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week 3, monday

[halians]

[ in true memshare week fashion i have not read any locations yet.

anyway we're hanging out somewhere when there's a breeze that rolls by, and alex is treated to a final duel at a tournament that goes horribly wrong. ]

[bxkautx]

[ godmods us to be somewhere strohl would hate. (no)

she watches all this kind of quietly curious. it's a lot of interesting information about what strohl's world is like so she is taking it in the way you would a book. magic is neat and this louis guy seems like he sucks? the fantasy racism is... something. ]

... What happens next? [ IT'S NOT ENTERTAINMENT. ]

[halians]

[ okay we are on stairs

i will explain nothing about this. anyway - when this memory ends, strohl's standing very still, his hands flexing into fists, then relaxing. this is something heavy that lives with him, even still - the sight of will, transformed and horrored like that, haunts his nightmares even now.

when alex talks, he startles out of it. what happens next? what a question.

he exhales out all the tension, all at once and jams his hands in his pockets. ]

...We made it to the Eldan Sanctum. [ stiffly. ] And Louis' henchman was in the process of attempting to murder the prince - he would've been successful, if it weren't for Will.

[bxkautx]

Did he ever... go back to normal? Or what?

[halians]

...he did.

[ after a beat. ] Not sure how. He said he just heard the prince talking to him.

[bxkautx]

Makes sense to me. Certain people or voices can get through to people better than others.

[halians]

...they were the same person, so.

[ don't just say that with no explanation ] Makes sense.

[bxkautx]

[ nods like she thinks that also makes perfect sense... ]

Easier to trust yourself than anyone else.

Well, good. [ that he went back to normal. ]

[halians]

[ alex i love you. he

snorts? somehow this handling of this memory is like, so much easier, and he just kind of rubs a hand over his face. ]

Yeah. Bloody understatement, that.

[bxkautx]

What would have happened if he didn't?

[halians]

Exactly what Louis said. No one would've been left to face off against him and stop him from taking the throne - and thereby destroying the world.

[bxkautx]

I don't totally get it. But I kinda... do, I guess?

[ thanks that's nothing. also for your return mem are you ok with spoilies... ]

[halians]

...It's a long story, but - he's been gathering power for a long time, in hopes to take over our country utilising magla. The anxiety of people, that is, made manifest. That's what he did to Will. The king is the one has the ability to harness all of the magla produced by the populace with the King's sceptre.

He wants to burn the whole bloody place down, and the people - half of them have no idea. They think he's their ally, that he'll protect them, but it's all a lie.

[ there's anger there in his voice, low and simmering towards the end, but he shakes it off. ALSO HIT ME WITH SPOILERS im a big weenie baby so i probably won't play ]

[bxkautx]

I guess I just don't understand what he gets out of it. I can understanding wanting to destroy everything if there's a goal beyond that, but...

[ stop understanding that. anyway I'M ALSO A WEENIE BABY IT'S NOT VERY SCARY but i understand. thinky thinks. anyway woosh. a memory of a possession. from 3:32:37 to 3:35:03. ]

[halians]

Someone destroyed something of his.

[ he thinks - for a second, painfully, about similarities. fire and burning villages, and ferocity. about wis'adel, too, how infuriated he'd been when her reasoning for killing anders came to light.

and - well, thankfully, that's the end of that, because this wind whooshes by. and there is a lot going on here. voices, ghosts, people. alex, the familiar voice through the - transmitter, and that sensation of - trapped.

he shakes his head around the same time jacob does, as it clears, jittery. ]

... That - [ ... ] That was you?

[bxkautx]

[ well good thing this memory interrupted her so she couldn't be like 'well maybe that's fair enough then.' like an insane person.

she just kind of. sighs... ]

Mostly. [ the body, at least, was olivia's after all! :) ]

[halians]

.... Do you know how you tend to do that thing, where you say something, and provide no explanation?

[bxkautx]

Do I? No. No one's ever told me I do that.

[halians]

[ flicks her in the forehead ]

You do. Constantly. [ it's like, exasperated affectionate. ] Explain.

[bxkautx]

[ laughs a little. ]

What are you confused about?

[halians]

You were trapped. Start there?

[bxkautx]

There was a hole in time. We opened it by mistake and got trapped. It took... a while to gain awareness of the timeloop, and to figure out its terms. To accept them.

[halians]

[ okay that's a lot for his ye olde ass but in the context of the memory, it kind of makes sense. and there are a lot of questions, but the most pressing comes forth first - ]

...How long?

[bxkautx]

Eternity.

[halians]

Bloody hell.

[ UM? ] It took you eternity to figure it out?