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Matthias ([personal profile] inkindled) wrote in [community profile] therookery2019-10-11 09:10 am

crystal |


FORM: crystal
SENDER: Matthias
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch EVERYONE LISTEN UP
NOTES: friends don't let friends get extradited



So what is Riftwatch, right. Like, I know what it is. But I know what it ought not to be as well, and if someone comes along and says oi, I'm come of some king in Nevarra and we say we've a right to carry off and arrest one of your members--well, then, that's an easy one. We tell 'em no, and piss off.

'Cause we can't let that go on. Right? Not that we're opening up jail cells and inviting in every prisoner to come in and join up, but-- well, we're none of us perfect. Everyone's come from something. And it's not always so simple as they say it is. People get hanged for nothing, or maybe they did what they're accused of, but there's more to it that no one's saying. And we--Riftwatch, I mean--we're not held to the same diplomatic shit that the Inquisition proper is, not any longer. That's part of how come we split off, I thought. So we can be what we want, and say for ourselves what we'll put up with and what we won't. And who we'll put up with, and who we won't. Make our own policy so we can protect our own people, no matter what.

At least, that's what it ought to be, I think. I didn't come here and join up just so someone could hand me over some day the first time some messenger comes calling. Don't think anyone ought to be worried about that. Like--there's diplomacy, and then there's acting a white liver coward, you know?
justashotaway: (10.)

private.

[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-12 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[She's been silently listening to people argue, but with Derrica--with Derrica, she thinks she must say something.]
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private.

[personal profile] tender 2019-10-12 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's going to be alright.

[ immediate, automatic. ]

Can you tell me what happened?
justashotaway: (79.)

private 4ever lbr

[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-12 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not think that is true.

[A pause. It occurs to her that she isn't sure what Derrica means--what happened at breakfast, or what happened before? The former, she hopes. She isn't sure she can explain the latter.]

They found me.
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-12 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you want us to do, Laura?

[ someone should ask her that, shouldn't they? that should matter in how this is handled. ]
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[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-12 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
...I do not know.

[She hasn't thought about it before now, only about the specifics of what is actually happening: hiding, arguing, looking for solutions.

For someone else, she would not say more. For Derrica, she will try.]


I do not wish to leave.
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-12 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there anything you can tell us that will help make it easier for you to stay? Anything I can give to Eshal and Byerly to help them?
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[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-12 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
What would be helpful?
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-13 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything about who asked you to do these things. Matthias means well, but people don't—what's right doesn't matter much. We're going to have to give them a good reason to leave you alone.

[ this is a lot to ask. derrica knows. ]

I'm sorry. I know you must not want to talk about any of it.
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[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-17 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I do not.

[Silence, perhaps too much silence. She is not certain she wants to answer, but she thinks, maybe--]

A mage, and my--[it is Derrica, she can speak to Derrica, say it]--my mother. And others.

[Another pause.]

I told them everything they asked.
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-19 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's a moment of stunned silence on the other end. laura's mother. she'd allowed— ]

Who is them? Eshal and Byerly?
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[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-19 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[ One of the easier questions she's been asked lately - the response comes relatively easily. ]
Edited 2019-10-19 22:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-19 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[ time to bother diplomacy ig ]

It's going to be alright. I promise.
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[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-19 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Less quickly said, her voice going softer.]

That is not a promise you can make.
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-19 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it is. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. Neither will Matthias, or Athessa. Okay?
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[personal profile] justashotaway 2019-10-19 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it is not.

[The way this will work--at best, she thinks--is that the Nevarran king will make it impossible for her to stay in Riftwatch, and she will kill people, and then she will have to leave Kirkwall. Whether Derrica, or Matthias, or Athessa intervene is immaterial, except insofar as it puts all of them at risk.

(It is always a matter of risking others. She hates that.)

She relents just a little, though, after a moment.]


...But all right.
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[personal profile] tender 2019-10-19 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Will you let me come sit with you?