17th Oath of Moment:: A blooding

[lunawolves10th]

1 [ (Locked to Saber and Mordred) A man in a strange white bodyglove walks up to 460 stone street, carrying several blades of various sizes, and knocks on the door. Garviel's here to be a secondary teacher for Mordred. ]

2 [ Phones, filtered to the resistance and associated organizations. ] Loken here. I wanted to check in after the recent

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[fatefullfriend]

[A familiar orange wolf pads over and brushes her side against Garviel's leg as she stops next to him. A glance up tells her something's going on in his mind, but she decides to stay silent and look across the water with him.]

[lunawolves10th]

Ah. A wolf for a wolf. [ He kneels beside her, but speaks no further after his initial greeting, looking out across the water for about 5 minutes before finally saying. ]

There was very little open water on my world of birth, Cthonia. It was all cold cavern-cities in the remains of ancient, abandoned mines.

[fatefullfriend]

[She'll sit once her kneels and looks over at him.]

Mid-Childa is a lush land not unlike Earth. Forests, lakes, mountains... We wolves called the mountains home. Was it unusual on Cthonia to venture to the surface?

[lunawolves10th]

Not as such, just that the subhive gangers who I grew up with, and was, in fact, born to, didn't make it up the spires much. There were manufactoriums and huge clouds of waste and pollutant topside, but it was warmer there, and the people were richer, or so I'd been told.

[fatefullfriend]

I would take cold and clean over warm and polluted anytime. My hide is thick and there are ways to stay warm. A Mid-Childan wolf can survive almost anywhere as long as they don't fall ill...

[lunawolves10th]

You sound almost as robust as the Fenrisian Wolves of the Rout. They bring their wolves from their home planet, Fenris, to war with them. It terrifies their foes, or so I am told.

[fatefullfriend]

To those unused to wolves, we are quite frightful. Many humans are quite intimidated by my enlarge fangs even when I am relaxed do to their size.

[She chuckles.] And to think, I'm small for my kind.

[lunawolves10th]

[ Garviel chuckles as well. ] Perhaps it is well that fear has been engineered out of me, then. You know, though, I was thinking about the nature of Wolves, of late. As I am... or rather was, a Luna Wolf, before Horus named his legion after himself in a fit of what I now recognize to be vainglory.

[ he looks to the insignia on his bodyglove. ]

Wolves that serve men are dogs. We have become so of our own choice. From what you have told me, neither of us regret it, either.

[fatefullfriend]

That's one way to look at it. I see it as less being a wolf that serves man and more a wolf that serves her family. My family now just happens to be human.

And I see nothing wrong with it. I still remember who I am and what I am.

[lunawolves10th]

Tell me, Arf. Would you choose your family over doing what was right, or would you choose doing what was right over your family? [ While the question seems random, the tone in Garviel's voice is fairly clear. This is an important question. Almost a test. ]

[fatefullfriend]

I already made that choice once.

[There's a long moment of silence as Arf looks across the water.]

I confronted Fate's mother after I couldn't look away anymore and she nearly killed me. I managed to use a dimensional transfer to escape, healed, and then worked with who had once been the enemy to bring an end to the evil of Precia Testerossa.

[lunawolves10th]

[ Garviel is silent for a long time. That story is... very similar to what happened with Horus Lupercal, only she got a chance to actually confront the corruption, Garviel simply saw it happen amongst the mournival and tried to stop his brothers. }

We have both made the same choice, then. And paid the same price for it. [ he reaches out, his huge hand very gentle as he touchs Arf's mane-covered neck, and sets it down, a gesture of kinship and friendship, rather like he uses with his own puppy, Tarik. ]

[fatefullfriend]

[Her ears flick over and then she leans into the touch just slightly.]

Fate was a child then. She didn't know any better, but she eventually saw what was right and joined us. And she forgave me.

Were you forgiven?

[lunawolves10th]

There is no mercy and no forgiveness between my fallen father, and his traitorous sons. We shall war until one or the other is dead. They have turned away from the Emperor, the guardian of humanity, the pinnacle of secular truth and light, and returned to darkness.

They would corrupt, pervert, and destroy their world in their wild thrashing madness.

[ He speaks the last part very quietly. ] My gene-father, Horus Lupercal, ordered the mass slaughter of my men, the Astartes who were loyal to the Emperor of mankind, as a preface to his greater acts of treachery. Only I survived.

[fatefullfriend]

[It takes Arf a good bit to find the proper response to that. She searches for the right one, but she could only come up with one.]

Then one day you will tear out his throat with your fangs.

[lunawolves10th]

If that is my duty, yes. But I think it will come down to the father to punish the son, in the end. The Emperor WILL stop Horus. He must.