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

[wynn]

♬ 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.

Comments

[littledhampir]

[Her gaze turned troubled, brow furrowed, like she was taking the time to really think about that question before answering.]

I want him to pay. I want him to rot in some cell and never see the light of day again. I want him to suffer but if I can't have that? Then you bet I want to kill him.

[bigbad]

And what do you want for Elena?

[littledhampir]

[She's silent for a long time before answering and even then, hesitant to speak.]

I don't know... Right now I just want to know why.

[bigbad]

They were friends, you know. Or something close to it. Before everything.

[littledhampir]

Friends don't do what he did. He's not capable of being anyone's friend.

[bigbad]

She thought he was.

[littledhampir]

What, you think that's why she did it? [Clearly not buying it as a good enough reason.]

[bigbad]

I think it made her more likely to make foolish bloody decisions. Despite everything.

[littledhampir]

[Lines crease her brow, expression tight.]

Yeah but this wasn't just foolish. Foolish would have been trying to get Wynn to let him go but she didn't even do that. She skipped straight to betraying her family.

[bigbad]

Wynn would never have let him go. Not when he knows so many of our secrets. Elena would know that.

[littledhampir]

Which is exactly why she shouldn't have done what she did but apparently the lives of the Knights don't matter as much as the freedom of one psychopath.