Event Fifteen.

[awashmods]

pricking fingertips on memory, leaving things unsaid she drifts amidst the holly for the love of you, or me.

t seems like just another day in this place. It's chilly, but not miserable, and there's a bit of holiday cheer in the form of a few of those trees people have managed to decorate. Of course...there's also the shades, but who cares about those? They wander, drifting too and fro, following their usual, typical lives as if they have no idea that they're not longer alive, no longer in their own proper home. They walk over the frozen lake in Flavo as if it's not even there, open doors that no longer exist, and settle into rooms that are nothing but rubble. They're living in a past that only they can see, but perhaps you can see a bit more from watching them? Only... maybe don't spend too much time with them, lest you start seeming too much like a ghost yourself. Welcome to Awash's fifteenth event log, everyone! Further information on this event can be found here at the OOC post. You are welcome to make your own logs and posts for this event! If there are any questions, please ask them here. Thank you!

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[noholdsbard]

You remind me a little of them, actually. A touch compulsive, perhaps…but you always try to do the right thing.

[scooptimistic]

Compulsive...

I mean, yeah--

[ Shoot, she can't even flat-out deny it!! ]

I MEANT IMPULSIVE--that'll teach me to tag at 2AM

[noholdsbard]

It is not a bad thing— [ Not when he’s around to rein people in, anyway. ]

[scooptimistic]

As long as your Master's a good person, I'll take it as a compliment. Saber was saying you don't always get a choice in who you have to serve.

[noholdsbard]

I have been blessed in that regard. [ Honestly he’s still a little surprised by that. He’d expected to end up like Diarmuid had. ]

[scooptimistic]

Good! I'd hate to have to punch your Master for treating you like you were anything other than amazing.

[noholdsbard]

[ …Please don’t punch Master ;; ]

Oh, I don’t think I am— [ He’s not Lancelot or Gawain, dammit. He’s the least valorous of the SR knight trio— ]

But the sentiment is certainly appreciated.

[scooptimistic]

[ a very light huff.]

Archer. Am I or not your friend?

[noholdsbard]

Of course you are… [ But he’s starting to see where this is going— ]

[scooptimistic]

All of my friends are amazing. [ firmly. ]

Even the dour ones who don't give themselves enough credit. And you may not think it, but you understand a lot more about me than a lot of people do.

[ He, at least, knows what it's like to be choking on your dying breath and regretting so, so much. ]

[noholdsbard]

[ It’s hard not to recall the time they’d seen each other’s memories of dying. Even if it only makes him sadder. ]

I am grateful for your regard, I… [ he wants to say that maybe one day he’ll be worthy of it, but he knows that that isn’t what she wants to hear. Instead, he purses his lips a little, thinking, before— ]

I do find it a comfort. [ Even if he doesn’t look it. ]

[scooptimistic]

... It's just something you can't quite believe for yourself yet, right?

[ Why does she know so many people like this... it makes her shoulders slump, just slightly-- before Maya sighs and gives her head a fierce little shake. ]

That's fine. It's what I'm here for.

[noholdsbard]

But Maya… [ Oh dear, is she going to do something drastic again? ] Even you have succumbed to your fate that time. And I have already made peace with mine.

[scooptimistic]

... Does that make you any less amazing for still existing beyond that?

Actually, that probably makes you more amazing than me..

[noholdsbard]

That’s… [ An unexpected answer. ] Even if it is so, I owe my accomplishments to my master.

[scooptimistic]

[ "Unexpected" and "highly positive" are probably Maya's keywords in terms of "Interaction 101". ]

I don't think your master would have been able to summon you if you hadn't been someone amazing enough to warrant it.

-- But! I'd rather not try to shove all of that into your head all at once, so... thanks again, Archer! I'll behave myself, so you don't have to worry about me!

[ GOOD TALK. ]

[noholdsbard]

[ …Just how much had Nero told her about the Heroic Spirit Summoning System?? Not that it mattered, in the end. He didn’t really mind her or anyone else in town knowing about it, but he had been discreet about all that stuff for a reason… ]

Somehow I doubt I believe that. [ To which part? He’s chuckling either way. ]