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

[likeagod]

Nor can they keep you out of London. They would be fools to refuse you a place here, and if it comes to that when it's over then this will not be the place for me anymore, either.

[Not because she won't be here, but because if she isn't welcome, he won't feel as if he is, either.]

There are times when we can't run, even when the odds are stacked against us. This might be one of those times. But I will not run straight into the arms of death, either.

[His smile is sad and quiet.]

You will be alright, Roza. One way or another.

[littledhampir]

[That was clearly the last thing she had expected him to say, Rose’s surprise quickly morphing into something deeper as emotion made her throat constrict. She didn’t dare ask him if he really meant that, because Dimitri was not a man who spoke lightly of such matters. For him to have said it at all means that it’s something he knows with certainty.

Her gaze drops to her hands, Rose struggling to find words that sounded right in response, but in the end all she could do was offer him up a crumpled, half smile, nodding as she swallowed past the lump in her throat.]

This world… The knights… [Lifting her gaze.] … needs people like you. [That broken half smile returning.] So just, make sure you’re still around when this is over.

[This felt a little too much like goodbye, not just for now, but much longer than that. Perhaps it would be a less painful conversation to have if that weren’t a very real possibility.]

I know. [ Realizing as she said that, that she actually believed it. So much had happened these last few years but she'd made it this far. She was not about to let anything, be it a Nightmare God or Hell itself, stop her now. ] Despite how it sounds... I'm not about to let this be goodbye, okay.

[likeagod]

It needs people like you too.

[For the record. But it sounds like she's just as determined to come out of this as he is.]

Good. Then we're agreed.

[He gives her a small smile, one that is full of bittersweet sadness, but still somehow hopeful.]

When I see you again, you'll have to tell me about your big adventure.