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[Anyone who knows Lancelot will likely as not be immediately surprise that he is sending any kind of message that is written. It is hardly one of his strengths. Still, the message is short, and this way devoid of emotion. Which is best, considering the topic. ]

For those who knew him Faolan is no longer with us.

He sacrificed himself for the sake of a friend.

So far as I understand he will be returned, in some days, by the power of the courts.

He will need space and kindness.

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He travelled with some of us to seek a way to fight the jabberwock from the Pyrii. The creature has been known to reduce cities to rubble and leave land barren. The Pyrii turned on us with their fire and he gave me his protective ring, allowed himself to be consumed by the fire instead.

[ For the next fifteen or so minutes, Alice doesn't reply back. It's mostly because there are two things that should never be mentioned in front of her—not that Lancelot would possess this knowledge—a Jabberwock and being consumed by fire. Alice has to step back and pace about her room, already regretting such a rude and cruel question. What is she thinking, asking a question like that to someone who lost a friend?

And more importantly, they had gone out of their way to look for something to kill the Jabberwock; is nothing to be done? Is the inevitable that close? She does not even know this man and her heart already goes out for him, this Faolin, having lost her own family in a fire and nearly losing her life in one as a child.

How befitting that the Jabberwock makes his way into this conversation, as if the Land of Fire and Brimstone has come back full force and her guilt consumes her again. ]

Edited 2015-01-21 20:48 (UTC)

I know of this creature more than you can ever know. Sir Lancelot, if it is not too much to ask while you mourn for your friend, but what have they told you?

[ There is no way that the Pyrii’s solution will be as clean cut as it would be for her, in Wonderland, not at all. And to discuss someone burning alive is far too painful for her, even after all of these years.]

The Pyrii agreed to consume the Jabberwock with fire, when called by us, although how much their word holds true after attacking us I cannot say. It is my understanding that the dragons were the only creatures able to fight back the Jabberwock, and now the last dragon has died it seems our only hope that this might hold true. It is said that the Jabberwock breaths poison, that it destroyed Treun and the lands long ago enough that there was a great famine.

Edited (wording) 2015-01-22 13:26 (UTC)

Is there no other way? I do hope you know, Sir Lancelot, that this can be stalled in some fashion if the Seelie do not march to Caer Scima.

And I know of you, Sir Lancelot, there are stories of you where I come from. When I was small, my father read me the stories of King Arthur and his knights, you included. And you may not think so highly of yourself along with your counterpart, but I know you believe in valor. You'll do well to remember that there are good people in Caer Scima. Do you do everything that you are told?

I have faced a Jabberwock before and while the one I fought didn't bring poison or famine, he certainly did bring ruin and destruction with him. If it is in my ability again, I'll destroy this one, too.

Forgive me, but the Unseelie will not sit idle. They have brought the fight to us more times than we have to them. If you think they will hold the Jabberwock simply because we stay within Caer Glaem you are mistaken. Morla will do whatever it takes to win. Ideals of peace, however I might desire them, hold no water here. I will do whatever I can to avoid unnecessary blood shed, but I will not stand aside while Morla tries to burn her way into our cities.

Then if you feel the need to defend yourself, so be it. I only implore you to remember we are human, too.

That can't be the only way to kill it. If you you know more about the plagues and the destruction it brings, tell me more.

Edited 2015-01-22 17:43 (UTC)

I asked Solais herself. I can think of no other who would wish to see the Jabberwock fall more than her when it is her court that will suffer. She said it cannot be destroyed, not even one piece. That it has been split into parts that must be re-assembled somehow. I do not understand how such a thing can be done with a living creature, but that is what I understand of it.

[ Another pause from Alice.

That's not funny, that is really not funny. The similarities are too much for her to handle. She killed the damn thing, she killed it after her took the life of the gryphon who gave his life for her and Wonderland. God, is it even worth mentioning that she used his own eye against him? Would that even work? ]

Because the Jabberwock will serve the will of it's monarch, regardless of what state it's in. It is the embodiment of fear and terror, after all.

[ Because that is exactly how the queen wanted the Jabberwock of Wonderland, too, rebuilt by the Hatter like Dormy and the March Hare. The only thing that will stop it from being so alike is that the Jabberwock would be rebuilt with flesh and nothing else. ]

Here I though the similarities stopped in name with this Jabberwock, but I suppose not. And what if you took a piece of it?

That I could not say. You think magic could be wrought with such a thing?

[ That sounds... dangerous, honestly. ]

[ Dangerous and risky, but now she wonders if she could have a piece of it.... could it be used in the same way. ]

Yes. What better way to keep the Jabberwock in line than using pieces of itself against it.

Yet to obtain such a piece it must be faced first. The plan is a risky one.

Edited 2015-01-29 00:07 (UTC)

Risky, yes, but not impossible. Believe me when I say so.

You say you know a lot about this creature. That you faced one before, but it was not the same. Was it also of the Unseelie court?

Yes, I have.

He was not of the Unseelie court, but he was of the Red Realm. He was slayed long ago, by the knife that I wield -- the vorpal blade, a knife that will never dull. Years later, the Queen of Hearts asked for his body to be reconstructed. He was built again, of flesh and metal. The lands in which the queen ruled, she had sent the Jabberwock to enforce her tyranny.

He was slain the second time by his own eye and limbs, by the Jabberwock's Eyestaff. I would have not dreamed to mention this to any of you, had you not mentioned it was rebuilt. If you deem it too risky, so be it, but if it is similar to the one I have brought down, then in theory, that is another option.

I have never faced such a creature myself, I cannot say if I overestimate the risk or not. Yet if a normal method of attach would see its end I would have thought Solais would simply have told us. It is in her interest to see her court protected. I will not stop you from trying, I only hope you do not bring yourself to harm too much should it prove different to your own Jabberwock. It may be worth checking your own court's libraries to see what information they have on the creature.

Currently, I am not in Caer Scima, and regretfully, I do not have plans to return there at the moment.

But I assure you, if this Jabberwock shows, I will not relent in seeing it dead. It does not matter what happens to me, it is a terrible creature and it should not exist in this world, Sir Lancelot. I do not care for the courts, I only care in seeing the damnable thing dead.

Then let us hope it can be brought down, between our two experiences, and that neither of us lose more in the process.

For you especially, Sir Lancelot.

[ Not only for her care of his counterpart, but as a former captive of Reynard, too. The Jabberwock being the manifestation of her survivor's guilt shouldn't be something like that for him, too. ]

Please, watch over yourself. When it does come, I will be coming for it, too, Unseelie or not. You need to rest before any of that.

I will rest so much as time and business allow.

I wish you luck.

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