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Xanth Aumeli ([personal profile] snowtop) wrote2011-06-18 01:58 am

001. (v2) [audio + commentlog/open]

A...Again?

[Xanth lets out a hollow, bitter laugh.]

I... n-no, you, you have to be k--kidding. I-I already d--did this. M-My world was... a-already gone. Th--The End took it. K-K'lai, a-and Grams, they... th-they were... already gone.

[He takes in a shuddering breath. His chest tightens, his voice cracks.]

N--Now you say it... it's all g-gone? Unmade? D--Didn't ev--even-- h-happen? How!? I-- I lived that! It-- it can't-- not again--

[There's a small gasp, like a prelude to a sob, but then Xanth slams the book shut.

Xanth takes his record, takes his key, and immediately sets out into the Keep. He's tired, he's so fucking tired, but he has to know if anyone else got snatched into this mess too.]
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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-06-22 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Elegante? Is that was the ship was-Oh.

[They'd reached the wall, and the little gate that would take them through to the thermal pools.]

It's not far. It's just through here and past the library, in the Great Keep.
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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-06-23 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
So, did it travel between worlds?

[That it was a ship between worlds is pretty obvious. But Kairi wants to know if it actually stopped anywhere.]
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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-06-23 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's strange. How could it be hard to tell? Kairi skips over a stone as they skirt about the edge of the thermal pools and make for the library, but her gaze is still on Xanth.]

What kinds of places did you visit?

[Maybe one of them was somewhere she would remember.]
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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-06-24 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
They both sound nice.

[Kairi misses his voice failing. She's focused on the path ahead of them. Once they round the corner of the library, they'll be able to see the entrance to the Keep. She glances back to check how Xanth's walking and it's then that she catches sight of his face.]

Weren't they?
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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-06-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
...Okay.

[The answer is oddly specific but she doesn't press it. If he doesn't want to talk about it then she won't make him.]

The infirmary's just through here.

[And she points across the small courtyard to the little side door in the Keep's ground floor.]
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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-06-29 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [She stops short. She hadn't been expecting to be so abruptly dismissed.] Okay. Well, it's inside on the left.

[She takes a couple of steps back, but doesn't yet turn away.]

I'll see you around, okay?

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[personal profile] lightwithin 2011-07-01 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

[She nods. It's probably more emphatic than it needs to be, but she is determined to patch things up with him... However weird it is.]

Okay. Well, bye.

[And she turns, setting off toward the barracks.]

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[identity profile] aegisofsilk.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's some minutes before Isabel happens upon Xanth there. She triest to enter through the side door behind him and there is no avoiding the collision.]

I beg your pardon. What are you doing there?

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[identity profile] aegisofsilk.livejournal.com 2011-07-04 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[She had been carrying a stack of fresh laundry and she sets it down now. She needn't ask if he needs the physician. He is crying a filthy.]

The physician will be returning shortly.

[She pulls a handkerchief from the pile of laundry and offers it to him.]

Dry your tears.

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[identity profile] aegisofsilk.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[She averts her eyes.]

How did you come to be so injured?

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[identity profile] aegisofsilk.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Isabel looks back at the boy and nods curtly. As long as the large battle that he spoke of had not happened on the grounds, she did not particularly care.

Still, if he is so new that his wounds are still fresh, better she set him to rights to begin with.]


And you are safe here. You will have time to heal. Provided that you do not provoke further confrontations.

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[identity profile] aegisofsilk.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Luck had very little do with anything on that count, but Isabel does not say so. She frowns at his scoffing and narrows her eyes, but passes no comment. He does not yet know to whom he speaks.]

Tell me, how long have you been here?

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[identity profile] aegisofsilk.livejournal.com 2011-07-09 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Isabel bristles. No, he certainly does not know to whom he speaks. That much is obvious. Time to remedy that particular problem.]

I am Lady Isabel, the Keep's chatelaine.

[She drew herself up and stared down her nose at him.]

I have been here longer than I care to count.

[Or at least, longer than she cares to tell him.]

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