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

[cuivre]

You've got time to figure it out. Now that he's here, he's not going anywhere.

Better to have the options than nothing at all.

[flyingsolo]

Part of me just wants to ask him everything. I guess part of me's afraid of what the answers are gonna be.

[cuivre]

Even if it's bad, is that worse than knowing nothing? I don't know about you, but I couldn't deal with that, not if I knew the answers were right there.

[swordofthejedi]

Or half of the answer. He claims I was a baby when he saw me last.

[cuivre]

[Slow blink.]

Well, shit, that complicates things, doesn't it. [He shakes his head and gives a quiet sigh.] Fucking Veil.

[swordofthejedi]

I'm not sure how it makes sense. I've aged and he claims he... hasn't?

[cuivre]

We don't know why it takes away people's memories either.

[He looks empathetic, and wishes he had more he could tell her, but this is where he's from and he's not exactly full of knowledge on this subject.]

There's some others around that have come from the same place. I wonder if they've had to deal with anything like that?

[flyingsolo]

I suppose I could ask. Who do you know that's run into this sort of thing?

[cuivre]

Dunno off the top of my head. Once we get back, I'll get you some names.

[flyingsolo]

[ she gives him a grim nod ] Deal. [ and off they went to fruitlessly search for elena??? ]