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[red_war]

There's a woman sitting somewhere off to the side of the main room; she has a head of gorgeous red hair, is dressed in tight-fitting red clothes, red stilettos -- and is currently surrounded by a mass of weapons. Guns, swords, explosives, anything you can imagine; they're all there and she's taking stock of them, looking quite pleased at some of

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[lady_starspray]

Elwing spent the past weeks outside on the lake in her bird-form, but is slowly growing tired of it, so this would be the time for her to enter the Mansion once again.
The red hair catches her attention, unpleasantly so, and just as she is about to make a silent retreat, light flashes off the sword in just the right angle to trigger a series of memories. She all but freezes, unable to move and unable to look away.

In her mind's eye she sees fighting and grabs the stone and runs and hides, and the redhead searches her parents' bodies and she cannot look away, but he cannot find the stone, and then there is silence, and the scene shifts, years later the doors to her chamber in the tower burst open and it is him again, and this time there is nowhere to run and the jewel is on her brow and he has but to reach out, but he will not have it, never, and she backs away, he raises his sword and there is no way but to jump...

When Elwing comes to, she is still staring at War.

(The typist would like to apologize, she is a teensy bit traumatized.)

[red_war]

Dealing with humans (or elves, as the case may be) is never too large of a concern for War; war, the deed, is broad and far-reaching, and she would much rather deal with a large army than a single person. She isn't nice, either.

As it stands, when Elwing opens her eyes, the sword is gone-- put away among the other weaponry, and War is standing there with a slightly amused expression on her face. "Bad memories?"

[lady_starspray]

There are the obvious visual similarities, the most striking of them of course the red hair, but there is something else about this woman that makes Elwing shiver and retreat a step or two. - But then, she must be feeling remarkably brave today, else she would have been up and away in an instant. As it is, War shall even have an answer.

"Who is asking?"

She was a queen once. She still sounds like one.