first spell woven ۞ video

[wearsblack]

[His face appears on the feed, slightly off-center and highlighting an impressive scowl marring an otherwise delicately built face framed by curtains of long black hair. Mostly, this is because the person handling it isn’t quite sure what to do with this device.]

Grotty thing…

[It shifts again, this time centering on the young man that face belongs to. It's easier to see now that he's wearing black armor over a high-collared black tunic and a silver circlet on his brow. He eyes the tablet speculatively]

Listen to me, whoever you are. I am prince of the crown of Calavan and I will not be your pawn or anyone else’s.

They couldn't at least bloody ask before they took us away from our own worlds? Maybe you'd even get volunteers.

[It was frustrating, because he understood the nature of the threat. He'd probed the greeter and found that her story was true. Or at least, believed that it was. It didn't make him any less suspicious, considering the last people he encountered with this sort of device had sabotaged Calavere's towers and left dozen dead. It was luck that his father wasn't more severely injured.

Additionally, he knew he might even be better off here, out of reach of both the Witches and the Warriors of Vathris.

But that didn't make him any happier about it, either.]

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[dusk_and_dawn]

They care not who you are, only that you are useful. I assume they believe you would rather fight than fester here.

[wearsblack]

I would rather fight my own battles.

[dusk_and_dawn]

As would we all. But they intend on giving us no choice in the matter.

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[mentore]

[At this point he's managed enough to be able to immediately respond to others, thankfully.]

There is little regard for your rank in this place.

[Not that he's ever particularly cared either back in Roma...]

[wearsblack]

[A huff]

So I have noticed.

[mentore]

I take you're not used to such treatment.

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[slingshots]

i figure like this place digs royalty

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[wearsblack]

[squints at the writing]

Considering they claim to be descendant from royalty themselves, I'm not bloody surprised. You would think they'd know how to properly receive guests.

[slingshots]

guess not. you planning on teaching them?

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[sithiche]

And what would your response have been if they had asked you?

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[wearsblack]

They could have had their pick out of any thousand warriors from here to Tarras. Why me?

[sithiche]

That remains to be seen, doesn't it? You'd know better than I would.

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[futurarex]

[Sir, you are a little embarrassing. Not that Arthur wasn't thinking of doing something precisely like this. But he didn't so now he can consider this embarrassing.]

And I suppose you'd have been the first volunteer?

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[wearsblack]

[Look, he just wanted to see if it would get some kind of reaction. Pulling the royalty card usually worked for this sort of thing. It was worth a shot.

But no, that just gets a huff from him, and looks a lot like...what it is. A teenager having a tantrum.]

No.

[futurarex]

[royal tantrums. he's seen this before, and he's not... entirely unsympathetic. but still. he snorts, quietly.]

Well, there you are. Perhaps they were just desperate to have you fighting for them. And since you're not the volunteering sort, they did what they had to do.

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[thalassian]

Our lineage has no bearing here.

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[wearsblack]

We are nothing but common soldiers in their eyes?

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[thalassian]

That is how it seems. It would not be the first time I've been treated this way.

What about you?

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[sacrificar]

They have no need to ask.

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[wearsblack]

[A speculative look at this stranger]

Just because the don't have the need does not mean they couldn't. It is just easier for them to steal us and force us to accept our lot.

[sacrificar]

Would you have really agreed if they had asked?

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[painfeels]

Better get used to it.

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[wearsblack]

[Might as well practice with this device.]

I would rather not.

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[heired]

You would volunteer for such a cause?

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[wearsblack]

I didn't say I would, necessarily. But there'd be some knight bloody-minded enough to take it on, I'm sure.