venice/chicago ♔ i need a summer like a winter in my heart

[romanticidal]

♬ Winter In My Heart - VAST

WHO || Rafael Giovanni, Buffy, Myri, Dumage, Kat, Gar [closed]
WHAT || The Knights regroup and then go their separate ways
WHERE || Knight's hotel room in Venice > Flight to Chicago
WHEN || July 7th
HOW || Actionspam

And back to the hotel go the ladies, ready to say their goodbyes, with Myri & Buffy heading to Chicago to reunite Rafael with Jade, and Kat & Gar meeting the rest of the team back at the castle to try to convince Wynn to let them remain on their mission...

[ooc; see subthreads!]

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[romanticidal]

I was not interested in the first place. We really went for Eterna, though there was a discussion about me while we were there. But our place was with the movement, and the attention so much fame would put on us would take us away from that.

[slay]

Yeah, well, by the sound of it, the movement saved you from a seriously bad situation. Chad Becksworth's the one funding the anti-Shadowkind groups and gathering their DNA. What he wants it for ... I can only imagine. [ she shakes her head. ] We've got knights on it, though.

[romanticidal]

May I ask... how is she?

[slay]

Jade? [ buffy perks up. oh. right. close. she softens. ] I didn't get to know her well enough to tell. She's singing at a club, this place called Nightscape. [ she smiles. ] She's really good, too.

[romanticidal]

I see. [ it's a bittersweet 'I see'. he's just going to stare at a spot on the wall of the plane k ]

[slay]

[ she watches him for a moment, then settles back in her seat, glancing away from him with a sigh. ]

The truth is, I don't know if she's the Jade you remember. What I know is she's alive. And, we're going to make sure you see her again.

[romanticidal]

I cannot tell you how much this means to me.

[ a beat ] You said she was in danger. This is because of what she is believed to be connected to?

[slay]

Yeah-huh. Problem is, these anti-Shadowkind groups want the Eternal Jade, and it's got something to do with her, which means until we figure out what that connection is and beat them to it ... [ she doesn't feel the need to explain further. ]

[romanticidal]

... Then they will still be coming after her.

[ he rubs a hand across his mouth, eyebrows knitted together ] You will have my help, in any way I can. Isabella and Hiro have contacted our allies here: they will be able to hold off our enemies and try to see how far information has traveled about our identities.

[romanticidal]

[ at some point rafael looks over, watching amaranth for a bit, before piping up: ] He or she?

[witchwoman]

[That shakes Myri out of her staring session.]

Hmm? Oh, Amaranth is a he. [Saying it doesn't feel exactly right, but it's the easiest answer. Hearing his name, the familiar stirs and lifts his large head to look at Rafael, violet eyes blinking before he yawns and scratches behind his ear with a large talon-like paw.]

[romanticidal]

A beloved pet? Or perhaps something more?

[witchwoman]

[Well, he already knows that they're Shadowkind, so there's no harm in telling the truth, right?]

Amaranth is my familiar. I am a witchwoman.

[And even despite all she's seen since coming through to this place, it's hard not to say it while bracing herself for backlash of some sort.]

[romanticidal]

[ all he does is smile actually, as if pleased with the news ] Where'd you learn your craft?

[witchwoman]

[She looks up slowly, actually making eye contact and blushing slightly at her initial reaction to being honest.]

A woman was kind enough to take me in as a small child. She was also a witchwoman. Her name was Magretha.

[Was. Past tense. It still gave Myri nightmares to think about.]

[romanticidal]

Was this here? Or in the Shadow World?

[witchwoman]

Neither. Or... not in the way that you might be thinking. From what I have learned about the Shadow World, it is not the same place in which I am from.

I believe I am the only one in this world from Kardia Hodos.

[romanticidal]

[ he sits up a little straighter ] Another plane? [ his eyes narrow a bit as he seems to scrutinize her features ] Divine?

[witchwoman]

Perhaps? I honestly don't know. It was the only world I knew before coming here.

[She's used to the scrutiny, honestly. Her over angular facial features, elongated fingers, and the violet tint to her veins... These were all things that people pointed out as evidence that she was a demon.]

[romanticidal]

What was it like?

[witchwoman]

[Oh, now that's complicated.]

Wonderful. Terrifying. Exciting. Ever changing.

[She pauses and smiles at him]

It was not so different from this place.

[romanticidal]

I suppose it is very difficult to label an entire world much of anything.

You remember it, then. How long ago did you come here?

[witchwoman]

[She nods]

A half year's time. I remember more than the others. I would say I remember everything, but who could know if that is true?

[romanticidal]

My father felt much the same way. He could remember so much that it was easier for him to believe that there were not gaps at all.

[witchwoman]

What was he like? Your father?

[Sometimes these questions happen when you are talking to a girl who cannot remember her own parents :x]