[Accidental Voice // Action] 018

[silvergeneral]

[the journal cuts in with the steady crunch of boots on gravel--and then a quicker, lighter step following; Sephiroth's voice starts up]

"You know I don't need your help, yes?"

[and then... Faith?]

"Help hell. You are ten ways worth of creepy just showing up at my window and asking after borrowing an axe, you know that? Girl's gotta keep an eye

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[sweetcissy]

[Narcissa has just stepped out of a shop - winter accessories, her hands are getting cold - to see a vaguely menacing silver-haired person toting a very menacing axe, being followed by a sceptical-looking brunette.

She's not entirely sure she wants to know what's happening here. Apparently her decision to meet more people here might not have been a good one in this instance, accidental though it is.]

[action]

[silvergeneral]

[No need to be frightened, my dear, we're in a very small village and he could well be gallantly on a course for cutting down some giant tree to provide all and sundry with fire and shelter.

...Of course he isn't, but that doesn't stop him from noting her presence and nodding politely to her as he plows on.]

[action]

[sweetcissy]

[It's not fear... yet. More a healthy respect for weaponry being carried by someone who looks like they're very well acquainted with what the business end of an axe can do. She's glad she found her wand.

And etiquette demands she return his greeting, which she does - a polite smile as he goes past.]

[action]

[silvergeneral]

[Now were he not a Man on a Mission, he might well have stopped for a little while longer. Alas, his mind is on other things, and he continues along on his way.]

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[sweetcissy]

[And there's an odd feeling of 'that was a close one' as he does so...]