video; unseelie

[desperate_times]

Wakey-wakey eggs and bakey~.

[Have one smiling treasure hunter to greet you all. It's been quite a year! She's seen a lot of this world, but now it's back to business, it seems.]

Communications are back online! At least for us. I'll bet the seelie have theirs online now, too. How are we supposed to banter back and forth though? It's not as fun if we're not glaring at each other and shouting death threats.

Oh well, we can still glare in spirit, right?

[Let's see, what else is new?]

Have all the sleeping people woken up? You should know that while you were sleeping, we stripped you naked and made an Unseelie 2702 calendar. And if you weren't asleep, don't tell them that's a lie, you'll ruin the surprise.

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[uneulogized]

I'll miss the ham-fisted Cold War references. For those of us who understood 'em in the first place, anyway.

[Kayneth had made quite the impression on Jason. Plus, he still thinks it's utterly ridiculous that any conflict here was compared to that.

There's a long beat before he adds:]

Long time no see. Having these back helps in another way, at least.

[desperate_times]

[She smiles at seeing him.]

Yes, it's been awhile. Though I was hoping I'd hear from you.

[They had such a good time at Samhain, after all.]

Glad to see you're in one piece.

[uneulogized]

Not for lack of trying to fall apart a few times. [Though he could be bullshitting on that front.]

Guess we won't have to wonder much anymore, thanks to these. Nice of them to give them back finally.

[desperate_times]

Yes, the air was too quiet for my liking.

And it does make it easier to get in touch with people.

What do you think will happen now? Do you think there'll be another battle like before?

[uneulogized]

We've just suffered a great deal of losses. [He considers that for a moment, allowing his initial words to hang in the air.]

I don't think it'd be a good idea to keep letting things screw us over. We'll have to act. We wasted the last year, after all.

[desperate_times]

Not like we could do anything last year.

[They had no leadership.]

What are you suggesting? A full scale assault? Not sure how that would work out for us.

[uneulogized]

Hey, did that sound like a suggestion? [He offers a faint smile.] I'm just not one for sitting on my hands and letting the world end, that's all.

[desperate_times]

You're the hero type. I've known a few of those.

[And she knows they can't be stopped.]

Still, the war and all, a lot of times it doesn't make much sense to me. There's that dark thing out there now getting closer all the time. Shouldn't we be concerned with that instead?

[uneulogized]

The way they spell it out, fighting, killing Seelie ... which, by the way? Not all that heroic. [Jason's gotta defend his unheroic status. He can't help it.] Well, anyway, it's supposed to give our lovely monarchs the strength to help with that. And if they get strength, we get strength, and we all take care of it.

It's the circle of life. Just with more death and destruction and less lions on plateaus.

[desperate_times]

But the seelie have to be trying to accomplish the same thing, right? Stopping that darkness.

Can't there be another way to stop it other than killing each other?

[uneulogized]

Are they? [It feels like a necessary question.]

Or are they fighting to stop it because they need to buy time to kill more of us?

[desperate_times]

I don't know, but if I had that in my backyard I'd want to do something about it.

[Seems as though it's just logical the seelie would want it gone, too.]

Look, the thing is, I'm not a soldier. I try to avoid more battles than I enter. This whole thing is a little nuts sometimes.

[uneulogized]

I do ... different work back home. [Conceding that much is easy.] I fight, sure, but this world world ending thing has inspired me to apply it to a different picture. It's just how I function. [So far, he's the only one from his particular neck of the woods, too.]

But it isn't for everyone. Honestly, all I ask is that people like you don't impede us for trying to fight and help. And from what I've seen ... [which is a lot and nothing at all, but he still smirks. He is still an obnoxious twenty-year-old at heart.] ... that really just isn't your thing.

[desperate_times]

People like me?

You were more of a sweet talker during Samhain.

[She crosses her arms and tries to look offended. Pouty lips and all.]

[uneulogized]

... Not how I meant that to come out. [He actually does look properly apologetic.]

Not everyone's in the fighting game. Not everyone cares for wars and saving the world or whatever else. General statement. Not meant to offend.

I promise.

[desperate_times]

[Well, he is right. She's not one who cares for wars or saving the world. She doesn't want her world to end, though. Chloe has friends there she actually cares about.]

I guess I can let you make it up to me.

[uneulogized]

[He pants a laugh.]

It almost sounds like you were aiming for that. Got something in mind?

[desperate_times]

Not especially, but I wouldn't mind seeing you again sometime.

In person, I mean. [Not just through lockets.]

[uneulogized]

I usually make the Diasbaile my headquarters, but I can get somewhere else easily enough. [Because thank everything for fairy rings and the fact that they're working again.]

[desperate_times]

I think I'll try and find a little place at the Station. A little home away from home. Next time you're in the area, drop in and see me.

[Provided she isn't off adventuring somewhere.]

[uneulogized]

I can probably manage that, and I'll keep it in mind.