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witchesreign2012-02-23 03:10 am
everdistant_utopia) wrote in witchesreign2012-02-23 03:10 am
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[When she made her contract with the world to offer her service as a Servant in exchange for a chance to grant her wish, Saber had been prepared to be summoned across time for the purpose of fighting in a war. But his 'summoning' wasn't even a summoning at all, but some terrible accident. Moreover, she was no longer a warrior, but a student? She had stared hard at the letter as she walked through her new surroundings, her expressionless face giving away nothing of her complete confusion. It all made sense... yet it didn't make any sense at all.
Dismissing her battle-armour and Excalibur, she remained in her blue dress, not willing to chance finding out whether or not her more modern attire had somehow come with her. She might have stood out, but at the very least she had no special need to hide that her presence was unnatural.
She paused occasionally to scrutinise her new surroundings through an experienced knight's eyes. It seemed peaceful enough... at least, on the surface. But for all she knew of this alien place, that could change.]
Dismissing her battle-armour and Excalibur, she remained in her blue dress, not willing to chance finding out whether or not her more modern attire had somehow come with her. She might have stood out, but at the very least she had no special need to hide that her presence was unnatural.
She paused occasionally to scrutinise her new surroundings through an experienced knight's eyes. It seemed peaceful enough... at least, on the surface. But for all she knew of this alien place, that could change.]
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Yes... is it truly so unusual?
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My father hated magic? That does not make any sense... he relied on magic to keep my birth a secret, among other things.
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No, I am certain that had he outlawed magic, there would have been some record of such a law. Yet, I do not recall such in any of the scrolls within the archives.
[And again, there was a look of mixed surprise and confusion]
... Purge?
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[Why yes, Merlin is just a little bit snippy]
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I am certain there was neither a Purge nor a law. Moreover, if there had been any such law, I would have decreed it removed upon ascending the throne and the families of the victims recompensed.
[Admittedly, any compensation wouldn't have truly helped -- as she had already had to for other issues... but what was done could not be undone. A twinge of the familiar regret flickered across her features, but only for a fleeting moment. It couldn't be undone... not without the Grail.]
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/is horrible. HORRIBLE
The Throne of Britain. You came to me after Uther had died and revealed the truth of my birth, and that the people would recognise me as the rightful heir if I kept my sex a secret and drew Caliburn from the ceremonial stone. That only I could quell the chaos following the death of the king.
[Fixes him with a hard stare, emotions roiling underneath.]
But you were wrong. It should have been another who became king in my stead. I failed to even save the people and the only way to undo that mistake is through the Grail. You cannot convince me that it is blasphemous, it is the only duty to Britain that I can fulfil.
/JOINS YOU IN BEING HORRIBLE
You are mad. The only person who could unite Albion is Arthur.
LEAVE NO BRAIN LEFT UNBORKEN!!!
Merlin, enough with these games, and cease calling me by that name.
/EVIL LAUGHS FOREVER
I haven't called you by any name.
Yeah, I can only do this kind of tag at 6AM with no sleep
Will you please cease referring to me as Arthur, at the very least? I have not needed to use that name since I died and I would prefer not to dwell on it when I have more pressing matters to concern myself with.
Re: Yeah, I can only do this kind of tag at 6AM with no sleep
[Merlin pauses]
You actually think you're Arthur?
[Of all of the strange things Merlin had experience, this...somehow managed to top all of them]
Right. Well, you're definitely mad. Now if you don't mind me, I'm going to go now. To somewhere else. [he points over to a nearby door] The dorms are through there.
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That is the name that you told me I should be known as to the people. As uncouth as it would be to suggest that you've lost certain faculties over the long years, I can think of no other reason for you to forget so easily.
[She planted one hand on her hip as she gave him her best annoyed, displeased stare. He was probably enjoying it, but perhaps obliquely suggesting he'd lost his edge might get her point across.]
And no doubt those are the men's dormitories.
[Going in a different direction partly just to spite him but also because that's the sort of thing Merlin would do for entertainment]
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Yes, she was definitely mad.
But now she was gone, so Merlin just left in the opposite direction, glad at least that she was gone now]