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outer_divide2014-02-15 10:22 am
girlworthfighting) wrote in outer_divide2014-02-15 10:22 am
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eighth scroll - backdated to before the ball [ video ; open with one lock ]
Greetings, all.
I trust by now everyone has heard of the resurrected...creatures that have been stalking around the outskirts of the city, and so for me to mention at one point I had among them a "double" of my own hopefully will come as not too much of a surprise.
I've heard by now that my particular double surfaced about two weeks past, and was dispatched. My apologies to anyone it may have threatened in the meantime. I sincerely hope none of you were too injured by it, if at all.
However... [She shifts uncomfortably, swallowing.] My body at the time of my death had a sword still in its possession. Well-cared for but probably visibly old to even a novice, with a plainly decorated scabbard. The sword did not turn up among my remains, and despite my best attempts to retrace the being's path I have yet to find it.
My hopeful conclusion is that it was dropped somewhere along the way and, unclaimed, someone out here found it. I am claiming it now. I will make no game about it: that sword is very important to me. If you have it, I will barter almost any favor or recompense for it's return. I would be most grateful if you contacted me immediately. Thank you.
[She hesitates.]
Oh -- and, in case any of you already among my acquaintances had somehow not yet heard, I suppose this accounts as my official notification of "I'm alive again".
My apologies for not doing this any sooner. There...didn't seem to be much to say.
[She's frowning uncomfortably to herself as she turns off the feed. After a minute of reflection she turns it back on again.]
[Private to Loki]
Well...if you were waiting for a chance to say "I told you so", I think I just gave you a big opening.
I trust by now everyone has heard of the resurrected...creatures that have been stalking around the outskirts of the city, and so for me to mention at one point I had among them a "double" of my own hopefully will come as not too much of a surprise.
I've heard by now that my particular double surfaced about two weeks past, and was dispatched. My apologies to anyone it may have threatened in the meantime. I sincerely hope none of you were too injured by it, if at all.
However... [She shifts uncomfortably, swallowing.] My body at the time of my death had a sword still in its possession. Well-cared for but probably visibly old to even a novice, with a plainly decorated scabbard. The sword did not turn up among my remains, and despite my best attempts to retrace the being's path I have yet to find it.
My hopeful conclusion is that it was dropped somewhere along the way and, unclaimed, someone out here found it. I am claiming it now. I will make no game about it: that sword is very important to me. If you have it, I will barter almost any favor or recompense for it's return. I would be most grateful if you contacted me immediately. Thank you.
[She hesitates.]
Oh -- and, in case any of you already among my acquaintances had somehow not yet heard, I suppose this accounts as my official notification of "I'm alive again".
My apologies for not doing this any sooner. There...didn't seem to be much to say.
[She's frowning uncomfortably to herself as she turns off the feed. After a minute of reflection she turns it back on again.]
[Private to Loki]
Well...if you were waiting for a chance to say "I told you so", I think I just gave you a big opening.
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[She looks down and away herself, lost in her thoughts.]
I don't think I ever really leave the battlefield. But I try not to let it completely take over me, to the point where I don't remember how to be anything else: a friend, a subject, a lover, a daughter.
My success is probably more mixed than I'd like to admit.
[Especially since all the people she was ever family or lover to are all gone.]
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Back home, I used to try and at least leave the battle from time to time...until there wasn't any 'home' left anymore to go back to.
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Or lose.
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