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KHISANTH ♦ ONYX ([personal profile] onblackwings) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2013-02-16 10:50 pm

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[ This lady's looking a little different, for anyone that's spoken with her before. Not any older, but there's a sort of crooked quality to her nose, like it'd been broken and healed some time ago. She's lounging in the Initiative apartments, looking like she's recently made friends with a superiority complex. ]

I want to speak to those of you who have seen a war before. Not the skirmishes that the Initiative sends us on here, but actual war.

And failing that, I'll take anyone that knows magic — and can teach it. That part is important. Don't waste my time if all you can do is cast it.
heirwithouthope: (All the fault of pride)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-21 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[He opens his mouth and then closes it again. There might've been more of a fight about being usurped and then ordered around, but having his questions answered was far more important than his pride.]

As you wish. You will see me no later than that.
heirwithouthope: (We rode the rivers of the eastern trail)

Sounds like a plan o/

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-21 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[And it really doesn't take Thorin long at all to reach her door, considering the fact that she was just one floor apart from him (it's a small world, after all).

So after about twenty minutes or so (he wasn't going to rush there), he raps his knuckles loudly on the door and takes a step back. He doesn't have his fur or his armor on, but he does hang onto Orcrist, which his hand rests by out of habit more than intent to use it.]
heirwithouthope: (pic#5642631)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-21 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He was more than accustomed to looking up when he has to address someone that isn't a dwarf or a hobbit. All the same, dwarves never considered themselves short, or at a disadvantage due to their height. Everyone else was unnecessarily tall, if anything.

So he doesn't wither like a self-conscious violet under her gaze. He stares back and nods once, in confirmation to her question.]
I go by Thorin Oakenshield.
heirwithouthope: (A long long way from home)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-21 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He starts to make his way by her into the apartment, stopping and looking back at her in interest when she introduces herself. The mineral onyx was valued for its stripes and carving ability: the dwarves used it for beads, jewelry, and building material. It's a decent name, he supposes, if a person wants to be named after a stone.]

We are well met, my lady.

[In the living room, he will remove his sword from his belt and set it to the side before helping himself to a seat in one of the chairs.] How would you have us go about this?
heirwithouthope: (Thorin hears a Who)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-22 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[If he were one of the other dwarves in his company, he would've been in the kitchen, and he would've been pillaging every crevice food could be stored inside with or without an offer. At least Thorin had some manners, even if he lacked charm.]

How did you find your way out of this place?
heirwithouthope: (Let them hear your rage)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-22 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He just looks like he heard something drunk.] Then I do not understand. If the ones that keep us here want an army, there is no purpose to send the soldiers home just to call them back again with no further explanation.

Tell me what happened when you returned to your homeland: was there time that had been lost?
heirwithouthope: (We are few but strong in will)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-22 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Thorin slowly straightens in his seat, though a dark shadow still seems to move behind his eyes.] Then perhaps it is too much to ask one more--if I do not swear it bears relation to my story.

What does the name 'orc' mean to you? If anything at all?
heirwithouthope: (pic#5642475)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-22 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
A foul, mutilated race. [His words are clipped, and become more and more disgusted as he goes.] There is nothing good that they create, nor is there any mercy in their hearts. The orc is only clever in the ways of cruelty and destruction.
heirwithouthope: (pic#5642631)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-22 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
I've heard stories of them. [A tale most often told by Men, and exploited by their children in order to scare their little siblings into tears. He also supposes there were some hobbits that passed ogre stories along, and that would be the closest thing to danger their precious Shire would ever know.] Cannibal giants. Nothing more than legend.
heirwithouthope: (Say farewell to those I love)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-24 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
They wormed their way into the abandoned mines of my kin--you can imagine such vile creatures taking to theft. But my grandfather heard no word of this when he led us there.

We traveled far to find our ancestral realm taken. Our enemy greatly overpowered us in number, but we took arms and fought the orcs.
heirwithouthope: (pic#5642404)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-24 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thorin takes note of the interested shift in her body language and raises his eyebrows.]

Answer my question and I will tell you.
heirwithouthope: (Like blood runs from my wound)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-25 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Her irritation is lost on Thorin--what matters to him is she doesn't try to argue, and her response is favorable. It sounds like something he could find hope in.

He wants to ask if there were others, but he knows how that will go. He returns to her question with a growing heaviness in his voice.]


Over ten-thousand orcs were slain in that battle. Their leader wounded and dragged back into the mines. We were victorious.
heirwithouthope: (We came under attack)

[personal profile] heirwithouthope 2013-02-25 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He scowls at that observation.] It pleases me enough.

It may please you less when you remember the smell of old blood. And the ground covered with your dead, far past the ability to bury them. Half the dwarves that fought at my side now reside in the halls of Mandos, with our Maker.

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