I mean, I was also a coyote for a majority of that time... so, that's another thing to know.
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2018-01-11 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh again.

[Again, surprised, but not completely weirded out by it.]

So the whole human thing is a bit weird for you?

[Which is asked more for clarification than anything else. He's been around a lot of aliens, he doesn't mind a little non-human weirdness.]
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[personal profile] animalistic 2018-02-05 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
It was... [She pauses, thinking about it.] Maybe it still is. I don't know. I still make mistakes and the friends I had here, the ones that knew the same things I did -- he's not around and the other one is a wolf. Like, he got stuck.

Back home I had someone helping me. Telling me when I was saying the wrong things, but here he doesn't remember me. It makes things complicated.
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2018-02-05 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rory nods a bit, rubbing Lucia's back as he does.]

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, you know. If we didn't make mistakes, we wouldn't have anything to learn from. But if you'd like someone to help you with the human stuff, I wouldn't mind.

[He's used to people missing the human angle - he spends a lot of his time with aliens.]
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[personal profile] animalistic 2018-02-06 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a weird offer.
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[personal profile] mr_manners 2018-02-07 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it?

[He didn't really think it was, but it could be different from her perspective.]

You said you're missing the people who usually help you figure out the human angle. Sounds like you could use some support there.