Anti-OTP: Mordred/Galahad

[illgotten]

Unlike Gawain or Sagramore, he doesn't habitually carry the sword anymore. When he does, it alters him subtly; not only his physical balance but his whole self. With it in hand, he looks graver, wholly adult and not a little archaic

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[mildmajesty]

Galahad's step is quiet, but not inaudible, and should the sword-swinging Mordred turn on the intruder, he would find the other knight unarmed and unshielded. He stops by a tree some distance from Mordred, but in clear view, looking at him gravely and a trifle uncomfortably.

[mildmajesty]

Sharply, "You leave a room when I walk in. If you cannot, you stay in it only to glare and glower at me, to insult me. That is hardly 'not fawning'."

[illgotten]

"Don't flatter yourself," shot back instantly.

[mildmajesty]

"You deny that you dislike me? "

[illgotten]

"No more than you do me," flatly. "I wouldn't take the time out of my day to insult you."

[mildmajesty]

"And what was that?"

[illgotten]

"An advisement." The dark eyes flick over him. "I haven't left, either, though God knows I ought to."

[mildmajesty]

Galahad frowns, more troubled than angry in this moment, and looks away for a moment.

[illgotten]

Mordred shrugs. "So."

[mildmajesty]

"God knows nothing that happens in this place," he says in a low voice, still looking away, at the trees, at nothing at all.

[illgotten]

That gets Mordred's attention, after a brief doubletake. "Is that so?" he says then, dryly.

[mildmajesty]

"You said God knows," Galahad points out. "But if He did - if He saw, if He watched, the events that occur here, the sins laughed away..." He shakes his head. "It can only be that He does not see at all."

[illgotten]

"Oh, really!" He does laugh at that, incredulously. "Where the hell have you been?"

[mildmajesty]

Well, that brings his focus back to Mordred, to be sure. "Here," he snaps back. "On this estate. At the - Mansion."

[illgotten]

"And you think it differs from Camelot in anything but the number of men with wings?"

[mildmajesty]

"In Camelot," Galahad replies stiffly, "men were punished or repentant for their wrongdoings. Here, they do them again. And again. And nothing changes, or matters."