Comments | oncefutureking: 010. [voice]

oncefutureking

010. [voice]

Dec 08, 2009 00:04

[The communicator clicks on, and it's almost the first of any word from Arthur there has been since the dreams, but there is no sound save for gentle breathing. On the other side, Arthur is holding it in a firm grip, knuckles white. He knows he should say something, that perhaps he should apologize to everyone he'd killed, but what is there to say ( Read more... )

voice, event; dark tower dream

Leave a comment

Back to all threads

[Voice] sorighteously December 8 2009, 09:57:27 UTC

[Her voice is devoid of accusation or demand.]

The dreams are cruel and shroud much, your Grace. Do not let them colour you to aught.

[Voice] oncefutureking December 8 2009, 10:03:26 UTC

[The lack of accusation throws him, almost violently. Of anyone, he would assume she would be the one to be most upset. She was all but the focus of the dream.]

They are more vivid than anything I have ever witnessed.

[Voice] sorighteously December 8 2009, 10:06:33 UTC

They are.

But that does not make them true.

[voice] oncefutureking December 8 2009, 10:20:36 UTC

Sorcery is a crime punished by execution in Camelot, My Lady.

[voice] sorighteously December 8 2009, 10:26:03 UTC

And yet you stand as a man capable of much good.

You are not the monster that was in your dream, Arthur. Even if it looked like you, spoke like you... even if you recognise parts of it in yourself, as you are, now...

What that dream showed, your Grace, was a chance.

[Her words catch up with her and she pauses, cautious. She doesn't want to give cause for suspecting that she might be trying to talk him around anything - bewitch him, as it were.]

A chance you can take hold of.

[voice] oncefutureking December 8 2009, 10:32:36 UTC

[He might have tensed, had she not settled. Despite his tentative familiarity to her for sharing noble blood, her magic still unnerves him. Never for what he did in that dream- but it unnerves him all the same. And despite himself, he can't help but think she sounds a little bit like Merlin. His laugh is humorless and brief.]

I have no desire to become that creature, of this I can assure you.

[He pauses, awkward, and finally speaks, stilted. Unsure how to apologize, though he feels it necessary, if only to selfishly clear his own heart.]

I- am deeply sorry, that you had to witness such a nightmare.

[voice] sorighteously December 8 2009, 10:35:18 UTC

[When she opens her mouth, it's to wave the apology off, to tell him not to ask forgiveness for something he had no hand in. But she decides it may be more prudent to accept it, needless as it was, and so she does.]

Let it serve you, your Grace, rather than plague you.

[voice] oncefutureking December 8 2009, 10:42:22 UTC

[Her wisdom rather baffles him, for how he knows she cannot be much older than himself, and while an itching feeling tells him it could be from her magic, he shakes it off, as well as any more conversation over feelings on the matter, and changes tactics master of avoidance that he is.]

This has been quite the eventful return for you, has it not?

[voice] sorighteously December 8 2009, 10:46:06 UTC

Oh.

[A small, rueful smile tones her voice now. If she's aware that he's skirting away to change the subject, she mercifully let's him off with it.]

Being taken from one world and put into another seems to be an eventful thing.

[voice] oncefutureking December 9 2009, 05:26:04 UTC

[He is no fool, he recognizes she can see what he does, but some of the tension eases from his shoulders as she lets it slide.]

Yes. But I am rather sure there might be nicer places to arrive than here.

Re: [voice] sorighteously December 9 2009, 11:05:21 UTC

And yet, it was World's End that I wished for, fool though that may make me.

[voice] oncefutureking December 9 2009, 11:25:50 UTC

You wished for it?

[voice] ahahaha those icon keywords xD sorighteously December 9 2009, 11:49:59 UTC

Well, I did not know what it was, in Hyrule... I simply felt I'd - lost something.

It was the aftermath of a war, and such was to be expected, but I dreamed less of my adversaries and more of... these streets. This place.

[voice] i live to entertain xD oncefutureking December 9 2009, 19:33:05 UTC

I... see. Pardon my saying so, but that does seem strange.

I find it hard to comprehend this place would become nothing but a dream.

[voice] sorighteously December 10 2009, 22:03:41 UTC

I knew it to be more than that, and yet I could not place why. But things were missing, even though I was so glad to be home, to be able to put wrongs to right, and to see my - friends there, even if it was for one last time.

But this place is not all darkness and evil, your Grace. There is much of worth here too. We are not lost, not yet.

[voice] oncefutureking December 11 2009, 09:49:41 UTC

Hnm.

I find that hard to believe. I am surrounded by everything I have been taught to hate and fear, with creatures that even in myth had never been conceived of.

Each day is only more confusing than the last.

[And he stops speaking very quickly. He's not one to spill his heart, after all, especially not to a sorceress, however good she seems to be, no matter how worried he is about Camelot and his friends and family there.]

Back to all threads