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strictdiscipline) wrote2015-09-25 06:30 pm
strictdiscipline) wrote2015-09-25 06:30 pm
FUTURO | IC INBOX
CALL ▲ VOICEMAIL ▲ TEXT ▲ ACTION ▲ GO WILD!
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CALL ▲ VOICEMAIL ▲ TEXT ▲ ACTION ▲ GO WILD!
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And how much of this "brew" have you had already?
And how much of this "brew" have you had already?
I'll bring you something.
[As soon as she can....scrounge something up......In the meantime:]
Any particular reason for all the drink?
[To celebrate, to forget, something else entirely...?]
[As soon as she can....scrounge something up......In the meantime:]
Any particular reason for all the drink?
[To celebrate, to forget, something else entirely...?]
No? There are plenty who would agree that the retreat of an enemy is enough cause for celebration.
[Not her - battle and bloodshed have never been a reason to celebrate - but there are plenty of others who would argue otherwise.]
[Not her - battle and bloodshed have never been a reason to celebrate - but there are plenty of others who would argue otherwise.]
[.........]
You're very wise, for someone so young.
Will you remember the costs of this mission, even after we leave?
You're very wise, for someone so young.
Will you remember the costs of this mission, even after we leave?
[that's enough to earn a smile.]
Of course you are. I never doubted it.
What problem do you hope to tackle next, once you finish your current ones?
Of course you are. I never doubted it.
What problem do you hope to tackle next, once you finish your current ones?
They rarely are.
But what about yourself, Sieglinde? You have so many projects going for the benefit of others. Isn't there something you've always wanted to look into for yourself?
But what about yourself, Sieglinde? You have so many projects going for the benefit of others. Isn't there something you've always wanted to look into for yourself?
[The information sends a shiver down her spine, but more than that it fills her with regret. Empathy.]
Many things created with the intent to help can harm instead.
[But that's not the point here.]
Is there someone that wields this ultimate magic you can speak of?
Many things created with the intent to help can harm instead.
[But that's not the point here.]
Is there someone that wields this ultimate magic you can speak of?
I would prefer you didn't die.
[But she understands the necessity of such a thing, had contemplated it herself many years ago. It's a parallel she finds both discomfiting and sorrowful.
In the meantime—]
If nothing else, you have this goal before you. You can't die until you accomplish it.
[But she understands the necessity of such a thing, had contemplated it herself many years ago. It's a parallel she finds both discomfiting and sorrowful.
In the meantime—]
If nothing else, you have this goal before you. You can't die until you accomplish it.
[—Ah. For a moment, her entire body still, dread swirling uncomfortably in the pit of her stomach as her mind races back fifteen years.
But Sieglinde is not her father, and magic is not alchemy.]
You seem very certain that this will pass down to your children.
But Sieglinde is not her father, and magic is not alchemy.]
You seem very certain that this will pass down to your children.
if I cannot do it myself, only my heir could be counted on. if possible I will see it done in my lifetime, but...
[no one seemed to understand- why she was so intent on bearing an heir as soon as possible, with the best genes possible... she knew it was wrong, but.
But.]
[no one seemed to understand- why she was so intent on bearing an heir as soon as possible, with the best genes possible... she knew it was wrong, but.
But.]
[Counted on. Of course. No greater bond than that of parent and child.
Riza's silent for a long moment, knuckles white as her hands sit in tight fists on her lap. Maybe the circumstances will be different, maybe Sieglinde's future child will be more than happy to take on her mother's mantle. Maybe none of her fears would ever come to be.
But still, she can't help but ask:]
And what if she doesn't wish to?
[It's an answer she finds that she desperately needs to know.]
Riza's silent for a long moment, knuckles white as her hands sit in tight fists on her lap. Maybe the circumstances will be different, maybe Sieglinde's future child will be more than happy to take on her mother's mantle. Maybe none of her fears would ever come to be.
But still, she can't help but ask:]
And what if she doesn't wish to?
[It's an answer she finds that she desperately needs to know.]
then-
[she almost answers the same way her own mother would have. Interest in anything else wasn't tolerated, wasn't allowed, to the point of creating an entire fake world. Surely she wouldn't do that to her own child? (Would she?)]
then i shall need birth another. if i begin early enough i ought not yet be barren by the time such an inclination manifests.
[she almost answers the same way her own mother would have. Interest in anything else wasn't tolerated, wasn't allowed, to the point of creating an entire fake world. Surely she wouldn't do that to her own child? (Would she?)]
then i shall need birth another. if i begin early enough i ought not yet be barren by the time such an inclination manifests.
[ realizing she's yet to really devote much time to her own drink, olivia proceeds to take a rather generous swig of it now... not because she's stalling. of course not. ]
We've been doing okay so far, [ is what she winds up settling on. not perfect, not... back to how things were before. but they both, at least, seem to be wishing to get to that.
she shrugs. ]
It's a process. All relationships are, aren't they?
We've been doing okay so far, [ is what she winds up settling on. not perfect, not... back to how things were before. but they both, at least, seem to be wishing to get to that.
she shrugs. ]
It's a process. All relationships are, aren't they?
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