debriefing ♔ in the emptiness there's a solution | just look within yourself for absolution

[nepotism]

♬ locking up the sun- poets of the fall

WHO || Wynn, Buffy, Myri, Finnick, Spike, Gar, Archer, Des, Vi, Rafael, Fred Jr., Dumage, Mark, Rocket, open! [Closed]
WHAT || Andres Mission Debrief & Aftermath
WHERE || Knights HQ, lobby etc.
WHEN || September 18th [forward dated*]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

There are plenty of missions that return to the castle a success - most of them, even. The defeated air of the solemn group that returns from their diplomatic mission to Andres Isle to hear the demands of dictator Dimitris Sarandis makes it quite clear that this wasn't one of those.

Starting with Sarandis' actual demands - for all Knights to withdraw from Andres under penalty of death, or for Wynn to offer his own head in return for Thomas' safe return - and ending with the unexpected, disturbing confession from Kat that she intended to stay behind on the island because she had "fallen in love with" the dictator, the events of the island made it very clear that Sarandis was cannily playing his hand to get the Knights where he wanted them.

Fred Jr. shoves open the doors with his unnatural strength, stalking in ahead of the group into the lobby. Whoever's on desk duty isn't going to have to roll a high wisdom check to see that these people are pissed... and distraught... and a myriad of other emotions on the bad end of the scale.

*I am changing the date of the briefing log and Andres log/live session to have taken place in September, to avoid us being in backdated hell forever, and to allow for a September squiring ceremony before apps are closed. Carry on... in the future!

Comments

[witchwoman]

You're all mourning the way I was, though. And I just feel like everyone is waiting for that to... come back. What if it doesn't? What if all of the dust settles and we win the war, but I'm never the same?

[nothingsodivine]

[Something about that hits Des where it hurts and he draws back a bit.] I'm not waiting for anything. That's the thing, ain't it? People can love ideas they think are real and people get so consumed thinking they have to be this way or that way to keep that love and they forget how to be who they really are.

[He places a hand on her head.] I don't want the old Myri. I don't want some new Myri. I want the Myri you wanna be.

[witchwoman]

[She finally finds the strength to meet his gaze. There's tears shining in her eyes that haven't yet fallen.]

I don't know who that is anymore. And I think that's what scares me more than anything. More than Sarandis, more than the thought of what could happen when we go back. I don't know who I am or who I'm becoming, and that terrifies me.

[nothingsodivine]

I know. [He pulls her into a hug, tightly.] But one day it's gonna click and you'll wonder what you were even scared of.

[witchwoman]

[She can't find a single word to say, so she just clings to him and cries, because what more can she do?]