Wambammandness

"I have heard enough."

Golden winds, all would rush along this beach as they wrap around both Rindou and Lea alike. The warm and welcoming glow around Seraph filled with a sense of calm, his words lingering in the air as quickly as they had came. Excuses and pleas would mean nothing when stood beneath corruption, when so many had so willingly chosen to sell themselves away.

"You are still nothing more than a child, Lea Elisheva. You don't quite know the horrors and unspeakable actions of which Sors Ultovex has brought to this land. You would turn a blind eye simply because you feel betrayed - Driven by emotion." His words ring with a certain intensity, those wings growing all the more heavy.

"... I speak now as a voice of both Sera Elisheva and a Guardian conjured by Thera Elisheva. You have committed a cardinal sin of man, you who would aid those who seek nothing more than inflicting pain and suffering upon hundreds."

His spear drawn, pointed at Rindou.

"Lea. You are naught but a spoiled child who has lived without Judgement for too long. Rindou, you are one who believes you can discern the watchful eye of the law and escape punishment."

One swipe of his spear, sending shockwaves across this beach.

"Submit to your Judgement and your crimes, your punishment may be lessened. Calael, I entrust you will not allow Lea to continue down this path... I entrust you will aid, you will assure this vile way of thinking which has seeped into her mind..."

A pause.

"Will not be allowed to spread."
(Seraph)
(Posted 22 minutes ago)

Happening upon this beach encounter, the white-and-gold Artificer strides - pausing at the crowd of people before her. A few blink-blinks are given the way of the group - though, any intent to give Miyo and Juniper and Lea a hug are completely ceased at that final question spoken in a rarely-heard, authoritative tone.

It turns her blood to ice, once she gazes down that cliff face to see Calael and Lea. Color drains a bit from her face, and a few slow breaths need be taken to steel herself and try to slow an adrenaline-augmented heartbeat.
(Magdalen Elisheva)
(Posted 9 minutes ago)

Magdalen Elisheva says, "Mhm."
(Posted 22 minutes ago)

A burst of cosmic magic pulled Calael into the air, narrowly avoiding Lea's swing. He floats a good six or so feet over the sand, now off of the ledge they had been standing on. In all of Lea's outburst, he picked up on the important parts, focusing on those rather than the bits that truly hurt. The keen eye would notice his hands trembling as they usually did in moments like this, but he was doing what he could to keep them hidden.

"Friend to Ultovex..." he echoed, frowning and shaking his head again. "Understanding him- meeting with him- the man we fought against for- forever, Lea. The man who destroyed your sister's life." The wings extinguished, leaving some smoke across Cal's back and shoulders.

"I didn't expect Adrian to abandon you, I told you both for years you'd be working together and I thought that friendship meant enough, was strong enough to endure..." He was still in the air, facing and speaking with only Lea.

"Things get bad, Lea, but you can't... you have to catch yourself before they get worse. You can still go back-" To what? To leading Levengard? To a normal life where she hadn't watched Calael kill her father? Nothing ever went right.

"I've never tried to ruin anything. I've tried to do as Thera asked of me, every project was her inception, every... thing..." Thought were firing all over the place as he tried to make sense of the information set before him along with the overload that was being revealed piece by piece, all of Lea's emotions and pain.

"I wanted you to succeed, more than anything."

'Our time at the helm is over.' "Levengard's Oracle has been compromised. What happens next falls to the next in line." He wanted to help Lea, wanted to fix things. But golden eyes turned to Ilui. "It's up to you... I would suggest taking her somewhere to see how far the rabbit hole goes, how much leverage Sors has gained within Levengard..."

Cal obviously didn't want to hurt Lea. He didn't want to have to force her into a cell or into a collar or anything else. He knew it wasn't his place to even try either way. But something had to be done. He turned back to Lea and said,

"I am washed up. But my family still matters to me most of all... and I won't sit silently while Ultovex ruins it again... please, listen to us, Lea... and answer my initial question-"

Wisdom's light illuminated the beachhead alongside that of Justice.

"Did you accept Ultovex's offer?"
(Calael E. Kang)
(Posted 15 minutes ago)

Calael E. Kang says, "Not me.

"So you want me to.."

Sighing softly to himself, the Dryad's arms moved to fold across his chest. Gritting his teeth together as tensions began to rise, his gaze meeting with his Uncle's for just a brief moment. There's no telling how far the rabbit hole actually went -- and if she was ever even going to tell the truth, without the help from potions and such.

And in truth, it's hard to tell if she was even fit to be allowed any sort of power within the city any longer.

Craning his neck back slightly, he'd glance over towards his fiery-counterpart as flames began to rise just as her own emotions did. Shooting her a certain look, as if to tell her something without the use of words.

"Right. I want to hear what she has to say first."

And that's all that's said. At least for now.
(Ilui Elisheva)

OOC - SMoto II: blocking is gay

Another sigh left Calael as Lea whispered to him. His gesture toward the crowd for Lea to tell them came and then she asked for him to confirm that all she had said was the truth. The older demiangel, alight with his Virtue, sought to search for it in her words and thoughts. Memories flickered into existence for brief moments until Calael's eyes closed and opened once more.

"What you told me is true." He said more for the others to hear than Lea, "...but it does not change the situation." Calael was crestfallen, another candle of hope extinguished.

"You made a deal with the devil... Lea... panic and desperation... do not excuse that." He gave her a chance to tell Ilui what she told him in order to determine how this would end.
(Calael E. Kang)

OOC - Xeloria: What if i'm gay

Lea this, Lea that. How did it go from being about Rindou accused of being in touch with Sors to being all about Lea and how others corrupted her - how people too her away from the life she was expected to live? To Rindou all of this was insane. Even after leaving his position of power Calael Kang decided to step all over Levengard, to do just as Adrian had claimed the Elisheva would do.

Rindou could only hope that Lea would prove the drakanite wrong, that she would stand for herself as she already had and... make Wisdom accept the mistake he's made.

The winds of justice billowed in her robes while she kept herself at the pointy end of Seraph's spear. She could feel his intent - anyone could, really. Yet... It felt wrong to draw a blade. Wrong to draw it before she had her words delivered, all of them carried with the same tone as ever. She was interrupting no meeting, nor was she screaming out, no.

This time Rindou was the one being wronged, or so she believed.

"Perhaps it's time you all stop searching for corruption, betrayal, manipulation, and issues with Lea. Maybe it's time you stop thinking that Lea Elisheva's changed in any way."

A deep breath was taken, one that kept her ready for the battle that was inches away from being declared. This... innate desire to protect still hadn't left Rindou Sakamoto. Its focus had changed but she still knew just how to be holy - how to keep those she cared about safe.
The one she cared about.

"Lea knows who that man is. We both do. I believe he should be dead - gone. The way he rose the dead and brought Nethradin down upon the shrine was disgusting. I'll never forgive him for the souls he's taken. But Lea... has always been nicer than me. How are any of you surprised that she'd want to make a friend?

Have you met Lea?"

Even if it wasn't her strongest suit, Rindou felt like the world needed to be told of their mistakes in a golden light. It held no hope for the future, nor valor, but it embraced those it wished to keep safe all the same.

"Just about everyone left. Adrian screamed at Lea for letting the world trample Levengard like it was its playground, and that's... just what Calael is trying to do right now.

When her family decided running away and harassing - insulting the people she cares about rather than believing in her was the best option what did you think would happen?

How do you think she feels?
Would it hurt to trust in someone you should love, for once?"

Rindou was definitely not the best at... speeches, or convincing others, no. But these were things that were on her heart, or rather, things she felt herself. It was easier to relate. It was easier to speak of.

Justice was blind to emotions, all of her hopes were in the hands of a man she grew to dislike, despite his good convictions; could Wisdom see the balance between heart and mind?

Rindou felt like it would not.
She felt like this would be the breaking point.
(Rindou Sakamoto)

OOC - SMoto II: I'd marry

OOC - FamiryDishonor: it saves ya from dem big hits tho

OOC - FamiryDishonor: Also you dishonor your Famiry if you do not block .

Magdalen can't help but shiver in place, eyes widening as concern and unease consolidates into terror and pain. All because of that admission, told by the brother who does not lie, that Lea made a deal with Sors.
(Magdalen Elisheva)
"Yes. I did. I accepted it out of panic when he mentioned that my friends and family wouldn't be protected from the targets he specified. It's not an offer that'll bind me to his whims or anything. Rather, it was a contract that'll do nothing more than hurt me a lot if I don't fulfill the condition, which is to kill one of a handful of people. If I wanted to, I could simply not do it. And I was considering just taking the results of failure, because I find it hard to bring myself to hurt anyone. I find the very thought of it abhorrent."

"And yes, actually, I think it does excuse it."

it's not her fault.

Lea gazed upon the crowd before her, her expression judging them.

"Can you name one person here- aside from the children- who hasn't done something dumb out of panic and desperation? Hasn't hurt someone who didn't need to be hurt? Hasn't stained their own spirit in the pursuit of something? Failed to do something important out of fear? Done something unnecessary to try to protect someone?"

She didn't name names, but the people here knew who she was referring to.

"What did I even do?"

it's not her fault

"I listened to him, said no at first, had my friends and family implicitly threatened, and said yes out of panic."

Also not wrong. None of it was. Lea was telling the truth.

"And, surprise surprise, it's something that's only wrong if I act on it. I could just do nothing, take the hurt that comes from failing it, and go on with my life, having learned a valuable lesson that I expect everyone here to hold me to on the off chance I can't hold myself to it."

there's no way this was her fault

"I made a mistake. I'm sorry. I won't do it again. But all my mistake did was offer me a reward for something I won't fucking do."

"What more do you all want from me out of this?"
(Lea Elisheva)