eachdraidh | sixth snowball ❅ voice (both courts; backdated to the 18th)

[There's only a soft voice that rises, familiar to some but less cheerful than it's normally known to be.]

So this world is kind of in a crappy place right now, isn't it? [A sigh is heard along with a pause, but he continues.] It's not gonna be safe out there. For anybody. So if you don't feel safe, let me know and I'll find you. I'll make sure you're out of the way. Somehow.

[Another pause as he struggles to speak. This whole month, this entire war, it's too much of a mess.]

I'm not gonna let any of you die, okay?

PRIVATE VOICE MESSAGE TO; ariadne, hiccup, lancer, korra, mako, jon.

Merida's asleep, by the way. Just like I was. I don't know the details of it, but if it's anything like my case, she'll be asleep for an entire week. Except she ...

[He swallows hard, remembering his three hundred year hiatus.]

There's no telling how long it'll be on her side. It could be a day, it could be twenty years, I don't know. So just ... make sure to give her some support when she wakes up, okay? Trust me. She's gonna need it.

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That's a big responsibility to take up on your own, Jack. [ One that worries her slightly.

Will he feel he's failed if the loss of life was tremendous? That kind of damage is lasting--one he won't ever overcome. ]

Help people, but understand that there will be some who march out regardless. It's in their nature.

Trust me. I know. [He's talked to enough people about this to know he can't actually stop it. No matter how many blizzards he tries to toss around.]

But not everybody wants to be involved in this. They don't deserve that.

No, but they should know by now how to avoid the conflict. There are ways to contribute without being involved... [ Sighing. ]

You need to be careful.

[ Rin can't save everyone. That's the manta of another who is desperate to play hero, not one for the magus herself. ]

[He knows she's right and he's plenty reckless in his methods, but that's just how he is. Switching the locket to private, he speaks more softly than he's known to.]

I'm an old man, Rin. And that's not something I admit often. [There's a laugh, but it's still plenty melancholic.]

I've lived a long time and I've seen ... a lot of things. A lot of war. And it's not fair. And it's inevitable, but that doesn't make it any more right. I was made a Guardian back home, so I'm taking up the title here too. I have to help them as much as I can.

[ So many of her companions these days out live her and are wiser in age due to it. Not that it stops her from worrying about them or voicing her concerns out loud. ]

A Guardian...

If you insist on being a Guardian, there's nothing more I can say. It's a dangerous thing to take up on your shoulders, but in your age you understand. Take care, Jack. [ She'll help in her own way... later. ]

[He knows it doesn't be an invincible status on him. Old or not, he was just as capable as dying as anyone else. But at least it gave him an excuse.]

Funny enough, I was so determined to avoid that job as much as I could back home. Now it's all I've got. [There's a small, saddened smile she can't see before he goes on.]

But I will. You watch yourself too, Rin.

I will. [ She has no choice other than to do just that.

There's more she wants to say, but can't. Not when she knows that the lockets are monitored and that there are dangerous beings afoot. ]

Goodbye for now, Jack Frost.

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