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May 10, 2010 06:25

[Sound comes on, but the video hasn't engaged yet. What follows is a series of obscenities that would make women blush and children cover their ears in practically any world they were understood. Fortunately, unless one spoke Conclave Common or the language of Espedon's homeworld, you'd be spared the atrocity. The video feed turns on and he. Looks ( Read more... )

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 9 2010, 21:46:01 UTC
Espedon? Don't hurt anyone, what's wrong? What are you missing?

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Re: [video] thirteen_blades May 10 2010, 08:38:44 UTC
The Seventh. That little ts'aleh took it away. I don't know how or why, and I don't care. But when I have it back, she's going to pay.

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 10 2010, 15:42:43 UTC
[head tilts]
The seventh what? What's...ts'aleh?
[winces]
Espedon, please, don't hurt her. She's just a little girl.

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Re: [video] thirteen_blades May 10 2010, 20:36:35 UTC
MY SWORDS, RITSUKA!

[A roar. Takes a breath. Rubs temple.]

She's not what she looks like. 'Little girls' can't do what she does. It's a face, I know it. And she crossed the line.

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 10 2010, 21:21:55 UTC
[He flinches, ears folding back flat against his head, eyes wide and tail poofed, nearly dropping the PDA]

Y-you'll find it again. It can't be far.

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Re: [video] thirteen_blades May 10 2010, 22:44:28 UTC
[More deep breaths. He sounds calmer now.]

...I apologize, Ritsuka. I lost my composure.

Thank you for your concern. Those swords are more important than anything to me, so please understand. They're everything, and they may be my only way out of here.

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 11 2010, 04:06:23 UTC
Mmm...it's fine.

[smiles warmly but his ears are still pressed back, rather frightened]

Did someone special give them to you? Is that why they're so important?

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Re: [video] thirteen_blades May 11 2010, 04:13:27 UTC
No... nobody special gave them to me. Truthfully, I've had to kill all but one of their previous owners, and the last one... the sword itself did its work before I had to.

[His expression becomes troubles, as though the thought of it bothered him.]

I've sacrificed a lot to get them, and I'm only halfway to completing the Seventh. I can't stop now, I have to get them back.

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 11 2010, 04:16:29 UTC
[blinks in surprise]

...You stole them? Why?

[frowns at the thought of Espedon killing people for them]

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Re: [video] thirteen_blades May 11 2010, 04:22:58 UTC
[His anger has, by now, subsided, and the fury has been replaced by an intense calculation that Ritsuka hadn't been privy to. It wasn't overtly threatening, but it was almost as though Espedon had... 'turned on'.]

When I found it, the Seventh told me that when it was completed, it would bless its owner with perfect power over life and death. I've seen it at work, Ritsuka, and I believe it. What it's shown me.

Each piece of the Seventh cannot be stolen. It can't change hands until its previous owner gives it away freely, or is killed. A simple matter.

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 11 2010, 04:28:30 UTC
[head tilts in confusion]

The...sword told you?

Mmm. Power over life and death? What does that...mean exactly?

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Re: [video] thirteen_blades May 11 2010, 07:22:40 UTC
Yes, the Seventh speaks. Both in words and in... visions. But not any longer- not since I arrived here. I had my suspicions that Libitina was causing the interference, and this thievery makes it even clearer.

[He looks off-screen.]

Power over life and death...? The power to create, and to destroy. To live forever, or to die forever. To quell life, or to preserve it.

...the children... I can bring them back...

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[video] hisxsacrifice May 12 2010, 22:52:57 UTC
Hmm. Like...in your head?
[looks thoughtful]
Soubi and I can do that.

[frowns]
That's a lot of power. I wouldn't want to live forever.

Children?

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