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Lancer || Cu Chulainn ([personal profile] solas_ion) wrote2011-06-13 03:03 pm

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[Somewhere between Cherrygrove and Violet, there is a tree.]

[In this tree is a flock of Murkrow--which the Venomoth holding the Pokegear seems to be focusing on before moving back to her trainer. And standing nearby? Lancer, with an unusually serious expression on his face as he stared at the birds in silence.]

['I guard your death.' That was what she had said to him. And it had been true, of course--the Morrígan was more often than not a herald of the end for many warriors of Ireland. Even the greatest one of his era had been no exception.]

[And now, staring at this flock of what must have passed for crows--messengers of the goddess herself--Ulster's hound felt strangely uneasy. When he finally did speak, it was in a serious tone. His words may have sounded like mere superstition, but there was a strange weight to them that made it sound like something much more than that.]


...I've always known ravens as an ill omen. I wonder if the same holds true in Johto.

[Lancer couldn't quite help but wonder: was this a warning that he going to die again? Not that he feared the idea, but he had more important things to do than add a third death to his list.]

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've known some pretty strange people in my time--hell, I've seen some weird ones around here--but this guy sounds pretty crazy.

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[identity profile] used-glare.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...I hope not. I'm not sure I could take any more bad events. {This is a srsface Nanao looking back at you.}

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Precisely.

I suppose, for now, there is nothing we can do but wait.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't have much choice, do we?

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, you're correct.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Typical of Johto, then.

Still, of all the swarms it could be, I'd rather it wasn't crows.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
If it were something else, I'm sure most of us would not be as concerned as we are now.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You and me both, kid.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Are they still an omen of death in this age? I know things like that have a habit of changing.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Only for those who are superstitious.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
...Take my word on this. It's not only mere superstition, I can assure you of that.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you speak from personal experience?

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, to say the least. I know it's not the same here as it was back in my time, but I kind of have a history with ravens.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You're right; it isn't the same. Even so, I can understand your hesitancy when it comes to these birds.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as they don't turn into a woman that's out to kill me or tell me 'hey, by the way you're going to die, just thought I'd give you a heads up'? I can deal with it.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
. . .

I see... fortunately, I don't believe you have to worry about that.

[a beat]

May I ask... under what circumstances did that last event occur?

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Which is what I'd call a good thing.

Hm? Oh, just some difficulty with a goddess called the Morrígan--she governed battle and was usually associated with ravens.

[Completely casual, because of course things like this were totally normal.]

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
This is part of your mythos, correct? Before your quest in the modern world?

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You got it. I think when I first met her I was...seventeen, maybe? Hell, I don't remember. I might have brushed her off while I was in the middle of a fight, so she tried to get me killed.

Then we crossed paths years later, and she sort of warned me I was about to die.

[Shrug.]

Which I did, obviously.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[sigh] She sounds quite charming.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, she was just delightful.

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[identity profile] bufudyned.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
You have my condolences.

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[personal profile] ex_cashcow493 2011-06-16 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
A sane individual would not place such a prized blade within stone that much I am certain of.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'd really hope not.

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[identity profile] solas-ion.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Don't bother--I'm dead, what do I care? Besides, that was at least two millennia ago. There's no way she'd break through time and space just to try and freak me out.

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