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- arcane: caitlyn,
- arcane: vi,
- arcane: viktor,
- doctor who: the doctor,
- harry potter: hermione granger,
- legend of fei: xie yun,
- mcu: kamala khan,
- mcu: stephen strange,
- oh! my emperor: beitang moran,
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- star trek: leonard mccoy (aos),
- the gifted: marcos diaz,
- umbrella academy: five,
- warcraft: wrathion
un: man's greatest treasure (text)
[ooc: backdated to Sand In Your Eyes (end of)]
Hello, Hermione here, currently writing this from the exit of Ra'esh's temple.
We've found water for the sandworms in a pool, in a cave. We also found a woman in that cave. Her name was Marath, she was alive, and she was tied to the altar and chained. We've set her free - and if anyone has a word of criticism about that decision, by all means, convince me why any living soul should be chained to an altar and left to rot and to thirst and to die. I'll wait.
Anyway, Marath's people are the ones who occupied Uruksithar. She claimed she was left behind because she warned them not to go into the desert. Once freed, Marath ran (rather athletic for someone of her condition if you ask me) and left myself and Vi locked in the temple.
Don't worry, we're out now. Keep an eye out for Marath, if you can. And don't drink the water from the cave if you make it there, it felt...oozy.
[ooc; If you'd like some context, here you go.]
Hello, Hermione here, currently writing this from the exit of Ra'esh's temple.
We've found water for the sandworms in a pool, in a cave. We also found a woman in that cave. Her name was Marath, she was alive, and she was tied to the altar and chained. We've set her free - and if anyone has a word of criticism about that decision, by all means, convince me why any living soul should be chained to an altar and left to rot and to thirst and to die. I'll wait.
Anyway, Marath's people are the ones who occupied Uruksithar. She claimed she was left behind because she warned them not to go into the desert. Once freed, Marath ran (rather athletic for someone of her condition if you ask me) and left myself and Vi locked in the temple.
Don't worry, we're out now. Keep an eye out for Marath, if you can. And don't drink the water from the cave if you make it there, it felt...oozy.
[ooc; If you'd like some context, here you go.]
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Feeling a bit foolish now, but I couldn't leave her there just in case she was undead. That felt unspeakably cruel.
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You have a heart. You really care. Don't think you're the type of person who'd see some type of fucked up injustice and be able to walk away easy. I like that about you. But yeah, punishments can be really cruel for the living, for the dead, probably for undead too. Whatever she was.
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Thanks for saying that. I don't think I would've been able to act any differently, even if she does turn out to be undead, or even evil. I couldn't see her there and just leave.
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For saying the truth? You fiercely and bravely care even at great risk to yourself. It's a beautiful, dangerous quality. ( And she hates to think about that, about something happening to her. She thinks of all that lurks in the Underworld behind chains, the things they can say, the way even the most evil of beings can beg in the right circumstances. And still she wouldn't want Hermione to change at all. )
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She wasn't that much of a risk to myself, to be honest. I was expecting her to end up being a great evil, and attack us both at the first opportunity - I was ready for that! But all she did was surprise us and run.
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For Marath at least she can say she did that, whatever mistake she did, because it had been the right thing to do.]
I was aware that it could, as Ms Eda puts it, bite me in the arse. [Here's another word to enjoy the pronounciation of in Hermione's accent, Red.] But I was going to do it anyway, because there was a chance she was an innocent woman tied to an altar and left behind.
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She can hear Hermione's confusion. It's difficult to explain without Hermione knowing all the things she hasn't told her yet, all the things she has been too scared to, because somehow Hermione seeing her differently is the- the hardest idea to wrap her head around. But Hermione is beautiful and good and brave and so human.
It's not even that she might see her as a monster (Red understands nothing is so simple), but seeing her as not-human, which she's not, seeing her in a different light than before in any sense of the word. It's stupid maybe. She's not human and she's not-not human, and she's- But she doesn't want Hermione to see her like that so she hasn't ever let herself say the words out loud to her like she should, because it'll inevitably come up when she shifts into Cerberus or- or some shit like that.
Difficult to describe the Underworld which was mostly Purgatory High, but parts of it were for punishment, for people who inarguably often did not deserve it. She was to guard them, she was to make certain their punishments went on for all the endless amount of time that eternity lasts, that the afterlife lasts. A man punished to push a boulder up and down a hill, punished to thirst and never take a drink.
That kind of mercy did not exist there (a punishment was a punishment, and she existed beside it for longer- for a long time), and Red isn't human enough to understand it. )
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Dangerous and beautiful.
( A pause. ) You need anything?
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I'm good. Unless you hid one of Emilia's canoli in your pockets before we left Serthica.
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...no. I've got water, liquor which is not recommended in the desert, and some food but nothing that good. Sadly. Actually I grabbed some candies from the inn if you want something sweet.
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Want me to come to you, or are you guys heading back to the tents any time soon?
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