knightsoflegend | open ♔ september castle socialization

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || First half of September, any time between the September squiring ceremony and the War announcement on September 18th
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of the first half of the month. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Drax @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ the desk
Sam @ the desk
Henry @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ roof/dining hall/library/grounds/bathrooms/desk/Dragon's Hoard/etc
Abigail @ Movie theater / library /firing range / training room
Francesca & Val'drin | closed
Penelope & Sam @ the woods
Emma Frost @ the library
Spike @ rec room
Lydia, Stiles, Astrid, Adam | closed

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

News travels as quickly as it used to, I see.

[ Her lips never quite reach a smile, though she looks amiable enough without it. The fact that it never fully spreads only serves to make her look regal and removed. ]

Tell me, Tia dear—how have you been?

I've had better years.

You heard about New York, I imagine. I was on that detail.

Were you? You should have stopped and said hello.

[ As if there wasn't an entire crisis going on and a knight dying. Emma is more important. :') ]

We didn't really have a lot of occasions for social calls.

Mm. We rarely do.

[ She doesn't look particularly thrilled by her year either, or discussing it. ]

I trust it's been dreadfully dour here since the incident.

Incidents, plural. Everything happened at the same time. [ a beat ] You heard about Luthir?

Impossible not to.

[ She's very good at acting like she doesn't care. ]

It's still so strange to think he's actually gone. They say there wasn't anything left to even try to rez.

Obliterated, I hear. By some manner of Drow deity?

The drow god of nightmares, specifically. I guess it happened inside of one.

The inside of a mind is a dangerous place to be.

They brought Faith O'Keefe along - she has the power to enter dreams, and exercise minor control over them, but what they faced...

Well. Considering a god was behind it, I'm sure you can imagine.

I can, but I'm positive I don't want to. And his widow?

Blaming herself, considering she's the reason they were there in the first place.

She'd blame herself even if she hadn't had a hand in it. [ Survivor's guilt. Emma's familiar with it. ] It will pass.

Hopefully. She's an aasimar, pretty high up the lineage chain, too. If anyone knows how to hold onto an emotion for longer than their more mortal friends...

Then I suggest we all stay out of her way.

She's getting enough of that too. People avoiding her out of pity.

You make it sound as though you have a better idea of how this should be approached.

As a person, who's trying to grieve, while not feeling disconnected from the rest of the world.

As a paradox, then? What you've described is an impossibility.

Have you ever lost someone, Emma? Most people have.

Having someone to lose makes people weak. I'd rather avoid that nonsense.

[ And not think of Scott in that medical bed, not waking up. Not allowing telepaths into his mind. ]

Well, not all of us have your foresight. [ the sarcasm is strong with this one ] It doesn't have to make a lot of sense. You don't want pity, but things aren't the same.

Then what helps?

[ Forehead creasing, a misty look shakes her gaze. Because nothing she's found has. ]

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