6 ☣ gamble

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[A little ways inside the front gate, something strange is going on. There is an elf sitting up against the edge of the path. For those who know him, he has back the markings that vanished during the time when everyone's powers got mixed up. But that's not what's strange. What's strange is that he is not lurking and brooding, or cleaning up and brooding, or serving hot dogs and brooding (he does a lot of different things around here, and also he broods).

Instead, he is staring with a deeply quizzical expression at the five Triple Triad cards spread out in front of him. Every so often he picks one up, turns it over repeatedly in his hands, then puts it back down.

He doesn't get it.]

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[rebellingheart]

He's from the same time I am. He's.. a really good friend.

[Can't really call him her knight. Maybe boyfriend? She really should talk to him about this one of these days.]

Really? But why would you think that?

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[He pauses, catching that word.]

The same time? There are people here from your world, then, but not your time?

[Well, that would explain why it's called "time compression." He shakes off the idea for now.]

An academy that offers demons freely to its recruits, so they may harness magic? One would need the best of luck to think that anything but a bad idea.

I clearly need to stop sorting things into folders. They're easier to forget that way

[rebellingheart]

[Oh. She's so used to people knowing that this is her world that she'd forgotten there were people who didn't know about her or her part in the second Sorceress War.]

Of course. [She pauses and smiles just a little bit.] It'd be really weird if there weren't, because I'm from here. Just twenty years in the past here. This world is my home.

[That certainly does make the name a little more obvious doesn't it?]

The Guardian Forces aren't demons. [And this time there's no dance to put off arguing about this point.] Most of them are really nice even. I don't know if maybe you have something similar but bad on your own world, but the ones here are good.

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I see.

[But he's immediately even more on guard than before.]

How often I have heard such things. How often they are lies. Lies you believe, perhaps, but lies all the same. Call them what you will: demon, spirit, "Guardian Force." In the hands of people seeking power they bring ruin.

[rebellingheart]

[She frowns a little, but her position never wavers.]

In that case the in the hands of people seeing to protect they bring safety and nothing more. Maybe there are people who'd use them for bad things, but that doesn't make the Guardian Forces themselves bad.

[She frowns a little more. obviously this isn't something she's done a lot of thinking about.]

I guess maybe they're not really good either, but neutral?

It doesn't seem fair to judge all of them, just because a few people might use them for bad things. It's not like they chose to do the actions themselves, right?

[She stands and stretches a little bit, before turning her attention back to Fenris.]

You know, I wonder. They're called Guardian Forces, right? So that must mean their main purpose has to be to protect otherwise they'd be called something besides Guardian. Don't you think?

[Rinoa logic, it's flawless. Look at that, flawless!]