knightsoflegend | CHAPTER THREE ♔ what's done in the dark will be brought to the light

♬ god's gonna cut you down - johnny cash

WHO || The Knights
WHAT || The aftermath of Chapter 2
WHERE || London, England and variou
WHEN || Evening of June 7th --> onwards
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

In less than twenty-four hours, everything has turned on its head.

A Knight and her allies were kidnapped by Iscariot agents for execution in Rome, barely escaping with their lives.

A mission meant to free one Knight from the influence of a dark god succeeded - at the price of another's life.

A simple recon mission at a Keijen Blade concert nearly led to two Knights committing mind-controlled suicide in front of an eager crowd.

Several Knights went to see Draken Crombe, leader of the Church of the Lord's Humanity, speak in person, and learned just how sinister his religion's dogma is.

A call from Sir Hathaway alerted Wynn to the escape of the doppelganger from the Knight's dungeons, an escape perhaps aided by Elena Gilbert.

A demigod interrupted what might have been a simple smash and grab retrieval of an artifact.

And most horrific of all, in the middle of the night, hundreds of Shadowkind in New York City awoke, and walked in a mindless trance down to the Hudson River to drown themselves. Only the quick thinking and combined efforts of the Knights present and their allies prevented all of them from succeeding.

Beset on all sides, a dark time awaits for the Knighthood - who were already suffering from the capture of Dragon's Claw Sir Thomas Bancroft at the hands of their long time enemy Dimitris Sarandis of Andres Isle.

In times such as these, the light can be difficult to find. Hope itself seems somewhere just out of reach.

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The never ending doppelganger mess. Should have ended when they locked it up in the first place.

I don't know details either, only that it's been a long ass mission by the sounds of it. Anything that takes that long has to be messy.

It must feel weird for them to even be back here.

I can see that. It must kind of suck being away more than here. Could end up happening to any one of us though, I guess.

I'd miss my ride.

Yeah, me too. Gotta go where the boss says though, yeah?

Maybe I could sweet talk him into letting me bring it along.

[Miles chuckles at the image of anyone sweet-talking Wynn into anything.]

You'll have to give me a head's up. I'd love to see that.

I didn't say it would be a successful attempt. Tell me - is the stubbornness a dragon blood thing?

Naw, I don't think so. Maybe it depends on the dragon. I'm kinda new to the whole thing myself.

You mean you didn't know what you were?

Nope. Got it from my mother's side, and she died a long time ago. Not even sure how far away I am, generation's wise. Pretty far, I'm guessing.

Was it the lack of scales that gave it away?

Naw, I've a few of those. I just keep 'em covered up out of habit.

[He gestures vaguely at his back, where they'd be covered by his shirt.]

My Dad always used to tell me it was some weird skin condition, and you know how kids are. They'll believe anything. After that, well, denial's a pretty powerful thing.

So when did you find out the truth?

When I first heard about it and when I actually bothered to care or believe it are two totally different things. I was a couple years out of high school when my Grams decided she had to talk to me. I thought she was nuts.

It took another half a decade before I finally figured out that she was right.

What changed your tune?

I was the only one in her will when she died, so she left me pretty much everything she owned. It wasn't a ton, but there were some old boxes I found when I was cleaning out her attic. Family history stuff.

Needless to say, the evidence was there.

So did it... change anything for you? The way you see yourself?

Naw, not really. It's what I am, not who I am, you know? The who wasn't going to change overnight just because of some dragon ancestor I didn't know I had.

It's just weird to think about. One day you think you have everything about your identity all figured out, and the next day...

And the next day you find out your great-great-great-great-great grand-dad was an actual dragon? Yeah, it's weird, no getting around that. But at the end of the day I'm still just a guy who likes fast wheels.

You guys that have to cross the Veil? Lose your memories? Now that I can't really imagine.

Edited 2014-08-08 19:10 (UTC)

[ there's a beat, and then: ] My dad's here.

[blink blink]

Seriously? Since when? [Things out of left field, hello.] That's good...right?

I'm not sure yet.

[Hey he can...kind of understand that. He's not so fond of his Dad, after all.]

When did ya find that out?

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