[01:28] <%Lysander> *A door opened, and a light flickered on. An artificial light overtook the faint hue of the veteran streetlights that filtered in through the window. The second story suite overlooked the germaney embassy, whose architectural features spoke of military might and harkened to traditional germaney styles.  From the suite, if one looked out it would be possible to see the Kuassafer monument, the architectura
[01:28] <%Lysander> l feature that defined the courtyard before the germaney embassy suites. A red brick ediface acted as the foundation for a bronze statue of a germaney soldier extending a hoof to a fallen equestrian guard. A symbol of the unity and the reconstruction that came with the conclusion of the war fifteen years ago. Lysander pulled closed the thick red and gold blinds, and huffed as he looked around the still r
[01:28] <%Lysander> oom. He wore the finely pressed uniform of his position, complete with a number of eagle pins, and various merits denoting his exemplary service.  Near half a dozen pins clipped to his sleeve and chest, each of them coming with a complimentary title all harkening to the likes of 'The butcher of dogs, the diamond carver, and so forth. There was only one, lowly merit for his service in the war two decades
[01:28] <%Lysander> prior. It was clipped to his sleeve. He began to carefully undress himself, retired from the days events. His fatigue etched with fine lines unto his sharp features. He met his own golden eyes with a tired gaze as he watched himself in the mirror beside the chambers bed.*
04[01:29] * Flow frown, "Well i think the ancient ones are just selfish then! I wonder if they're scared of me since im his daugther..." she giggles, "That would be really funny. Im glad your not with the other dragons, Your really nice!"
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[01:31] <@Wisdom> Despair bites his lower lip. "I was looking /forward/ to getting whatever I need from Coyote. We made a deal with her, too. And since she's nearest...Oh, by the way, I /do/ have a fucking tracker on my leg that'll go and alert her if I go AWOL, so...not looking forward to that!" He says angrily. "Get the picture?"
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[01:36] <%ForAllBooks> "Fair enough." Trench puts her hooves up defensively. "You wanna stick around with Coyote, that's fine. Zina and I can complete the mission, and inform them of your delay." She lists off, in an almost bored tone. "Your life, your rules." She says, rising as she starts on a smooth pace.
[01:37] <@Rhea> **It was after a few moments after started unclipping his pins and merits, but before he took off an article of clothing that he felt something. A twinge of wrongness, the second sense a seasoned soldier had for danger. Someone was in the apartment with him. He could make out in the mirror a chair across the room between the door and where he stood undressing. Where the curtans usually draped sat a hunched figure. One that raised its head once it had bee
[01:37] <@Rhea> noticed. The eyes were diffrent, dark golden...embers of what was once an inferno. Her feathers were bleached white looking where as before they were a dull brown. Her voice was the same though, the harsh rasping beritone from his past. "Dont run. We both know that would be pointless."
[01:39] <@Wisdom> Despair shakes his head, and follows after Trench. "Look, Trenchy...I'm sorry. If it weren't for this little bracelet, I'd sure as hell go with you. Really. But I don't think I can...You understand, right? It's not like I don't want to go with you..."
11[01:40] * @Rhea grimaced a small grin. "It is nice of you to say so Flow. I like you too. They are selfish to be sure, many of them. Some might be, but if they are...it would be decidedly unfunny. And that is why i am out here tonight, when you hid behind me at the party i had an inkeling you were the curious sort, like your mother. So i decided to have a look at Sanchal's moon flowers and see if you came down to have a chat."
[01:41] <@Rhea> ((The action taking place would be after the events taking place with Despair and Trench, at least a few days)
[01:41] <%Lysander> *He would stop, and with his sleeve partially rolled he would fling one of the drawers open, where it would snag. Catching upon its mechanisms he would pull a pistol from inside and whirl to face the skulk in his chambers. His eyes narrowed and disciplined he hid the surge of adrenaline well, that came with being caught off guard. The gray stallion trains his weapon on the figure in the chair. His slow,
[01:41] <%Lysander> careful breaths the only sounds he makes.*
03[01:43] * Rhea is now known as CattrenaIronclaws
04[01:43] * Flow eats the the last of the grape as she swallows the rest of it, "Funny thing is... Im not afraid of dragons being around my brother and father alot, Im just... very caustious with new people... Wait... You wanted me to come here to see you?"
13[01:47] * @CattrenaIronclaws slowly puts up both talons, she wore no clothes and had no weapons, She was clean for the most part. Her artifial tallon was gone, as well as the red artifical glow. And her face was diffrent, no scars at all including the unsightly buldge and dip where the metal plate had been. She made no motion other then to slowly raise her tallons. "Please dont shoot, when i lose consiousness i cant keep him from taking control. Trust me, niethe
13[01:47] * @CattrenaIronclaws of us want that that. Keep the gun if it makes you feel better."
[01:47] <%ForAllBooks> "I know, Dessy." She says back, looking towards him with a sympathetic gaze. "Gotta do what you gotta do. Just make sure the gryphon queen doesn't keep you on the lam forever." She advises.
[01:48] <@Wisdom> ( Sleep! )
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[01:50] <@CattrenaIronclaws> : Rhea nods. "It is wise to be cautious of others, Your brother and father are kind and decent. But you must be wary of all other dragons. I came here as a favor to Skix, and to show my support of her family. But friends are also important. It has been several hundred years since i have allowed myself the luxury of a friend, and as such i want to protect them...and that means you now."
[01:52] <%Lysander> *His ears thumped with the heaviness of his heartbeat. His breathing was steady and heavy. His eyes darted over as his hoof moved to his clip. He noted his sword and its position against the wall. Where it rested sheathed, sheathed as it had been for nearly two decades. There is a click, and a scrape as he quickly pulls the clip in and out. Assessing the number of shots he had. It was a full clip, he sho
[01:52] <%Lysander> uldn't have expected anything different. His hooves braced, he hardly moved and kept the weapon pointed at the griffon.* "You will die here. If I don't kill you, the others will."
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04[01:54] * Flow smiles, "Umm thanks! Though you don't have to really... I already got enough ponys looking after me. I can barly go anywhere alone without getting in trouble or somepony worrying about me..."
13[01:55] * @CattrenaIronclaws shakes her head. "That would be a very very bad idea. The thing would just bring me back, and i wouldent be able to stop it from killing you, them, and probally everything in its path. I didn't come here to kill you, but i had to come. Before it was to late."
[01:55] <@CattrenaIronclaws> (more)
13[01:59] * @CattrenaIronclaws kept her tallons raised, something was off about her. It took a moment to place, just after she finished speaking. She looked very tired, nothing new. What was new was she looked rational, collected, sane.**
[02:02] <@CattrenaIronclaws> : Rhea "That is a good thing, in many many ways. I have seen it, the way others care for you. Almost from the moment they see you. What i see as a great asset of personality many dragons will see as weakness, you must not ever...ever trust another dragon. And certinally not ever be spotted alone by one."
[02:03] <%Lysander> *He shifts his weight, but doesn't change the intended trajectory of his bullet. He is still, composed, poised. His brow lifts, a telling gesture in itself. There is pause, a continued silence on his end. Before his terse words, his soft sonnerous voice cuts the blanket of stillness.* "I see. Go on then, You're here.  There is nigh still a later hour."
04[02:07] * Flow giggles, "Well if im out in public... Im usually with somepony. Sometimes acting like a cat so i don't get looked at. I mostly seen friendly dragons, I would deffinatly try to keep away from a err... Bad one? Would any of the know who i am since my dad i guess is famous with them?"
13[02:11] * @CattrenaIronclaws breathed a small sigh of relief and relaxed her tallons, putting them down on either arm of the chair. Oddly she smiled at the sound of the quality of his speech. "I hardly know where to start, so i shall start at the end. The battle for Canterlot. *she rolled her head slightly then looked up at him* You cannot possibally imagine what you did to me that day. The torture i suffered. There arnt words for it. Why did you betray me?
13[02:11] * @CattrenaIronclaws Abandon me. I have to know, to hear it from your mouth. You have no idea how long i have waited for this moment, how many lifetimes i have poured over what i would say if i ever see you again. And i bairly know what to say, its almost funny."
[02:12] <@CattrenaIronclaws> (Saw)
[02:16] <%Lysander> "I have no idea what you're talking about. The defense of canterlot was a strategic gambit that we'd lost long before the first shots were fired. You lost yourself to the chaos of battle and We were not prepared to compensate for his strategic shortcomings. We feinted and won the day. War is messy, I had thought you had wisely taken your chance to slip away. Before we killed you."
[02:16] <@CattrenaIronclaws> : Rhea nods seriously "They would certianly know you. You are unique, special, easy to pick out. Though i admit if i did not know who you were i could be fooled by the cat act. *she becomes serious again* You must know that the reason i worry is they could strike at you to get at your father. It is why i until now had few friends, and no family. When you do, you can lose them. After a few hundred years, the losses got no easier. I felt i cou
[02:16] <@CattrenaIronclaws> not bare to lose anymore. So i rationed i could not lose something i did not have."
13[02:23] * @CattrenaIronclaws physically flinched when he spoke, and dug her tallons into the arms of the chair when he delivered what she had always suspected. Calm, cold, deliberate strategy. She released her grip on the chair, taking a few deep breaths to control herself. She quickly did. "I followed your orders, defend the castle, and reinforcments will come. Dresden and Beatrix, the reserve companies. I held that gate to the last. And they overwhelmed
13[02:23] * @CattrenaIronclaws me...pushed me into the void beyond the portal."
[02:24] <@CattrenaIronclaws> "There was nothing there you know. Not even time. Only a window to look out on the world, and lifetimes with only what was in my head."
[02:26] <%Lysander> "Details that are so long ago mirred in the past they do not matter. Soldiers follow orders, good soldiers follow them to the last. Do you want my pity? Because I cannot spare empathy some.. thing I cannot understand." *He shifts, reaffirming the alignment of his gun. Which had waved with his legs fatigue. That was quickly rectified.*
[02:29] <%Shad> (Night, all. If someone could save me a log of the Lys and Catt convo that'd be awesome, since I really wanna read that.)
[02:29] <%Lysander> (Aight, nn man)
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[02:32] <%Lysander> empathy for some..*
13[02:38] * @CattrenaIronclaws motioned to the bed, "Sit, i dont want you to flinch if i move and shoot me." "I thought about how i would explain what it was like to someone who was on the outside, and i did once, to you, but it was not real. I had imagined it all. I had tricked myself into believing it. The void is empty, but i was not alone...the void is a thing, sentient, but not alive, not even dead. It has never lived, and i was the first thing since the very
13[02:38] * @CattrenaIronclaws beginning to end up in contact with it. Because of it Lysander, i know what hell is. It wanted to break me, and push me out into the world...to trick me into taking the seed of it into reality. *she leaned forward, her eyes were sunken weary beyond words* "I withstood endless physical tourture, some i did to myself just to feel something...pain ends quickly, you get used to it...but then it goes deeper. You dont know what it is to no
13[02:38] * @CattrenaIronclaws know if anything is real. Thats how it beat me, broke me. I believed i had escaped! I believed you found me, allowed me to make up for my failure...carred for me. A whole life, where i was forgiven...loved even. And i died, peaceful in bed. And that is what hell is Lysander. I believed a beautiful lie, because it was easier then the ugly truth. Hell Lysander is seeing who you could have been...and knowing it is something you can neve
13[02:38] * @CattrenaIronclaws be."
11[02:39] <@CattrenaIronclaws> (Did you miss my post Flow?)
[02:45] <%Lysander> *Lysander does not sit, he does not even angle his pistol away. Such a small gesture could very well mean the difference between life and death. If his chances didn't already have a proclivity towards the latter anyway.* "Then what do you want from me? Forgiveness? Revenge? A bullets mercy, so that Luna's eternal dream can lull you to eternity?"
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04[02:46] * Flow frowns, "Well i guess im glad to be in the city... I always keep my friends close so don't worry about me!" She said giving a big grin, "I getting good at sending letters Though i seem to burn them half the time... Ill try sending you one when i can!"
13[02:55] * @CattrenaIronclaws shakes her head "If a bullet could do that i would gladly do it myself. Even damnation would be preferable to having the void ride my back for eternity. Coyote's little friends already tried that anyway. Blew my head right off i think, i didnt really feel it it happened so fast. But since the plate and all my scars are gone they must have got the whole thing. It was actually a good thing, when i woke up this time. I had more control,
13[02:55] * @CattrenaIronclaws could think right...not as much...noise, its hard to explain. *she waves dismissivly* I was damaged, i suppose growing a new brain helped some of that. Enough to see clearly what to do." *she paused* "Revenge, i thought i wanted that...i must have killed you and the others hundeds of times, each time more pointless and empty then the last. Love. HA! Even if i wasent a broken wreched excuse for a griffin, you...and me...yeah...i am
13[02:55] * @CattrenaIronclaws crazy if i believed that." *she wiped her brow and lowered her head, her tone gave away emotion in saying that.* "Its funny, the best thing in my life never happened." *she shook her head* "No. The sad truth is, your the only one who might actually listen to me."
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[02:58] <@CattrenaIronclaws> : Rhea blinks, a wide grin spreading across her features. She brightens. "Starswirl totally invented that! He always made me hang out in the library all the time...he never wanted to leave once he got a bit older! Celestia was always on him about being more social and comming out of his cave! So whats he do? writes to her on scrolls to check in! She thought it was so funny! Im told she kept up the tradition with all her students!"
[03:00] <%Lysander> "Spare me that." *His voice hinted at an underlying incredulity. Lysander is quiet, his eyes hardly blinking as they put the griffon to a scrutiny beneath his layers of discipline and callouses.* "It isn't your suffering you want me to hear. A broken soldier is a useless tool, what is it you want me to heed then? That is so important to you."
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[03:10] <@CattrenaIronclaws> "I had my fantasies, i wont lie. But no. I need you to...and this is going to sound stupid. But you have to get with the fuhrer, he, everyone Atheria, Everyone...Its crazy. I know. But this thing thats inside me, its not just going to end this world...all worlds...Those portals, why everyone ends up here. Its the lynchpin. If this world goes down it will break all the threads! Im fucked up...bad, but i cant be responsible for that...no...if
[03:10] <@CattrenaIronclaws> that happens there wont be anything left. But me, and it...i'll be back in the prison...forever." *she wrings her tallons*
04[03:10] <Flow> (sorry PJ im passing out)
11[03:11] <@CattrenaIronclaws> (no worries flow, heh i had a fun time imaginging young rhea bouncing a ball rainbow dash style off the wall of the library while starswirl dictated letters to her)
11[03:12] <@CattrenaIronclaws> (As well as chatting with lil flow. building up some story with them and her is great)
[03:14] <%Lysander> "I think it's time you leave." *He states matter of factly, his eyes expressing a cold judgement, a cruel dismissal of the insane griffon.* "And... be greatful I can excuse madness. The meekest sticks can so easily be snapped by war when they fall away from the safety of the bundle." *He gestures with his hoof towards the door, a wafting of his pistol.*
13[03:19] * @CattrenaIronclaws grimaces and raises her voice "I'm not insane!" *she then looks up rolls her eyes and face tallons* "Ok...i insane, but that dosent mean i am lying." *she pauses and stands...slowly* "Ok...this is going to sound crazy...but i promise, it will prove im right. And maybe help you find a way to stop me...It, from destroying everything and everyone. You got a jar? Something with a lid, airtight. You got to get it to a unicorn though, quic
13[03:19] * @CattrenaIronclaws as you can to seal it. And a knife."