TRAVEL ♔ you've got to promise not to stop when I say when

[bancroft]

♬ Everlong - Foo Fighters

WHO || Thomas Bancroft, Gar, Kat, Dumage, Mark, Myri, Buffy, Finnick, Spike, Rafael, Des?
WHAT || The Knights return to New Orleans (Flight + Reunions @ hotel/airport)
WHERE || Flight to New Orleans > Airport in New Orleans > Hotel in New Orleans
WHEN || Friday Oct 12th (Forward dated!)
HOW || Actionspam

[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the Knight's private plane ride to the mission site. Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc. The flight time is approx nine hours. Get to know your teammates, talk about the mission, ask questions, etc. etc.

Rafael will be meeting the Knight at the New Orlean airport, and Des is welcome to reconnoiter with the Knights back at the hotel!  Feel free to do threads for grabbing rooming buddies, etc. ] ]

Comments

[nosdacariad]

I'm just not a big... myself... talker. About.

[witchwoman]

Oh... [She's quiet, because... Well, that makes her uneasy to talk. She knows what that's like, but being here with all of them has changed that for her. So she's upset that Mark is still uncomfortable talking about himself.]

[nosdacariad]

It's uh... just sorta boring, that's all. Not much to tell next to everyone's exciting lives around here.

[witchwoman]

In my experience, I often prefer to hear about the unexciting lives. I always wanted one of my own.

[nosdacariad]

There's definitely something to be said for the quiet life.

[witchwoman]

Well if there's something to be said, then maybe you should say something.

[Oh, that may just be a joke.]

[nosdacariad]

[ he looks startled initially, taking her very seriously and obviously a bit offended, but then he looks more closely at her expression and a smile of broken tension and relief breaks across his face. he laughs nervously and then points at her, raising his eyebrows and shaking his finger as if to say 'you got me'. ]

Ok, ok. I just uh, don't know what you'd like to know. I joined the Knights when I was pretty young. Still a teenager.

[witchwoman]

[She grins once he gets it.]

Oh, I don't know. We could trade? A story for a story?

You could start with why you joined so young.

[nosdacariad]

I... I suppose I... [ he looks thoughtful, as if it's difficult for him to put into words ] I wanted to make a difference and help people, hands on, and I'd already spent most of my life feeling like I'd never get a chance to do that, not that way. When the opportunity showed up, it was like I didn't have a choice. I didn't have a lot to go back to at home, and Wynn...

Well, I guess he treated me like family right off the bat. I'll be honest, it wasn't even about Shadowkind for me, not that I didn't want to help them, but it wasn't personal or anything like with some people. It just seemed like the best place in the world to really... lose myself in, and hopefully come out the other side a... [ he sucks in a breath and looks down ]

A better man.

[witchwoman]

I'd say you accomplished that mission. [She offers him her sweetest smile.] And we're all the luckier to have you.

[nosdacariad]

Thanks, but I, uh, don't really think I'm there yet.

[witchwoman]

I suppose we're all a work in progress... But what makes you say that? You don't give yourself enough credit, Mark.

[nosdacariad]

It's... just a feeling. I see what others are willing to do and put on the line, and I look up to them, but I'm not one of them.

[witchwoman]

I understand.

Sometimes I look at Kat and Gar... all of you, really. And I wonder why Wynn would bother with someone like me.

But we're all here for a reason. We are serve a purpose.

[nosdacariad]

That's the best part of being with them, really. Feeling like you get to really do something every day of your life.

[witchwoman]

Exactly. So there's no reason to feel like your something is anything less.

[nosdacariad]

Have you always been such a natural at cheering people up?

[witchwoman]

[She ducks her head and laughs.]

Truthfully? I never had the chance to make friends before I came here. So I'm not really sure.

[nosdacariad]

Well, you've made one now.

[witchwoman]

[She smiles wider.]

I'm glad.

Now help me finish this before it melts.

[She holds the large heap of ice cream out to him.]

[nosdacariad]

You got it. [ he reaches out with a spoon and a big goofy smile. :) /scene?? ]

[witchwoman]

[AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER]