016 - The lady stands in her bower door / As straight as a willow wand

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

[She appears in her little grotto in the woods, which now looks quite comfortable, actually. There's an oilcloth lean-to set up against one of the trees cushions spread under it, a neatly stacked pile of firewood, even the beginnings of a garden near the stream. She drops a bag on the ground, pulls her sheathed sword free from her belt and drops it on top.

She looks troubled by something, perhaps a little dazed.]

...at least I'm home. At least I can come home.




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[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

[A little louder] I'm fine. It's fine. Everything's fine, always, all right? It's fine.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[softly] Always all right. Now that rings bells.

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

[Closes her eyes]

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[runs his hand over his face] Right, well. If you're fine. Just be careful. [and he gets up and he's going :|]

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

[Starts to sit up, starts to say wait--instead, defensive and noncommittal at once,]

It doesn't make sense.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[stops and turns back around] Not really. But memories can be tampered with. Minds can easily be changed in the right hands.

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

I've been working with mental defense, though... [Oops, excuse her a second, she's checked out--substituting Kora's part in that little lesson with Other!Ten. To him it would just look like she'd stopped speaking in mid-thought, her eyes and expression going slightly vacant.]

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[blinks] Aniki?

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

Hnn? [Blinks and jerks slightly, like someone startling awake from a doze.] Oh... I... [Rubs her eyes with one hand.] What was I saying?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[frowns] What was that?

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

[Frowns back] What was what?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

You did this...blank look, sort of like there was no one home.

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

What?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

You did! You looked like you were mentally kaput.

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

Is that some kind of trout? If it is, I think I'm insulted.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

No no, 'kaput', it's...broken, not working, dead, gone, busted, smashed, that sort of thing.

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

All right, now I know I'm insulted.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

That was how you looked! I think something changed again.

[anjelsword.livejournal.com]

Right! [Throws her hands up] Of course.

[Gets up to pull on a nightshirt, since she's mostly dry at this point.]