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[gordianknots]

Unseelie Locket Network, voice

In light of the decree given by the Black Shuck, I am seeking to try and create a database of banshee sightings, to try and help get teams of people or individuals out to the exact location and to give them a hand. To that extent, if anyone is willing to volunteer where they’re interested in heading, so that a note of it might be made and more ground can be be covered by others checking to see if an area has been seen to, please let me know. The goal is to organize something useful, so that this can be done as completely as plausible.

Thank you in advance for your help, and I wish you luck in your endevours.

To Hermione-Net, voice

Hi all. To make a long story short, with the temporary lax standards the Shuck has forced our monarchs to to take, I’m temporarily allowing Unseelie and Seelie alike into the Barrel to try and get this banshee task attended to in the most concise manner possible. I’m trying to collect all possible sightings, and I’ll be happy to pass on spots to check out for anyone who’s interested in restoring their voices.

Obviously for everyone’s safety I’m going to ask that those of you making use of the Barrel try and not go too far astray from the task before us. However, if you need a place for final farewells, I’m not exactly going to stop you either.

Please let me know if you have questions, otherwise I do look forward to seeing a number of you for a final round of cooperation before we have to get back to killing each other.

[ooc: Please let me know what network you're replying on. Also Barrel link for all your cooperation needs!]

Comments

[brainiest]

No. He was good to me, at least then.

[ Hermione breathes out slowly. ]

It just keeps getting harder.

[gordianknots]

We're at the end of the whole she-bang. Of course it's going to be hard.

[brainiest]

I know that. This isn't my first war.

[ Her fingers lift, rubbing absently at her silver scar before she squeezes her eyes closed. ]

[gordianknots]

It isn't mine either. But this is bigger than any thing you've been in, or I've been in, because of the stakes and how this place forces you divide loyalties by picking things from home versus home itself.

[brainiest]

No. You're right, it's not that simple.

[ And she looks at Waver, nervous, before she reaches out for his hand. ]

I'm glad I got the chance to see you again. I meant it when I said I missed you, more than I could say.

[gordianknots]

Look, while I've got you here.

[Waver lets Hermione take his hand, but he's a little uncomfortable with the request.]

I need to ask something else, to remain in confidence: is it likely for Seelie to go after shardbearer's kids, if they're in the opposite court?

[brainiest]

[ Hermione pauses, blinking, before she hesitates. ]

I... A lot of the people I know wouldn't hurt children, no. It's not likely that the children would be hurt on purpose.

[gordianknots]

Look, I fully expect to lose my shard at some point soon, that's cold reality. [Waver's accounted for it. He's working on stopgap measures. He's gotten written contract from Morla saying she'll leave them be. He needs the same from the Seelie side.] I want to make sure that they're not going to be pulled into bullshit when I'm dead.

That's what happened to Alyosha's kids, and I'll be damned if I let history repeat.

[brainiest]

I don't know how I haven't lost mine already, honestly. I'm surprised at how many of us have kept them. [ Hermione breathes out, letting her fingers slide away from his before she lifts her head up. ]

If I have to, I'll make sure that I get a contract of some kind. [ Not that Solais owes her, exactly, but - ] I'm a Marchioness. If anything happens to you and the Unseelie, Waver, I'll protect your family. I swear it.

[gordianknots]

An official contract is off the table, that's too risky. [it makes it seem like he's up to something anyway.] Just get someone, ideally native, to keep an eye on the house for a week or so. Ask Flora too, since the girls are dryads and she's got that authority.

[brainiest]

[ She nods her head, sharp and sure. This is important, after all. ]

I'll do it. I have some native friends I trust, too, that won't cause suspicion being around - there are resources. I promise.

[gordianknots]

Thank you. That takes a great deal off my plate.

[brainiest]

I'll always do what I can to help you, Waver. That's what friends are for.

[gordianknots]

Right now, I'm treating this like business. It's...a safer way to approach it. Keeps the emotional entanglements out.

[brainiest]

[ She understands that, but it doesn't stop it from stinging. Nodding, she holds herself a little straighter. ]

Then you have my word. I'll do whatever I can protect yours should anything happen to you.

[gordianknots]

Thank you. You have fewer entanglements, I know, but if there's anything you require safely seen to--

[There's the little implication of after you lose your position.]

[brainiest]

I'm legally John's daughter now. If I lose my shard or my position I'll end up with him. Otherwise... There's no one that would need help if something happened to me.

[ No one that is enjoying her protection, no one that relies on her. ]

[gordianknots]

[Good, there's a plan in place. That's a relief.]

John's always been reliable, hasn't he? [Waver really ought to get in touch with him one of these days.]

[brainiest]

He's been there for me since the first day I woke up here. I'm lucky to be able to call him my father.

[ Her fingers tug at the dog tags he gave her even as she doesn't quite manage to smile. ]

[gordianknots]

Mmm. He'll probably outlive us all.

[brainiest]

[ She wonders, absently, if that's meant to be a joke considering how... Immortal John is. ]

There's no probably about it.

[gordianknots]

[Both.]

We should be survived by such a man. I ought to bug him about writing a history of this era. Make sure he gets all the good bits.

[brainiest]

I hope the good bits mean the funny bits.

[ Not that she... Remembers the last funny times right now. ]

[gordianknots]

All of it. As complete an account as possible.

[brainiest]

I'll make sure to leave him my quills and parchment in my Will.