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[Balian, in short, looks a wreck when he comes out of the station. The heavy chain mail and the red and gold tunic he's wearing is clogged with blood, sand and dirt. It's mattered in his hair, built up under his nails and it's plain that he's tired to say the least of it. He doesn't seem inclined to say anything, just fumbles with his device and

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[Balian's too polite to stare, hates it himself. So he just respectfully takes stock of the person he's talking to and then ducks his head before answering.]

I come from the Battle near Kerak, which is in the Holy Land, that's the last thing I remember. The year is 1149, if that means something.

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[Which just makes Balian so uncomfortable. He hates being stared at or pampered or anything like that. He much prefers just slinky by unnoticed.]

Yes, I serve under King Baldwin. [he's a talkative one, too.]

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[Balian shrugs slightly.]

Is she who rules here? [he's French by birth, though he lives in the Holy Land these days.]

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[He's thinking of Sybilla, he wishes she was here almost. She'd have the grace to move through this with as little difficulty as possible, since she'd charm her way after all.]

... I wouldn't call royalty civilians. Or any kind of nobility. They're that, nobility. [Not that it means much, not to Balian, he still didn't think of himself as nobility at all, and he didn't think the nobles were that grand either. But they're educations were too different to be simply called civilians.] When is she from?

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[He left that there, there really wasn't much point if he didn't understand. Nobility was a bit like being a knight, it had to do with values taught. Not just position. Granted they weren't all noble and moral, but they certainly didn't think like serfs, they were better educated then that.]

... Elizabeth is a common name, for she is the the aunt of the Saviour, Christ and mother John the Baptist and many are named in her honour. Many noble women and commoner women a like share that name.

[... :| don't assume all Medieval are the same, weirdly dressed eastern person.]

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I have never heard the name Li.

[YEAH WELL HE'S 28 AND ONLY LEARNED TO READ A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. THESE WERE THE STORIES THE LOCAL PRIEST TOLD. WHO BY THE WAY, COULD BARELY READ HIMSELF. WELCOME TO THE 1100s. He was too busy learning to be a blacksmith, which is more important than reading.]

... John the Baptist was a prophet, and very well known man, but has been dead for hundred of years.

[Neither did he, make new excuses. 8[ Be happy he's vaguely tolerant, Guy would be calling you a heretic and killing you right now.]

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[Hahaha. Deal with his being so far out of date people don't even have clocks yet.]

... He should be, He is mercy and forgiveness, or have you lost the ability to remember that as well?

[:|| You know what happens to non-Christian places? Crusaders happen.]

... No, I do not think so. [He politely as possible wipes a little but more blood away.]

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[YOU WEIRD FUTURE PEOPLE]

John... Never mind. [he shook his head. It didn't matter...

... because yes, he greatly needed medical attention.with which, he turns away to cough, wincing as his ribs throbbed with the pain.]