[Voice]

[kakolookiyam]

...Cousin, I believe I will go to Sunde with you, this evening. If you would like. This fog has inspired me to a new appreciation of wine. Besides, I owe you one for that knock on the head. I would invite you as well, Terra, but only if you promise no to... What was that word? Ah, yes. Promise not to 'brain' him. Yes

Comments

[empressoftime]

You have my full attention, my prince. What troubles you?

[Locked to Prince and Kaileena]

[kakolookiyam]

Kaileena, when you died at the Vizier's hands and the Sands were released they... tainted me.

[Locked to Prince and Kaileena]

[empressoftime]

I know, Prince. I -

...What is the last thing that you remember of our world?

[Locked to Prince and Kaileena]

[kakolookiyam]

Giving you the dagger. And you took the sand from my arm, I know. But... it was more than just the Sands, Kaileena. I heard a voice.

I hear it still.

[Locked to Task Force]

[captaincubscout]

Thanks.

Ada's a lot of things, but a vicious killer isn't one of them.

[Locked to Task Force]

[kakolookiyam]

I would prefer to think of myself in the same light. I am not particularly well acquainted with Tifa, yet she seems a nice sort and I would not wish her such harm.

That someone masquerades as members of the Task Force is especially troubling. Our reputation suffers already.

[Locked to Task Force]

[captaincubscout]

That's a little more than a masquerade. Might as well have been her twin.

[Locked to Task Force]

[kakolookiyam]

You have not been here long. We have found ourselves in different bodies before, at a god's whim. Perhaps that is what has happened.

Locked to the Task Force

[dragonism]

...Thanks.

I'm likely to agree with you and Leon. Something isn't adding up here.

-Actually, speaking of rituals, Alex did find something when he found Claire. A piece of paper with some writing on it. Sounded like some kind of pagan ceremony to me.

Locked to the Task Force

[kakolookiyam]

What did it say?

Locked to the Task Force

[dragonism]

Lots.

Speak.

I am the Crimson One.

The lies and the mist are
not they but I.
You all know that I am One.
Yes, and the One is I.Believers hearken to me!

Twenty score men and seven thousand beasts.

Heed my words and speaketh them to all, that they shall ever be obeyed even under the light of the proud and merciless sun.I shall bring down bitter vengeance upon thee and thou shalt suffer my eternal wrath.

The beauty of the withering flower and the last struggles of the dying man, they are my blessings.Thou shalt ever call upon me and all that is me in the place that is silent.

Oh, proud fragrance of life which flies towards the heart. Oh Cup which brims with the whitest of wine, it is in thee that all begins.

Never heard it, have you?

Locked to the Task Force

[kakolookiyam]

I certainly have not.

This is... troubling, to say the least.

[Voice][Filtered]

[sorighteously]

Of course, my lord. You know you need not ask.

[Voice][Locked to the Royalty]

[kakolookiyam]

I was thinking we both might enjoy a trip to the bath house...

[Voice][Locked to the Royalty]

[sorighteously]

[This could be deemed a tad inappropriate, could it not?]

Certainly, my lord.

[Smiling regardless.]

[todomarishi]

... I acted at your behest. I have no reason to attack him again.

[kakolookiyam]

Then you will come?

[todomarishi]

I suppose.