6 ✦ dual post

[erythristic]

[unseelie lockets and rin-net, 8/17]

[this post has been made not from a locket, but from one of Rin Tohsaka's compasses, routed through her network for privacy.]

Commander Saber has left us. Her absence will be marked and mourned.

Mere words fall short to give her the credit she deserves, both as one who held the heart of a true Unseelie and as one who led us onwards to see another day. She was a true knight, and, I found, a truer friend.

To those of you that also knew her, I share in your grief.


[seelie lockets, 8/18]

[the video is short - twenty seconds at the most, showing a beheaded and behearted stuffed bear, sitting on a note in plain printing.]

If it's vengeance you want, it's vengeance you'll get. This is your only warning.

[if traced back, this post comes from a non-locket device belonging to John Grimm. Grell will not be responding to this.]

Comments

text; private

[boutant]

We can take the time to have a drink or two for her tonight, if you'd like. I think she'd appreciate it.

[ As long as they also have food, anyway. ]

[erythristic]

We might have to hold that off until I get back. The Outpost was hit not two days ago and I need to make sure repairs get underway.

I'm so sorry, Ariadne. There aren't words enough.

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[unsolitary]

( the devastation in the face of losing Saber is insurmountable; she just saw her a week ago.

she can't bear to try and use the voice or video function; it's too much. )

What happened.

[erythristic]

I don't know much of the details save where it happened.

action;

[chromosomes]

[ Guess who is nude and snoring somewhere off-camera of that Seelie video.

Yup it's John.

Right up until he shifts and some fluff from the beheaded bear gets up his nose. ]

Wha-?

[ lsdkhgslh ew uncomfortable ]

[erythristic]

[...just going to hide both bear and note and put the comm device back really fast. everything back where it was, including herself, save that she has her glasses on because she needed them to write the note.

totally innocent of any theft or threat-making or anything. you don't have proof.]

TEXT.

[selfimage]

[ Loki reads it once, then twice.

he brings the locket to his lips and stops. he measures his tone by lowering the timbre, but something that trembles in his chest is bitter and fierce, even when they get relayed in text. ]

That doesn't sound possible.

[ some part of him says that's absurd. it's absurd. ]

[erythristic]

I wish it wasn't possible.

text;

[arla]

[ Of all of the people, she did not expect for Saber to vanish. Not her. Anyone else, perhaps, but she had been so strongly tied to the Unseelie cause that she hesitates to wonder what could have happened. ]

I am so sorry.

[ For the loss of a strong ally and a friend to so many. ]

[erythristic]

Thank you. This is not easy news to have to break.

text; private

[entitles]

It happened on my territory.

The culprit better pray I don't find them, or they will beg for death before I'm finished.

[erythristic]

Saber's servant told me as much. If you find any traces that could be followed up on, let me know. You have whatever aid I can provide, my lord, that justice be done.

seelie, non-response.

[marred]

[ you know what's really fun? playing tricks on people. grell may think her secret admirer to be a coward, but luke knows exactly what he's doing. his father's the god of transitions and boundaries, of quick wit and cunning, and is the only god in the pantheon who can move as freely as a snake in the grass while remaining undetected — and luke wonders why he can't be the very same in the drabwurld. ]

[ playing with people is fun. avenging clarisse and working out his own anger and grief in a manner that's so hermes is a hell of a lot better than self-destructing and possibly razing all of dorchadas as if it's mount olympus. it's better for his court and it's better for the world at large. ]

[ all luke can do is laugh. if the beheaded bear is any indication for him, it's that he's burrowing his way beneath the skin of the person he thinks to have had a hand in clarisse's death. and if she so much as hasn't, the message will hopefully begin to slither around the unseelie court that the seelie won't take the murder of their own so lightly anymore, that one of them, at least, isn't going to sit on their hands and play by a rulebook of being good. ]

[ he thinks to respond, but he saves it for another rainy day and a prettier bear. ]

[ he takes note of the locket identifier, however. ]

voice; private

[zerotohiro]

Whoa, what?

[It doesn't make any sense. He just talked to Saber a little over a week ago, how could things have changed that drastically?]

How did you...[A pause.] What happened?

[erythristic]

I don't have many details, other than the place it occurred.

text.

[benumbing]

[The news is a shock, and sadness comes with it. Saber's encouragement when he first arrived meant everything to him.]

I admired her a great deal, as many did, and rightfully so. If there is anything I can do, you need only say it.

[erythristic]

Thank you. At the moment there is little to be done, but I shall keep your offer in mind.

Aly-net, text

[gordianknots]

Thank you for taking care of the announcements. Rin and I are in no place to handle the matter right now.

[erythristic]

If you two need anything, you know I'll see what I can do.

I'm so, so sorry, Waver.

text.

[uneulogized]

[Above all else, Jason is a detective. A death is a death is a death. Saber is why he's fighting for their side at all, having done her best to convince him from the very beginning. While they proved to be fundamentally different people, that doesn't make it any easier to see these words.

He always liked her. He might have moved out from her shadow, hoping to strike his own path in this wold, but he had always liked her.]

I need to see the scene of the crime.

[erythristic]

Talk to Balem Abrasax, in that case. Baron of the Eighth Spire.

video.

[andallbite]

[ Eren's never done text before, and today doesn't change that. He is, however, willing to grow angry over a bunch of words that make their way over his own locket—but first, the utter shock and disbelief. ]

Left us? You... [ Don't mean that, do you? He falters. ] What happened? She can't really be...

[erythristic]

Gone? She can be.

video;

[desperate_times]

Bloody hell. Are there any details?

[That royally sucks. Chloe liked Saber. Respected her. And she was one of her best customers. Guess she'll have one last job for the unseelie commander to fulfill.]

[erythristic]

Aside from it happening at the Eighth Spire and it being recent, nothing. I only know what I've been told.

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[huntedby]

Her headquarters were at my Spire.

Whatever I can do, to assist in carrying forward her legacy, I will.

[erythristic]

Thank you. For the time being, if you can, find a way to block off her rooms from being entered. Until more information comes out, it's not farfetched to assume this was someone after something.

compass. text.

[fuga]

Do you need comfort, lady spirit?

[erythristic]

Perhaps I will, when there is less to take care of. Right now there is so much to attend to.

Are you all right, lady night?

[To John Grimm's Device; Text]

[prissykid]

To the one who put up such an elegant warning about vengeance, I give a couple quotes of my own as rebuttal:

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. -Sir William Shakespeare

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. -Mahatma Gandhi

text;

[chromosomes]

who did what about vengeance

video; private

[fulminants]

[ Johnny is stunned for a long, long moment, unable to process it -- every expression written on his face clear as day. Shock, denial, grief, anger, and finally, stone cold fury. Saber was the first person who believed in him here. She was the one who taught him, relentlessly shaping him into being pretty damn good with the sword.

She was --

He clenches his fists. Behind him, of their own volition, a row of practice dummies roaring into flames in a manifestation of his rage, crumpling into themselves. She believed in me. ]

It's either one of them, right? Either the cult of the Fox or the Seelie. [ He made her proud; that was one of the last things she said to him. He made her proud. And now he will raze all the properties the Seelie own to the ground, after he finds a way to break the Fox cult into splinters. ]

[erythristic]

I've got my suspicions, even though we have no details yet. But it has to be.

[text]

[madeover]

[ Well, Eggsy may be pretty new to all this, but he had spoken with Saber once and that's reason enough for him to be invested. Especially since this all seems so sudden.

They're fighting a war, but he hadn't been ready to have someone he'd met die so soon. Talk about having the reality of a situation shoved right in his face. ]

Wait, what? What the hell happened?

[erythristic]

Little is known in regards to the details, but the Commander is no more.

rin-net.

[thebreakingwave]

If there's anything I can do, let me know.

[erythristic]

Thank you, Harry. At the moment, there's little I can think of other than that we can't let the Seelie know about this, not yet.

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[skjalf]

No..... No!

( That's it. The entirety of Bess' message. She is entirely too grief-stricken to say or type any more. )