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❖ 019 // [Voice | Written]

[~~/Flips table at her hiatus~~ This entry takes place in the late morning. These will all have to take place at different times in the day because crossing over would get insanely awkward.]

[Filtered to Buffy | 70% Unhackable]

Buffy darlin'! I've got some free time today if ya wanna come over and try my amazingly delicious crêpes fer lunch, as promised! I also found a great recipe I know yer gonna love!

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[Filtered to Emil | 90% Unhackable]

I'm ready ta tell ya now if ya still wanna hear it.

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[Filtered to Alexei | 95% Unhackable]
[This bit is written, yeah the strikeouts are completely readable.]

~~Evesdropping is rude~~
~~How's the jailbait?~~
You heard what the little girl said, let's go and 'say sorry' by the south lake at 8pm. Bring your sword, or a picnic. I'd personally prefer a picnic but somehow I doubt that.

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Yeah, I heard... I think he learned his first words from Yuri. Judith didn't sound very happy about that.

Can't say I didn't see it comin'. [He jumps onto his bed and pats the side. Come sit with him Emil.] Shut the door behind ya though!

[He's halfway over to the bed when he gets told the door, so he turns around to go do that before returning to take a seat next to Raven.]

It's probably good he didn't say anything worse than "shut up."

It really doesn't seem like it sometimes but Yuri can be pretty mature when he needs ta be. The kids already stuck in this place, he probably doesn't wanna go makin' it any worse.

I don't know if it could get much worse than this place...

I'm sure someone out there is from a world worse than this one. With all them alternate realties one of them must be really crap.

Yeah.

[But this isn't something he really wants to dwell on, so subject change is a go.]

... um, you said you were going to tell me what happened and what your real name is.

Ah right. [He did try to procastinate it, he really did.]

I don't know if you heard it over the journals recently. Lovely little girl named Mayoi blurted my name out fer all to hear. But it's Schwann, Schwann Oltorain.

No, I didn't. But... why would you be hiding your real name? Are you... are you some kind of criminal?

[That is, after all, the only reason he can think of for why someone would take a different name.]

Haha, no nothin' like that! I started livin' a double life workin' for the Empire and the Guilds. Think of them like... rivals I guess. Yer either in the Guilds or in the Empire.

So you used one name in the Guilds and one name for the Empire?

Bingo! Schwann came first, Raven came later on.

But why were you working for both if you could get in trouble for doing it?

I was followin' orders, didn't get much choice in the matter but I can't argue with it. I started off in the Empire and joined the guild at the top of the Union, a guild called Altosk. That's where I became Raven.

And you've been Raven ever since. I guess I can't say anything bad about that, not when I'm pretending to be someone I'm not too.

That's why I could tell ya that part of the story. You've seen Flynn's uniform, mine is kinda similiar but it's orange. As Schwann I was a Captain in the Imperial Knights, as Raven I was one of the highest rankin' members of Altosk. I don't act like it half the time, but I'm not a bad leader.

You, a leader...?

[Hold on, his brain is trying to process that. Well, okay, so Raven has been good about looking after him, which counts for something, right? Still, it's hard for him to picture someone like Raven as a Captain in any sort of knights.]

[Shockingly I find it hard to believe myself. But he even gets complimented as a leader several times in the game.]

Seriously! Hold on a second. [He walks over to the closet and starts digging around in the back. He emerges holding his orange uniform.] Told ya.

Wow, it really does look like Flynn's. An Imperial knight...

[He reaches out one hand to touch it just gently, running his fingers over the cloth.]

Then you must be a really good fighter like Yuri and Flynn. Well, better than I am, at least.

[He throws it on the bed next to Emil and takes seat again.]

I'm better with a sword than a bow, I just prefer the latter. I never planned on learnin' to fight to begin with, you just have to learn once ya join the Knights.

What made you decide to use a bow instead of a sword if that's what you're better with?

[And that's the sensitive subject.]

When I was just a knight, before I became a Captain or anythin' like that, I fought in the Great War. I was just a kid at the time, but a dear friend of mine used a bow herself. When she died I started usin' a bow in her memory.

[Emil goes quiet for a moment.]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up bad memories. You must really miss her a lot if you went to all of that trouble to remember her...

[Almost without thinking, his own hand drifts up to rest over something beneath his shirt.]

I'm sure... I'm sure she'd be happy to know you cared about her that much.

They're not all bad memories. I treasure the time I spent with her when she was alive, so when I look back on those memories I can't help but feel happy to have known her. But... [He hesistates, though it is part of the promise he made to tell Emil what happened. It's painful to bring up.] She sacrificed herself to save me and even then... it wasn't enough.

[He pauses for a minute.]

We both died that day.

You... what? But if you died, then how...

[He reaches out to touch Raven just to make sure that he's real. Yep, definitely solid and warm and seemingly alive.]

You don't feel like a ghost to me.

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