Unseelie Lockets

[mercurialize]

Right. Quick question, assuming this is working…


Is anything here organized? Or is everyone intended to figure out this training thing on their own?

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[mercurialize]

[He barely knows his military standards or how it operates, but this is contradicting the few things he does.]

Isn't that usually what armies do? That's the point of having a general; to make those kinds of decisions.

[He pauses for a thought.]

Let me guess- we have no general.

[erythristic]

Of course we have a general. Don't be foolish. And their mind is occupied with many matters that aren't as mundane as dealing with paperwork and formalities.

Point is, come down to the Ward tomorrow and tell me if you still have any thoughts on our organization. We start early for the beginning classes.

[and that's a very quick wink on her part. she knows exactly how that sounds.]

[mercurialize]

[That doesn't make sense to him, but he's not going to try talking in circles to figure that out.]

... Oh, no.

No, I'm not actually interested in classes for myself. But thanks.

[erythristic]

You ask after organization, yet don't seek to use it? What a curious sort you are.

[mercurialize]

I know what I'm doing. Just making sure those who don't aren't left behind. That's not so curious, is it?

[erythristic]

If you really want to make sure they don't get left behind? Tell me you'll offer yourself as an instructor for this month. We need as many as we can get so the native instructors aren't overloaded with pupils.

[mercurialize]

You don't even know my name let alone what I can do, yet you want me to train your soldiers? You do realize how ridiculous that sounds, don't you?

[erythristic]

The first is remedied in a second's exchange, the next solved by you demonstrating to me what you mean by "I know what I'm doing". [she shrugs.] If you have enough time to try to criticise us for our action not being up to your standards, you have enough time to assist like their Majesties wish you to.

[mercurialize]

First, it's a question, not a criticism. Second, these majesties told us to train and that's what I'm doing. Third, I don't train other people. Fourth... there is no fourth. But I think my point's been made. So, thanks but no thanks.

[erythristic]

Suit yourself. Hoard all your information that could save someone else's life.

[and she still looks completely calm when she says it, as though he just turned down grilled cheese because he already ate lunch earlier.]

If you're training so much, I expect to see you alive at the end of the battle.

[mercurialize]

Yeah, about that... I'm not really a battlefield kind of person. But good luck with that. I'm sure you'll be doing plenty of saving for the both of us.

i'm so sorry for her

[erythristic]

...So let me see if I understand you. You refuse to attend training or assist with it because you're doing work on your own, yet you also refuse to fight on the battlefield as we've been called to do?

[and she laughs, bright and sharp and entirely at his expense.]

What an utterly stubborn fool you are.

she's a doll c:

[mercurialize]

Sounds about right.

Stubborn included.

You're finally catching on.

[erythristic]

Well, you'll be put into the fray one way or another, your consent not required for your shard's presence alone places you there. It's only a matter of time. All this is only a chance to better your odds at survival.

and now I am sorry for him

[mercurialize]

[What did he do to deserve this.]

You've got to be new to this whole war thing if you assume battlefields are the only place where a battle can be won. How about you stick to what you know, and I'll stick to what I know. Besides, sounds to me like you have a lot of people in more need of those odds than me, especially if you're so desperate for instructors that you'd harass people into helping you.

hey, she's been asking for it

[erythristic]

I'm not new, I simply know what their Majesties expect of their newly brought shardbearers. And I know that battlefield or no, there are many in this world who would love to tear the gem from your chest and use it to their own aims, not all of them Seelie. You really have no clue what you're facing, and you'd reject all help?

[mercurialize]

Yep, seems that way.