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Phew...the throne room sure is a nerve-racking place, huh? I thought I was gonna have a heart attack or something...

Anyway, I had a little talk with the king...reul? He's got a really interesting name, I almost thought he was gonna be someone else. I wanted to know what they were actually fighting for here...but, uh, he's really intense, it was so hard to focus. He said something about a true end, and the seelie have something to do with it? I've been thinking about it since then this whole time...

[And pretending to be an easily intimidated teenager sure is a handy excuse to not mention anything else she was told.]

So I was wondering, anyone know what the deal with that is? Has anyone asked the Seelie monarchs something like that? I'd be interested in hearing what they have to say, especially their involvement with something so sinister sounding.

I guess I just don't wanna end up helping the bad guys by mistake.

[Not that she genuinely believes life's so easily divided into black and white, but she'll get some amusement out of it if someone tries giving the whole "good and evil are subjective" lecture to her of all people.]

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Um.

[Check out that look of intense concentration.]

Let me think...

Something about a morning star...ending oppression...he smack talked order a lot, but I don't know if he meant Seelie or that in general? Then there was a bunch of threats about leaving if anyone didn't want to help him out, otherwise there'd be trouble, but the way he said it was way more intimidating. He actually seems like a pretty poetic guy!

Mostly just, like I said, halting the true end and preserving everything.

[A beat.]

...I might be paraphrasing a bit.

["""A bit"""]

[Yeah, a bit. Well, that mostly sounds the same as what Morla said to him, besides threatening to leave, but that sounds like something more along the lines of personal passion on the king's part. And one more thing-]

A morning star?

[Already being biased toward associating 'Unseelie' with 'evil', as much as he knows he shouldn't, yet it is everything he would normally consider to be evil, such a suspicious phrase is quick to draw a conclusion.]

As in Lucifer?

Huh? Well, he--

[She pauses, briefly, then sounds like she's come to a realization of sorts.]

Ah, you wouldn't know, I guess. His name, Reul na Maidine? It's morningstar in gaelic. That's what I meant when I said I thought he was going to be someone else.

Now, whether or not the guy has any relation to Lucifer or not, that I can't say.

["Hêlêl ben Sāḥar. Morning star, son of the Dawn. Fragment of Me."

Whether or not he really knows more about that than he was letting on, or the King was just trying to win her over by saying that...she can't say. That's one of the things that bothers her.

But she hadn't paid it any mind. She was the morningstar. God never acknowledged her as anything but a fragment of Him that ""lost it's way"", not something less than that. This Reul guy clearly just thought too much of himself, acting like the Devil was just some part of him. Get real.]

[Berserker's eyes grow wide, and although he doesn't pale, he looks as if he should, or would. Neither side is 'good', so far as he can see, but has he been called to the side of the Devil? Then it would certainly be because of Hyde, all the atrocious things he's done, worthy of some sort of demon. He recalls a certain book, a religious one, and the writing that looks as if his own hand - that is his own hand - scratched into the margins, with every kind of horrible blasphemy. That Poole and Utterson saw it, took it for his doing, if what Stevenson wrote was true. That's what this is, a devil masquerading as him and dragging him down to that level.

On the other hand, he has sworn to protect and help people, even if that means becoming a monster. Maybe Jekyll really is a devil himself. Deep in thought, he brings a hand to his mouth, looking as if he might be sick, or maybe about to cry. But eventually he has to speak. Yet there is still a deep panic in his voice.]

Did he...did he say anything particularly on the subject? It may simply be a meaning, certainly such a phrase should normally be taken as rather a good thing! Or even was, in the beginning!

He didn't say much about it at all, just once...kind of an "I, the morningstar, blah blah blah!" line or two.

[That part being the first thing she has lied about, with regards to her audience with Reul. After that, she pauses yet again, as if she's in thought.]

I think you're overreacting though. So what if he does have any relation to the guy?

[Meaning "please continue I want to hear just how far your fear of anything remotely luciferian goes."]

Edited 2015-01-12 02:25 (UTC)

-He called himself the morningstar? Is that not then quite the relation? At least, one would easily be made to assume so, with such wording!

[He bites his lip hard, feeling that familiar sinking in his stomach, and pain in his head. The loss of breath that comes with the deep terror he feels for it, as something rises in his chest that he must hold back. Berserker looks away, closes his eyes only to blink, and when he opens them again, they're red. Still he doesn't look directly at Hikaru anymore, in some attempt to hide the change.]

He seems interesting. I wish I'd had the chance to speak with him. I apologise for my reaction, it's simply surprise, I'd not expected such connections. It would be quite something.

[PAL IF YOU THINK SHE ISN’T WISE TO YOUR ANTICS HERE YOU’RE FOOLING YOURSELF.

Of course, she doesn’t acknowledge it. Best to keep Berserker thinking that she hasn’t noticed.]

Something? Ahah…a minute ago it sounded like you were almost worried. What, you’re actually interested?

[LOOK, HE CAN TRY, OKAY]

Yes, how could it not be interesting? Ah, I guess in some ways it's a bit frightening no matter what, really, but even so. You will keep me in the loop on that subject, won't you?

[While Jekyll would rather not know, it's up to Hyde to be sure he does. If he's essentially working for Satan, it would be hilariously distressing for the other, exciting for himself.]

And what if he was? What then?

Then I should like all the more to speak with him. To hear what he has to say. How could anyone deny how fascinating such a thing would be? Whether or not one approves, it would be something quite amazing.

[He offers the sort of smile Jekyll would, to not be so suspicious.]

Hm… [A beat.] You’re really bad at pretending, you know? If you’re going to interrupt, the least you can do is introduce yourself first.

Especially when dealing with a lady.

We can do it one step at a time.

[Ahem.]

Hello sir! Who am I talking to now?

[Hyde bristles, to be called out so suddenly and bluntly. But oh well. It's the risk he took.]

That remains unchanged, Berserker.

[It isn't a lie, but of course not what was meant.]

Did you think you would get a name?

[She was just being a shit but...whatever man, she'll roll with it.]

Hah! You caught me. Guess I'll need to try harder if I'm going to outsmart you two.

That's a little confusing though...should I assign you numbers? That'd make you Berserker 2. Maybe twoserker. He can be oneserker.

[With a sigh, he slips into his own voice, deeper than Jekyll.]

There is no need to make distinctions. We are one in the same, despite anything my other half might say.

[Really, don't, the numbers sound stupid, he'd rather give his real name than listen to that.]

Now you've changed the topic.

[Alright, a bit more seriously:]

I'll keep you in the loop like you asked, but I can't promise anything soon. I doubt this one instance makes the King and I best friends or something.

You might be out of luck hoping to meet him anyway. People seem surprised he did speak with me, so apparently he's very careful about the company he keeps.

I expect nothing, only to be told if there is something. I do not share the same spineless attitude and am only interested in knowing whether I should become loyal to the king for some reason.

[Like being the devil.]

And you'd be loyal to him based on that? On being Lucifer?

It would give me a greater inclination. Of course, the rest is still dependant upon specifics. And I would offer my life to none.

What a weird thing to say.

[She laughs though, sounding amused.]

It's not been all that long, but...you're way more interesting than the other guy, you know that? That mysterious edge of yours, I just don't know how a girl like me is supposed to resist it.

Could you tell me more? Why you feel that way?

[Don't sound like you're flirting with him, that's the worst possible thing anyone could do. But just like that, with such fine compliments, placing him above Jekyll, he accepts the conversation. Even decides she might not be so bad as she's seemed.]

Of course. That man is boring in every way, and what's more, a hypocrite. That is the reason for which I feel this way, everything he denies should be increased tenfold in me, until I cannot be denied. There is nothing worse than those who put on airs or masks, hide their true thoughts and interests for the sake of appearances, and call it morality or goodness. I would imagine one such as Lucifer would be just the opposite. Someone therefore far more admirable.

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